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Provides a unique emphasis on the practical aspect of implementing biomedical signal processing systems The book contains a learner-centered approach in which readers are motivated to explore, design and build solutions to given problems, with the authors providing the reader with solutions and software codes for common biomedical problems. The code guides the reader to a deeper understanding of the solution proposed and it is a starting point for further algorithms development and improvement. To reach these goals, each chapter/topic is divided into three parts: 1) fundamental & background, 2) learning assignments; 3) case-study assignments Presents a logical step-by-step tutorial on biomedical signal processing, from the theory to the practical (using Matlab coding). Focuses on worked examples and practical projects for teaching the subject which makes it an ideal practical text for lab-based courses in biomedical signal processing. Divided into two main sections whereby the first section (Chapter 2 to 6) introduces basic topics in biomedical signal processing, while the second section (Chapter 7 to 11) deals with advanced and novel biomedical signal processing methodologies. Companion website hosting online instructor manual with solutions of selected homework problems.
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Eclipse Community Forums - RDF feed Eclipse Community Forums Error when trying to build a P2 enabled product on Mac OS X / Cocoa
The exported product won't launch - the error log contains the message:
The same problem happens if I run a headless build with p2.gathering=true
If I don't check 'Generate Metadata Repository', the product works fine, but software updates don't work.
I'm using Eclipse 3.6 with OS=macosx, ARCH=x86_64, WS=cocoa
I'll appreciate any hints.
Youval Bronicki 2010-08-27T07:34:34-00:00 | dclm-gs1-100490000 |
I attended a lecture recently where the guest speaker gave a detailed overview on building Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) projects, and I learned a surprising thing: It’s not only about the green materials used for the construction, but also how things are built.
Many types of green-rated materials and specialty system designs contribute to a building’s proposed LEED certification rating. Sometimes, these materials and systems require more intricate installations that can carry a higher labor factor. However, in the electrical industry, we have been working with these installations for years—lighting controls, specialty lighting systems, etc. So there’s nothing new to worry about there.
However, LEED projects are, by nature and design, clean jobs. In order to be clean and green, additional labor may be required for daily cleanup: recycling, dust control, materials handling and sometimes protection of the existing site flora (and possibly even the fauna).
‘Hey, you! You can’t throw that away!’
Under the LEED system, a contractor can earn points for achieving specific goals on its job site, such as a high recycling rate or low water usage. This means the general contractor may monitor and mandate specific elements about how the construction project is built, how the site is managed, how the site is cleaned up, what happens to the trash, what gets recycled, how much water is used, and a whole slew of other things, which may not normally happen on a non-LEED construction site.
On a higher level LEED project, you might not be able to throw away anything. For example, the cardboard and Styrofoam lighting fixture packaging might need to be neatly organized and prepared for recycling. Who will do this? How long will it take? Does your estimate carry this labor? Will your competitors be carrying it? Can you exclude it?
A five-story building with, say, 300 light fixtures per floor comes to 1,500 boxes and related packaging your electricians may have to deal with. If each takes another three minutes to prepare and recycle, you need to cover the cost of 75 man-hours. At $50 per hour average labor, that’s $3,750. It adds up fast.
It takes labor to be clean and green
The lecturer showed photos of staging and recycling stations used on one of his recent platinum-level projects. It was very impressive and very clean. In fact, he said the air on the project actually was tested to be cleaner than the air off-site. That’s pretty dust-free.
A clean job site doesn’t happen naturally. It takes extra labor to maintain. Now, perhaps the general contractor will have laborers doing most of this, but you must make sure.
Also shown in the photos were cutting booths where all cutting of piping, drywall, wood, etc., occurred. Hopefully, these stations would be located efficiently throughout the job site, but that’s a perfect world. Chances are they won’t be. This means a labor factor could be needed for cutting and handling all your electrical metal tubing.
What if the building is a high-rise? You might assume they would locate staging areas on each floor. But assuming this could cost your company some serious money, especially if they are all located on the lower floors only.
As with any project you estimate, it is always good to review all Division 0 and Division 1 specifications, and any other special scope-of-work documents that may have been issued specifically for the project. These typically are added to the initial bid set by the controlling project management contractor or general contractor in charge of the project. These types of documents can take precedence over the initial project specifications, so never discount their impact on the electrical scope; you may not be able to exclude things you typically exclude.
There are four certification levels for new construction in the LEED rating system: certified, silver, gold and platinum. Each corresponds to the number of credits accrued in five green design categories: sustainable sites, water efficiency, energy and atmosphere, materials and resources, and indoor environmental quality.
As electrical estimators begin to work more on LEED projects, they need to learn as much as they can about each LEED certification level and how they need to factor their installation labor to accommodate LEED projects.
The lecturer did casually state that his company has found most LEED projects are run more efficiently and are easier to build. He attributed this to the fact that the job sites are more organized and cleaner to work in. But, this also is where part of the difficulty factor really applies.
SHOOK is the president and chief estimator for his estimating company, TakeOff 16 Inc. He has worked in the electrical construction industry for more than 18 years. Reach him at 707.776.0800 and sfs@TakeOff16.com. | dclm-gs1-100500000 |
Friday, February 29, 2008
Randi Weingarten
Randi Weingarten gave the keynote address at a conference on performance incentives here last night. If you're thinking that it's odd for the head of a large teacher's union to be addressing a roomful of education economists you are correct. She essentially walked into the lion's den, confronted the lions, and lived to tell the tale. Whether you agree or disagree with her politics, you have to be impressed with her moxy.
My previous experience with Randi was limited to newsclips of her leading rallies, so I was pleasantly surprised by both the mechanics and the substance of her speech. She focused on two issues: bridging ideological divides to focus on what helps children (which, depending on your ideology, is either highly ironic or very fitting for a union head to say) and incorporating teachers in all reforms. She argued that the start of a pilot incentives program has gone smoothly in NYC because teachers had a role in its creation and management and because they were being rewarded rather than demeaned.
I think the strongest argument she made was that it is virtually impossible for most reforms to succeed without teacher buy-in. She asked a rhetorical question to the effect of "why would any teacher implement a reform in which they do not believe in their classroom?" To me, this is something too easily forgotten.
More on Standardized Testing and Private Schools
This blurb in the Tennessean covers a bill recently introduced in the TN legislature that would require all school-age students (even if home schooled or attending private school) to take state tests. Two things that I find interesting:
1. The chief objection to this bill seems to be that taking these tests will narrow the curriculum. I wonder if these same people would put forth a similar argument against testing in public schools. On the one hand, it would seem unfair to argue that students in private and home schools should have broader curricula than students in public schools but, on the other, it seems logical to assume that schools run by the government should also be subject to more governmental regulation.
2. Despite the paucity of information in the blurb, the message board is out of control with anger from both sides. Whether or not any accountability would accompany the state tests is left up to the reader to infer -- and people do, passionately. It seems as though most of the opinions expressed are only relevant if the writer is correctly inferring the rest of the facts.
Must opinion on education policy salways be so reactionary and ideological?
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Convincing Schools to Change
I was forwarded an interesting piece that Robert Weisbuch, the new president of my alma mater, wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education the other day. He argues that universities, rather than looking down on, or simply ignoring, K-12 schools, should form a partnership that he calls the "third culture" with primary and secondary schools across the country.
If that third culture is to develop, college faculty members might stop coming on to their school counterparts like gods delivering grace to undeserving sinners. We need to acknowledge that a strong teacher in the schools knows a great deal more about pedagogy than we do. Even beyond the obvious fact that we share the same kids at different stages and the more emotionally compelling fact that professors have kids, too, it is well past time to shed our pretensions, share our status as intellectual leaders, and acknowledge both what school teachers bring to the party and the mutual benefit that accrues from a partnership between equals.
I'm not sure how much he's referencing higher education in general and how much he's directing his plea at education researchers, but I find his comments particularly relevant for researchers. It seems that every article I've read about effecting change in the way that schools are run (particularly regarding the way that teachers teach) basically asks one question: we know how to run schools/classrooms, how can we convince administrators/teachers to things the way we tell them to?
The flaw that I see in this question is that it's exceedingly arrogant, which is probably a large part of the reason that the question never seems to be answered. Yes, research is not effectively utilized in schools, but the fact is that people who work in schools know a great deal more about some things than researchers could ever hope to. The fact that (most) researchers are experts on something does not give them the right to treat teachers and other education officials as inferior beings. Perhaps the way to effect change in schools is to work with people instead of talking at them.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Vouchers or Accountability
A blurb in Ed Week today mentioned the results from the first year of a five-year study on vouchers in Milwaukee. Apparently the Governor and legislature cut a deal: more vouchers were authorized in exchange for making the private schools in which voucher recipients enroll administer the same state tests as public schools. As a result, students who remain in the Milwaukee public school system and students who receive vouchers and enroll in private schools are both taking the same exams (which makes comparing results awfully easy).
After the first year, the researchers could find no difference in performance between students who enrolled in private schools and students who remained in the public school system. Some of the people leading the investigation are clearly proponents of vouchers, but if these results hold up for the next four years they're going to have to scramble in order to spin them in their favor. And there's a good chance that they have a legitimate argument; private schools aren't accountable for their results on the state tests and, therefore, probably spend a great deal less time preparing students to take them. Here's where it gets interesting: generally speaking, people in favor of vouchers are also in favor of accountability (and, therefore, standardized tests) but, in this case, the only argument to support the effectiveness of vouchers may be that the standardized tests did not accurately represent what happened in the schools. In other words, the only logical argument that I can foresee is either that vouchers have shortcomings or standardized tests have shortcomings -- either way somebody is going to be put in an uncomfortable position when they present the findings. I love twists of fate. | dclm-gs1-100510000 |
Calm Parenting: 10 Tips to Channel Your Inner Buddha
Unfortunately, there's no magic spell that keeps you calm under the toughest pressures of parenting. But following these 10 tips will certainly help!
What's the secret?
By Lori Calabrese
All parents have moments when they want to rip their hair out, throw in the towel and run away, so what's the secret behind calm parenting?
Truth be told, most parents yell at their kids. A 2003 study published in The Journal of Marriage and Family revealed that 88 percent of the families studied admitted to shouting, screaming or yelling at their kids at least once in the previous year.
Susan Stiffelman, a licensed marriage, child and family therapist, and author of Parenting Without Power Struggles, says, "I've worked with thousands of wonderful parents, and it's rare that I find one who doesn't occasionally lose their cool and say or do things they later regret. Parenting is hard work. Yes, it's rewarding, and yes, we love our kids, but it's an exhausting series of endless tasks, often with little acknowledgment or appreciation. It's natural to fall apart at times and behave in ways we wish we hadn't."
Nothing can prepare you for the challenges ahead, but there are ways to calm yourself before exploding. Here are 10 tips to channel your inner Buddha.
Take your own time-out.
You're the one doling out time-outs, so give yourself one. This doesn't mean you have to sit in the time-out chair, but take a break for a few minutes. Walk into another room, and get some distance from the situation.
You've heard it time and again that when stress starts to build, take a deep breath. Studies have shown that there are many benefits to breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth, very slowly. So when you need to fight that frazzled feeling, take some deep breaths to stay cool in the heat of the moment.
Pretend you're in public.
Imagine yourself in a grocery store or at the local library. Chances are you'd act differently disciplining your troublemaker in a public place than you would in the comfort of your home. When we feel we have an audience and other people are watching us, we're likely to restrain ourselves.
Pretend it's your friend's kid.
As parents, we're very comfortable around our own kids and often let down that extra barrier. If that's the case, pretend that the temper tantrum is coming from your friend's kid. You'll probably find yourself calmer, have a smaller chance of resorting to yelling, and be able to speak to him more objectively.
If you're trying to channel your inner Buddha, what better way than to meditate? Set aside some time during the day in a quiet, relaxing environment. This can be difficult with kids, so plan it early in the morning or at night when the kids are asleep. Just five minutes will suffice. Relax, concentrate on the flow of your breath and focus on just one thing at a time. Either recite a mantra close to your heart or visualize a calming place. With practice, you'll be able to train your mind to focus on nothing at all, and you'll achieve that inner peace and quiet you long for.
The set is continued below.
Getting your daily sweat on is a great trick to not only get toned abs, but also to help you release aggression. Exercise boosts your mood, helps de-stress and can help you tackle life's more stressful situations. Not into hitting the gym? Take a kickboxing or yoga class, go for a swim or play your favorite sport to help you release tension.
Challenge your beliefs.
"If you're coming apart at the seams over something your child is doing, ask yourself this, 'What am I making this mean?'" says Stiffelman. "More often than not, we're concocting a story in our head about our child's behavior that escalates our blood pressure and heightens the tension. If your child is having a meltdown over homework, are you telling yourself that he's never going to graduate? Or perhaps you're taking it personally: 'He does his work just fine for his dad!' Or maybe you're believing that the teacher is going to think you're a lousy parent because by the end of the tantrum, his work is smeared with tears. Take a look at what thoughts and beliefs are behind you losing your cool, and challenge them to see if they're true. They usually aren't."
Call a friend.
Yes, one of your options is to phone a friend. If you find yourself about to flip out, call a friend or family member. Explaining your feelings and frustration can help you ease your mind and hearing a friendly voice can make you feel happy. So instead of clenching your jaw, use it to get something off your chest and vent.
Distract yourself.
When you feel like you're going to lose your cool, squeeze a stress ball, clench your fists and escape the situation. Most of us are so busy taking care of the kids, we often forget about taking time for ourselves, and this can eventually lead to a blowup when we need to release that steam. Be selfish. Do an activity you like to do, whether it's taking a bath, reading a book or listening to music. And don't feel guilty about it. When we take care of ourselves, we often take better care of others, so remind yourself that reconnecting with your inner self will lead you on the path to calm parenting.
With kids, you know things will go wrong. If you're prepared for those little mishaps, however, it will keep you from flying off the handle. Pack a bag with some essentials: tissues, baby wipes, bandages and an extra set of clothes. Being proactive and ready to tackle some of life's mishaps will help you react better in tense situations. | dclm-gs1-100520000 |
A Virgin iPod killer?
Virgin Wearable MP3 player
Is Virgin planning to take on the iPod? We've already mentioned their new silver dollar-sized 128MB Wearable MP3 Player (pictured at right) before, but buried towards the bottom of Mike Langberg's story for the San Jose Mercury News about how more and more brand name companies are having their electronics built by obscure Taiwainese manufacturers (also known as ODMs, or Original Design Manufacturers) and it lets anyone get into the electronics game for cheap now, is the news that Virgin is planning on coming out with a hard drive MP3 player that'll go head-to-head with the iPod (not that that isn't said everytime someone comes out with a hard drive MP3 player). Should be out this fall, too. | dclm-gs1-100540000 |
Cellphone radiation is dangerous/not dangerous, chapter 8037
cellphone radiation
Gather 'round, kids, for the next installment of the ever-loving "is cellphone radiation dangerous" saga. Today's special guests are Japan's major cell carriers (NTT DoCoMo, KDDI, Vodafone and TU-KA Cellular Tokyo), who inform us that radio frequency energy from mobile base stations does not affect human cells. They exposed four human cell lines to steady doses of RF radiation at a level about 10 times stronger than the limits set forth in the guidelines for mobile phone base stations, which themselves are again stronger than the emissions from the average phone. All of which sounds very promising, and if only it weren't for that nagging fact that the entire study was funded by the cell carriers, and used research techniques developed by the cell carriers, we might be tempted to put an end to this saga for good — but we'll leave our tinfoil hats on until we see some independent studies confirm this. | dclm-gs1-100550000 |
English Monarchs
Scottish Monarchs
Genealogical Tables
House of York
Edmund, Duke
of York
Edward, Duke
of York
Richard, Earl
of Cambridge
Richard, Duke
of York
Cecily Neville
Edmund, Earl
of Rutland
The Wars of Roses
Mortimer Family
Edward IV
Elizabeth Woodville
Woodville Family
De la Pole Famiy Neville Family
The Kingmaker
George, Duke of
Edward V
Lady Anne Mowbray
Richard III
Richard III Continued
The Remains of Richard III
Anne Neville
Edward of
Richard III's
Illegitimate Children
Battle of Bosworth
A tour of Bosworth
Warwick Castle
Middleham Castle
Sheriff Hutton
Elizabeth of York
Edward, Earl of Warwick
Margaret, Countess of Salisbury
De la Pole Famiy
Native Princes
Of Wales
English Princes
of Wales
The Honours of Wales
Tudor Era
Stuart Era
Recent History
The Regalia
The Theft Of The Crown Jewels
Leeds Castle
Buckingham Palace
Windsor Castle
Holyrood House
Balmoral Castle
Sandringham House
Hampton Court Palace
Osborne House
St. George's Chapel
Westminster Abbey
Henry VII Chapel
Edward the
Confessor's Shrine
Carisbrooke Castle
and Charles I
Order of the Garter
Order of the Bath
Plantagenet Of York
Edward IV
Parentage and Early Life
England's first Yorkist King, Edward IV, was the eldest surviving son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York and Cecily Neville and was born on 22nd April, 1442 at Rouen, whilst the Duke was stationed there.
His father, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, held a strong claim to the English throne. He was the son of Richard, Earl of Cambridge, who himself was the son of Edward III's fourth surviving son, Edmund of Langley, Duke of York. Richard of York's mother Anne Mortimer, was the great grandaughter and heiress of Phillipa Plantagenet, the only child of Lionel, Duke of Clarence, second surviving son of Edward III. Richard II had declared Anne's father, Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March, as heir presumptive to the crown. Edward's mother, Cecily Neville, was the daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and his mistress, later wife, Katherine Swynford.
On the death of his father and brother, Edmund, Earl of Rutland, in contest for the throne, at Sandal Castle, Wakefield at Christmas, 1460, Edward inherited from his father the Yorkist claim to England's throne. He acquired the support of his powerful cousin, Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, later to be known to history as 'Warwick the Kingmaker'. Edward proved to be an able general, defeating the Lancastrians at Mortimers Cross in February 1461 after which he was proclaimed king in London. He gained a further decisive victory over the Lancastrians at Towton in Yorkshire, on 29th March, Palm Sunday. Fought in a snowstorm, it was to be the bloodiest battle of the Wars of the Roses, with casualties reported to be in the region of 28,000. The victorious Edward made a state entry into London in June and was crowned King of England at Westminster.
Edward's appearance
King Edward IV was a tall man, at six feet four inches high and said to be extremely good looking.
Edward IV
Thomas More records of Edward:-
' He was a goodly personage and very princely to behold; of heart courageous, politic in counsel, in adversity nothing abashed, in prosperity rather joyful than proud, in peace just and merciful, in war sharp and fierce, in the field bold and hardy, and nevertheless no further than wisdom would, adventurous.
More goes on to add ' He was of visage lovely; of body mighty, strong and clean made; howbeit in his latter days, with over liberal diet, somewhat corpulent and burly but nevertheless noy uncomely. He was in youth greatly given to fleshy wantoness, from which health of body in great prosperity and fortune, without a special grace, hardly refrains.'
The extrovert Edward was popular with the people, especially the Londoners and the ladies. Inclined to be lazy and easy going, he could act with alacrity when necessary and was highly efficient, although possessed of the ruthless streak that was inherent in the House of York.
Edward IVElizabeth Woodville wife of Edward IVOn becoming king at nineteen years old, Edward met and secretly married Elizabeth Woodville, the widow of Sir John Grey, a Lancastrian knight and daughter of Sir Richard Woodville (later Earl Rivers) and Jacquetta of Luxembourg. She had come to petition him for the restoration of her son's estates, the King had wanted her to become his mistress, but she refused. Bewitched by her beauty, he finally proposed, they were married at the Manor of Grafton in Northamptonshire on 1 May 1464. Elizabeth had two sons from her first marriage, Thomas, later created Marquess of Dorset, and Richard Grey.
Elizabeth, who proved to be avaricious and grasping, quickly persuaded her besotted spouse to arrange advantageous marriages amongst the nobility for her large and needy family. This succeeded in alienating 'the over mighty subject' Warwick, turning him from Edward's supporter to his implacable enemy.
Edward's brother, George, Duke of Clarence also heartily disliked the new Queen. Warwick, who possessed influence over George and under whom he had been brought up, wished to arrange a marriage between him and his eldest daughter and co-heiress, Isabel. The King refused to sanction the match, in defiance of his brother, Clarence married Isabel at Calais.
Warwick 'The Kingmaker'
Further ill-feeling and suspicion being engendered on both sides culminated in Warwick and Clarence's open revolt, Edward's forces were defeated by them at the Battle of Edgecote Moor in 1469, and the king himself captured, Warwick attempted to rule England in Edward's name, but a counter rebellion forced the king's release.
Despite attempts at reconciliation on Edward's part and although pardoned, Warwick and Clarence incited a further rebellion in Lincolnshire under the leadership of Robert Welles, Viscount Welles, which was crushed by Edward at the Battle of Losecote Field. Warwick and Clarence promptly took ship for Calais with the countess of Warwick, and her daughters Anne Neville and the heavily pregnant Isabel, Duchess of Clarence, fleeing the country. Isabel's child was stillborn and buried at sea.
In exile in France, Warwick entered into an alliance with Margaret of Anjou agreeing to restore the deposed Henry VI in exchange for French support. This alliance was sealed by the marriage of Warwick's younger daughter, Anne Neville to Edward, the Lancastrian Prince of Wales. On their subsequent invasion, Warwick's powerful brother, John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu, also switched his allegiance to the Lancastrians. Edward, along with his younger brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, was forced to flee to the continent, taking refuge in Burgundy and Henry VI was briefly restored to the throne in 1470, little more than the puppet of the ambitious Warwick.
St George's Chapel, WindsorDuring Henry VI's restoration, Queen Elizabeth took sanctuary at Westminster Abbey where she gave birth to the Yorkist Prince of Wales, Edward. Warwick and Clarence had parliament disinherit Edward IV and his heirs, they claimed the king was not the true son of the Duke of York, but the product of Duchess Cecily's liaison with an archer named Blackburn, who was in the employ of the Duke of York when he was stationed in France.
Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy Edward's brother-in-law, Charles, Duke of Burgundy, was initially unwilling to offer him support, however, a French declaration of war on the province forced his hand and Edward was equiped with a small army, in attempt to regain the throne.
Following the example of Henry of Bolingbroke some seventy years previously, Edward, a daring military commander, at first claimed he had returned to England merely to claim his duchy of York. The city of York, however, refused to admit him but supporters flocked to his banner as he proceeded to march south. When Clarence, Shakespeare's 'quicksand of deceit', demoted again to second in line to the throne, realised he had gained nothing from his abandonment of his brother, he promptly switched sides, rejoining Edward's forces at the Battle of Barnet. To ensure that he, Clarence, was on the winning side. The Lancastrian forces were defeated in the ensuing battle, which was fought in thick fog and the mighty Warwick himself slain whilst fleeing the battlefield.
The same day Margaret of Anjou and her seventeen year old son landed at Weymouth and began recruiting men to the Lancastrian cause. She made for Wales, hoping to join forces with her brother-in-law, Jasper Tudor, Earl of Pembroke. Edward, marching his army hard on her heels caught up with her at Tewkesbury on 4th May, 1471. Edward, the Lancastrian Prince of Wales was slain, either during the battle or after and Margaret of Anjou taken prisoner. The Lancastrian cause had reached its nadir. King Henry VI, a prisoner in the Tower of London , met his death there a few days later, on the night of the Vigil of the Ascension, 21st - 22nd May, 1471. The demise of his son had sealed his fate. While Edward of Lancaster still lived, he rendered the removal of Henry pointless. The Yorkist version of his end, that he died of pure "melancholy and displeasure" on hearing on of his son's death was not much accepted, even at the time. An examination of Henry's skeleton in 1910 confirmed that he had died as a result of violence..
Richard, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest of the Yorkist brothers, wanted to marry Warwick's younger daughter and co-heiress, Anne Neville, the widow of the Lancastrian Prince of Wales. Disputes arose with Clarence, who was married to Warwwick's elder daughter, as to the inheritance and division of Warwick's vast lands and property, despite the fact that his widow, who held these in her own right, was still alive. A notorious Act of Parliament decreeing that the Countess of Warwick should be treated as if she were legally dead, effectively solved the dispute.
Edward's Achievements as King
An able ruler, Edward IV made an admirable start on reforming royal administration and on improving the machinery of royal finance. Edward embarked on an extensive building scheme, St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, intended to be the mausoleum of the House of York. He patronised his rival King Henry VI's foundation of Eton College. William Caxton set up England's first printing press during the reign, and also received Edward's patronage.
Edward revived the ancient claim of English Kings to the throne of France and set sail for France in the summer of 1475 with an army of around 10, 000. He possessed a powerful ally in Charles, Duke of Burgundy, the husband of his sister Margaret. The Treaty of Picquigny in 1475 brought the King a pension from Louis XI along with diplomatic benefits. Several of the king's followers, which included his brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, considered the deal inglorious but Edward emerged with credit and had acquired a lucrative pension.
George, Duke of Clarence
George, Duke of ClarenceThe King's untrustworthy brother George, Duke of Clarence (pictured left) remained sullenly disatisfied, his wife Isabel Neville died shortly after giving birth in December, 1476, she was followed to the grave by her baby the following January. The death of women in or after childbirth was a common occurrence of the age, but Clarence, always inclined to be of a suspicious frame of mind and driven by a burning resentment of the Queen and her family, accused Ankarette Twynho, a woman who had waited on his wife, of poisoning her. A jury was bullied into deciding Ankarette guilty and the unfortunate woman was hung.
In retribution and as a warning, two of Clarence's men were executed on a charge of using magical arts against the King and his family. Frustrated but unable to strike directly at the Queen, he burst into the council chamber at Westminster and read aloud a declaration of their innocence. The Duke of Clarence had clearly gone too far.
A rising in Cambridgeshire was believed to have been incited by Clarence and Edward, whose patience had been tried to the limit, accused him of placing himself above the law when he tried and hung Ankarette Twynho. He was found guilty of high treason, attainted and the death sentence passed. At the request of his mother, Cecily Neville, Dowager Duchess of York, the execution was carried out privately in the Tower of London on 18th February, 1478. Rumour reported that he had been drowned in a butt of malmsey wine.
In his later years, due to over indulgence, Edward IV had put on much weight. He fell ill in March 1483 after catching a cold on a fishing trip on the Thames at Windsor, which is believed to have developed into pneumonia. On 9th April he died at Westminster and was buried in his foundation of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, his tomb lies close to that of his victim, the Lancastrian King Henry VI. The tomb of King Edward IV was later destroyed by the Roundheads. He was suceeded by his twelve year old son, Edward V.
The fate of Elizabeth Woodville
Elizabeth Woodville lived on to see further reversals of fortune. The throne of her son Edward V was usurped by her brother-in-law, the Duke of Gloucester, who became Richard III and her marriage to Edward IV declared invalid and her children bastards. Her two young sons, Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, disappeared inside the grim walls of the Tower of London and were never again seen alive.
In attempt to regain her lost influence, she supported the Lancastrian Henry Tudor, promising him the hand of her eldest daughter, Elizabeth. After Henry's defeat of Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, he married Elizabeth of York , Elizabeth was restored to her position as Dowager Queen and stood as godparent to the new Tudor heir to the throne, her grandson, Prince Arthur.
For reasons that remain unclear, Elizabeth quarreled with her new son-in-law and was confined to a nunnery at Bermondsey in 1487. She died there, penniless on 8th June, 1492 and was buried beside her husband, Edward IV, at Windsor.
The Ancestry of Edward IV
Edward IV Father:
Richard Plantagenet,
Duke of York
Paternal Grandfather:
Richard Plantagenet,
Earl ofCambridge
Paternal Great-grandfather:
Edmund Plantagenet
Duke of York
Paternal Great-grandmother:
Isabella of Castile
Paternal Grandmother:
Anne Mortimer
Paternal Great-grandfather:
Roger Mortimer,
4th Earl of March
Paternal Great-grandmother:
Eleanor Holland
Cecily Neville
Maternal Grandfather:
Ralph Neville,
1st Earl of Westmorland
Maternal Great-grandfather:
John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby
Maternal Great-grandmother:
Maud Percy
Maternal Grandmother:
Joan Beaufort
Maternal Great-grandfather:
John of Gaunt,
Duke of Lancaster
Maternal Great-grandmother:
Katherine Swynford
The children and grandchildren of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville
(1) Elizabeth of York (1466 - 1503) m. HENRY VII
(i) Arthur, Prince of Wales (b. 1486)
(ii) Margaret, Queen of Scotland (b.1489) m. (i)James IV King of Scots (ii)Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus
(iii) HENRY VIII (b. 1491) m. (i) Catherine of Aragon (ii) Anne Boleyn (iii) Jane Seymour (iv) Anne of Cleves (v) Catherine Howard (vi) Catherine Parr
(iv) Elizabeth Tudor (died in infancy)
(v) Mary Tudor (b. 1496) m. (i) Louis XII, King of France (ii) Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
(vi) Edmund Tudor (died in infancy)
(vii) Catherine Tudor (died in infancy)
(2) Mary (1467- 1482)
(3) Cecily (1469 - 1507) m. (i) John, Viscount Welles (ii) William Kyme
(4) EDWARD V (1470 - ?1483)
(5) Margaret (b. & d. 1472)
(6) Richard, Duke of York and Norfolk, Earl of Nottingham (1473 - ?1483) m. Anne Mowbray
(7) Anne (1476 - 1511) m. Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
(8) George, Duke of Bedford (1477 - 1479)
(9) Catherine (1479 - 1527) m.William Courtenay
(i) Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devon (b. circa 1497 -executed 1539)
(ii) Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter (b. circa 1497- executed 1539) m. (i) Elizabeth Grey (ii) Gertrude Blount
(iii) Margaret Courtenay (circa 1499 - 1526) m. Henry Somerset Lord Herbert
(10) Bridget , a nun (1480 - 1537)
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October 05, 2015
Passos Coelho wins, but no majority in parliament
Our main story today are the Portuguese elections. Please note we have not economic data today, due to technical problems.
The coalition of PSD and CDS won the elections but failed to win a majority in parliament. The ruling coalition received 38.34% against 32.38% for the Socialists. This translates into a total of 104 deputies for the ruling coalition, far from the 116 needed for a majority in the 230-seat parliament. These Portuguese government's results from the full count for domestic precincts, which elect 226 seats of the 230, is:
PàF38.34%104centre-rightPSD/CDS coalition
BE10.22%19radical left
CDU8.27%17green leftCommunist/Green coalition
PAN1.39%1animal rights
The biggest winner and a surprise given the pre-election polls, was the Left Bloc (BE), which increased its share of the votes to 10.22%, doubling their number of deputies in parliament to 19 to become the third strongest party. The traditional Communists (CDU) obtained 8.27%, and 17 deputies. Both, Left Bloc and Communists, put pressure on Antonio Costa not to led the PSD/CDS form a government, according to Diario Economico. Both parties strongly oppose Portugal’s membership to the euro, saying they would not support a minority government under Passos Coelho.
Adding up the numbers, theoretically we have two constellations for a minority government, the centre-right coalition and a coalition of the Socialists with the Left Bloc (the Communists already said they won't participate). The foreign vote, determining the remaining 4 MPs, could be decisive if the either of the PS or CDS-led coalitions get at least three, though this seems rather unlikely as the 4 seats are elected in two 2-seat districts, for Europe and for the rest of the world. An alliance between Socialists and the Left Bloc is, however, also not evident, as the Socialists seem to have more in common with the ruling coalition when it comes to eurozone membership or fiscal targets than with the Left Bloc.
If the president were to ask Passos Coelho to form a government, he would be the first leader to be reelected in Europe despite harsh austerity measures, as many in the press already pointed out this morning. It will certainly become part of the success narrative about bailout programmes. The coalition also won against what the polls predicted only months ago, when none of them predicted a victory. But the two parties lost heavily compared to the 2011 elections where they got together 50.4% of the vote and 129 deputies. In terms of votes, the two parties lost a total of 738,301 votes, down to about 2.06m.
The prospect of a minority government makes for an unstable outlook for Portugal. The extent will depend on the Socialists and whether, in opposition, they will harden their stance under pressure from the Left Bloc. Antonio Costa said the Socialists would not team up with more radical parties to form a “negative majority” against the minority government, the FT reports. But Costa is under pressure from inside and outside his party. Costa said that they won’t support policies that go against the Socialists and that a large majority of the Portuguese in fact voted for change. He also insisted he will not resign.
Passos Coelho said that they will make the necessary compromises to ensure a stable government for the next four years. In his carefully calibrated victory speech, he talked about recovery of income, progressive abandonment of austerity measures and recovery of public-sector wages in the context of the 2016 budget. He announced to develop parliamentary initiatives with the Socialists. Both the Socialists and the coalition share their commitment to the euro and to meet the fiscal targets of the bailout programme.
Domestic participation was 56.93% or under 5.4m of over 9.4m registered voters. Abstention was 43.07% or under 4.1m people.
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During a magnetic resonance imaging scan (or MRI), powerful magnets and radio waves are used to create detailed images of your body.
An MRI is used to help detect injuries or abnormalities in many parts of your body.
It's a noninvasive procedure, and an MRI does not use x-rays.
How to Prepare for an MRI
To prepare for an MRI:
• Depending on the type of study being performed, you may be able to eat and drink normally, or you may be asked not to eat or drink anything for up to six hours prior to your test.
• You may be given a gown to wear, or asked to wear loose fitting clothing with no metallic snaps, clasps, or zippers.
• Remove all jewelry, including metal piercings.
• Make sure your pockets are empty, and remove all hairpins from your hair.
• Let your doctor know if you are claustrophobic. He or she may prescribe a sedative to make the test more comfortable for you.
• You may have dye (contrast) injected into your veins intravenously to make it easier for the MRI to be read.
• Be sure to tell your doctor if you have any allergies to radiology contrasts, or if you have kidney or liver problems.
• Let your doctor and MRI technician know if you have any metal in your body (pacemakers, shrapnel, implants, surgical plates or screws, etc.), or if you have any tattoos
What Happens During an MRI?
The MRI room will likely be cold; this ensures a proper working environment for the machine's magnets.
During the MRI, you'll lie completely still on a narrow table inside a large, tunnel-shaped scanner that's open at both ends.
You'll be alone while the technician operates the MRI scanner from a nearby room, but you can communicate with one another via a microphone.
You may be given earplugs to cancel out the loud "drumming" noise of the machine.
An MRI scan generally lasts between 45 and 90 minutes.
How Does the MRI Work?
During a scan, the MRI machine's magnetic field forces the protons in your body's hydrogen atoms to line up.
Radio waves delivered by the machine knock the protons out of line with each other. When the radio waves are turned off, the protons line back up, sending out radio waves in the process.
These radio waves are picked up by receivers, and processed by a computer to produce images of the body's tissues.
The images created by MRI can be cross-sectional "slices" or 3-D images.
Who Should Have an MRI?
Your doctor will request an MRI to look for:
• Tumors or other abnormalities in your liver, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, uterus and ovaries (in women), or prostate and testicles (in men)
• Aneurysms, strokes, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, or disorders of the eye and inner ear
• Joint disorders, including arthritis, bone infections, joint problems caused by traumatic or repetitive injuries, or disk abnormalities in the spine
• Heart health, including the size and function of its chambers, thickness and movement of its walls, inflammation or blockages of blood vessels, or to assess damage from heart attack or heart disease
Results of an MRI
A radiologist will review your MRI and report the results to your doctor.
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The United States spends billions on healthcare every year, yet we still have poorer health outcomes than other developed countries. A new study in JAMA found that two-thirds of healthcare spending is on people over 65 with chronic conditions, and drug costs and medical devices are creating the increases.
Even so, the amount of money consumers are spending on healthcare is only about 11 percent, according to study author Hamilton Moses III, MD, a professor at Johns Hopkins.
Doctors weren’t surprised that people with chronic conditions were a big chunk of the spending, especially now that younger people are getting diseases that typically didn’t present until much later in life. A person diagnosed with diabetes in their 20s is much more likely to have other complications such as heart disease, high blood pressure and more as they get older.
Most chronic diseases are preventable, said Moses, so reducing the risk for conditions like diabetes and obesity should be a priority going forward. Unfortunately, the healthcare system is set up financially to treat sick patients rather than prevent illness.
Tungsten, Found in Cell Phones, Linked to Higher Stroke Risk
Tungsten, a heavy metal found in cell phones, computers and other electronics, has been linked to doubling the risk of stroke, according to a new paper published in PLOS One.
Researchers looked at 8,614 people over 12 years and found higher levels of tungsten in the urine of people with lower incomes and less education. But researchers don’t know why certain people have more levels of tungsten in the body.
“An important step in understanding and preventing the risks it may pose to health will be to get to the bottom of how it’s ending up in our bodies,” said study author Dr. Jessica Tyrell, from the University of Exeter Medical School, in the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, in the UK.
Tungsten can be ingested in food or water or by soil contamination or by breathing it in the air. Discarded electronics incinerated at landfills may play a role in tungsten exposure.
Are Vitamins Actually Beneficial?
Though we’ve all heard about the benefits of multi-vitamins and supplements, new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force say it’s unclear if they help your health.
"In general, the Task Force found that there is not enough evidence to determine whether you can reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease or cancer by taking single or paired nutrients, or a multivitamin," said Task Force Co-Chair Dr. Michael LeFevre in a news release. "However, there were two major exceptions: beta carotene and vitamin E, both of which clearly do not help prevent these diseases."
Vitamin E supplements were found to have no disease-fighting benefits at all, and beta carotene has been shown to potentially increase the risk of lung cancer for those already at a higher risk.
Cursing Might Relieve Pain
Could cursing actually be good for you?
Swearing could potentially kick-start the body’s flight-or-fight response, which releases adrenaline and helps people ignore pain, according to Richard Stephens, PhD, a psychologist at Keele University in Staffordshire, England.
"People swear when they're in pain to give themselves an emotional jolt," Dr. Stephens said. "We think when people swear when they are in pain, they are tapping into the phenomenon of stress-induced analgesia."
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Andhra speaker disqualifies 15 Congress, TDP rebels
Hyderabad, June 8 (IANS) Finally acting against the rebels, Andhra Pradesh assembly speaker Saturday disqualified 15 members of the legislative assembly belonging to the ruling Congress and the main opposition TDP for violating party whips.
Speaker N. Manohar, who heard the petitions moved by the two parties during the last few weeks, announced his decision Saturday evening. Nine of those disqualified belong to the Congress while six others are members of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP).
The speaker took the action under Rule 2(1)(b) of the Tenth Schedule of the constitution for voting against the party whip.
The disqualifications have brought down the strength of Congress to 146 in 294-member house. However, with 16 vacancies in the house, the Congress government is in a comfortable position.
The ruling party needs 140 members for majority in the effective strength of 278. With less than a year to go for the assembly elections, the by-elections to the vacant seats are not likely.
The nine Congress lawmakers who have been disqualified are: Alla Nani, G. Ravi Kumar, D. Chandrasekara Reddy, Jogi Ramesh, Perni Nani, B. Sivaprasada Reddy, M. Rajesh, S. Krishna Ranga Rao and P. Ramchandra Reddy.
The disqualified TDP rebels are: Amarnath Reddy, Praveen Kumar Reddy, Y. Balanagi Reddy, Kodali Srivenkateswara Rao, Taneti Vanitha and P. Sairaj.
The two parties had sought the disqualification of nine legislators each for violating party whips during the voting on no-confidence motion moved by the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) against the government in the assembly in March.
The legislators, majority of whom have switched loyalties to the YSR Congress party, supported the no-trust motion.
The TDP had issued a whip to all its legislators to remain neutral during the voting.
The speaker has not yet taken a decision on the disqualification of three other TDP legislators - Chinnam Ramakotaiah, K. Harishwar Reddy and S. Venugopalachari. During the hearing, they had told the speaker that they did not receive the party whip.
The speaker disqualified the legislators two days before the second phase of the budget session, beginning Monday.
The speaker said the TDP petition for disqualification of another rebel Gangula Kamlakar was also pending. The opposition party had submitted the petition three days ago for disqualification of Kamlakar, who recently joined the TRS.
The number of legislators disqualified in the present assembly has gone up to 34, which is a record in the state's history.
Last year, the speaker had disqualified 19 legislators, including 17 belonging to the Congress party, who had joined the YSR Congress.
With the latest disqualifications, the strength of TDP in the house has also come down to 79. The TRS and the YSR Congress have 17 seats each, Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen seven, Communist Party of India four, Bharatiya Janata Party three, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) one and Lok Satta one. There are three independents.
The YSR Congress has criticised the delay in disqualifying the legislators. Party leader M.V. Mysoora Reddy said the delay was due to the ruling party's fear of losing the by-elections.
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If Rahul becomes a minister, will he make any difference?
Rahul Gandhi should remain outside the Cabinet. He will not be able to bring anything of value to this government in the time it has left.
Even if it had longer than 17 months, Gandhi would serve it better by doing what he does, grassroots party work. What exactly does that mean? It means making sure that the organisation is in the hands of capable men and women at the level of districts, of which India has 640, and making sure these people are fired up. This means travelling in the states constantly and it isn't a part time job.
Rahul Gandhi. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost
Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshi Ram once said that a party could only be expanded in an election. What he meant by that was the opposite of what is obvious. It was the work you put in during the 58 months when there was no election which would germinate and sprout in the 2 months of the campaign.
The plan of the Nehru-Gandhi family has been thus far to work on the Congress party and let professionals like Manmohan Singh run policy so far as that was possible. This explains their clean separation from the government, and neither mother nor son are part of it. Of course, a Cabinet cannot and should not be divorced from the electorate by being comprised entirely of the unelected or nominated. This is why most senior Congressmen are part of government.
It is being speculated that in the Cabinet expansion likely either today or tomorrow, Rahul Gandhi might become a minister.
What will Gandhi's entry into the Cabinet do? It will excite Congressmen, who will feel a sense of ownership about the government that they don't have so far. Even if we were to accept that Manmohan Singh is good at his job, he is cold and remote.
If a Gandhi becomes the government's face, this aspect of ownership will change, it is true, but that can be also done in other ways, through media for instance, and association through ownership of policies.
The party on the other hand cannot be either expanded or nurtured remotely.
The other thing is that as a minister Gandhi will also have to face the daily meatgrinder of the news machine. This will not be comfortable for someone who has thus far only opened himself up on his terms.
As a minister Gandhi will also have to face the opposition in Parliament on questions the family currently thinks it is too regal to respond to, such as the Vadra business.
It isn't clear what sort of plan for grassroots work Gandhi has for himself, how long he thinks he needs to nourish the party sufficiently for it to win Lok Sabha majorities on its own. And how long before it can again become a contender in states it used to dominate 30 years ago.
The evidence is that he has not been successful in the places he's tried hardest, for instance Uttar Pradesh. However his real test will be the 2014 Lok Sabha. If he's able to bring in 200 seats again, it will be a triumph.
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Interior minister declares reformist-backed Rowhani winner in Iran presidential vote
Iranian President Hasan Rowhani ran as a moderate, and the release of 11 political prisoners could be evidence of a shift in Iran. (AP) (AP)
The powerful showing by the former nuclear negotiator allowed him to avoid a two-person runoff and demonstrated the strength of opposition sentiment even in a system that is gamed against it. The ruling clerics barred from the race reform candidates seen as too prominent, allowing a list of hopefuls who were mainly staunch loyalists of the supreme leader.
But the opposition settled on Rowhani as the least objectionable of the bunch, making him the de facto reform candidate.
While Iran's presidential elections offer a window into the political pecking orders and security grip inside the country -- particularly since the chaos from a disputed outcome in 2009 -- they lack the drama of truly high stakes as the country's ruling clerics and their military guardians remain the ultimate powers.
Security forces also are in firm control after waves of arrests and relentless pressures since the last presidential election in 2009, which unleashed massive protests over claims the outcome was rigged to keep the combative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power for a second and final term. He is barred from seeking a third consecutive run. However the last-moment surge around Rowhani injected some excitement in the race.
Rowhani won with 50.7 percent of the more than 36 million votes cast, the Interior Ministry reported, well ahead of Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf with about 16.5 percent. Hard-line nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili came in third with 11.3 percent followed by conservative Mohsen Rezaei with 10.6 percent.
Voters waited on line for hours in wilting heat Friday at some polling stations in downtown Tehran and other cities, while others cast ballots across the vast country from desert outposts to Gulf seaports and nomad pastures. Voting was extended by five hours to meet demand, but also as possible political stagecraft to showcase the participation.
On one side were hard-liners looking to cement their control behind candidates such as Jalili, who says he is "100 percent" against detente with Iran's foes, or Qalibaf, who was boosted by a reputation as a steady hand for Iran's sanctions-wracked economy.
The Interior Ministry said Rowhani had 18,613,329 votes, followed by Qalibaf with 6,077,292, Jalili with 4,168,946 votes and Rezaei with3,884,412. The other two candidates were far behind.
Despite reformists' support, Rowhani's win is likely to be more of a limited victory than a deep shake-up. Iran's establishment, a tight alliance of the ruling clerics and the ultra-powerful Revolutionary Guard, still holds all the effective power and sets the agenda on all major decisions such as Iran's nuclear program and its dealings with the West. The greater comfort level by the theocracy and Revolutionary Guard also sets a different tone from 2009. Opposition groups appear too intimidated and fragmented to revive street demonstrations.
Yet a Rowhani victory is not entirely without significance either as it could make room for more moderate voices in Iranian political dialogue and display their resilience. It also brings onto the world stage an Iranian president who has publicly endorsed more outreach rather than bombast toward the West.
Fervor remained strong for Rowhani's rivals as well.
Qalibaf was riding on his image as a capable fiscal manager who can deal with the deepening problems of Iran's economy and sinking currency.
Jalili drew support from hard-line factions such as the Revolutionary Guard's paramilitary corps, the Basij. His reputation is further enhanced by a battlefield injury that cost him the lower part of his right leg during Iran's 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which at the time was backed by the United States.
Ahmadinejad leaves office weakened and outcast by his political battles with Khamenei -- yet another sign of where real power rests in Iran. The election overseers also rejected Ahmadinejad's protege Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei in apparent payback. The usually talkative Ahmadinejad gave only a brief statement to reporters as he voted and refused to discuss the election.
Khamenei remained mum on his own choice even as he cast his ballot. He added that his children don't know whom he backs.
Instead, he blasted the U.S. for its repeated criticism of Iran's clampdowns on the opposition and the rejection of Rafsanjani and other moderates from the ballot.
Iran's state media hailed the apparently high turnout as a boost for the Islamic Republic's political system.
"A great political epic has shocked the world," read a front-page headline inestimated at 75 percent by the hard-line newspaper Kayhan -- Kayhan Saturday. Khamenei had called for a "political epic," saying a high turnout would protect Iran against its enemies.
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FSM 1900 - PLANNING WO AMENDMENT 1900-90-1 EFFECTIVE 6/1/90 CHAPTER 1990 - SPECIAL PLANS AND STUDIES Contents 1991 ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES 1991.01 Authority 1991.02 Objective 1991.03 Policy 1991.04 Responsibility 1991.05 Definitions 1991.1 Plans 1991.2 Approval 1991.3 Coordination 1991.31 In Service 1991.32 Cooperators 1991.4 Distribution of Results 1991 - ADMINISTRATIVE STUDIES 1991.01 - Authority. The authority to conduct administrative studies, which is part of the Chief's general authority to accomplish the Forest Service mission, is delegated to the Regional Foresters. 1991.02 - Objective. To improve current action programs of the Forest Service by using available research information and technology to resolve problems. 1991.03 - Policy. Forest Service policy is to conduct studies--either cooperatively, by contract, or in-house--to resolve local problems on National Forest System lands. Administrative studies can cover a broad range of applications as long as they adhere to the definition provided in FSM 1991.05. The following specifically are not included as administrative studies: 1. Management Studies (FSM 1348). 2. Equipment Development and Testing (FSM 7120). 3. Pilot Control Studies (FSM 5285.1). 4. Research Studies (FSM 4051.21f). 5. Routine inventories, performance checks, monitoring, and analyses of program activities. 1991.04 - Responsibility 1. Regional Foresters shall: a. Plan, administer, complete, and distribute the results of all administrative studies. b. Coordinate studies with the Area Director, appropriate Station Directors, and adjacent Regional Foresters to avoid duplication of efforts and to share study results. c. Approve the annual program plan for administrative studies. d. Approve administrative study plans involving more than one forest. e. Appoint the National Forest System and State and Private Forestry members to a standing Regional Committee for Administrative Studies (RCAS). The Regional Forester shall also designate the chairperson for the RCAS. 2. The chairperson for the RCAS shall: a. Submit a program plan each year to the Regional Forester for review and approval. The program plan recommends studies for the next fiscal year, sets priorities among studies, sets minimum standards for studies, identifies funding and personnel needs to meet the study schedule, including data analyses and written reports. 3. Station Directors shall: a. Appoint a research member to the RCAS. b. Identify research scientists to advise or assist the Region in preparing study plans, statistical analyses, and interpretation of results. 4. Forest Supervisors shall: a. Prepare administrative study proposals for review by the RCAS (FSM 1991.1). b. 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Should Zelda U abandon Link as the main character?
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2 years ago#1
Link or No Link??? - Results (1575 votes)
Keep Link!
80.57% (1269 votes)
A new hero!
19.43% (306 votes)
This poll is now closed.
You can also suggest the new character. I'd like to see a more magic based female character.
Currently Playing: Paper Mario Sticker Star
Progress: World 6
2 years ago#2
I'd like to see a side story to one of the other games, perhaps where you play as a Goron or Zora. Could be set at the same time as one of the other games and run parallel alongside it or something.
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2 years ago#3
Naw man, naw.
2 years ago#4
Unless its a spin-off expanding on an already established character with potential for an adventure, such as Colin, Groose, or Kafei, no.
2 years ago#5
Zelda U, hell no. Wtf. Get that **** out of here.
Spin-off after Zelda U? Yeah sure, why not.
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2 years ago#6
Only if said character is Zelda.
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2 years ago#7
Well, id be interested in a female "Link".
Democracy is when 2 wolves and a sheep meet to decide who is for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has a gun.
2 years ago#8
Pharsti01 posted...
Well, id be interested in a female "Link".
Came in to say this.
And to say that I'd love to play as Zelda also.
Too many things are troublesome.
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2 years ago#9
covert Draven topic?
2 years ago#10
I want the main entries keeping Link as the main character. Maybe add some kind of co-op with another character, or have some sections where you play as another character, but not getting rid of Link altogether. Basically like Spirit Tracks did it, where you could control Zelda who was possessing the armors, but Link was still the main character.
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*Grand Theft Auto IV*
Grand Theft Auto IV FAQ/Walkthrough
For PS3 and Xbox 360
Version 2.1
Written by Brad Russell "TheGum"
Email: lunatic_252000@yahoo.com
Website: www.herostrike.com
Twitter: TheGum25
Version 0.3 - Just the frame of the guide set up and a bit of the story. It's
a bit of a mess, but I hope to clean this up once I have a sense of how the
game unfolds.
Version 0.5 - I would guesstimate I am about halfway through the main game,
and as I am tackling all the side stuff as I go I think this guide is shaping
up pretty well.
Version 0.7 - Happy Cinco de Mayo! I think I'm closer to the end.
Version 1.0 - Finished the walkthrough only, and all I got are cheats and a
link for completionists. The rest is soon to come.
Version 1.1 - Just added Deal to the end of the game. Took a day off, sorry,
geez. Fixed the Okami controls too...
Version 1.2 - Added a few reader tips - keep them coming guys. Also added 360
controls, the friends section, and the completionist section.
Version 1.3 - Added the start of my pigeon guide, which only works if you use
the maps at my website.
Version 1.5 - Completed pigeon guide, added most of the ramps, and some small
things. Will need at least one more update.
Version 1.6 - Finished stunts, began cars. Thanks to Haze being not so much,
I can probably give this week to finishing this game completely so I never have
to look at it again. It's actually getting slightly old, just slightly.
Version 1.8 - Finished Stevie's cars and all of section 7. Half-assed section
5 - so I've met my goals for this guide!
Version 2.0 - Just added updates to the walkthrough.
Version 2.1 - Author info update and disclaimer that the links are dead :(
don't forget to check out my guide for the Gay Tony addon:
(two part link... sorry)
Table Of Contents
Use Ctrl + F to quick find in this guide.
Section: Code:
1. A Brief Foreword
2. Controls ( CON2222 )
3. Starter Tips ( TIPS333 )
4. Walkthrough ( FAQ4444 )
Welcome Back to Liberty City ( WBLC111 )
Vlad's Jobs ( VLJO222 )
In the Jaws of a Loan Shark ( JAWS333 )
Out of the Dumpster ( DUMP444 )
Promising Ventures ( VENT555 )
Sold Out ( SOLD666 )
Brucie's Jobs ( BRUC777 )
Based Out of Bohan ( BOHA888 )
The Island Algonquin ( ISAL999 )
The Paper Man ( PAP1010 )
Packie McReary ( PAC1111 )
The Family McReary ( MCR1212 )
The Italian and Irish Connections ( CON1313 )
The McReary Mess ( MES1414 )
Killing New People ( KIL1515 )
Meeting New People ( MEE1616 )
The Mob Game ( MOB1717 )
Old Man Gravelli ( GRA1818 )
The Road You Travel ( END1919 )
5. Missions by Character ( MIBC555 )
6. Pigeons ( PIG6666 )
7. Other Stuff to Find ( SECR777 )
Stunts ( STU7700 )
Cars ( CA7700R )
Weapons & Armor ( GUN7700 )
Helicopters ( HELI770 )
Secrets ( SEC7700 )
8. Friends / Girlfriends ( BFF8888 )
9. 100% Checklist ( COMP999 )
10. Cheats ( CHE1010 )
11. Author Info / Copyright
* 1. A Brief Foreword *
or carry on with your life.
If you want to know why this game is so amazing, just drive around the city
at night, while it's raining - there you go. Just imagine what GTA5 will be
* 2. Controls ( CON2222 ) *
PS3 Controls
On Foot:
X Button - hold to run, tap to sprint, select on the phone
O Button - reload, back or hang up when on phone, punch
Square - jump, kick
Triangle - get in car, hold to get in as passenger in taxi, punch
R1 - take or leave cover
R2 - fire
L1 - use stuff, pick up object
L2 - lock-on, aim
RStick - camera, click to reset camera
LStick - move, click to crouch
D-Pad - UP: cellphone, DOWN: zoom out on radar, L & R: change guns
Start - pause game, go to the many screens
Select - change camera views
X Button - hand brake
O Button - cinematic camera
Square - change gun
Triangle - exit car
R1 - handbrake
R2 - accelerate
L1 - fire
L2 - brake, reverse
RStick - camera, click to reverse camera
LStick - move, horn (click for slow motion in cinematic camera)
D-Pad - UP: cellphone, DOWN: zoom out on radar, L & R: change radio station
Start - pause game, go to the many screens
Select - change camera views
Xbox 360 Controls
*Credit: Deniz Jablonowsky, who did a better job than me on the PS3 controls.
On Foot Controls:
LT: Free Aim / Target Lock On
LB: Context / Pick Up
RT: Free Aim / Fire Button
RB: Take Cover
Guide Button: Xbox Guide
Back: Camera Modes
Start: Pause
Left Stick: Movement
Left Stick Button: Crouch
Dpad Up: Mobile Phone Up / Use Mobile Phone
Dpad Left: Previous Weapon
Dpad Down: Mobile Phone Down / Skip Phone Conversation / Zoom Radar Out
Dpad Right: Next Weapon
Right Stick: Rotate Camera / Switch Targets
Right Stick Button: Look Behind / Zoom aim (when locked on)
A: Run / Sprint / Mobile Phone Answer / Mobile Phone Forward
B: Reload / Melee Attack / Mobile Phone hangup / Mobile Phone Backward / Put
Away Mobilephone
X: Jump / Climb
Y: Enter Vehicle / Mount Ladder
In Vehicle Controls:
LT: Brake / Reverse
LB: Fire Weapon
RT: Accelerate
RB: Handbrake
Guide Button: Xbox Guide
Back: Camera Modes
Start: Pause
Left Stick: Steering
Left Stick Button: Horn / Siren / Slowmo In Cinematic View
Dpad Up: Mobile Phone Up / Use Mobile Phone
Dpad Left: Previous Radio Station / Radio Station Off (Hold)
Dpad Right: Next Radio Station / Radio Station Off (Hold)
Right Stick: Rotate Camera / Aiming
Right Stick Button: View Behind
A: Handbrake / Mobile Phone Answer / Mobile Phone Forward
B: Cinematic Camera / Mobile Phone hangup / Mobile Phone Backward / Put Away
X: Change Weapon / Headlights
Y: Exit Vehicle
Combat Controls:
LT: Target Lock On
LB: N/A
RT: N/A
RB: N/A
Guide Button: Xbox Guide
Back: Camera Modes
Start: Pause
Left Stick: Movement
Left Stick Button: N/A
Dpad Up: N/A
Dpad Left: Previous Weapon
Dpad Down: Zoom Radar Out
Dpad Right: Next Weapon
Right Stick: Rotate Camera / Switch Targets
Right Stick Button: Look Behind
A: Block / Dodge
B: Counter Attack / Disarm / Punch / Floor Punch
X: Kick / Floor Kick
Y: Counter Attack / Disarm / Alternative Punch / Floor Punch
* 3. Starter Tips ( TIPS333 ) *
#1. Jacob is the key - once you meet Jacob, and after he is a friend to go
hang out with from time to time, be sure to get him to like you to about 80%
or so (check the stats menu). If you do, you will gain the option to call
him up and request guns. He will drive to a nearby location and you can go
there for discounted firearms. Which is great for not just the money saved, but
also for those times you get busted and need some quick pieces.
#2. In fact, keep ALL your friends close - once anyone is a buddy to hang out
with, it's best to entertain them. Find out what they like and do that with
them a lot and once they like you enough you will gain a benefit.
#3. Save the pigeons and stunts for later - yes, throughout your travels you
will run into glowing birds and stunts to take on. But it is best you save
those for later if you want them at all, mainly because you will find a list
on the internet and you will need to follow that to a T, so getting a random
one while not going for them all is a bad idea.
#4. Check the maps - not just the pause screen map which does wonders for
finding where to go, but also the physical map that comes in the box if you
bought the game. The physical map has all the locations of things already there
for you. And if you want to make pencil notes on your map for whatever, that
is cool too (like pigeons you get on accident or whatever). Don't miss that
you can set your own markers on the map.
#5. No right on red - even though the driving mechanics are more realistic
than ever, you can still drive like a madman right in front of the cops.
However, it is a good idea to slow things down a bit for the cars you don't
know how to handle. The drive buttons are contact sensitive, so if you lay off
of them just a bit you won't go as fast. Especially take it easy on the
#6. Brief info - in the pause menu is a screen tab called "Brief" and if you
are lost on a mission, somehow, go there to see what you need to be doing.
#7. Take turns like you would in real life - well, if you have driven a car,
and it's very possible most people playing this mature game are still teething,
you would know that you take turns easy, but while turning you press the gas.
Well, same thing in this game. For turns, approach, let off the gas and brake
just a bit, then make the turn, and as you are turning press hard on the gas,
and you should take off nice and smoothly in the direction you wish to go while
at a decent speed. Of course each car is different, but at least you'll have a
leg up on driving. *If you want to do hardcore turns, you should apply just a
touch of the handbrake after you've used the normal brake - check that.
#8. Yellow-lined garages - if you notice outside each safehouse on the side of
the road is a yellow box with the words "Residents Parking Only" in it. You
can store two cars here, or one car and one bike. Best to store fast cars, like
the Turismo, and cop cars at these parking spots.
#9. Runnin' away - so you bump into a cop car and get one wanted star. The
easiest thing to do is let them get out, then speed away. Check your radar to
see where the backup is coming from, and once out of the wanted area if you
just turn and drive away from the backup they will keep going. It's called
"giving them the slip."
#10. The radar lines help, or they can hurt - the yellow and other colored
lines on your radar that are meant to help you get to a destination can
sometimes get in the way. Follow them if you are just starting the game, almost
everyone will, but as you progress it might be smarter to look on the map to
see where you are going, then just follow your own knowledge of the city to
get around. This isn't a big tip, just something to think about.
#11. Check the options - be sure to tinker around with the Display options in
the pause menu. It can make it seem like a different game just by adding some
brightness, but never move the sliders all the way in one direction. Also make
sure you turn on subtitles and after a time you may want to change the in-game
#12. Pistol-whipped - the pistol is probably one of your better long-range
weapons, and the ammo is easy to get. It's the same philosophy as in Resident
Evil 4: use the handgun until you run out of ammo or need a bigger gun.
#13. Counter-kill - while in melee you can perform counter moves. This is done
by pressing the run button while locked on, and you should avoid the hit and
then be able to attack for a deadly combo. Not used much, but good to know.
#14. Taxi rider - if you hold the "get in car" button around a taxi you will
get in as a passenger. Once inside you just press up or down with the LS to
choose a destination. Don't be fooled by the low, low prices, real taxis are
as big a pocketbook murderer as insurance. Press the "use" button to call a
nearby cab. You can also go to markers you set on the map.
#15. Train rider - so you are on the run from the cops and you can't quite get
the hang of outrunning them on foot or in a car. Well, while you work on that,
feel free to use public transportation to make a speedy getaway. The cops
can't bag you when you get on a train, and rarely do they see you while you are
riding. It's a bit slow and not flashy at all, but it does take you a good deal
out of their zone. Trains don't serve Alderney, for some reason.
#16. Free Turismos - this is one of the upper tier cars, and if you want as
many as you get, there is one across the street from the Perseus store once you
unlock Algonquin. Just break it, steal a car, and lose the cops. It's the
Perseus near your safehouse, so feel free to store two in your parking spots.
If you need a fast car, take a taxi to this safehouse and pick one up.
#17. Spawning that special something - getting fly cars is something of a
trick, so you need to be in the fast car to get another one. The reason is
that this game puts on the road more of the same car you are driving. So if
you want Super GT's you will need to find one. Then you'll probably need to
drive around your safehouses and keep filling up the spots, or at least getting
one if that is your goal. So far, the place I know where there is a high
chance of your car being spawned around you is your safehouse in Bohan. Drive
up with a ride and you may see ten of that car lining the streets.
*NOTE: Not sure, but it seems like doing the Stevie missions "unlock" certain
cars to appear on the streets. It was only after I started them that I saw a
few new cars I hadn't seen in my two weeks of playing the game. Again, not
sure about this though.*
#18. Fuzzzilla - the quickest way to get a cop car is to cause trouble, be on
foot, the cops will exit their cruisers to get you, and then go steal a car.
Next is to dial 911, where you pretty much have to do the same. The third
option is to find a police station, of which there is always at least one
empty car somewhere. The station directly east of the East Borough Bridge exit
has three that are rarely under watch.
#19. Early armor - okay, so this tip only applies to when you are stuck on
Bohan. East of Outlook Park there is a circle road, and east of this road is
a "T" shaped driveway a block over. Go up this "T", go right, and in the
doorway of the building is a free armor. You can always tag this location, get
in a taxi, and go there for like $32 or less whenever you need armor. For more,
refer to this section: Weapons & Armor ( GUN7700 ).
* 4. Walkthrough ( FAQ4444 ) *
GTA IV Walkthrough
Welcome Back to Liberty City ( WBLC111 )
The Cousins Bellic
*NOTE: At any time, go to the pause menu and look under Brief to see the
mission you are on.*
Once you have the car, notice that there will be yellow routes on your mini
map that help you get to where you need to be easier. Just drive around the
obstacles and get on the road, follow the map, and you'll soon be at the
"Mansion", and at some point learn how to change the radio station.
After Roman leaves, go take a nap to save your game. Either check the controls
in the pause menu, use your booklet or up above in this guide, or just wait
for the game to tell you, just make sure you have all the controls down at
some point.
*NOTE: You can watch TV, but not now, this is the wrong time to watch TV in
a video game. Later.*
Now walk out the door, down the steps, and on the street you learn how to run
and sprint (hold to run, tap to sprint). Go across the street and buy a
hotdog for $5. Feel free to change the perspective; you have long, close, and
over-the-shoulder views.
Now go steal a car, hopefully out of sight of cops, and then drive to the "R"
on your map to meet Roman.
It's Your Call
After that, note of the message of how to zoom in and out of your radar, and if
you hold that button, the view stays zoomed out. Now get in the car and drive
along the yellow line on the radar. And even though the rules of the road in
real life seem to apply most to this game than previous games, feel free to
drive through red lights and into oncoming traffic, but at your own risk.
Once at the marker, just stay still after Roman leaves. Now just wait for a
phone call and answer it, then keep waiting. After a time, you say "and these
must be the loan sharks" and that is your cue to press the UP button to bring
up your cell phone in the lower right corner. Open the menu, all of which the
messages tell you, and open the phonebook to call Roman.
When he gets back in, hurry up and swing around the block to go back to the
cab depot, which is where you picked up Roman; so if you forgot the route, just
follow the yellow route, easy. No need to go too fast, as you will lose the
loan sharks very quickly if you half know how to drive. Be sure to take him to
the side of the building, and not the garage you came out of.
After the mission is over, feel free to mess around with your phone. Yes, you
can change the ringtone, ring style, and a few other things in the options
menu. You can even go into multiplayer from here, and if you use the sleep
function, the storyline will be stopped until you turn it back off; so best not
to touch the sleep button.
*NOTE: Any PS3 people that go into the Sixaxis tutorial thing, don't. In fact,
all Sixaxis controls are off by default, so keep it that way. If you actually
go into the tutorial by mistake, bring up the phone again to exit because
I have no clue what they want you to do as a stunt; I flipped forward and
backward and nothing.*
Now, after a while you should get a text message from Roman, so feel free to
go drive around and take in the sights until then. When you get the message,
bring up your phone, open it, and then call Roman who will tell you to come
back to the shop. Just follow the "R" on your map and you should get there,
or use the map in the pause menu if you get lost.
Three's A Crowd
After the scene, get in the cab and drive to the south and honk the horn to
call the girls in the car. Take them all the way straight north and then Roman
gives you a call.
*NOTE: The radio station WKTT is a good one to check out.*
Now you must find some threads. Go back south and you will hit Hob-something-
or-other; just go in. You have some glasses, terrible hats, boots, sneakers,
jackets, a few kinds of pants, and just a nice collection of clothes all over.
Remember, try on whatever you want, don't buy if you don't want them, and know
that there are other colors in most of the clothes available. I say just buy
some blue sneakers and that is enough, but you can make yourself as terrible as
you want to look.
Exit the shop and call Roman, then feel free to call you new love interest,
Michelle (in the phonebook on your phone). Now drive back north, up the street
to the "M" marker to meet your girl.
*NOTE: Don't forget you can save at Roman's house at any time.*
Bleed Out
*NOTE: You could actually go on the date with Michelle first, it doesn't
matter at all. You just do the date, pick up Roman from the hospital, then you
get another chance to do this.*
However, during the drive you should get a call from Roman to help him out,
which is at the "R" on your map, and you get blue street routes as you get
closer. Once at the basketball courts, get out of you car and run around
and in through the opening. After a quick scene, use lock on and beat up the
two bad guys, which can be done by just mashing the attack buttons if you want.
Now Dardan will be driving away, so run to your car, wait for Roman to get in,
and then follow the red dot on your map. Just follow the dot as best you can
and at some point he will stop near the docks and run up some stairs, so get
out and follow him to an empty room and beat him up. Take his knife and then
back in the car.
*NOTE: If you killed him by the glass, he will fall out in a nice little
*NOTE: The same buttons to change station will change your weapon, or at this
point just put away your knife.*
Drive back to the depot, and let Roman out. Michelle should give you a text,
so read it and then call, or just go meet her.
First Date
When you go into her house, you are given a brief and highly sensational
rundown of the "activities" throughout the city.
As for the date, just calmly drive her down to the "funfair" to the south end
of this island. Sorry, no funfair today, but instead go up the ramp and take a
left to find the bowling alley door along the boardwalk. Go in, ask the cashier
to bowl, and go pick a lane.
Okay, so move around with the LS, then pull the RS back and throw it forward to
throw the ball, and you can use the RS while the ball is rolling to apply some
aftertouch. Best to move a bit to the left, just a few steps. And feel free to
skip Michelle's turn if you want. Don't forget to check the score, and you are
Niko, FYI. Also, don't apply too much aftertouch, just a nudge. You guys just
play five rounds, so feel free to win as she should get around a 30 or so.
After that, just drive her back to her place and the date is a success. Now,
you can call her for a date, but it is best to wait for her to call you at
this time. So for now, just go save your game, or visit Roman.
However, go up to Roman's shop and just up the street will be a guy, which is
a green marker on the map. Go up to the weirdo and all he does is give you
$100, odd but we'll take it. Now go meet Roman.
Easy Fare
Just take the crappy cab up north to the area where Michelle lives and pick
up Jermaine. Drive him back a bit to the south and into an alley. After a
moment the cops will appear and break up the deal, so just drive forward, on
the grass, and start driving away from the flashing zone on the radar that is
the cops chasing you. You need to make sure you don't cause much trouble, like
running into cars and people, or else that will bring more attention to you.
Good driving is the key to outrunning and staying low when out of the zone.
Once you are out of the area, just park the car somewhere and your wanted level
will go away.
*NOTE: A good tip to driving is using the handbrake.*
Once you shake them, take Jermaine to his next place, somewhere in the center
of the area you've been in for this early part of the game. Feel free to use
this Pay N Spray to fix your car as the first paint job is on the house. Also
remember that this place will clear your wanted levels, and is it marked on
your map.
After that, make your way back to Roman's, or save.
Jamaican Heat
*NOTE: This may be a good time to turn on subtitles in the options menu.*
Just go up the street and take a right, then honk the horn to call Little Jacob
in. Drive up and to the east a bit and you are given a pistol. Drive him to the
alley and then go up the ramp to the marker and crouch. Just wait for the
gangsters to show, then follow the messages that help you lock on and shoot.
Kill the first three, then wait for one more guy to appear on the roof up above
and get him. Then go down and collect the ammo and then get back into the car.
Drive him a bit further east and that's it. Kudos if you understood a word
he said.
*NOTE: While locked-on, press the RS up to point your crosshair at the guy's
After that, answer the call by Roman, and after a bit of time, Vlad will call
you. Answer and then go toward the safe house, save if you wish, and then go
meet Vlad. You will get a call from Little Jacob too, but for now just go to
Vlad. Roman will also call you too at some point. But just go to Vlad across
the street from your safe house.
Vlad's Jobs ( VLJO222 )
Bull in a China Shop
Vlad asks you to teach some guy a lesson. This guy will be a bit more to the
north than you are used to going. Once there, talk to the man and then you
must find something to throw at his window. Turn around and go to the dot on
your radar to find a brick. Pick it up, bring it back, aim, and toss it at his
window to get the money. Now drive it back to Vlad.
Now just wait a bit longer for a text message that he has another job for you
and go do it.
Hung Out to Dry
Just go up the street and hang a right. Walk to the marker and the dude will
split. Run through the back door and then get in a car, tap a button to
quickly hotwire, and then chase after him. All I did was ram his van into a
wall and then pinned him, but I suppose he may hit an end point, or maybe you
can pull him out of the van. Either way, corner him to make the success.
Again, back to Vlad.
Clean Getaway
After one long scene, you will find a bat on the ground, but getting it will
replace the knife, so it's up to you. Walk down the street and then up the
ramps and stairs to get up to wait for the train. Get in like you would a
car and then note the camera angles, or just skip to the destination.
Now down the steps and a short walk down the road to find the Blista Compact,
a car. You can use a stun punch, or just beat the guys to death, then in the
car. Drive it back south as Vlad calls, and then you need to take a quick
detour to a car wash. Do so and then back south.
*NOTE: You could also have just jumped in the car without fighting.*
At this point you may have a man-date with Roman, so feel free to pick him up
and take him to the bar or Cabaret Club (check your map). If you go to the
Cabaret Club, just go in and take a seat in the booth. It's actually a wee
bit entertaining, though a bit lame too - maybe just go to the bar. Either way,
you can make a man-date whenever you want. Actually, you can still go to the
bar, but going there just makes you drunk, and if you drive, let's just say
it's a bad thing all around. Do not drink and drive, period. Just take Roman
home, and give him a kiss too.
Anyway, on with Vlad's jobs.
Ivan the Not So Terrible
Well, just make your way to Roman's shop, but Ivan will already by speeding
away, so chase him. After some sharp turns a big jump or two, you guys will end
at a construction yard. You will learn how to climb ladders, so climb all of
them up to the crane. You'll see him make a leap onto a roof, so you do the
same (you have a jump button FYI). Always jump or just sprint and you'll
leap across the rooftops. Follow Ivan to the edge of the last roof where he
will be left on the side. Just go meet him and wait for the options to save or
kill him pop up. It's best to spare him, as you get your money either way, and
something extra way later in the game.
This is when I got a call from Michelle about a date, so you should be ready
for a call now or later, or maybe before. Just go to her and you will get more
markers on the map. Go there and find the Restaurant to the south and take
her there; you can set markers on the map too. When you take her home you can
try your luck, but it's best to just tell her goodbye. Try your luck on the
next date.
Buy anyway, no more Vlad quests for now, so onto Little Jacob.
In the Jaws of a Loan Shark ( JAWS333 )
Concrete Jungle
Drive him a bit east, toward the airport, and after you let him off, go and
wait in the back alley on the left. After the call, just ram straight into the
three fleeing dealers, and hopefully you get them in one charge. If not, feel
free to drive them down in the streets, but it's best to just jump out and pop
some rounds into them as they do have guns. Once they are done, go back to the
front for Jacob.
Now go to the second location and get out with Jacob. Follow him to the door
and take cover. The cover system is Gears of War style. Just pop out and shoot
the guy on the stairs, then go look through the window, and yes, you can blind-
fire, but it's best to pop out and fire. Then go in, kill two more enemis,
and then the spoils are yours. There are guns, a first aid kit, and a shotgun,
so pick it all up and get back in the car. Drive Jacob back and that's all
from him.
Now that Jacob has no more work for you, feel free to go on dates with either
Roman or Michelle (and I hope you realize you are just hanging out with Roman
and you do not actually have him as a love interest), but when you call
people, be aware of the time of day, for Michelle anyway. For Roman, you can
go to a number of places. If you do go with Roman, feel free to drive north
to the Strip Club, just don't get lost and don't forget to pay the toll. Now,
I will say nothing of going to the strip club, but it is a big improvement
from the last game - where is some hot coffee when you need it?
Upon him liking you a lot, which I assume taking him to the strip joint will
do, then he will like you enough to give you free cab calls whenever you
like, just like you set up the strip club outing. As for Michelle, on the
second date you should get the Darts place on your map, so set a marker there
and take her out. For the darts game, just chip away at your score, and when
you get down to 20 or less, start planning so that you can hit a double score
to reach zero; double scores are on the outer edges, so if you have ten points
left you will need to hit the tiny sliver of five to get ten and double out.
Aiming is not hard, just takes a wee bit of patience, and oh yeah, don't take
forever to throw either.
Once you've won, take her home and try your luck. Darts and the diner are her
thing, so hopefully you can get a taste of her "hot coffee", or in this case,
"tell me interesting things!"
Now is time for Roman's job, not just a man-date.
Uncle Vlad
Just get a ride and head over to your old friend. Use the shotgun if you want
and once the first two goons are dead, run out the door and then get on your
ride to chase down Vlad. Just catch up to him and the dock and get out to
confront him. As he is talking, lock on and notice the flashing reticle, that
means you can execute him. Shoot and then you get a nice long cutscene.
Out of the Dumpster ( DUMP444 )
Now that Vlad is done for, just give Roman a normal call. Go down toward the
Pay N Spray to meet him.
Crime and Punishment
Okay, so you wonder where the police station is right? Well, I don't know. But,
I do know that if you run into a cop car, then speed away, and then get out on
foot and run, once you lose the wanted level you can come back and maybe the
cop's car will be there if they got out and chase you. That's the only way I
can think of getting a car at this time.
*NOTE: Upon checking the physical map that came with the game, I learned
there is a police station down the road of your safe house. Even better, there
is an empty police car out in the front waiting for you. Just hotwire and run
away and you got a police car the easy way.*
*NOTE: Also, going north up the road a bit may yield a cruiser too.*
Once you have a squad car you need to pull over three vans and check them
for TV's. Just track down each marker, put on our sirens and stay behind them,
and once the message at the bottom says to get and check them, do it. Just do
this for one more car, and once you find the third one, that will be the one
of course. A guy with a gun will try to stop you, so either kill him or just
jump in the van and speed away. Drive the van to the garage and the first
mission for Faustin is done.
After that, make your way all the way south to go to Faustin's home.
Do You Have Protection?
After the weird scene, drive Dimitri all the way to the sex shop, should be
second nature to us all. Just go in and then target the first guy, then the
second guy, and once you are told, shoot the middle guy in the leg. Now follow
Dimitri back to the car, but no need to rush too fast now; just make it a
nice, slow stroll back outside - oh yeah!
Now drive him north to the gun shop, get out, and go inside. Pick up the Micro-
SMG on the right and that's it, it's on the house. Now get back in your car and
go back to Faustin's house, easy.
You should get a text message after from Little Jacob, as you can tell because
he no use good grammar. Just make your way to his place.
Yeah, if you thought Jacob was spittin' something nasty, this old dude isn't
even speaking English - he must be a professor at a college.
*NOTE: This is a good time to use a taxi to get to your far away destination.*
Anyway, make your way all the way to the northern island, the one with the
lap dance store, but you can get on the island from another route, but still
gotta pay the toll. Once there, just walk behind the dealer, but Roman calls
at a bad time, so sprint after the dealer for the rest of the way. The trick is
once he goes down into a pit area, he will go through a door, then he will go
through the next door, not up the stairs. Then jump the fence, go around the
cement fence and go through a door, and this time you will go up all the
flights of stairs. When he is on his level, shoot the lock, and then take cover
and be ready for three enemies, all of which are easy with the shotgun if you
still have it. Once they are dead, mission is complete.
*NOTE: Perhaps Roman won't call, or maybe if he does, don't answer.*
Now you can call Jacob whenever you want to ask for work, like you can right
now. But first, there is another drug dude that needs our help. A good thing
to do is get him to like you just like Roman does, so if you want a man-date,
go play pool. Pool is fun, just follow the messages to get you aim right,
then shoot just like in bowling. Best to use the stick view, and the angle you
are given is usually a good one.
*NOTE: By a job this time, we mean a "side quest" kind thing, where it's not
crucial and not an official mission. It does help them like you more though.
It's the same deal with Roman and his jobs by cell phone.*
Brian's Rock
If you go to your safe house, to the south you will run into the same crack
head from Roman's place, the guy that gave you a Ben Franklin. Just get a car,
drive him north, and after that, just drive him to his destination. Simple
Now go the Faustin's next mission at the Cabaret House.
Final Destination
*NOTE: Last time I'll remind you, to cover great distances you can use the
taxis. The only reason not to is to learn the lay of the land, but either way
Just make the long drive to the northern island, you get a call when over the
bridge, and then make your way to the train station. Go up the steps and have
your gun ready, any gun. Quickly waste his goon, pick up his gun, then leap
down onto the rails, watch out for trains, and then leap onto the other side.
You REALLY want to shoot him before he gets to his Banshee, a car, not that
thing from Halo. Either shoot him after you shoot the goon, shoot him on the
stairs, or do what I did and shoot him as he gets into his car. If not, I'm
sure it is a brilliant chase, but let's try to avoid it.
After that you will get a call from Dimitri, and you should get a text from
Roman about some lady friends of his. And since you are closer to Roman, go see
Logging On
Just go to the east a bit and enter the net cafe. Just log on to a computer,
click the mail icon at the top, read the message, reply, and you're done, you
may log out.
However, there are quite a lot of things you can do on this virtual computer.
Aside from looking up singles, at the homepage you can buy ringtones, but your
phone isn't good enough; you can still listen to them though. Then you have
tons of links to check out, all of them legit, but also pointless. So, log out
and the mission is over.
Should get an message to check your email, but we'll do that later. For now,
just go to Faustin at his home.
No Love Lost
Just go west down the road to run into the daughter and biker. After he takes
off, get on the bike and follow him, taking note of how to shoot while on the
bike. If you can take him out while on the long stretch of road, good. If not,
he will join up with his gang somewhere around the bricked area, then just
follow them a short distance into the park and they should get out to gun fight
ya. So just get off and gun them each one down. Once you do, mission is a
Could be a date with Michelle or whatever, then go to Faustin's house again.
Rigged to Blow
*NOTE: Using first person mode while in this truck is cool. Just throwin' that
out there.*
Just drive north until you get near the truck, and get in. Then go north to get
on the bridge to Bohan, the northern island you've been to before, and be sure
to not crash, or just drive like a normal driver if possible. Just cross the
bridge, go into the garage down the street, and after the scene run south until
you get your money and a call.
Promising Ventures ( VENT555 )
Now go back across the bridge and you should get a call from Roman about a job
from Brucie. However, notice there is a green guy marker by the darts place,
which is close to the bridge entrance. Go meet him if you can; check the map.
Russian Hit
Get in your car or another and then drive to the east. Just get to either side
of the alley and get the jump on the gangsters. You can play cover, or just
jump out and blast away - your call. Just five of them and then it's over.
Thanks for helping Badman, or whatever his name may be.
Go save if you like and then go to the "B" on your radar to meet Brucie down
by the docks.
Search and Delete
Okay, so like the last time, you again must find a cop car. Instead of getting
into trouble and running away, or dialing 911 to get them to you, I have found
an empty cop car; and if you check the map that comes with the game in the
box, all the police stations are on it. This one is down the street where your
safe house is, just a bit to the north. Once you break into it, a cop will
come for you, so quickly hotwire and then run away until your star goes away.
Now that you have some cop wheels, stay parking until Brucie calls, then access
the police computer while parked. Go to the search, then by name, and then
type in Lyle Rivas. Once you've marked him on the radar, go north to where
Michelle lives and his house is at the intersection. Get out, go through the
front door, and hit the marker.
*NOTE: When you get out of the cop car to go to the door, maybe park the car so
it faces north.*
Yep, another chase. This one can go on for quite a while, so try to flip him
on the long highway. But, the trip does end when you get to Bohan island, and
then you just chase him down and take him out however you want. That's it.
PMP 600
*NOTE: You actually don't have to do this now, but if you wait for later this
will still be here.*
You can go to Brucie for another job, but now is a good time to check your
email at @, the place east of Roman's. Go there, check your emails, and one
will be a request by Brucie to find him a PMP 600. Doesn't matter if you drove
one over here, you need to get a certain one by a carwash to the east. Go
there, beat up the three dudes if you want, and when you do steal the car make
sure to not bang it up too much. If you do, take it to the Pay N Spray if it's
just mangled. Take it to his garage and you should get over $1000.
Then go down the street for his next job.
Easy As Can Be
This one is really hard. Just drive up to where the darts bar is and the car
is in the alley. Well, there is a lot of risk in this job in fact. You have two
options once you get in the car:
A) Get in and take off. There are three enemy cars chasing you. Drive
back the way you came, but unless you have this part of the city memorized, it
will be easy to lose your path even if you are paying attention to the radar.
B) Get out of the car after the scene and proceed to kill the two cars' worth
of enemies near you. Pop the two guys behind you, and then you just need to hit
the driver of the car to the right. Then you can drive around to the other side
of the street and gun down the next driver and/or gunner. Then it's smooth
sailing home.
Choose B. Easy as that.
Sold Out ( SOLD666 )
Brucie has no more work for you, so unless you have prior engagements, go to
the "DR" symbol on the radar. Feel free to save if you want.
The Master and the Molotov
*NOTE: If you can't cleary see the guys as they talk during the scene, please
adjust your video settings in the pause menu, or before the scene.*
*NOTE: Any shotguns or molotovs will help a lot.*
Dimitri wants you to off Faustin. Drive up the cabaret club and once at the
marker you get a call about a gift from Dimitri by the dumpster. Go grab the
armor and then go inside the club with a gun ready.
After the scene, just lock on and start shooting. There are two guys in front
of you, two more goons at the bar, and Faustin shooting at you too. If you just
shoot Faustin, he will be off and more goons will appear at the doorway by the
stage, three. Take them out and follow him outside where there are about four
more goons in the alleyway. Kill them and then go up the stairs, just run up to
the top. Then go up and confront Faustin. You can talk, or just execute him.
After the deed is done, feel free to backtrack for loose coin and ammo, then
return to save at your safe house.
Feel free to at any time to call Dimitri.
Russian Revolution
Little Jacob will call soon after you talk with Dimitri, so go where he is,
which is by the docks.
After the long scene it will be a huge gun fight with guys all around. For
one, there is an armor on the ground near where you start, but save it if you
still have some armor from the last fight. For now, just stay behind cover and
do the old pop and shoot when they are exposed. There are essentially three
"waves" of them, but you only face more as you move up. Don't forget to grab
the ammo all around, but don't get it when there are guys shooting at you.
After Dimitri and the new bad guy split, keep fighting, look to the room on the
right for a med kit, and make your way to the other end of the warehouse. Cops
will show up, so just run to the door and kill the three or so outside from
behind cover. Then feel free to run out, get in a car, and speed away. Get out
of range of the fuzz and then take Jacob back to his home.
With everything cooled down, call Roman.
Roman's Sorrow
Go up northwest to the marker to meet Roman. After the scene, wait for Roman
to call Mallorie, then go to the safe house. You'll see it is on fire, so try
your luck at the depot. Damn, it's on fire too. Well, head north to Bohan and
to the new safe house (from the dialogue it sounds like we are going to see
that bad guy from Heavenly Sword).
If you want to save, go back inside and up one flight of stairs, then take the
first white door you see. And yes, you can actually spend a lot of time just
watching CNT on the TV. Like, for real. I spent almost an hour on that
channel as I made the body of this guide, and I'll be honest, some of that
stuff is better than real television.
Anyway, back to the game. The first thing you must do before anything else, go
visit the strip club. Because my goodness, the biggest advantage to being in
Bohan is that you are just a short drive from the skin bar. And if you think
I'm joking, I'm not - okay, I am joking.
Brucie's Jobs ( BRUC777 )
These jobs I believe will come up after the first Manny mission in Bohan,
but I'll put them here anyway.
Out of the Closet...
Okay, so, go to @ and use the computer. Feel free to check your email if you
want, then go to the link to love-meet.net and look under males for French
Tom; FYI, don't open the emails from Bruce about the cars as you are on a
mission. Once you have him click the "DATE" button at the bottom and then log
Now, you have to let some time pass, so why don't you go to your email and
look at that message from Brucie about the Banshee? Just go to the corner of
the island and kill the three dudes protecting the car, then run away from
the cops if they spot you, and return the car, undamaged, to the garage.
Now go back to @ and check your email for another job.
Again, just go kill the two goons holding the bike and then take it back, and
use the Pay N Spray if you are wanted or need it fixed.
Out of the Closet... Part 2
Now you should get a text from Roman to check your email, so do it. You should
check the email from French Tom and reply to it kindly. Now he should request
a date at the diner by your old safe house at around 18:00, so check your phone
clock and get over there at that time. Go in, meet the guy in the booth, and
after the scene you two will be chatting it up. Now, you can get up and ice
him right off, but you may want to stick around and listen to some of this.
But once Niko mentions his debts, that is you cue to stand up and quickly kill
this guy. Run outside and quickly get in a car to outrun the cops, and feel
free to use the old Pay N Spray in the area.
Once you shake the fuzz, you claim your money. Brucie has another real job at
his place, but go to your email again to get another car.
This car will be on the move, but not on the run. It seems like a few good
hits from the back, or just making it spin a few times, will make it stop.
And you can try to just steal the car while the woman is in it, but good luck
with that. Just keep bothering her until she flees the car, then get in. Take
it to the garage.
If you notice, the next mission is here too, so step into the marker.
No. 1
Just get a ride, sans the cops watching, and drive him east. Get out when close
to the car and get in. Yep, roll up the starting line down the street and get
ready for your first race. Do you have to go full throttle? No, in fact, you
can just go at a hurried-but-not-speed-racer pace and still maintain a good
lead. Are dirt tactics allowed? Yes, and not just allowed, encouraged. Just
spin somebody out from behind and on top of their normal mishaps they should
be crashed more than a few times. The key for you is to always know where the
next marker is, and if you can't see it use the radar. All I can say is take
it easy on the turns and you should win in a walk, and make sure to blast it
down the home stretch.
After the race, drive him home, but pull over to hear his conversation out
before you let him off. And then that's it for Brucie's missions. He is now a
friend, so yes, you have to go on man-dates if you want him to like you - ugh.
Now, there are some people hanging around town I would like you to meet. First,
let's go back to where your old safe house was and at the police station you
should see a green man marker on the radar. Get out and go see the drunk.
Breaking Mel's Habit
Yes, good ol' Whatshisname from the bar. Get in your car and drive him up
north by the park, and make sure you health is good. Yep, gotta shoot these
guys. The quicker the better as you will both have the cops on you, and Mel
will be fleeing. But if you kill the three thugs quickly and get in a car, Mel
should run back to you. If not, chase him down and wave him in, then flee
the cops. After that, take him back to his spot, by the police station, and
it's $500 for you.
*NOTE: If you die, just go back to the spot you found Mel and he will pop up,
even if the marker is not there and he isn't. Just go there and he will be
With that done, remember Brian? The first green marker guy you helped buy a
rock? Go to the area around the gun shop and you should find him standing
around. Go see him.
Breaking Brian's Habit
Drive him down the road and to the marker, just like you did for Mel. This
time, just chase away the thugs with a gunshot and they run. Then take Brian
home for your $500 tip.
Now, I'll remind you here and maybe never again, make Jacob like you a lot
so you can get his weapons delivery.
The rest of this section will be over the cars Brucie wants you to get. You
can do them now or wait, doesn't matter. And I hope you realize you must reply
to Brucie's emails for each mission.
Don't forget Brucie still has vehicles for you to nab. He wants a Sanchez, so
reply to the email and head to the docks. When close to the point, it's best
to run over the first two guys, then back up and run over the other two as
they get on the bike, or just get out and shoot them; whatever you do, don't
let them get away or it's a long chase, but they are easy to knock off the bike
and just hard to catch up to.
After you bring the bike back, hopefully just across the street from where you
got it, go back to @ and read the next email.
This one is just across the park from the cafe, and when you get there the
guy who owns it has been pulled over by the cops. Yes, the Pay N Spray is right
down the street, but if the cops see you go in it won't work. Your best bet is
to swing around the block and then speed into the Pay N Spray. The alternative
is to speed down the highway, and you don't want to do that. Get a new coat of
paint and return the car to the garage.
Next car up is the Intruder.
Just go east, grab it, come back to the park, and hopefully the cops are just
out of view as you enter the Pay N Spray; if not, just drive around the block.
Then take it back, easy.
Sabre GT
Just chase it down and put it in a gentle tailspin to get the driver to flee.
Then get it and take it to the garage. It's such a sweet ride, but oh well.
This one is in Bohan. Just walk up the guy as he tries to pick up a hooker and
toss him out of his car, or shoot him because he will shoot you once you throw
him out. Then just cruise all the way back to the garage.
Last one is pretty easy. Just go to the park and ram the guy off his bike,
then pick it up and drive it back. Brucie will text you confirming this is the
last vehicle he needs, so congrats on the easy money.
Brucie's Races
Just phone him up about the races and he will send you to one. Speed is not
the name of the game. These races are usually competitive for the first ten
seconds and then it's just a matter of hitting each checkpoint in a timely
manner. The key is not to get the fastest car, or even the best handling car,
just slow down for the turns and punch the gas when your car is pointed in
the direction you are going; you know, kinda like a real car? If you do want a
fast car, there are lots in the streets and around, they aren't that rare.
Brucie's Likes
Basically you are interested in the helicopter ride and boat ride, not just for
the sake of helping him to like you but also to learn how to pilot said
vehicles. The copter is not has hard to drive as it seems, just tilt the LS
in the direction you want to go and either ascend or descend as you wish, and
then pull the LS back if you want to stop. Takes practice, but this ride will
help you get the controls down.
The key for Brucie is that if he likes you by 80% (check stats screen) he will
let you use the chopper whenever you want, which is not that awesome, but still
good to have.
Based Out of Bohan ( BOHA888 )
Now, go to the "M" on your map.
Escuela of the Streets
So get a car and then go park behind the drug dealer. Now for the following
game, just stay at least two car lengths behind him, or make it five just too
be safe, but you do get one warning if you get too close. Just take it easy
and he will eventually stop at the warehouse.
Get out and go to the door, but it's locked. Shoot the knob to open the door
and then quickly take cover behind the boxes right there. For the guys
close to you, just use blind fire, where you don't lock on, and then move
around for the farther away targets. There are two on the walkways on the
side, so get them before moving. And watch out for the guy in the back with
the shotgun, and take it too. There is a med kit in the room by the door, and
once they are dead, just go back out.
*NOTE: Most have emailed and let me know that you can take some stairs after
Manny leaves and follow the path to the top of the roof where the dealers are.
In one corner is a SMG and in the other corner is an open skylight. You can
kill a few guys through the open light, then drop down and attack from
this side. Either way works.*
Brucie should call, so now make you way back to the Broker area (the area
you started out of), and go meet him. And don't forget to take out your friends
if you like while over here as the trips back and forth take quite a while.
The stuff about Brucie is in the section above.
Go back to Manny whenever to continue the main story.
Street Sweeper
If you have Jacob's weapon delivery, call him up and buy either a lot of pistol
ammo or some SMG ammo; not a ton, but enough to waste in a drive-by and a chase
shootout. Once you have that taken care of, go grab a good car with good
control, and if all else fails just get a taxi. Now drive over to the gang
members, but they don't shoot you on sight, so get as close as you want. When
ready, shoot the first two out front from your car (aim by moving the camera)
and then get one more guy on foot in the garage. If you don't have much ammo,
quickly jump out and grab their guns, then get back in the car.
Now you have to chase the gang car down. It will wind through the streets and
then get on the highway. If you can shoot its tires out, that's great; even
better if you can kill the driver or shoot the gas tank (not sure if that
works anymore). You don't want to get too close to the car, unless you're out
of ammo and trying to ram it, because if you stay back a bit you can stay out
of range of the gunner for the most part. Just shoot the car until it explodes,
then gun down or run over the guys that bailed out.
The final step after you clear the mission is to shake the cops which most
likely are onto you. You can go to the Pay N Spray way back on the first island
if you want, but the best thing is to just outrun them on a long stretch of
highway. You could even run on foot.
Once the mission is clear, Mallorie will call and refer you to an Elizabeta
Luck of the Irish
Make your way toward your safe house to the marker and go up the stairs in the
building. Grab the Sniper Rifle and go to the vantage point. This is just your
standard Sniper Rifle tutorial mission, so it's not that hard. Just hold down
the aim button, zoom with the LS, and just wait for the big guy to pull a gun
on your two friends. Kill all the guys in the alley with red markers over
their heads and keep an eye on your two guys. If you see the message "Packie
is in trouble" look down to see him wrestling with a guy and shoot that bad
guy. The rest is just killing all the enemies that take cover, and when they
are dead look down the alley to see a guy trying to get in a car. Kill him
before or when he gets in the car and the mission is a success.
Go back to Liz for your next mission.
Blow Your Cover
Drive all the way back to the main island and when at the destination, folllow
Playboy in and go behind the stairs to get a shotgun before going up to make
the deal. Yep, it's a sting. Just use your shotgun and slowly move around
with your aim ready to blast. Shoot the first couple of guys through the
ruined wall, then peek into the hallway with the staircase to shoot two more
cops. Go up the stairs and kill two more, and don't miss the guns all about.
Follow your friend up the steps and up to the roof. You got two fights with
enemies, and on the second roof you have a body armor on the ground. Stay
behind cover and kill everyone. Once you have a wanted level by a door, go down
the steps for a shotgun, then go down killing the few more police in the
building. On the streets get in the car and then blaze east and shake the cops.
*NOTE: After you get to the streets, get in the car, go over the edge to get on
the highway, and hopefully no cops will spawn here and you can just easily
get out of radar range.*
Now you will make a trip back to Bohan, but they you will cross over the bridge
and take Playboy back to his place on Algonquin island (the middle island).
So, now you have this island opened to you, and if you check the map you will
find a few locations already dotted. The main ones you would want to visit
right now are the clothing stores, but I will leave those as optional to you.
There are three clothing stores on the island, one near where you dropped X
off, and FYI, that's the only good clothing shop here.
After you're done, return to Manny. You should also get calls from Playboy X,
Roman, Michelle, and Jacob. But still go to Manny.
The Puerto Rican Connection
Make your way back to the first island and to the point near Algonquin Bridge.
Then you need to follow the train along it's southern portion of the map, but
not to the station at the south end of town. Just keep your focus on the train,
should be a button to help with that, watch the radar, and drive under it on
the streets until it stops. There are just a few points where you need to go
just out of the way to find a street, but almost any path will work; stay
under it and close. Once it does stop under an overpass, park, go up the stairs
on the right, and wait for him to turn be in view. When he turns, pull out your
shotgun, lock onto him before he can get down to the ground, and blast him
first, then take out the goons.
Now your jobs for Manny are done. While in the Broker area, go on dates with
Michelle, Jacob, Roman, and race with Brucie, if you want to. You will also get
a mystery text from a question mark on Algonquin island, but hold off on that
for now. Just go back to Bohan for another Elizabeta mission.
The Snow Storm
So to help Jacob and Liz, go to that tiny island to the south between the big
ones. At the old hospital you will run into two gangs, but both are enemies.
The wise thing to do is use some of the rifle ammo from your last couple of
missions and waste the first two guys out front, at least. Then run around the
building to the right side, thus avoiding most of the fighting. In the back
of the building you will find a ladder. Take it up and then go to cover as you
take out the two guys up here. Before you jump down shoot the red barrels to
kill anyone under you. Then hop down and get to the room in the corner, what
is the upper right corner from the front of the building, or just go left
if you came from the back. In this room you will find an AK-47, and in the
adjacent room will be two guys and the coke. Kill the guys and anyone nearby
and grab the drugs.
Okay, so the first part is over. With the drugs you must now exit the
building with the cops all over you. They aren't trying to arrest you, so just
run to the front, killing anyone in your way, and then make a dash outside.
Get the truck that you saw out front on the dirt, not in the parking lot as the
cops are all over the lot. Just grab the crappy truck and make your way back to
the road and try to shake the fuzz.
To clear your status, go to your map and mark the pay n spray on the west side
of the island and make your way there; feel free to toss the truck for whatever
when it's safe to. Once your three stars are gone, go back to Bohan and give
Jacob the cash. And oh boy, what a plot twist!
Now go to Elizabeta for one last mission from her.
Have a Heart
Poor Manny. Get in the Voodoo and drive back to the Dukes area (if you didn't
realize, the first island is broken into two sections, Dukes up north and
Broker down south). Once to the marker, that's it. Elizabeta is now gone.
The Island Algonquin ( ISAL999 )
So, now let us go after new ventures on Algonquin island. First, go to the
center of the city and look for a Burger shot in what is the "Time's Square"
like area. There should be a green friend marker nearby, so go to him.
*NOTE: Across the street from the Perseus store near your safehouse is a
store called Grotti that has free Turismos. Keep that in mind if you ever
want one for races and such.*
Urban Consciousness
Go acros the street with a knife of fists and help Pathos kill the two playa-
haters. That's it.
Now go south to the pier to meet with the mystery man.
Call and Collect
Francis wants you to go toward the bridge up north. Get there and go to the
viewpoint and then wait for the text with the number. Once you have it, walk
down the steps and call the number (there is an option to call it, you don't
have to type it) and by the hotdog stand should be the guy. Get close and
when he runs just pull out your pistol and shoot him dead before he runs too
far away. Collect his evidence and then make a long run all the way north
along this walkway and you should be able to shake the wanted level. There
should also be a bike up the north behind a fence.
Once you have the stuff, go further north and drop it off at the location.
Now McReary has a "Fm" marker on the map, but since we are up here already, go
see Playboy X at the "X" symbol on the map. You should also get a call from
Patrick "Packie" McReary about work (the guy from one of Liz's missions), but
hold it off for later.
Deconstruction For Beginners
So go south and get into the parked car to properly arm yourself. Then get on
the lift and take it up the roof, all the way up. From here there are just
three lookouts to snipe and all of them are on the front cranes. The first two
are easy to spot, but the only way to see the third one is to look as far
down as you can while looking down the sight. Once you take them out you can
leave, but you can still snipe six more tangos below. They are all in the
middle area of the cranes, three on one side and three on the other. If you
don't get them now you will fight them later.
After sniping, take the lift back down and go right down the street and through
the movable gate to get in. The first boss is easy to snipe from right here.
But after you kill him there will be a bunch of enemies that pop up and they
will rush you from the left, so be ready. Now keep moving to the second
building and fight anyone in your way. Go up the ramp and there will be a scene
up here, but if you already sniped the enemies that here here you have no need
to use your grenades. Just stand up and snipe the boss in the corner.
Now go around the corner on the right, kill some goons, and then kill the
third boss. One more left and this time come back and go down the left side.
Kill more enemies and the copter will drop off a bunch more with AK's on all
of them. Just stay back and shoot them all from afar. Then run after the last
boss and shoot him down before he runs too far away. And that's that.
With that mission a success, go back to X and get the next mission.
Photo Shoot
Now your phone has a camera function, as well as ready to get new ringtones
from the internet. For now, go to the basketball courts and then walk into,
but don't get too close to the three dudes. Walk right and along the fence to
behind the bleachers, and you can even jump on them if you like. Now take out
your phone, choose the camere option, get it so the three dudes' faces are in
the picture of your phone, snap it, and then send it to X. If he calls you
then you got the guy; if he texts you then you need to snap again from another
angle, but you have to get all of their faces. Once he points out the right
guy you can basically kill all of them because they carry guns, but you want
to make sure you kill the target first because he will run to a car and speed
away. So kill him and you can run away.
So after that mission, go to the @ cafe nearby and after you check your spam
emails (what else is new?) go to the ringtones option on the homepage and
buy whatever ringtones and themes you want. Personally, Honkers and Lesbians is
the way to go (what else is new?).
*NOTE: If you got the email about ZiT, you can call them and learn the info of
songs you hear. The number is 948-555-0100 and if you call when a song is on
the radio you can learn the name and artist of the song.*
Now go to Dwayne at the "D" on your map. Should get a call from Michelle too
to go somewhere, but hold off on that.
Ruff Rider
Ride down to the marker, maybe with a good handling or heavy car, and after
the scene you better let the girl live for later in the game. Then just get
in your car or the nearby bike and chase the guy down. If you can ram him over,
that's great. However, your safest bet is to shoot him off the bike and run
him over as he falls off, or just shoot him again before he gets in a car. If
the cops are after you, shake them and then go to the Cluckin' Bell in the
downtown area.
After that, remember Pathos? The underground rapper dude? Go to the north end
of "Time's Square" and he will be there.
Yep, gotta bail him out again, but this time you have to shoot those haters.
Kill them and then get to a nearby car to take him to the hospital. I don't
think you are timed at all, but you can get to the hospital before his talking
is over and you can hear him out before letting him off. That's that.
Now go to Dwayne for his second mission.
Undress to Kill
Yep, because it's been too long since you've been to the strip club. The club
is owned by gangsters, so go there and feel free to start shooting the bouncers
before offing the three marked leaders. Get the first two in the club and then
come out to the parking lot. If you can shoot the third one before he gets too
far away you will save yourself a lot of time and ammo. If not, you gotta chase
him down the highway and shoot him while driving. Once you kill him the mission
is over.
Hostile Negotiation
This is when I got a call about Roman from Mallorie. Soon after you should get
a text from Dimitri. If you do not, then wait until you get this and then come
back to read it, but you have no choice of when you accept this mission.
Go to the south end of Bohan and toward the warehouse. There is a gun before
you step on the marker, but have your AK in hand. After the scene, sneak behind
the two enemies and blindfire on them to kill them easily. The rest on the
floor and a few up above are killed with your standard pop and fire gunplay.
Make your way up to the next level and when you clear all the guys out, go over
to the steps and you'll get a body armor. Keep moving up the level where
Roman is being held and clear your way across the bridge and into his room. You
have a few seconds to get close and then you need to quickly aim at the guys
head without hitting your bro. Even if you miss you get one split second to
try again before he shoots. If your aim is good, just follow Roman down to the
truck and drive him home. Feel free to save afterward.
Now make your way back to Algonquin Island. If you go down the eastern road
along the river, toward your new safe house if Roman calls you, you should
run into a green friend marker at a corner, so check it out.
*NOTE: If you check the physical map and find the LCPD in the northeast side
of the island, that's where he is.*
Jeff's Wife
Just hop in the car and follow them to a cafe. Don't get too close of they
will run. Just get them into view and snap a photo. If you get the message to
leave the place, just go outside and the mission is over.
Now just wait around until Playboy X calls again for the final mission from
The Holland Play
This one is a long one. The first call from Playboy is just an intro into the
subject. Then you are free to do whatever. At some point Dwayne will call and
give you his side of the story. Now, you can try to call Playboy X, but he
may not pick up. If not, you may have to wait a while before he calls you
Once you get a second call from Playboy you are forced to finish this mission.
You are given an X and a D on your map. It's your choice, but here are the
rewards for each kill. If you kill X you get his crib and D will be your BFF.
If you kill Dwayne then you get money from X but he will not be your friend.
The choice is pretty clear: kill Playboy X. Go to his loft and after the
scene just blindfire to kill the four enemies (one by the pool table). Then
run outside and after the quick scene you need to jump to the roof and then
down the flights of stairs. Outside you need to kill a gunner and a driver,
then go find X stuck at a locked door and gun him down, or maybe execute him.
After you do, Dwayne is your friend and the fancy loft is now your own safe
house. And there has to be something said about a game where you can watch
an HDTV on your HDTV.
The Paper Man ( PAP1010 )
Go the question mark in the middle of the city, where Michelle wanted you to
go, and you will be in the hands of U.L. Paper.
Wrong is Right
Well, if you didn't realize it by now, Michelle is a cop, and her name isn't
Michelle, it's Karen.
Go to Broker and into the building. Get on the computer and check his emails;
visiting www.liesdamnlies.net is optional. Read all three and then get out.
Head down the road to the location. Now you must chase and shoot him dead. This
chase can go on for a long time if you suck, so don't suck. Kill him and if the
fuzz is on you they should go away once you get him, I think, maybe not.
Go back to the "U" on the map.
Portrait of a Killer
He will send you a text message and then request you get a cop car. No, don't
even worry about a police station. Just find a cop car, kill the cop, and then
outrun the police. Or yes, if all else fails just go to your old spot back in
Broker to get that one parked one.
*NOTE: There are two police stations to the northwest of where you meet Paper.*
Once you got it, use the computer and search by photo to upload your image.
When you have him, mark him on your radar and head out back to Dukes. When at
the place, just park on the right and then get out and feel free to snipe as
many enemies as you can see. Go up and clean the rest out, then you will notice
one more is on a roof, but no ladder. Go to the crates and hop up them to get
in view of the last enemy and kill him for a job well done.
*NOTE: Now may be the time when you are forced to finish The Holland Play, so
go up and read if you need to.*
Go back to Paper for the next job.
Dust Off
This is you basic "follow the moving vehicle until it stops and then shoot the
bad guys" mission. Make sure you have a good car and then go the marker, which
is on the road FYI. Then get on the highway and stay on it as you go south.
When you get to the tip of the island, curve around and follow this highway
north. Once the copter stops on your left, turn left, ram the gate, and then
try to crash the car into the people exiting the copter. Get out and kill them
all before getting in the bird and quickly flying away, as a guy will try to
get on (it's great if he grabs the leg and gets tossed in the air!). Now fly
it east, hopefully you have flown one with Brucie, and land at the marker to
end the mission.
There is a car nearby and if you exit through the north gate you can wait for
the guard to raise the bars so you can get through. I think you know what I'm
about to say. Take a break and take your remaining friends out on the town,
mainly Brucie and Jacob.
Paper's next mission will take a while to trigger, so feel free to start on
the Packie missions and Paper will call again.
Paper Trail
This mission is easier than it seems. For one, I hope you know how to pilot
this thing by now and that you realize the ascend and descend work much
quicker than it seems. Anyway, just get up and follow the chopper all around
the city, through the buildings, under the bridge, and then over the water;
if you are really scared and not good, just take it slow on the turns among
the skyscrapers.
Once you are over the water you must line Jacob (hanging out of the left side)
with the chopper so that he can fire. The chopper seems to bog up and down, so
maybe just try to stay at the height it will come to and hope Jacob connects.
It shouldn't take too many shots before you blow it out of the skies.
After you get it, fly him to the south end of Algon island, maybe take a
quick look at the Statue of Happiness, and land it to end the mission. Paper
calls soon after and he will help you, later.
For right now, let us continue our work with Packie. Go back to him for the
next job; yes, take the helicopter over there.
Packie McReary ( PAC1111 )
You may have to start this first one before finishing the Paper missions, so
go to the Dukes area and find the "PM" to get it started.
Harboring a Grudge
Kate looks like my kind of woman; you can have the grandma. Get in your fly
ride and go to the harbor in Algonquin. Follow Packie to the side of the
building and then climb with him, taking note of the shimmying part. After the
scene you need to climb down on the right and then get to the crate, take
cover, and toss a frag and start shooting. Kill all the guys all around on
the ground, then kill the guys on both sides in the warehouse.
*NOTE: It may actually be easier to stay up on the roof and just use the pistol
to kill everyone.*
Get in the truck and wait for Packie, then go out through the gate in the
front (not the fence or you will get stuck). Of course bad guys will chase you,
but you are now told how to drop grenades while driving. You just switch to
the frags, hold down the shoot button, and when it starts beeping you can let
it drop; wait too long as it is beeping and you will kill yourself. You can
also shoot if you want, and this truck can take loads to damage, so just try
to get to the destination quickly.
Paper will likely call to finish his missions up, so go do that if so, and
when that is done come back to Packie.
Waste Not Want Knots
Just get a four-seater and drive to that island with the old hospital. Park and
then follow the boys along the fences to enter the warehouse area. Shoot it
out with the bad guys, but your biggest enemy is the friendly-fire, so know
where your allies are at all times. Kill all the enemies and go inside to fight
more enemies on your way up the stash.
Once you have it, fight your way back down the stairs and this time take the
back door in the upper right corner, just be careful of the guys all around.
Go to the dock and then you will be prompted to swim, which should be your
first time. Swimming is just like walking and running. Get to the boat, get on
like a you would a car, and then drive to the dock; just note the sharp turns
are done with the handbrake button.
After that mission Packie will soon call you and tell you to hit it off with
Kate. Call her up and go get her way to the east. Drive her to the bar where
the darts are and just get wasted (which is just as rewarding as it is in
real like kids); I will not make an Irish and drunkedness joke at this time,
but I could. Hopefully you are way in the like with Roman and you can call
up a cab to take you guys home; if it's your first time in the cab just set
the destination with the run button and after the driver is done talking you
can skip the ride.
*NOTE: You can also call a cab, which is to run up and hold the "get in car"
button to get in as a passenger.*
This next mission if for Jeff, which happens at I-don't-know-when, but when
he calls you must go to him.
Jeff's Wife Who Stabbed Herself Fifty Times
The car park is underground and if you follow the markers you will be able to
get there. Just get the car and try to drive to the northern end of the
island without the cops spotting you, but they probably will. Just shake them
and get to the marker. Now all you do is back up a bit, get some speed going
down the grassy hill, and then bail on the car like 50 feet before you hit the
edge. If you sink the car successfully you will get a message saying so and
then call Jeff.
*NOTE: FYI, the area you dumped that body is prime territory for the ladies
of the night if you catch my drift. You must try out all three "services",
not for the empty virtual moaning or to see that there is no health boost,
but just for Niko's one-liners.*
For the next Packie mission you must have a whole get-up of expensive clothes.
So, go to either Perseus clothing shops on Algonquin (the two lower ones).
The trick is to buy a suit and shoes only, not the slacks on the wall; this
is because the suit comes with pants. So buy a suit with a tie and any shoes
and then come back to Packie between 6:00 AM and 7:00 PM.
*NOTE: Make sure you get full armor before going into this mission. Also, do
not wear glasses or a hat.*
Three Leaf Clover
Just get a four-seater and then drive them downtown Algonquin. Note you get
an M16, I think. After the scene just go down into the vault through the
blasted door. After the next scene you are very surrounded.
Your goal now is to follow Packie to the north, on foot, as you guys plow
through tons of cops. Just clear the cops outside, feel free to toss a frag
or two at the cars, and then go out and follow them to the right where you
will fight more cops down the alley. The rest is more of less the same and just
make sure you are with your friends. Then you will hit the subway station.
Fight your way down the stairs, ready for the groups of SWAT with armor on,
and then shoot it out when near the tracks. Then get on the tracks with you
guys and make sure you cover your backs. When they say run, go with them down
the tracks and make sure you avoid getting run over. When you get to the
service stairway, climb them and then go through the door to get out (the door
swings open). Then kill the two cops on the right before getting in the SUV,
or the cop car I guess.
All I did from here was run away and go north, out of range of the cops and
that lost the wanted level. If you are not so fortunate, just go west to the
paint shop. Once you shake the cops, take Packie back home.
Feel free to now take Kate on another date. You will also get a lot of calls
about new ventures. You should have mission open for Gerry McReary, Francis
McReary, Derrick McReary, and Ray Boccino.
The Family McReary ( MCR1212 )
Let's do the first mission with Gerry now, which is in the backyard of Packie's
Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Go up the street and pick up the bomb in an alley. Then get a good car and
drive to downtown Algonquin and go to the street either behind or in front of
the alley with the car, but you can't block the alley. Plant the bomb and then
go park in the spot across the street from the car.
Now stay 5-10 car lengths away from them as you follow the car all the way up
north. When there and after the scene, get out of the car and go to the marker
in the park. Whip out your phone, select Gerry, and the select detonate. Now
just kill the remaining targets from afar or up close, but you need to quickly
get in your car to make your escape from the cops. There is a nearby Pay N
Spray. Once you lose them, the mission is over.
Go back to Gerry for phase 2.
I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle
Yes, apart from the longest titles in the game, this is a line from Terminator
2. Go get on the motorcycle and then head to Algonquin, again. Hit the marker
and then you have to chase the dude on two wheels, which is hard, but you are
given some room for error, or two. Just try to pop at least his tires while on
Algonquin, but he will take to a tunnel that goes to the third island of
Alderney. Just chase him down, shoot him or hope he wrecks, and then it's
over. You seem to have a long leash to get behind if you crash, but please just
try to stay with him and under control.
After this mission Gerry will go away for a while, so now go to Francis on
Final Interview... Part 1
Go to the @ cafe up north. Get on the computer and click the "Tom Goldberg"
banner, click "Careers" and then "Submit Resume". Feel free to read your fake
resume and then submit it. That's it, now exit and you will give a call and
then get a text from the company saying they are closed. You are free to do
To finish this mission takes a long while, so part 2 is in the next section.
Now go to Alderney island and head to Derrick's location.
There are cop cars to the north of the park, so just steal one while no cops
are looking and you're good (I'll feel real dumb if this was the case for all
the cop car missions). Park and access the computer and type in Bucky Sligo.
Mark his location and then drive all the way north to the Burger Shot.
*NOTE: Feel free to get a shotgun and armor from the gun shop or Little
Jacob - you'll need both.
Once there, anyone with half the ability to drive should be able to keep up
with his slow car as he drives through back-alleys and fences. When he gets to
the house you can shoot him before he gets inside. Go with with your gun and
start blasting. You have to work quick because the cops will be on you in a
hurry. You don't want to risk being arrested, so you pretty much have to shoot
at them too; if no cops see you shooting up the house you will be in a good
position. If the cops are onto your before you kill all the thugs, consider
running out the back door and just hoofing it on foot until out of range, or
just get a car and either run or get some new paint.
Once you shake the cops you get the call from Derrick about the mission being
The Italian and Irish Connections ( CON1313 )
Check your map to see a "RB" for the Roy symbol, downtown Algonquin. However,
there is one green friend marker in town to go visit real quick. He is north
of the gun shop on Alderney. Well, provided you let him live that is.
Ivan the Naive
Just drive up the street with him and then onto the marker. You will be
behind cover after the scene. Waste the guy on the roof to the right, then
the guys in the alley, then the guy on the stairwell on the left, and then
anyone else. Collect the guns and money and then talk to Ivan.
Now go to Algonquin, to the Time's Square area, and go to the south end; which
is north of Ray Boccino's mission marker, which is also northwest of the gun
Jeff's End
That's about it. Just go up to him, trigger the scene, and he dies. Do stay and
listen to the guy that ran him over. Walk away to "clear" the mission.
Now go to Ray's marker at long last.
A Long Way to Fall
You will get a text while going up north. Get off at the marker and go meet
the guy with the 72 jersey. Point a gun at him to intimidate him, then go into
the building and get on the elevator.
Now begins your tango with goons in pop and drop shooting. You must get up to
the three floor from here and there will be enemies at each corner and then
some. There are health kits in some places if you need them. Best to have a
shotgun, but any gun works. When you get to the third floor, go in the room and
waste three enemies. Go to the kitchen, grab the health, and then come back.
After the scene, go back to the stairwell and kill two guys on your way to the
roof. There is one more goon on the roof, then you can waste the target from
the doorway, or just go over and kill him.
Beating this mission sets you back on the ground and Ray will text you about a
new safehouse in Alderney. Brucie should call too and tell you that a Stevie
will ask you for new rides. Do any dates you need to do if you haven't in a
while, or whatever Stevie asks of you. If you do at this time, it should take
long enough for the Goldberg offices to schedule an interview with you, but it
will take another day, the next noon in fact, so you are free to waste time
until then. Just know that you need to be there by about 9 AM, and most likely
you will need to buy a new set of shoes from the nearby Perseus.
*NOTE: If you need something good to do with your time while you wait, go get
a knife, from Little Jacob's gun service.*
Final Interview... Part 2
*NOTE: I hope you realize not to wear sunglasses or hat. Just suit and shoes.*
Just like the Packie mission, have a suit and tie and shoes on from Perseus, no
pants. Go to the building at nine in the morning, before noon, and hit the
marker to be buzzed in. Go the receptionist and then follow her. Go into
his office.
Once the interview starts you can stand up, which doesn't raise alarm. Then get
your knife out and target him. He will cough up the files on his desk, then go
over and slash him once (a stealth kill). Then run out of the building and take
the files to Francis. Easy mission, but poor pay.
Since you're here, do Francis' next one.
Holland Nights
Go up the Holland, the area to the north, and get to the marker. Now, you can
go up the stairs on either side, and you can go up them without killing the
guys on the ground. However, you will have to fight them on the way back. And
the side you go up should be the side you come back down.
*NOTE: Bromand says there is a crane, shortly after the cutscene, where you
can get on top and snipe Clarence. Of course you lose the ability to do his
"side mission" later, but it doesn't affect 100% completion.*
When you go up the steps you will hit a guy that wants to fight, so just shoot
him and then the guys on this level. Follow the walkway and make sure you are
ready for guys to be around every corner. Clarence will just make his way up
to the roof, but don't shoot him before then. Just waste his guys as you make
your way up there. When you get to the roof you are given the choice of saving
him, and if you do you can meet him later.
The hard part is making it back down to the ground with the cops all over you.
Just run down the way you came up and blast any cops in your way, which should
just keep you at a 3 star level. Quickly run to your car if you can and speed
up north to the paint shop, and even west on Alderney is another just over the
Whenever you wish, go back to Francis who is now way to the south end of
Algonquin, near a fountain.
Go up north and grab the car, then go to the apartment marker further north in
Holland. Go through the door and then up the stairs to the roof. During the
cutscene, notice the number on the phone. Call 545-555-0122 and once you pull
your gun out just zoom in and snipe his head. Simply return to the streets to
make the call.
*NOTE: Dennis Marjoncu says you can shoot the satellite so to disrupt his
No more Francis work, so go to Ray.
Taking in the Trash
Go around the right corner and you will drive the trash truck. Head a short
distance east to the first pickup, press the run button to open the back of
the truck. Drive west to the next spot, and after this one you will have
some company. It's actually easy to drop the grenades, just don't blow yourself
up; toss them before too long if you do, or don't at all. Just get to the
garage and you're done.
Now go back to Ray.
Just drive west and to the marker, then you will be in a new, faster car at
the start of the chase. You don't need to kill them, and you lose if you do.
You can shoot at the gunner, but that is it. Just keep up with them and be
ready for when they turn into Middle Park. Then get out and gun them down on
foot. After you kill the first three, go into the bathroom down the steps and
on the right and shoot the doors until you find Luca. Execute him by getting
close, then grab the rocks. Now go to the bridge in the middle of the park,
get on it, and get to the marker. Mission complete.
Again, unless you got other plans, back to Ray. Make sure you got armor on.
Museum Piece
Just go back to the park and go meet Johnny. After the scene you have a big
fight to get outside. It's just your standard pop and shoot gunplay. Start with
the guy on your left, and the rest is just being ready for enemies with every
step you take. Once you clear the top areas, both sides, once you get down
the stairs there will be more enemies up top. Clear the bottom, go through the
doors, be ready for guys around the corner, and then kill two more outside by
the cars.
*NOTE: These guys drop good guns, especially the beefier pistols. Pick those up
and you can use it for the whole fight. It's the Combat Pistol.*
Next is the chase where you only need to get that enemy car out of your radar.
This is easy if you swing around the park and then zip down the other side.
I guess you could stop and shoot that car out once you lose the rest of the
enemies; just zoom away, it's much easier. And when you call Ray the mission
will be over.
Not trying to sound like a broken record, but if no prior engagements, return
to Ray yet again. However, let us go south of Ray's marker to a little park
where a friend is marked.
Marnie's Junk
Just drive her to Alderney, give her $500, and that's it.
Now back to Ray.
No Way on the Subway
Just drive way up north. After the scene you will be in a bike chase, so do
your best to shoot them off, but it will likely take you the whole duration of
the chase to finish off the second buy. Watch out when they get on the tracks
for the subway as you can easily miss the hole, but even if you fall you should
try to shoot one of them down so you can take their bike. Once in the tunnels
just try to keep up and do your best to shoot him, but I'm pretty sure you
can't kill him until you get to the dead-end over the water. Watch out for the
left turn when you hit the open area of track, then follow him to the dead-end
where you can kill him.
After the mission, drive back and look for a place on the right to get on a
walkway so you don't have to drive all the way back the way you came. You
should get a call about a Talbot, and then you call Roman.
The McReary Mess ( MES1414 )
Weekend at Florian's
Go pick up Roman, who should be just up the street if you exited the bridge
via the walkway, and then drive him south. Best to have a four-seater already
as you'll need one once you speak with Talbot. Drive him up north, but he's a
real stickler about proper driving, so try to obey the law so he shuts up.
Just follow his directions and you will end up on the west side of the island.
It's just a scene to enjoy, that's it.
You can stick around and wait for Bernie's mission to pop up, but I say just
go to Ray to get closer to finishing his part up. Paper should also call soon
to confirm he is still searching for Darko.
Late Checkout
Go up north to the hotel and then take the elevator up, the one on the right.
Just blast the first guy and then take cover. Toss a frag down the hall and
make your way down the hall as you clear the rest out. Go up the stairs as
you handle enemies and go through the doors. Kill the guys in the living room,
then go to the kitchen where you can let one guy live. Go upstairs and kill the
guy in the next room, then go up to the roof where you will waste Isaac and
two goons.
Grab the body armor on the right and then take the stairs on the left where you
must fight three more goons. Now go to the corner of the next roof and use
the lift to get to the ground. Then just go to the streets, get a car, zoom
either north or south to shake the cops, and you're done with Ray's missions.
You should get a text soon from Ray to go meet him at a pier. Go to the "PB"
marker on Alderney to meet Phil Bell.
Truck Hustle
Get in a car and go north to the alley. After the scene you should toss a frag
into the middle, then toss one soon after at the truck that pulls in. Just stay
here and kill everyone, just watch out for the shotgunners that will try to
rush you. Move down the alley and soon the truch will pull out, so jump out of
your cover and run after it. Get to the marker at its back and then tap the
run button to pull yourself up. Then get to the roof, and one the roof you need
to watch the movement of the truck as you crawl up to the front; if the truck
turns left, you pull to the right and even roll. Once you have the truck drive
it an old mansion and that's that.
*NOTE: Thought they look different, I'm pretty sure this is reference to the
mansion from the first game, and I believe the islands from GTA3 have been
switched in GTA4, sans the dam on the island with the airport. But other than
that the cities of the two games have little in common.*
This is when I got the call from Dwayne to start hanging out, so do that if
so. You should also get a most interesting call concerning Roman and Mallorie
After whatever, go to Derrick, who is near you safehouse in Alderney.
Boat up north, then follow Kim in the big boat. Soon some speedboats will come
into the picture with guns blazin'. Shoot them as best you can, and once you
pass under a bridge you will get the okay to let go of the wheel. You'll have
the RPG in hand and you need to blast the chopper and the boats. Take the wheel
and lead in on home.
You're in Bohan, so get back to Alderney for the next Derrick mission.
Tunnel of Death
Drive up north and grab the truck in the alley. After the scene, drive the
truck down the tunnel, but be ready to turn to set the truck across the two
lanes of the one side of the tunnel.
After the next scene just start wasting all the cops. Once they are done for,
drive down the right side of the tunnel, toward Alderney, and all I can say is
you have to shake the cops in the downtown area, which is the north end of the
island. Can't shoot at them, so just weave in and out of turns and just keep
moving. Once you see the wanted zone freeze and you are close to the edge, get
out of the zone and just wait in a corner or something until you are clear.
Now drive the truck toward the marker on the east end, then take the new car to
the northwest end of the island, down a dirt road along the coast. Waste poor
old Aiden.
Now go east and you should see a green marker nearby in an alley, which is
west of the paint shop. Prepare of the most disturbing thing in recent gaming
Eddie's Heavy Bag
Get in the car nearby if you don't got one and then drive him to the east end
of the island. Drive him to the marker at the dock and then wait for him. Then
drive him to Algonquin, but be sure to hear his conversation out, or not, it's
really up to you.
So after that creepiness, things work out pretty well as Francis McReary's next
mission should be south of you, so go there. This mission is on Algonquin, FYI.
Blood Brothers
Well, get in a car and head to the east end of Algonquin. Get to the marker and
then jump up to the platform on the side of the building to find the lift and
take it up. Get into position and you have a choice.
To put it plainly, kill Francis, the prick cop. He just gives you the ability
to wash away a wanted level. I don't know what the difference is, but I think
killing Francis skips his two last missions. I'm not sure, but I iced him
You get sent into this mission upon completion of the last one, so you must go
to your safehouse and put on your suit and smart shoes, if you don't already
have them on. Then drive south to the church. Of course you get ambushed, so
get out your big gun and get ready to waste two cars-worth of enemies, then
some more up the alley in front of the church. Just don't get blasted.
Now you have to drive the hearse to Colony Island while under fire, and while
not going too fast as the coffin will slide out if you do. Just take it easy,
try to blast the enemy car, and make it to the cemetery with the dead guy
You soon learn Gerry in in the correctional facility on the south end of
Alderney, so go there.
I'll Take Her
Go north to the @ cafe in the neighborhood. Get on and click the autoeroticar
.com link. Click "View Cars" and then scroll down to the Feltzer. You now
have her number. I say either do a quick mission is you've just missed the
time and it's late at night, or just go on a date if you need a little bit of
time to waste.
If it is between 8AM and 9PM, call her number and then go to the south side and
pick Gracie up to test her car. Drive a bit south and watch for the "initiate
kidnapping" message. Then turn around and head north along the set path. She
will try to turn the wheel, so brake when she does. Just drive down to the
downtown area until you smack her, then drive to the alleyway, both markers.
Killing New People ( KIL1515 )
This section is meant to take care of the other random people we've missed, as
well as move the story along.
For your first mission, go to Bernie on Algonquin.
Hating the Haters
Just get in the car and drive over a block to the park. Now jog behind him at
about three-car lengths behind. Under a bridge you will run into the hater, so
chase him up to the bridge and get on a scooter (a Faggio, yes). Gotta chase
him as best you can through the park and try to shoot him off. If you don't
manage to get him early, when you get to the road of the bridge you will pick
up Bernie. Then if you haven't finished off the hater, just do it on the main
After that, take Bernie way down to the Perseus store to the south.
Now go toward Bernie again, but go north of him to find a green friend marker
on a corner. Go see her.
Breaking Marnie's Habit
Just pick her up and take her to the train station I believe. A nice end to
what could be a sad story.
Anyway, back to Bernie's.
Union Drive
Now, I found a Turismo down the street, which is the best car in the game, so
hopefully you are just as lucky. Pick up your friend and then head to the north
east corner of the island.
*NOTE: I'm starting to get the sense that most chases can't be ended before
they have ran their course.*
Now begins the hardest chase yet, and you need the Turismo just to keep up.
Try your best to shoot them eary before they get to the highway because it's
a mess once they do. You get maybe one mistake on this chase and if you do
crash you had better correct yourself fast. Here are a few things to note:
he will change lanes toward the south end of the highway, a cop will try to
get him but will fail, there will be many vehicles in your way, and the chase
eventually ends at a park where you can shoot it out with them.
Kill them, shake any cops on your trail, and then take him home. It's a good
idea to store this car in the yellow lines of a safehouse for a race or what
Remember Clarence from that Francis mission? Head to the Holland area, well,
where the projects area is, the place where you chased him to the roof, and he
should be there. It's east of the Modo store.
Clarence's Revenge
Yup, he didn't learn his lesson the first time. Just shoot it out with him -
he doesn't go down easily - but there is no way you should lose this pop and
shoot battle. Collect his dough as payment.
Bernie should text you soon about the next mission, so head way down to the
pier at the south end of Algonquin. Now head south to Bernie between 5:45AM
and 6:45PM.
Buoys Ahoy
Just boat him east to the marker by the beach. This chase is and exercise in
using the handbrake on the boat, which should be the run button or a shoulder
button. Using the handbrake makes you turn much more sharply on the boat and
with more control that in a car. Just follow them to the end of the chase where
they will beach themselves on land and run. So beach yourself and then get out
and chase down both men. Kill them, come back to Bernie, and that's it.
Now, feel free to go east and see the Pavilion Towers from the World's Fair,
then do any dates you may need before going south, all the way toward the
bowling alley. You should see a green friend marker on the bordwalk on the
west end.
Mrs. Faustin's Retribution
Go north a bit to meet the boyfriend and just beat him up with your fists, and
try not to get caught by the cops. You can chase him, but if you just run into
him he will stop and you can beat him up in the alley. You'll get a call later
saying that the daughter and the sleazeball have broken up.
After that, notice the "B" marker on your map, even though you've beaten all
of Bernie's missions. Go there to find an Infernus parked in the lot. Drive it
out and take it to a parking spot in front of a safehouse because you want to
save this thing for races.
Now you may have already heard about Gracie, so go to the little white person
marker that looks like a "V" in Alderney.
Gracie's Pic
Just go in and up the stairs one level. Go in the white door and get her to
look up. Take her photo with your camera and send off the picture. Leave the
building and that's that.
Ray should call you soon, but let us go to the south end of Alderney, to the
pay phone for the Assassination missions.
Assassin's Pay Phone
I believe these are in random order. Here are all nine, and you can do them
all now or not. Guns and armor are provided nearby for each mission. Keep in
mind the gun shop is right behind you. Best to buy an RPG for certain missions.
Hook, Line, and Sinker - Head north toward the old mansion, but go down to
the beach. Get in a boat and head east until you reach the target, then chase
him and shoot him. You want to target the driver as you can kill him without
blowing up the whole boat. Should be easy.
R.U.B. Down - Just go up to the dealers and maybe shoot an RPG into them if
you have one. Kill as many as you can, then chase down the rest. Gotta kill
them all quickly before one gets too far away. The RPG route is probably
the best, or a grenade.
Taken Out - This one is way tough as you got the two guard cars and then you
need to take out the limo. Again, an RPG is a quick fix, or even a grenade in
the limo's path. Whatever you do, you just have one shot before they flee, so
make your first shot count.
Derelict Target - Just approach the building and you will see two of targets.
Get back and snipe them and their buddies; one is on the ground and the other
in a window up above. Then get in the building and start climbing the stairs
while fighting the set bad guys. Kill the last target and the mission is over.
Industrial Action - You get the expensive sniper rifle for this job, so be
sure to pick that up by the stacks. When you get to the refinery you need to
pick anywhere to start sniping. Kill as many as you can from your spot, but
they will scatter. Move around to the middle, using the stairs along the outer
fence to jump inside, and then just keep looking up for the red markers. Snipe
them and that's it.
Watar Hazard - Another sniper rifle provided. This one is simple, just go to
the marker, go to the sidewalk, look into the water, snipe the guy, and that's
Migration Control - Another sniping mission. Just drive to the Booth Tunnel,
but don't go in. Instead, drive or run down the steps on the right side and get
into view of the helipad. Wait for the woman to walk up the steps to the
chopper and sniper her before she gets on. If you don't, I'm not sure what
happens but I'm sure you fail.
Bailing Out for Good - This isn't a sniper mission, but I say it is. Provided
you have a sniper rifle on your own, drive to the police station and when you
get close you need to quickly step out of your car, get out your rifle, and
then snipe the dude, or the driver. If not, I imagine you have to chase them
down and kill them.
Dead End - Given grenades for this one. Drive up north toward the bridge, then
get ready to chase the target a short distance into an alley on the right. When
you do you will be in the middle of an ambush. Just kill all the enemies that
cover the exits and the ones you get stuck with and that's it. Shake the cops
if they spot you.
Now you should have long gotten a call from Packie to go see Gerry at the
pen, so go to the south end of Alderney when ready.
She's a Keeper
Drive up north to the safehouse and pick up the bitch. You gotta get her to the
north of Algonquin while under fire, but don't get tore up of you fail (you
kill her, but more importantly, you fail). You may get some cop heat on you,
or not, just take her near the pay n spray up north and drive her into the
Now go back to Gerry at the state pen.
Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
Yep, you came all the way back to the correctional facility just to go back to
pick up the girl and Packie. Head to Bohan and then take the turnpike bridge,
but after the gate you will hang a right to get on the island roads. Follow the
path around, though I'm sure there is a faster way, and go to the pier.
After the scene, just stay behind the car as you waste a few enemies, then
follow Packie into the pit area as you kill the rest down here and start on the
ones up high. Kill them and get on the ramp, body armor there too, and then
take out the guys on the walkways. Make your way to a split in the road where
Packie takes the left path and you take the right; grenades by a box before
you take your path. Use those grenades to blast the cars that pull in in the
middle, then go help Packie kill the guys on his side.
After the next scene, kill the last two guys, then take the ladder down to the
streets. All that is left is to get a car and take Packie home (don't follow
the yellow lines on the radar, just get up the nearest ramp to get on the
That concludes your dealings with the McReary's, finally, but you can tell
it is all intermingling.
Meeting New People ( MEE1616 )
The New Women
Let me start by saying there are three other women to date: Alexandra Chilton,
Carmen Ortiz, and Kiki Jenkins. You can find them on the internet. Alex is
on Craplist.net, while the other two are on love-meet.net, as SoBoHoe and
LawChick (it's all in an email you got at some point).
*NOTE: Add the "www." before each address. Alex is listed as "Party girl...".*
I won't go into great detail on the women, and I won't say anything more at
all. They are just there to have fun with, literally, and have no bearing on
the story. If you want to add three more "buddies" to your phone that will call
you at all hours of the day, be my guest. I would rather save them for after
the story.
Go to the southwest corner of Algonquin island, more to the west of the gun
shop. You should see a guy selling handbags on the sidewalk.
Hossan's Quality Goods
Get a car and then just drive him a bit south to the marker. After the scene
make sure you pick up Hossan and then go after the guy. It's best to spin him
out from behind, then run him over, or just gun him down. After that, take
Hossan back to an alley.
Now go to the north end of Algonquin, just a tad north of Modo, and you should
run into Cherise, a certain someone from an earlier mission, provided you
spared her life.
Cherise's Boyfriend
Just drive her north a bit and then go beat up the dude, not kill. Talk to
her and that's that.
This next one has to be at night. Go back to around the area where you found
Hossan, west of the southern gun shop on Algonquin, and you should run into
Poor, Unfortunate Sara
Drive her up north to the west side of Middle Park, then fight her husband, or
whoever that is.
Now go to the Jimmy Pegorino marker on the north side of Alderney, but make
sure you got a suit and tie and shoes on for the job.
Pegorino's Pride
Get in the car and don't leave Pergorino behind. Drive them all the way south
to an old refinery. After the scene, go into the building and get to the
stairwell, a shotgun under it, then get to the top and to the point. Wait for
the enemies to pop up in the back and start sniping all the red targets. A
car will pull up, so snipe them too.
Now get out a machine gun and go back down to the ground. Kill the many enemies
behind cover on your way to the back of the warehouse to save Pegorino. After
you get him and the scene, follow the marked car. It is hard enough just
following it out of the dirt path, let alone following it on it's series of
jumps and ramps. Just don't get too far behind and soon the car will stop and
you can gun them down.
Grab the cash and head back to the mansion. Mission complete.
Jimmy should text you real soon, so go back, or I guess stay there; maybe you
have to walk away to get the text.
May want to load up on grenades, about ten or so. Just drive down south. After
the scene the chase gets wild and crazy, but if he went any faster it might be
a bit more difficult. As it stands, they go pretty slowly and the end point is
not too far away. Just follow them at a distance as they go through the alleys
and you'll be fine.
When you get to the auto lot, just toss two grenades at the sides of them,
then quickly clean up the survivors after the cops get on your tail. Just watch
out for the exploding cars yourself. Once you kill everyone, go to the south
side of the car dealership to find vehicles to make your escape from the fuzz.
Get lost and the mission is over.
There is a "P" mission over at the classy strip club called Honkers - you
know, the wallpaper on your cellphone?
Catch the Wave
Drive you guys to the truck under the overpass in the downtown area. Then
drive it all the way to that one island from a few missions back. There is
actually an on-ramp before the toll booth, FYI. The roads down here are one-
way, but feel free to run over the grass.
After you get the briefing from the cutscene, shoot the guys around the truck
while inside, then get out and take cover on the left side of the doorway. Pop
the guys up top on the right, then the guys on the bottom, and then move out
to get the rest, all the while watching up top for more enemies. Move up with
your friend and be ready for bad guys to pop up anywhere, even behind you.
Once out on the docks, go left, grab the body armor, then get on the boat. Just
follow Phil, but some enemy boats will tail you. If you can actually stay in
FRONT of Phil, that will work and that should prevent the bad guys from
shooting you up, or just shoot back at them if you want to. Go to the dock
after the attackers give up and jump off to end the mission.
Let us now head to the southeast side of Algonquin, go a Pier 45. Out in
the front should be Sara, maybe at night only.
Sara's Package
Just drive to the northern Perseus, buy the package, say hello to the twin
assistants, then return it to her. That's it for her.
Now go to Alderney, to the west side of it, north of the @ cafe, maybe at
night again. Yep, him.
Eddie's Sickness
Thank God! Just run back a bit and blast him with the shotgun. This has to be
one of the more satisfying kills in the game. Feel free to keep blasting into
his dead body.
The Mob Game ( MOB1717 )
You should have three mission prospects out there: Jimmy, Phil, and this new
Gambetti guy. Well, let's go to Phil since he was here first.
*NOTE: Make sure you have plenty of M16 ammo.*
Just ride south a bit and make sure you have plenty of M16 ammo and armor. Take
the lower tunnel, which just swings you to a hole in the wall on the left. Go
through it and get the jump on the first two enemies you see. May want to go
out the door on the right so you can get the one guy out here before he gets
you first.
The climb to the top is just three levels of enemies. The main thing is to
toss a frag up the stairs before you go up there, then make sure no is directly
above you as you come up the steps. Then it's just take cover and shoot at the
bad guys. When you get to the top floor, consider tossing a frag to the pillars
to clear out the hiding enemies. Run to the run as the fat man jumps out. Kill
the guards and then stand at the window to shoot anyone down below.
Drop down but stick to the wall as I believe enemies can shoot you from above
if you go away from the wall. Kill the guys, grab the med kit on the ground if
you need it, and then go around the corner to kill more guys. Mow your way
into the bridge and then be aware of the many enemies up in high places. Climb
up the ladders after him and at the top there is a scene. After the scene you
can shoot him off, or just unload onto the chopper - even an RPG will work.
And that is a success.
There is one more random friend to find. Granted that three days have passed
since the mission involving her, go to Gracie, just north the last mission, or
west of the gun shop.
Gracie's Revenge
Just go up to her and she calls in the reinforcements. Just take cover behind
a car and shoot each goon from afar. And if you've followed me, this should be
the last random friend encounter.
Well, unless you got other plans, back to Phil for one more mission.
To Live and Die in Alderney
Just drive up north to the old mansion. Now you just need to follow Bell to
the end of the chase, which isn't too hard, and the cops don't seem to bother
you much, so you don't have to shoot at them.
Once you do ditch the cars, fight the cops and the SWAT. Once you kill them,
cross the street and get in the van. Just lose the heat, which is easy if you
can get into the pay n spray quickly, and then drive to the old safehouse.
Easy mission, and if not preoccupied or in need of health or armor, just go
over to Jimmy's down the road.
A good ol' fashion whackin'. Go down the road a bit to enter the hospital. Go
in without any guns on your hand, then take a right. Go all the way to the end
of the hall and blast the two cops. One more is in the room around the corner
on the left, then ice Anthony.
*NOTE: Corey Person has told me that if you go to the ER you will put on some
scrubs, whatever those are (I assume they are those light blue medical
*NOTE: Rob Mitros also mentions that to go with the scrubs you can just turn
off the machine keeping Anthony alive, and though the cops do figure it out,
you have time to make your escape.*
There will be a few cops to greet you on your way out, and the two you saw in
the front. Just make you way back out, and from here you have options. If you
plan to outrun the cops, get the cop car; if you want to hit the pay n spray,
get whatever you drove up here in. If you want to outrun them, go directly
south and over an open edge to shake them good, then just go to the tunnel or
wherever. The paint shop is nearby if you choose that route.
And once you lose the cops that will be it. Ray will text you soon and tell you
to go the Jimmy. So stock up on all your stuff and head back to Jimmy's one
last time.
Pest Control
The first part is just the scene, then you wait around and Jimmy tells you to
ice Ray. I guess tackling the game in the order I did meant he calls you soon
after, so just head to Holland in north Algonquin. And if he doesn't call you,
take Dwayne on a date, and do any missions you've missed thus far, minus the
Once you get the call you are forced to whack Ray. He is in east Holland, which
is the northern area of Algonquin for the millionth time. Go there and after
the scene you just need to follow him, don't start shooting just yet. Just stay
five car-lengths behind them and they will soon stop at the gas station. An RPG
to the lead car is great, then just pick off the body guards, or blast them
just the same. Either way you need to quickly take out the lead car, then come
back and finish off the guards, but you must work fast before the distances are
too great, I think.
When all are dead, the mission is complete. No more Alderney mob bosses.
If you've been following me, in your General stats there should just be some
percentage of Roman's mission progress. Everyone else should be done with.
Old Man Gravelli ( GRA1818 )
Well, only one guy with work, and that is Gambetti. Go there, which is in
Broker, at the hospital.
Drive over to downtown Algonquin, get out to meet Bobby, then follow the lead
car. Of course the new detour is a trap. Once you have control, kill the guys
behind you, then the ones in the open in front of your cover. Then run across
the street to the other alleyway, but be ready for more thugs to show up.
Kill the new enemies and the old ones, but be sure to get the ones up on the
roof behind you.
After that, get in the car and drive Bobby south, but more thugs show up. All
I did was park in the street and ice all of them from the comfort of my car -
it worked, so I don't know. You could always just get out and shoot, or even
run all around the city trying to shake them, but the city hall is just a few
blocks away from the trap, so don't go too far away. Once those guys are dead,
drive him to the marker and you're done.
Back to the old man.
Dining Out
Yes, the rice box is all the way on Alderney, so go there. Go in the restaurant
and then just start blasting if you like. Post up at the pillar in the dining
area and pick off the guys up top, then watch look up and behind you as you
go up the steps for two more guys to pop up. Watch for a guy to come out of the
door on the right, then go in the office. Point the gun at the manager and grab
the body armor on his desk.
*NOTE: Thanks to Coty Roschevitz, he said that after you talk with the manager
you can go outside and to the back of the building and blow up the cars. Then
when you come back in to go through the kitchen and chase down Kim, he will
come outside and be on foot. Good tip.*
Now come back out and blast your way to the kitchen doors, which are up on
this level to the right. Two guys will be waiting behind the doors, then run
through to try and catch Kim while he is going out. If you can shoot him before
he takes off in the car, great. Otherwise you'll have to jump on the bike and
chase after him. If so then just target the driver's area and he'll be dead
Make your long trek all the way back to Gambetti.
*NOTE: You may want to save right here, in case you want to see the alternate
ending. That is because as soon as you finish this mission, you are forced
into the next one.*
Liquidize the Assets
Well, at least you'll know how to get from Broker to Alderney. Get over there
and to the south of Alderney. Once you get the rundown scene of the enemy
stronghold, you could run around the whole block and never find the ways to
get in the building. No matter what you do, you should find a way to snipe
the sniper that is on the roof of the northern building.
The blunt approach is to go to the east side, find the fence more toward the
south, and ram through it. You not only run right into the teeth of the enemy,
you are also in prime sniping position from the guy up high, not to mention
the other guys on the rooftops. If you can kill everyone, great; if you just
blow the vans and leave, that works too.
However, the better option is to go beside the gate fence and look for the
lower fence on the right of it. Hop over it and run to the end. Jump on the
shack, then the top of the stone fence, careful not to fall off, and then start
jumping up the air vents to get to the top. Once on the roof, kill the guys up
here, climb the ladder, get to the sniper's position, crouch, and then you
start sniping the guys down below. Grab the body armor up here and then take
the stairs to get to the ground. Then clean up any survivors as you either
frag or shoot the vans to death. It's not that hard of a mission if you do
things this way.
That will be all if you've followed me. No more missions, just the final set
to end the game.
The Road You Travel ( END1919 )
You don't get a choice, as soon as you finish the last mission you will
begin this one.
That Special Someone
Paper will call and tell you Darko is landing at the airport. That is when
you call Roman, and then you need to go pick him up in south Broker. Then head
to the airport in east Dukes. Get to the marker and then make the decision.
I will let you know that the game doesn't change much, so choose what you
want. I walked away.
In the most solemn moment in GTA history, perhaps video game history, you will
then take Roman to Brucie's place down by the pier.
Now you will call Bernie, and soon after Jimmy calls you again to go see him
at Honkers of all places. Save, in a different file, and go there.
*NOTE: Again, I can't stress it enough. If you want to see both endings without
much work, you had better hurry to a safehouse and save a file in a new slot.
There are two endings, and you will make your choice very soon.*
One Last Thing
Okay, so this isn't a mission at all. Jimmy asks you to work with Dimitri.
Get in a car and head to a safehouse and you'll get calls from Romand and Kate.
*NOTE: Absolutely the last chance to save in a new slot and go back to that
save later to see both endings.*
Now is the time to make your decision:
Deal - Head to the south of Alderney to the $ sign.
Revenge - Head to the west side of Broker to the red dagger.
It's up to you, you get two different last missions and two different endings.
If you want to know the story differences, gotta play them both yourself, or
just read up on both.
I choose Revenge.
Head to the pier south of Brucie's place.
A Dish Served Cold
This first part is fun. Once the scene is over, go up the ladder of the crane
nearby and get all the way to the top. The rifle up here is an old one, so if
you have the new one you should keep it. The hardest part about the sniping
is just making sure you find everyone. I would guess there are about 15 or so
enemies on the ship, including the 3 down below you. Just look at where the
bullets are coming from and shoot them.
After all is quiet, go back down the ladders, get on the boat, and go right.
There is rifle ammo, then go up the ladder and up the ramp to claim body armor
and grenades on the raised area. Watch out for stray enemies down the right
side of the ship (right from the direction you stepped on), and make your way
to the doorway on the south end.
Post up, blindfire on the guy in front of the doorway, and then toss a frag
inside. Run in with your shotgun and blast anyone alive. Make your way to the
stairs, and after viewing the high class reading material on the table, go up
the steps and blast the guy down the hallway. Post up and toss in a frag, then
once again run in with the shotgun, or pop and shoot. There is a gun in the
first cabin on the left, and body armor in the second on the right.
Go to the other end and out either doorway. Go down the walkway, don't post up
on the corner, and shoot the two enemies in the open. There are two more on the
other side, but you need to be more concerned with the guys up above and behind
you, on both sides as well. Go up the right side and clear all the guys out,
even the one guy in the control room. Save the body armor unless you are like
about to die, and operate the controls.
Now there will be a few new guys, so go out each doorway from up here and
shoot them, both in front and behind you. Grab the body armor after and head
back down to the second level barracks. Equip your shotgun as there will be
one guy in a cabin and another on the steps. Two more in the kitchen below,
then make you way to the open units, which open when you get close to them.
Jump on a box, then try to kill as many of the four enemies down below as you
can, then jump into the hold and kill the rest. Proceed along for a cutscene,
then get out your shotgun and you can blindfire most of the bad guys. Toss a
few frags all over, then run to Dimitri with a shotgun in hand. There is a
scene, then blast him. Now just follow the path to get back to the mess hall,
a place you've already come through, and then run back down the ramp to get
off the ship and into your car.
Now just wait for the calls to roll in. As you can tell, Roman is getting
married to Mallorie tomorrow. He tells you to get some sleep. Meanwhile, Phil
calls to say how Jimmy and the Pegs are done with. So either go waste time
until morning, or go to sleep and save (keep that earlier save though).
I'll assume you have your suit and shoes still on, and that you are sleeping
at your original safehouse in Algonquin.
Mr. and Mrs. Bellic
Kate calls around 8AM and asks you to pick her up at her mom's house, so go
get her. Bring her back to the same church that the funeral took place. Talk
about the most un-important person to get killed (and what was Badman doing
Anyway, after the scene you will be in your original clothes, so feel free to
change them. Jacob will text you about getting guns, so do that if you need
to. You're in Bohan, of all places.
Out of Commission
Get a car after Jacob calls you and go to Alderney. Get to the car and get in.
Follow the SUV up to the raised highway and keep pace. Once you hit the beach
you will have a scene.
Now it's just fight your way through the masses of enemies to get into the
abandoned warehouse. Just get the guys up on the roof, then feel free to snipe
the rest. Just fight your way to the doorway, then kill the guys in here. Med
kit on the left, and fight you way to the next room for another scene.
Chase him up the stairs, then you can fall off the ladder or just drop down.
Either fight all of his goons of just run to the end of the walkway and jump
off. Quickly get on the dirt bike to your right, then follow the coastline.
You don't have to go lightning fast, just don't crash and don't lose him. When
Jacob's chopper arrives, get ready for an upcoming jump. You don't have to go
up this ramp very fast at all, because I know I didn't, and so long as you
hit the ramp you will make it.
Tap run as fast as you can to pull yourself up to the chopper. You have guns,
but it doesn't matter if you hit him. Try to avoid the missiles but you can't
avoid them all. Just follow the boat to the island with the Statue of Happiness
where you will crash.
On foot, chase Jimmy down and onto the grass. Shoot him up and enjoy the final
Head to the southwest end of Alderney, to the money sign.
*NOTE: If this is your alternate, and you want it to be like the Revenge way
is the end you want, then just don't make a save file. Not sure what to do
about the autosave, but if you just want to see this ending, then flat out
don't save your game over a previous file.*
If the Price is Right
Just get in a car and head east, stop at the gate and then go inside the
facility. After the scene you get out and follow Phil up to the roof. Jump
throug the skylight when he does and start blasting guys, mainly the ones on
the left side of the walkway. Then go right as you kill more guys up here and
grab the grenades. Pick off the guys down below you from up here, then try to
snipe the guys running around down the way. Fight your way down to the ground
and enemies will pop up with about every inch you advance, or at least it
seems like it.
So once you are to the ground and all the enemies are dead, move up to the
other half of the warehouse. More fighting, but if you look in the middle of
the area by come pallets you should see a med kit. Climb up the stairs nearby
with Phil and follow him down the walkway to the room, fighting enemies along
the way. After the scene, fight your way down the steps out the door of this
room and go outside the open doorway. Hang a left as the truch speeds away.
You have a choice of a bike or truck. Be a man and take the truck, you too
The only hard part is avoiding the tiny things in the road that could make your
bike flip out. Other than that, just shoot up the truck until it explodes,
hopefully before it gets on the highway, and then grab the money. Take Phil
back to the spot and that's it.
Mr. and Mrs. Bellic
You'll get the calls from everyone, mainly that Jimmy is happy with you, so
is Roman, and Kate isn't. If you sleep until tomorrow, the day of the wedding,
Kate will not go with you. The wedding takes place at 10AM.
Yep, this time you take a bigger emotional hit. After the scene you will be
back in your old clothes. Wait for Jacob's text, then his call; feel free to
stock up on supplies. Head on over to his marker in Alderney after he calls.
A Revenger's Tragedy
*NOTE: Yeah, this is the same as the last mission in Revenge, so worry not if
it looks and reads that same as that mission, because it is and I just copied
and pasted, inserting Dimitri's name where appropriate. That's the American
you will have a scene.
one has Jimmy and Dimitri.
Go up the stairs and then blast the bad guys, but instead of jumping off the
building you need to go right and up the roof; you could even ignore the
enemies and just run up to trigger the scene.
After the scene you will be in the water. Swim to the boat and hop in. Chase
Dimitri in the boat. No jump this time, just follow the chopper and kinda try
to dodge the rockets, though, I think if you move you risk getting hit. All
I did was follow behind him, just a tad to the left.
At some point Jacob's chopper joins the chase, and soon after you will see a
target marker under it as he flies low to the water. Get to it and the tap the
run button to get in. Once in control of the chopper, ascend a good deal before
going after him, just enough to get over the lower buildings. Follow him
through the skyscrapers of Algonquin and over the Broker area; if you stay
above him I believe that makes it harder for his rockets to get you. After
you two swing back into Algonquin you will both crash land on the statue
Mow down the first couple of guys and keep following Dimitri. Shoot him down
to enjoy this alternate cutscene, or however you want to view it.
*NOTE: If you have a lot of armor, or you like to roll the dice, as soon as you
step off of the chopper, run to the right and across the grass. You will take
a lot of damage, but you avoid fighting the goons.*
Well, after the main story you just have free-roam gameplay. Of course you
can achieve 100% if you want, so refer to my Completionist section for more
info on that.
Enjoy your many rants of going on killing sprees and working up to six star
wanted levels, should be fun. Oh yeah, and there's online.
* 5. Missions by Character ( MIBC555 ) *
Not sure what to make of this section. I was going to copy and paste the
missions from the walkthrough to here, but I don't see why. If anything, you
can see what is left to do for each person.
I realized too late that I would just be reposting the whole walkthrough, and
if I cut it now I would just have to re-number all the sections above it. So,
*The Cousin's Bellic
*It's Your Call
*Three's a Crowd
*First Date
*Bleed Out
*Easy Fare
*Jamaican Heat
*Uncle Vlad
*Logging On
*Roman's Sorrow
*Hostile Negotiation
*Weekend at Florian's
*That Special Someone
*Bull in a China Shop
*Hung Out to Dry
*Clean Getaway
*Ivan the Not So Terrible
Little Jacob
*Concrete Jungle
*Crime and Punishment
*Do You Have Protection?
*Final Destination
*No Love Lost
*Rigged to Blow
*The Master and the Molotov
*Russian Revolution
*Search and Delete
*Easy As Can Be
*Out of the Closet
*No. 1
*Escuela of the Streets
*Street Sweeper
*Luck of the Irish
*Blow Your Cover
*The Puerto Rican Connection
*The Snow Storm
*Have a Heart
Playboy X
*Deconstruction for Beginners
*Photo Shoot
*The Holland Party
Dwayne Forge
*Ruff Rider
*Undress to Kill
Francis McReary
*Call and Collect
*Final Interview
*Holland Nights
*Blood Brothers
U.L. Paper
*Wrong is Right
*Portrait of a Killer
*Dust Off
*Paper Trail
Packie McReary
*Harboring a Grudge
*Waste Not Want Knots
*Three Leaf Clover
Ray Boccino
*A Long Way to Fall
*Taking in the Trash
*Museum Piece
*No Way on the Subway
*Late Checkout
Gerry McReary
*Action Speaks Louder Than Words
*I Need Your Clothes, Your Boots, and Your Motorcycle
*I'll Take Her
*She's a Keeper
*Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend
Derrick McReary
*Tunnel of Death
Bernie Crane
*Hating the Haters
*Union Drive
*Buoys Ahoy
Phil Bell
*Truck Hustle
*Catch the Wave
*To Live and Die in Alderney
*Pegorino's Pride
*Flat Line
*Pest Control
*Dining Out
*Liquidize the Assets
*NOTE: If anything, you can Ctrl + F to find the quests in this guide.*
* 6. Pigeons ( PIG6666 ) *
This list of pigeons / flying rats will NOT work unless you go to MY website
and use the maps provided. Again, you may try to go with this text-only guide,
but it will not work for the most part as I don't go in-depth as to where to
find the birds. Please, use the maps I provide.
To find the maps and more fleshed-out versions of this guide you need to go
to my website right here:
*Huge sorry from me, but that site is down forever. Hopefully you can find
other maps on the net, or just figure out the puzzle that goes with the text
Pigeon Map 1 Guide
1. Okay, so this one is on top of the big control tower, so bring a sniper
rifle. Go into the airport and to the back, but it seems like getting on the
runway gets you a 4 star wanted level if you are spotted. Just get in view of
the tower, snipe the bird on the railing at the top, and then get out of there.
2. This one is still in the airport area. While you are in the back, and while
the cops have your number, go to the north end and look for a chopper to steal.
Use it to get on top of the northern section of the airport and shoot the bird
in the middle of the vent machine, under them.
I believe you could have also gotten up here by following the train tracks,
and there is a station nearby.
3. This one requires a grenade, so call up Jacob if you need one. Go to the
front of the airport and you'll see a hole in the upper right side. Toss a frag
into that spot and the bird will die, should get the message confirming it.
4. Head up north to the park area. Find a little platform and the bird will be
right there - the easiest one so far.
5. Head to the Pavilion Towers (World's Fair area), and visit the big round
structure, not the towers themselves, unless you want to. This bird is through
the doors on the lower west side of this big thing, and yes, those are doors,
even if they don't look it.
6. Need a helicopter, or some way to get on top of the building in front of the
station. The bird is in a doorway on the roof.
7. Go down to the ramp by the freeway, and bird is nearby on the ground.
8. It's in the median in the loop of the on/off ramp.
9. This one is at the back of the house, on the patio.
10. Is at the top of the roller coaster. You can walk up there, but you have to
walk and not run. It's best to just snipe it from below.
11. This one is on the ferris wheel, but not on top of it. You need to find
the bike ride on the north side of the wheel, then use the small booths to get
on the umbrella cover, thing. Then from there jump to the top of the structure
that holds the wheel. Go to the gap where the carts go through and look down
to see the bird.
12. The next bird is under the boardwalk nearby, so follow the beach to the
water and it will be there.
13. This one is where you ended up deciding Ivan's fate, remember? Well, you
don't go up to the roof, instead, take the alley behind the buildings and you
should see a park-like area. On the east side will be a doorway and the bird
should be glowing orange, or red, or whatever you think that color is.
14. You may think this one is on the roof, but it isn't. Go to the alley behind
the building and then jump on a short set of steps on the south side. Jump from
there over to the walkway, then to the shed thing, and go through a hole in the
fence to shoot the bird. You could also just toss a frag up there to the fenced
15. Go to Outlook Park and shoot this easy bird in the gazebo.
16. This one is on top of the Cabaret Club shading, where the sign is. Either
toss a frag up there, or take the alley, the steps you used to chase Vlad,
and then jump down where you see the bird.
17. Take the road down toward the pier, and behind the first building, if you
get on the stacks of materials, look up to an air conditioner in a window and
you should see the bird right there.
18. Head over to Roman's old place and go to the archway over the road that
leads down to the pier area. If you go to a cinematic view and get in the
corner of the sidewalk and the archway, you should see and hear the pigeon up
on top of one support. Well, you gotta find a truck and use it to get up to
the top of the arch.
19. This one is in a tiny alley near Brucie's home. Just go in, look up to the
fire escape, and the pigeon will be on the railing.
20. This one is at the train station. Go up and then look for this bird on the
top of a shading for the stairs.
21. For this one you need a chopper to get on top of the building and shoot
the bird in the lookout area, thing.
22. This one is south of the McReary home. In the back will be steps to get to
the roof, and then shoot the pigeon while standing away, probably in the lower
southern corner.
23. This is in the alley you take to reach the dart bar, it's just on a corner.
24. When you get to the bend in the road, the bird is actually in a tunnel
underneath. So perhaps take the road down to Brucie's place and look for a turn
on the right for a sidewalk that will lead you to the tunnel.
25. At the end of the last tunnel you will reach Steinway Park, so just go to
the diving board and shoot the bird on the rail.
26. Just go north of the last one and you will find this pigeon on a roof in
the cemetery, in a corner of the sloping ground.
27. Take the Dukes Bay Bridge and either jump over the side to shoot a boat, or
go find one, just get a boat somehow. The bird is on a support beam under the
bridge, and it is hard to see if not up close to it. Just get a boat, head to
about the halfway point under the bridge and you should see a bird when up
close. Just step away from the steering wheel and shoot it while on the boat.
28. While still on a boat, just go to the east side of Bohan and you'll see a
rock near a spot of land. The bird is on the rock.
29. You can drive all the way back under the bridge and around to a broken-down
dock near the incomplete bridge, or drive there. The pigeon is in the top
window of the beached ship, and you can shoot it from the dock.
30. Go up the stairs nearby from the docks and head northeast along the stretch
of wall for the train tracks. When near the road, turn around and use your
sniper rifle to look up to the corner of the building and pop that bird.
31. North of the strip club is a dead-end road, and the bird is on the bricked
sign in the road.
32. Go northwest of the last one to the road that runs parallel to the tracks.
Jump up to the stone wall and walk along it to the bird on the structure, or
just snipe it.
33. There are old docks on the north end of the island, and you want to
approach them from the west side, along the water, and get out to go under the
boardwalk. The bird is hiding in a dark corner.
34. Swing down toward the road that leads to Algonquin, and you should see an
alleyway in the buildings. Take it and the bird is on the fence in the alley.
35. If you look on the west end of the island, there is a tiny little point
sticking out. Go to the west side and perch up on either of the wooden platform
areas along the rock wall, or even get a boat, and you can snipe the bird who
is on the top of a tiny rock in the water.
36. At the contruction yard you will find a big pipe piece and the bird is in
37. You could actually swim from the 36 to this one on Charge Island, or take
the road, you could maybe even snipe this bird from around 36. You'll notice
some water tanks on the pier area, to the west of them is a boat and the bird
is on the tip of that boat (the boat is on the ground).
38. This one is on the East Borough Bridge from Charge Island. It's on the last
beam if you are heading west, just right above the road.
39. There is a lookout spot directly west of this one. If you go there and
look east out to the water to the tip of the barge, you should see the bird
through your sniper rifle scope.
40. You don't need to go into the police grounds. Just stay on the road and
shoot at the bird on the target statue.
41. This one is by the other big church in the downtown area. Just stand way
back so you can snipe the bird at the very top of the right-side steeple.
42. This one is tricky to find because there is a bridge with train tracks
under it, a cablecar ride (which has two pigeons on may #2 so save them for
later), a walkway under the bridge, and stuff all around. The bird is in a tiny
narrow gap between the road under the bridge and the wall. It's dark, but when
you take the turning road to get on the highway, just jump over the side on the
right and you should be there.
43. If you follow the highway south, there is a trashed-out area under the road
where it bends, so get down there and you'll find the bird in a corner by the
44. For this one, go to Colony Island. Go to the east end of the cemetery and
then look south to the top of the building by the smokestack. The bird is
45. Drive to the south end of Colony Island to the Old Hospital. Drive to the
east side of it, on the grass, get out, and then look through an upper right
window to shoot the bird. There is a shotgun on the ground below it, FYI.
46. This one is behind the police station, so go to the road behind it that
leads to an on-ramp for the highway. Get out and take the stairs to go under
the road and the bird will be behind the first fenced area.
47. It took a hell of a long time to find this one, but it's actually pretty
easy to get. Just go to the Broker Bridge entrance and take one of the roads
on the side that leads down to a skate park, which is under the bridge. It's
best to bring a bike, but you can stand way back and shoot this bird too. The
bird is on the lower west corner of the park. If on a bike, ride from the side
and then release the gas to gently land in the corner.
48. I imagine you could get on the support beams on the Broker Bridge to get
this one, but it's best to just get a chopper and fly up to the archway.
49. Get a boat and head on out to the back of the construction yard where you
may or may not have gone on a mission before. There are areas that stick out
of the back, go to the second-to-last one if going westward. On the right side
of this thing will be a dark area with the bird inside. Just jump up there from
your boat. FYI, if you go to the easten area that juts out around here, you can
jump up there for an RPG.
50. Go to the stairs in the water by the big boardwalk area, then get on the
containers in the construction area so you can look eastward and snipe a bird
on top of one of the big stacks of containers.
51. Get back in your boat if it's still there and head over to the Statue of
Happiness. There is a doorway on one side that takes you to some stairs that
lead up to the many levels under the statue. At the tip of the bottom level is
a body armor, and the pigeon is on the upper level that you can reach using
some steps.
*NOTE: Yes, there are more pigeons here, but for the sake of the map, let us
move on.*
52. If you recall the church from the McReary missions, go behind it and the
bird is on a tombstone.
53. This one is just down the street, behind a fenced off area that has Italian
flags on it, I think they're Italian. The bird is right in the grass.
54. Yep, this bird is on top of the Empire State Building, or whatever it's
called in this city. On the east side of the building is a blue marker by the
doors, take it to get up to the top. The bird is up here on the railing. Good
view up here, but had you used a helicopter to get up here and thought the bird
was up higher, boy will your hands sweat (I'm a bit shaken just thinking about
*NOTE: If you don't mind the medical bill, jump. That's all I'm gonna say.*
55. Go up the stairs to the sitting between the buildings west of the Empire
State Building. Take the stairs on the left and under the old tracks will be
the bird on a roof.
60. Yes, out of place but since I don't feel like re-numbering my maps I will
just put this one here. Get on the tracks and follow them down to the fork in
the tracks and the bird will be right there.
56. This one is on the street directly west of 55, and possibly snipe-able from
there too. The bird is on top of the bus-stop waiting area.
57. Head to the Cluckin' Bell and look south of it to see a shark coming out
of the building. The bird is in the mouth of it.
58. This one is tricky because it is in a tree, of all places! It is behind a
bus in Star Junction.
59. This one is behind the big statue on the north side of the police station /
Getalife building area.
**60. Covered after #55.
61. The bird is on a column by some steps in the southwest corner of Middle
62. Now head up to the northern half of the pond in the park and climb on top
of the abandoned boating building to shoot the bird on the roof, or I guess you
could snipe it from the other side of the pond.
63. This one is just below the project buildings in Holland, and it's on the
fire escape. You can shoot it from the ground.
64. Just go to the direct opposite side of the tall buildings and this bird
will be along the corner of another building.
65. Just head north a bit to a barge in the water and you'll find this bird in
an open container by a pipe bundle.
66. Go south of the @ cafe and you'll find this bird on the railing of the
subway tunnel entrance.
67. There are two ways to get this one and 68. I believe this is a hospital,
and this bird is on the very top. It's easy to fly a copter up there, but there
are stairs you you access by entering from the north side, go through a door,
and then climb the many, MANY flights of stairs - trust me, use a chopper. The
bird is actually on a vent unit or something that has a ladder on the north
68. This one can be accessed via the same stairs; just get off at about the
fifth level or so and go around the roof to hit the bird on the other side on
the rail. You could also land on the north side in a chopper to avoid the
stairs. I'll bet you could even snipe this bird from the ground.
69. This one is on the Hickey Bridge to Alderney. It's just on the rail on the
left if you were to drive to Alderney, can't miss it.
70. There is some sort of museum-looking buildling that is inside the slight
bend in the highway the is southbound from this bridge, still on Algonquin. Go
to it and the bird is on the west side of it, shoot-able from the ground.
71. Wow, this has taken a lot longer than I thought it would. This bird is on
the Alderney side of the Booth Tunnel. As you would know from one assassination
mission, there is a sitting area and a helicopter. Go around the walkway, stay
on the ground level, and under a ramp you will find the bird.
72. This one is at the very north end of the tracks at the docks, which is
under the street road and the elevated highway.
73. Head to the east end of the pier and the bird is on a post, easy.
74. You either need a tall, tall truck, or a copter, or maybe a frag. Go two
piers over to the one with the road and the big cranes. On the east end of the
the warehouse will be some containers. The bird is on top of the tallest one,
and the only way I got is was by landing my chopper on the roof of the tiny
shack nearby. Perhaps you can climb on the red crane nearby, or just toss a
frag up there.
75. This one took a lot of searching, a whole game's night in fact. What you do
is go to the on-ramp to the highway, but stay on the street and go a bit west.
Then get out of your car and turn around to look on the support column that
holds up the highway. The bird should be barely visible through your sniper
scope, but he is at the top of the column.
76. This guy is on a roof that is north of the correctional facility. If you
approach from the north you can climb on some dumpsters and then get up to the
roof on foot.
77. Get to the east side of the penitentiary and along the walkway by the
water you can snipe this bird on the wrecked boat, but you have to be either
north or south of it to see the bird.
78. Head to the industrial park, a power plant I believe, and just park in the
grass north of the tiny, vertical road inside the plant. The bird is snipe-able
on one of the pipes - it should stand out, even in the daylight.
79. Just go up the ramp to the elevated highway and the bird is on the barrier
that makes a circle, thing.
80. It's just in the southwest corner of the island, on the walkway in view of
the wrecked ship.
81. You'll have to go north of 80 and cross over the water - I say just swim.
Go up the on-ramp and then stop when you get level with the control room of
the tall crane. Jump on it - it's relatively safe - and the bird is over the
side of the roof.
82. There is an old, abandoned building west of this ramp, and just southwest
of the building will be the bird on the rock wall against the water.
83. There is a looping ramp east of here, and you'll have to swing around the
block to get on it. There will be some containers inside of the loop, and the
bird is visible from the road. It's on the containers that are level with the
84. East of here is another bird, on the roof of the warehouse, shoot-able
from the street south of it, as the roof slopes downward.
85. Head to the church south of the @ cafe, and stand at the corner of the
intersection directly in front of it. On the left side of the steeple you can
snipe the bird on the roof.
86. Just drive like 20-30 feet north of the @ cafe, get on top of your car, and
look for the bird on the blue building, like on the second level. Don't even
have to snipe him.
87. Go around the block to the east side and you'll find a few houses with
pit-like areas in front of them. This bird is in the second pit.
88. You'll find a big alley area north of the gun shop. Go to the east side and
go up the stairs, then jump over to the ladder and climb up. The bird is on one
of the air duct things.
89. A few blocks east of your safehouse will be a big alley area. Go to the
hotdog vendor and after you eat one to replenish any lost health, look up to
the stone wall to see the bird looking at you.
90. (x2) Both are in the upper east corner of tiny block area, just in front of
Mr. Fuk's Rice Box. One is on the rice box, and the other is across the street
on the second level to the tall, for sale building.
91. North of your safehouse is a long alley. On the right side is a building
with a billboard on it, and the bird is on the billboard, but behind one of
the lights. Either stand at an angle and snipe it, or climb the fire escape on
the west side of the building to get up there.
92. Get on the main highway that connects to the Hickey Bridge, where you see
the water barrels, get out and look over the side to the north and you should
see the bird on the roof under the sign.
93. Just go north a bit to find an alley behind a building. Take the ladder to
the top of one roof, then the next ladder takes you to the roof with the bird.
It's on top of a doorway, and perhaps you could snipe this guy from the ground.
94. This one is at the supermarket that is west of the Pegorino area. However,
you need to enter the park that is a bit southeast of the market. Get to the
area with the benches and use your rifle to scope out the top of the market.
You should see the bird if you look to the bottom of the water tanks.
95. This one is across the street from the Burger Shot. Just go to the higher
up houses and this bird is perched on a post atop some steps.
96. You should have seen this one from the cutscene during the last mission.
Just go under the bridge toward the warehouse and the bird will be there, just
under the bridge.
97. Head to the area under the Hickey Bridge. This bird is under the ramp by
the waterbank, the ramp from one of final mission paths.
98. Yep, not only did I miss this one while numbering, but you will start the
map 2 pigeons here anyway, so why not? This one is from one of the Little
Jacob missions, as you should have seen it in a cutscene. Just go under
the overpass in the middle of the island and shoot the bird.
Pigeon Map 2 Guide
99. Yeah, just go to the airport, go to the toll booth for the parking spots,
and the bird is on one of the posts on the ground.
100. Head to the carwash just west of the airport and walk a bit north of it to
be under the train tracks. You'll see the bird perched on a support beam.
101. Head up north a few blocks and go to the west side of the building to
the entrance. The bird is over the door.
102. Go west to the park and you'll find a statue in the middle of the two
pools of water. The bird is at its feet.
103. (x2) Another two-for right here. Go toward the entrance to the bridge to
Bohan and on the left of it you should find two birds in a small parking lot,
by the wall.
104. Literally follow the sidewalk a bit and keep an eye over the wall until
you see a tiny playground. Get out when you do and shoot the bird on the monkey
105. You could probably snipe this one if you looked south from the last bird,
but just drive around until you hit the intersection where the bird is on a
rock on the grass.
106. Take the road south from the last bird, hang a left, and at the next
intersection you need to look to the north side for the bird in a tree.
107. Just go east and at this intersection, get out, take either stairway up
to the tracks under construction, and on the north side of the tracks you will
see this bird hiding in the beams of the shading.
108. Just go north at this same intersection and you should see a ramp on the
right. The bird is under the ramp.
109. Head south down the main road and you'll find a basketball court behind
some buildings. The bird is on the backboard of one basket.
*NOTE: You don't even have to leave your car for these next six.*
110. Head toward the car wash near the pool hall and this bird is to the
northwest of it. The bird is on the fire escape on the west side of the
111. I really saw this one while going to 110, and I wasn't even looking for
it - for real. Just go west a bit from 110 and you'll see this guy by a door
to a house.
112. Go over two blocks to the south from the last one and this guy is near
the train station. He is sitting on the front of a building.
113. South yet again from the last one. This bird is under the highway and
on a brick wall.
114. Yep, two blocks to the south is the next one. Go to the east side of this
tall building and you can shoot this bird on a railing in the corner. He's in
the southeastern corner.
115. Head directly west down the long road, like you're heading to the porn
shop for your daily errands. Across the street will be a gazebo over the beach.
And the bird is on the right side of the archway nearby. (don't be surprised if
you get into an all-out gunfight with civillians in the area)
116. Go around the bend in the road and there is a tiny dock just south under
the bridge. The bird is on a post at this dock. (best pic ever for this one!)
117. Head to the gun shop and this guy is at the corner, on top of a green
waiting area thing.
118. Take the road along to Brucie's place and get to the north end of it,
where you to up to get back on the main roads. There will be a tiny diner and
this bird on the brick wall.
119. You should have seen this one many times. It's the one on the East Borough
Bridge that is on the walkway.
120. Yep, gotta go down into Charge Island. There is a parking lot under the
off-ramp that takes you down there, and the pigeon is in the middle of the
121. Granted you took the E. Borough Bridge, you need to go right as soon as
you get off and then get on the grass or take the steps to get under the road
that goes to the construction yard. The bird is on a wall under the road.
122. This one is on the north side of the building opposite the garage, which
is east of the safehouse.
123. Take the road south of the strip club that forms a house, and at the
first bend in the road you will see a light with the bird on it.
124. North of the strip club is a block that is directly east of the dead-end
where you killed a pigeon on a sign. In this block if an alley and you can
drive through it and shoot the pigeon on the vent.
125. If you know Carmen, this one is just east of her house, on the stone wall.
126. Again, if you know Carmen, go behind her house and at the house where you
see the big numbers "1665", the pigeon will be on the left of it.
127. You can run north across the main road to another road that is lined with
a fence. Over the side at one point will be the bird on a ledge. You can jump
over and pop it.
128. You can drive a bike to the northwest end of the island and the bird will
be on a concrete median piece.
129. South the last one, go to the the area under the train station and
look for a sectioned off area. Inside will be a man digging and the bird near
130. (x2) Just two blocks down from the last one, go to the east side of the
building and you'll find one bird up on a beam, and the other down below it.
131. (x2) Just go one block east of the last two, and on the east side of
this building will be two birds as well; they are along the edge of the roof
and easy to snipe.
132. This one is just up at the corner of the block, north of your safehouse,
your original one. This is on one of the railings that lead down to the Quartz
East subway station.
133. Head two blocks west and then two blocks south. Go to the corner of the
building that looks like a hotel and the bird is on one of the shadings over
the door.
134. Go up one block and you'll be at the southwest corner of the Liberty State
Delivery building. The bird will be on the wall.
135. Go to the eastern side of the road that cuts through Middle Park and the
bird is on a bulb on the right side of the gateway.
136. Directly north of the park is an alley through the buildings. Go in it and
the bird will by on the edge of a wall near some steps.
137. This one is on a concrete slab to the east, along the walkway that borders
the water. You can park on the road, get out, go to the brick wall, and then
snipe th bird without dropping down.
138. Head north up the road, and either take the hill while going north, or
go around the block to get up to the walkway around the tall building. On the
railing will be the bird.
139. This one is in the alley just south of the Pay N Spray, at the end that
faces the street. He is on a post by the sidewalk.
140. Go one block over to the west of the Pay N Spray and you'll see this
bird on a tiny roof in an alley.
141. Head directly west, get on the little side road and follow it south
until you pass a tiny gate. The bird will be nearby on the edge of the pavement
over the water.
142. You could easily switch this one with 69 from map 1, but whatever. From
141, go south until you are near the steps that lead to under the bridge, but
instead get out and go down the steps on the right that lead to a dock. Go to
the end of the dock and look to the support under the bridge. The bird will be
there, over the water and under the bridge.
143. Just two blocks to the east will be a big alley/parking lot area, and if
you go up the steps there will be the bird in a square on the ground.
144. Go one block to the south and go to the southeast end of the building
to find posts on the side of the road. The bird will be on top of one of them.
145. On the west end of Middle Park is the Liberty State Museum of Natural
History, and on the left side of the entrance is the bird in a window frame.
146. Go to the south end of Middle Park, go two blocks over to the west, and
you should find steps to a resting area where the bird is on a plantar.
147. A block to the east of the nearby Pay N Spray will have a big alley area.
Go there and the bird will be on a wall. This is where Jacob will sell guns if
you call him, I believe.
148. Go behind the Split Sides club to the alley and get on the lift that is
on the east end of the big building, which is the building that has the chopper
on top of it. After the long ride, get off, go left, and the bird is at the
corner of the walkway.
149. Hopefully the chopper is there, otherwise retrace your steps and take the
long ride back down. This bird is on the north end of the same building, but
just on the ground and shoot-able from your ride.
150. Two blocks north of the Star Junction Burger Shot is an area among the
buildings where there are a bunch of flags. The bird is in a tree down the
south path.
151. Go to the west end of the Algonquin bridge and just to the south you will
find a lift ride that takes you to Colony Island. One bird is where you get on
the lifts.
152. Get on the lift and take it to Colony Island and this bird is on that
153. Exit the lift area and take the walkway along the west edge of this island
until you see some step-like things on side. The bird will be on a step.
154. Take the road nearby that leads to the Old Hospital and go to the back of
the building to a resting area. Shoot the pigeon on the merry-go-round.
155. Head eastbound on the Algonquin bridge and you should see the bird along
the sides shortly after you go over Colony Island.
156. At the south end of Star Junction is a restaraunt called Viendemorte. The
bird is on the shading.
157. Go two blocks west of the gun shop and go to the north end of this tall
building to see some benches. The bird is on one of those benches against the
158. Two blocks west of the last spot will lead you to an alley that has four
entrances. Go to the west end and the bird will be along the steps.
159. There is a dock area that is east of the Statue of Happiness. Go to the
end of it and it will be at the end of a ramp.
160. Go a block over from the Perseus at this south end of town and on the west
side of the building, along the road, will be the bird among the plants.
161. South of this Perseus is an entrance to a tiny tunnel. North of it is an
even tinier park area. The bird is in a circle in the ground.
162. Head over to the helitour area and just north of it, along the walkway,
you will see some benches. Look for this bird behind them and on a post by
the water.
163. Just north, across the street from this Perseus is the Bank of Liberty
building. Take the tiny alley behind it and the bird is on a post.
164. (x5) Yep, five birds are actually on the Statue of Happiness. Steal a
copter from over at the helitour place and fly to the island. Land at the
tip of the base in front of the statue, go to the top-western tip and jump on
it, then look up the statue with your rifle. You will see one bird on the
shoulder, one on the forehead, and two on the hand with the coffee cup. Snipe
them, shake any cops that may see you, then go around to the south side of the
statue, stand on this point, look up to the left hand, and you'll see the fifth
bird on the back of the hand. Be sure to use the chopper to get to the next
bird easily.
165. Almost done. Keep in mind that there are in fact 8 more added to what we
have covered. So 164 + 8 should mean that when you check the Brief screen in
the pause menu it says you have 28 remaining. This pigeon is just south of
the Hickey Bridge, in a food court area off the road. It's on the railing that
looks to the road.
166. North of here is a police station, and just north of it is a park area.
The bird is on the grass.
167. Go to the path to the old mansion, but you could actually stay on the
road. The bird is on the cliffside that overlooks the road.
168. Head to the car wash to the west and just south of it will be this bird
along the fence.
169. Go down the street and this guy will be along another fence, this one of
stone. You can shoot him while driving.
170. Just directly southeast of here is a house with the bird on a vent, who
you can also shoot from your car.
171. Go to the hospital and along the north entrance will be this bird on
the left side in the grass.
172. To the south a bit and in an open, grassy area under the overpass will
be this bird by a tree.
173. Southeast of the last one and a few blocks over will be this bird behind a
174. Go west of the last one to find this guy at the entrance of a tall
175. Southwest of the last one will take you to a corner with a high wall. The
bird is on a mound of dirt on this corner.
176. Northeast of the @ cafe is an empty Cluckin' Bell place. The bird is on
one of the mobile buildings on the street.
177. Follow this slanted road up north to the corner and this bird will be on
the right, hidden in the grass.
178. Go east of the @ cafe and this guy in on the brick wall at the south end
of these buildings. The wall runs along the alley, not a building.
179. There is a triangle shaped block to the southwest of here, so go there and
go into the park where you met one of the McReary brothers. This guy is north
of the empty fountain.
180. Just go down the street, hang a right, which should take you west, and
under all the ramps will be this bird on the raised grass, and you may need to
stand on your car to shoot it.
181. North of the Strip Club is a bird along the fencing, on a booth.
182. Head over to Honkers, and sadly you do not need to go inside. Just shoot
this guy from above the entrance, then go inside - you actually can't with
the bouncer shooting at you, but like that's gonna stop you!
183. This guy is along the rail of the bridge to the south.
184. Hang a right at the end of the bridge and go past the first intersection
you see. Stop halfway to the next intersection and you'll see this pigeon in
the grass on the right.
**191. Out of place yes, but thanks to map from Gamesradar.com I discovered
that my math was correct and I was still one pigeon short. I toiled and toiled
thinking it was my mistake, but it was Rockstar that in fact missed this pigeon
in their online maps. The mystery pigeon is at the southwestern end of the
island and directly east of the wrecked ship. He is in a square-shaped thing
on the ground. Boy, what a trip!
185. (x2) Go back down the street, past the bridges, and stop when you get to
a tiny alley where you should have killed some guys during an assassination
mission. The two birds are just in the corner on the left.
186. Just to the southeast of the southern Pay N Spray you need to jump over
the tiny wall. The bird will be right there on the grass.
187. Now go west of the paint shop and at the corner look up to the side
of the building on the left and you should see the bird over a loading bay
188. The end is so close you can smell it. Go to north entrance to the docks
and in the front will be a propeller statue thing on the grass. The bird is
just behind it.
189. This guy is on the upper road just west of your safehouse. Get up there
and shoot him, or maybe you can shoot him from below on the west side.
190. At long last. Head to the Booth Tunnel and just over the entrance is this
bird on the corner of the sign. That's it, no more.
**191. The mystery pigeon is covered after #184.
Now, along with the tiny percentage this counts toward 100% completion, you
also get a free Annihilator helicopter, the one with the miniguns. Where is
it you ask? Well, I hear it is at the MeTV building in the middle of Star
Junction. You get up there using the lift in the alley behind Split Sides.
I haven't found it up there, but maybe you will.
* 7. Other Stuff to Find ( SECR777 ) *
Stunts ( STU7700 )
Maps for these are at my website as well, if this text doesn't do it for you.
Here is the link:
*Dead link, /cry
Quick Tips:
*Be sure to eyeball the bottom of the screen for the fail or confirm message,
and if you hear the sound clip that also means you did it. You can also check
the Brief screen to see how many you got to go.
*On bikes be sure to tilt forward on the left stick so Niko leans forward,
making you go a bit faster and also shifting your weight forward as you hit
the jump, so you don't flip over backwards.
*Best not to get too attached to your cars, so just use whatever you find, be
it taxi or cop car if you must. Don't bring your Infernus or anything like
*You need to meet the parameters of the jump, where some just want you to go
through them and others seem to require you be going a certain speed. If you
do a jump and land but it still fails you, that means you need to go faster.
*If on a bike and low on health, remember to call Carmen if you can, or dial
911 and let professionals heal you.
*Move the RS up to speed up the slow motion while you are in the air.
1. If you look on your map you will see a bunch of little dots west of the
airport. Go there and you should find this jump on the north end of the road
that goes around the containers.
2. After you take the last jump, get back up to that same road, which it is
easier to get out and hop over the dividers, and this jump is at the south
end of the road. It's the container that is open and has the dirt inside. When
you hit this one you need to avoid drifting left as you will hit the tree.
Be sure to have a lot of speed hitting this one.
3. From the last one, go west to an area that is west of the car wash. You'll
notice the road is under construction, and there is a mound of dirt nearby.
Go down the opposite road from the ramp as far as you can, rev it up, and go
for it. I believe the idea is to ramp onto the other side, but I just crashed
into it and I got the jump.
4. This one is a bit west of where you landed from the last one, but you have
to go around and onto the streets around the highway. Basically, go to the
hospital nearby, follow the road east of it that runs parallel to the highway,
and soon after the tracks you will run into this jump. Just go back to the
second set of traffic lights and go for it. If you see during the jump there
are some metal beams. I think you have to jump over those, but it could be
something else.
5 & 6. From where you land from the last one, just go one block over to the
west and you'll run into the next two. Go to the north side of this building to
see the ramp in the alley. Go up the sloping road and hit it as fast as you
can. Yeah, you hit the next jump on the roof where the first jump takes you.
You should ramp off another roof, but that doesn't count as a jump. Pretty
7. From here, go west toward the road that leads you down to Brucie's. You
should see a few holes in the brick wall on the right, so go through one and
you'll see the ramp facing west. Go down the tracks as far as you feel safe
and go for it. I should probably advise you brake after you jump, but where's
the fun in that? Just crash and fly into the water - awesome!
8. Go to the east end of the Algonquin Bridge, and this one is definitely a
BIKE-only jump. This would be hard to find otherwise, but it's that tiny ramp
where the highway splits in two. You're objective is to land in the walkway
between the bridge, so remember to push forward so you lean, but not too much
or you will flip over. Good luck, and hotdogs on the street nearby if you
crash alot.
9. Head north of the nearby Cluckin' Bell and you map or may not realize
there is a parking lot on the north side of the intersection. You'll approach
it from the west, but the ramp to the lot is the jump you need. So go a bit of
a ways west, turn, and punch it going east and hit the ramp, but you don't
need to go that fast. This is an easy jump, if you can find it.
*NOTE: If you need more help, this one is at an area where you shot up some
guys around the containers, and it's at the intersection just before the one
leading to the East Borough Bridge.*
10. Go to the southwestern corner of the darts bar block and you should see a
tiny alley that looks west. You'll need to get back as far as you can and hit
the ramp, drifting slightly left, and stick the landing to get the jump.
11. Where the last jump lands you, the next ramp is to the right on the road;
this is where Jacob meets you if you need guns. Just hit the ramp and you're
good. Maybe you can do this from the other side, but not sure.
12. The last ramp again lands you next to the next one. Just back up down the
road and take the plunge. You should land in a pool, so bye bye to whatever
vehicle you used.
13. Last one is down the street to the north, then keep going east until you
hit a ramp at the end of this road that runs behind the houses. It's a straight
road and you'll see the ramp in the corner where it turns. You can literally
just fly down the road and hit it. May want to slightly turn left so you land,
and if you land you're good.
*NOTE: This ramp is northeast of the darts bar and you should have ran into
this area while chasing pigeons.*
14. Head up to Bohan on the East Borough Bridge. Go right after you exit and
you should look above you to see an incomplete bridge. Go right again at the
intersection to get on the road that takes you to the construction area, and
from there you can hit the ramp at the end of the bridge.
15. West of the Strip Club, and north of the abandoned docks area, is a long
stretch of ground below the tracks. The ramp is at the end of this stretch. You
need to approach from the left side, but then aim right once you reach the
ramp so you land at the intersection. A bit of luck is needed as you may land
on a car and fail. Gotta land safely.
16 & 17. Directly south and one block over from the strip club is an entrance
to a bridge that is also under construction (It it a highway, I think). You
need a fast car and just punch it, but watch out for the openings in the
road toward the middle, in the connector areas. Just hit the ramp barely going
right, and if you do you should also hit the second ramp.
18. Go to the north end of the island and take the road to the east. You
should remember this place from a mission, but there is a ramp in the middle of
the street. You'll have to go back a bit west, build up speed, swerve rigth
when you get close, and you should land it.
19. After you stick the last one, reverse and go down the parking lot near the
ramp. You should see some steps, and beside those steps is a slope in the
sidewalk. You don't need much speed, just hit it and you should land - easy.
20. After the last one, go under the road tunnel and then go up the hill to get
on the streets, where you usually drop off Dwayne. To the right is a ruined
building and the jump is in there. Just back up as far as you can, punch it,
turn when you need to to line up with the ramp, and hopefully you land on all
four wheels.
21. Go south after you land, and swing around to get back on the road where you
found the last ramp. At the intersection you should see a bunch of alley paths
on the east of it, which is right above a subway station. The ramp faces east.
22. Go to the highway in front of your safehouse, not the Playboy X pad. In the
highway you should find a divider and at the end of it is a jump. You'll need
a bike for this one, because even though a car can fit in here they will not
count it. Just find a bike, somewhere, and then take it inside the divider
area. Take it as far back to the support column and then punch it. You may
need to lean into the bike as you are in the air.
23. You'll need full health, full armor, and a new motorcycle for this one.
South of the last ramp, and above the highway, is a police station. Once you
step inside you will get four stars, so work quickly. Once you enter from the
front, go to the back, which is the north side of the station, and there will
be steps on the right. Go up them and follow the path around the walkway until
you see a ramp. This is not the ramp you need, but take it a slow speed so
you can get up to a small roof; basically get to the ramp, stop, and then use
all the speed you use on the ramp to get up. Then use the next small ramp to
get on the roof with a dome. You'll need to go from the northern corner to
the ramp at the edge of the roof, and if you land you will ramp again, but
that one is just a ramp to get you out of here. Good luck shaking the cops.
24. Go two blocks east of the gun shop and you should see a tiny alley with a
ramp. You don't have much room to build up speed, but you don't need much. You
also have to hit the left side of the ramp and then drift to the right ever so
*NOTE: This ramp is south of the police station, if that helps.*
25. Go two blocks east of the Perseus at the south end of the island. Look for
this ramp along a walkway of a building, near some steps. You'll have to go
a good deal down the street to build up speed.
26. A few blocks west of the gun shop and a block or so south will be a tunnel
through a large building, you can see the alley on your map. This tunnel is
blocked off at each end with blocks, but you can jump them. You may be able to
hit the one on the west side, but the one on the east has more road to work
with. What I did to avoid flipping over as you hit the jump is to let off the
gas as I hit the ramp and I landed. You need to be in a car, FYI; maybe a bike
works, but it's a lot of lost health if you crash.
27. Head up to the middle of Star Junction and directly east of the Split Sides
in the middle of the road should be an open container with dirt inside. I
don't think you have to hit this ramp terribly fast, but you do want some
good speed and you want to avoid hitting anything, so angle yourself to the
left. No, you can't just do directly in front of the ramp and back up, you'll
have to speed down the street and make a turn and pray you stick it.
*NOTE: I used a car on that one, but maybe a bike would have worked better.*
28. Just south of here, at the intersection southeast of Split Sides is another
ramp. This is a BIKE only stunt. Just drive as far back as you can and hit the
ramp while avoiding cars. I even hit lamp post after the jump, so I think as
long as you land you will get it.
29. Remember those pigeons that were on the abandoned tracks in this part of
town? If not, go to the block west of the Empire State Building and go up
the steps to the resting area. Get on the old tracks and follow them until you
are above the Pay N Spray, that is where the jump is. Gotta be careful as this
is grass up here.
30. Follow the highway all the way up to the north, past the Hickey Bridge and
you'll hit the jump when you are one block west from you safehouse, on the
corner. It's no the stairs, there's a ramp up among the tall buildings, in the
parking lot. You can only hit it by going along the sidewalk in front of the
northern building. And you have to push forward, hoping you bounce off the
metal roof and into the street. That will be a successful jump. Kinda need to
go right to left, just a little, not much.
31. These next two are on boat, so find one, a fast one. You can head to the
east side of Algonquin either before or after getting a boat, but I prefer
before (the docks on the west side of Charge Island always have boats). The
ramp is between two barges that are southeast of your safehouse. The barges
converge to a point and that is where the ramp is. Just hit it and you're
32. This water ramp is southwest of the tip of Colony Island, along the docks.
33. Head to the north end of the island and find the car wash. Go across the
street to the east and to the back parking lot of a grocery store. The ramp
here will face northwest. You may want to honk at the guys in the way to move.
34. Take the old mansion road at the northeast end of the island and east of
it will be the ramp on the beach. But you'll see there is a little divet along
the beachline. The ramp is actually just a mound of sand over a little alcove
of water and it faces north.
35. Okay, so if take the old mansion road back up to the streets you will end
up by a Burger Shot. The ramp is east of the BS and it's the driveway of a
house. You'll need to go all the way back down the sloping road, all the way
to where you hit that dirt path, and then punch it up the incline. You'll have
to stay in the middle of the street and hope no one gets in your way. Lean
forward when close to the ramp if on a bike. The faster the better.
36. Just south of where you land from the last one, which is two blocks south
of the BS, will be a parking garage. Take it to the top and the ramp faces
west. Plenty of vending machines if you need health.
37. Head south to the Pay N Spray, then go one block east to be in an alley.
The ramp faces south, and you may want to go as far back as the parking garage
to build up your speed. Hopefully you go over the roof on the other side, but
probably not - the resulting crash is awesome at least, if in a bike.
38. This jump is just a block north of your safehouse, in the upper area. The
open container faces west, and you don't need a bike if you manage to squeeze a
car through. Just build up speed from the road east and turn so you hit the
39. West of your safehouse there are some steps. Get up there, in a car, and
at the top of the steps will be a ramp to the south. You don't have much room
to build up speed, but you don't need much. Just punch as much speed as you can
into this jump and don't let up on the gas, and hopefully you land in the
alley that faces east without crashing.
40. You're gonne need a fast ride, like a really fast one. Keep in mind a
successful jump means you keep the car you use, but a bad jump means it sinks
into the water. I say take a cab or just go over to your safehouse at eastern
Algonquin. Nearby will be that shop full of Turismos. Take one back to your
safehouse in Alderney. The ramp itself is east of the safehouse. Go go west,
all the way down an alley. I started in the corner under the looping road, but
you can start anywhere. Just punch it and hope no one gets in your way. If your
car goes really high up as you are in the air then you will most likely land.
If not, well, try again. The Turismos work, trust me.
*NOTE: To get on the road there are some tiny steps to the south of where
you land.*
41. Go to the Alderney end of the Booth Tunnel and either use the steps and
go north of the helipad, or go to where you found the last jump and go under
it to find a tunnel. You'll need to speed through this tunnel and hit the ramp
facing south. It seems the goal is to land ON the helipad, so fast cars need to
moderately hit the ramp. Just land and you'll complete it.
42. I don't think you can use a bike on the steps, but maybe. Get a good and
fast car and head west out from the Booth Tunnel. Go until you pass the on-ramp
to take the elevated highway. At the next intersection, look north to see some
steps. You'll need to speed up those steps and clear the other set of steps,
landing in the street.
43. Head back to the road where you hit the last ramp, the sideways "8" road
we can call it. Go to the northwest corner. There is a hotdog vender, some
steps, and you should have hit a pigeon here. Go up the steps and the ramp
will be along the wall looking south. You don't have much room to build up any
speed, so you just use what you got and you'll get the jump - easy.
44. Head to the @ cafe, go one block west, follow this road about three blocks
up to the north until it ends, and you should see the open container against
the bend in the highway. You don't have to hit it terribly fast, just enough
so you land on the lane of oncoming traffic.
*NOTE: There is an opening in this highway, just go south a bit, cross over
into the northbound traffic, and the opening on the side should be just nearby
so you can get onto the streets.*
45. This one is on the opposite side of the last on, at the north end of this
bend in the highway. There you will find a bunch of ramps, but you need to
follow the dirt path back, then turn around, and follow the path up the ramp.
You may actually need to go farther back than the dirt path, but be careful
as vehicles handle poorly on dirt. But whatever you do you need to hit the ramp
from the left side and drift right so you can get over the highway and land
along the beach. If you do and want to save your car, just drive south, slowly,
avoid the rocks, avoid falling off, and there is an incline to get on the road.
And even a body armor at the base of the incline.
46. Follow the highway south, take the bridge near Honkers that takes you
to the south end of the island, and go to the southern end of the bridge that
is ruined, which is southwest of Honkers (look at the map). Get to the south
end of this ruined bridge and ride it north to ramp off, and you need to take
the left side, the end with the ramp.
47 & 48. Both are at the southern end of the elevated highway. Both are holes
in the sides of the railings that have just a little mound of dirt so you can
ramp off. They are at the west and east sides of the on/off ramp. For either
one you need to almost go back to the opposite ramp, on the side of the traffic
flowing the direction you are going, and so long as you land you will get the
49. East of Honkers is an on/off ramp for the highway. Get to the top of it,
but the ramp you need to jump is at the bottom of the highway ramp. You'll need
to speed down the ramp, hit the stunt ramp, fly over the water, and land on
the other side of the road. You really need to hit the right side of the ramp
to have any chance of landing.
The ONLY way I got this to work was by using a bike. What I did was get to flat
top of the skyway ramp, then I made sure I was lined up with the ramp as I
went down. As I sped down I leaned forward to build up some speed, but I let
go of the leaning as I hit the ramp, once I hit the ramp I then leaned forward
just a bit to as to not flip in the air, and I barely landed. I used a Zombie,
if that helps (it's a motorcycle).
50. Last one, and it's probably the most likely one you've already hit. This
ramp is east of the car wash. It's the dirt hill at the end of the train tracks
and you have to hit it from the side of the tracks. Need a car, and just speed
south down the tracks and you're done.
Stevie's Cars ( CA7700R )
About halfway through the story you should have gotten a text from a Stevie
that you should steal some cars for him. Whether you are doing during the story
or after, find that text.
You take the cars to the garage that is just east of your Bohan safehouse.
I believe finishing these up will be the only way to earn money, any serious
money that is.
Again, a link to the map:
*Dead link, /cry
Some pointers:
*Remember, it takes 6 game hours to get the next text, so feel free to sleep at
your safehouse in Bohan to speed it up, or go on dates, your choice.
*Condition affects your payment, so if not following the rules of the road
(and you only will if you suck), then at least get good at driving while
avoiding damage. For any damage you may cause, consider hitting a Pay N Spray
because you lose several thousands with any serious damage, even just one big
hit to the rear bumper.
*If you like the car you are driving and see it rarely (SuperGT and Infernus),
feel free to stuff them in the parking spots at your safehouses. The cars
Stevie wants will respawn until you deliver it, so you can steal as many as you
like. Though, you only need two, one to keep and one to save. From the one you
save you can spawn more.
*If the garage icon in Bohan doesn't pop up on your map, you are in the wrong
car (it happens).
*Use the text message if you don't know what the car looks like.
*Taxi-ing around is best. Set markers and get in a cab.
1. Rebla - This one is in central Algonquin, toward the south end of Star
Junction, two blocks southeast of the Cluckin' Bell. It's actually on the road
to the southwest of the station, by the building with the crabs on it. Once you
find a Rebla and get the message, take it to the garage symbol that is in
Bohan. Remember, condition matters.
*NOTE: If you've been hunting pigeons and stunts, this is the first time in a
long time that you've been paid. Think about it.*
2. Turismo - This one is in Alderney, at the north end, south of the car wash.
Like, just south of the car wash is a big mansion and the Turismo will be on
the right at the front of the house.
3. DF8 -90 - Head to the amusement park at the south end of Broker. This car
is under the overpass at the west end of the rollercoaster.
4. Washington - This one is in the northwest corner of Dukes, at the pool. It's
across the street and it's a four-door car, the kind your grandma drives. Get
it and take it to the garage.
5. Huntley Sport - Mark the intersection on the highway, northwest of the Strip
Club on Bohan. Now, if a cop is right next to the car, thankfully they don't
arrest you while you are hotwiring the car, but once you have the car you need
to speed away. Hopefully you can jet south and avoid the streets you see any
cops coming down, and once you shake them take the car to the other side of
the island.
6. Moonbeam - Head over to Charge Ilsand and look in the area around the
silos on the east side of the island. It's the van in the parking lot at the
north end of the silos.
7. Super GT - Go two blocks north of the Perseus at the south end of Algonquin.
The car is on the south side of the block. Don't confuse this with the Sabre
GT, a completely different-looking car.
8. Infernus - Ah, the most talked-about car on the internet, for I guess
justified reasons. You'll find this at the intersection of the block of the gun
shop in Broker. Now, I say take this thing to your parking spot in Bohan
because the first time I took this there the streets were covered with these
things (I'm not kidding, they were all over the place!). Camp two in the spots
here, or if not then consider going back to the place where you found the
first one and get another. Your safehouse in Bohan does a good job of spawning
more of the cars you're in along the sidewalks, so keep that in mind. If
anything you just need two Infernus and with at least one you can hopefully
spawn more using this Bohan pad. Feel free to leap-frog some cars to your
various safehouse parking spots if you need to.
9. Coquette - You should know this church, it's the same one the McReary's use
so much. It's in southern Algonquin, south of the Rotterdam Tower (Empire State
10. Sultan - This thing is west of the @ cafe in Alderney (I taxied over there)
and it's in the driveway of a house.
11. Cognoscenti - This one is also in Alderney, just a block or two southwest
of the Pay N Spray at the north end. It is just down the street from Mr. Fuk's,
in an alley on the east side.
12. Dukes - East of the Modo shop in Algonquin, which is a good time to beat
the high score at the QUB3D game in Modo.
13. Voodoo - Go to the Dukes area, which is at the east end of the East Borough
Bridge. If you do straight east from the bridge you should see a tall tower
and the Voodoo right there.
14. Banshee - Head to the southwest side of Middle Park, in Algonquin, duh.
If you check the map you will see a subway station underground, and if you
go directly west of that station and one block over you should hit the Banshee.
15. Comet - This one is near the bowling alley in southern Algonquin. Once
there, go northwest to a parking lot for the car. Personally, I like this car
a whole lot, but if you already like your Infernus or SuperGT stock, do what
you please.
16. Intruder - Head to Broker and this one is northwest of the @ cafe, about
two blocks or so. Check the map to see a bending road, which overlooks the pier
area, and the car will be there, by a hotdog vendor.
17. Cavalcade - You should know this hospital in Alderney, northwest of the
northern Pay N Spray. Once you are to the hospital, go across the street on
the north side and you'll see this SUV in the driveway at the back of a house.
18. Sabre GT - This thing is in the northern end of Dukes, at the Pavilion
Towers. Well, it's actually to the south of the towers, in a driveway of a
house right next to the path leading to the towers.
19. Patriot - Head to the south end of Algonquin. You'll see the towers if you
go to the west side down here, and the yellow hummer sticks out at the
20. Faggio - Yep, he wants a scooter. This is at the corner of the gun shop
in Algonquin, south of the gun shop. If you can't get this to the garage in
one piece, you should be ashamed of yourself.
21. Manana - Head to Cluckin' Bell on the Broker/Dukes island. East of it is
an abandoned Burger Shot; the car is behind that building.
22. Buccaneer - It's on Bohan, south of the strip club, in that little pencil-
tip road.
23. Freeway - Go to the car wash by the airport in Broker/Dukes, and at the
intersection near it is the motorcycle you need.
24. Rancher - Head to Alderney and the docks on the east side. The truck is
east of the gun shop, at the northeast corner of the warehouse.
25. Bobcat - At the top of the parking garage at the airport.
26. PMP 600 - This one is in the alley to the north of the Perseus that is at
the south end of Algonquin.
27. Dilettante - This is in the neighborhood near the airport. It's way north
of the car wash and west of the silos.
28. Sentinel - Go back to the docks at Alderney, but this one is at the north
end, before you enter the docks. Look on the map to see a bunch of silos around
a lot, and the car is there.
29. NRG 900 - This one is on Algonquin, north of your base safehouse, and
east of the end of Middle Park.
30. Contender - Last one is north of Brucie's place, on the outer road that
bends. It's on the side of the road by the green stairs (where you chased a
guy early in the game). It's a truck, in case you forgot.
After you take back the last one, the next message you get will be to confirm
that his missions are over and that you can take him any car. Yes, if you ever
need money just take him any car and you get some cash. If you have a couple of
Infernus saved up, abuse the Bohan safehouse spawns along the streets and you
got a nice money-making scheme going.
Weapons & Armor ( GUN7700 )
Okay, so I was just going to hit all the nearby guns and armor to your
safehouses and most travelled locations. However, I really don't have the
willpower to do more text about things in this game. So instead I have decided
to just post the maps of the guns and armor on my website.
The gun map will be marked up, but the armor map isn't because, well, it's all
Should I throw you a bone in the form of text to go in this guide? Hell no.
You don't pay me, I can write what I want. Besides, you can buy any of these
from a gun shop or Jacob - not a big priority for me, no sir.
Here is where to go:
*Dead link, /cry
Helicopters ( HELI770 )
Of course everyone knows about the ones you can steal from the helitour guys
down in the south end of Algonquin, near Pier 45, but there are many others
you can use.
There is the Annihilator down at the north end of the airport that is free
for the taking, well, that is if you consider a 4 star wanted level as free.
Yes, the moment you go for the chopper you will get caught and everyone will
be after you. It seems impossible to shake the cops once you have it, so I
guess it's just there for fun.
You'll find one at the top of a building at the middle section of Star
Junction, where it makes the "x" with the roads. You'll have to go to the east
side of the building and find a lift and take it all the way up to the top.
There is even one at the Alderney end of the booth tunnel, which you should
know about from an assassination mission.
Sometimes the police stations have one, but I don't want one that will get
you wanted stars.
Secrets ( SEC7700 )
Heart in the Statue
First you need a helicopter, and the one from the helitour place near Pier 45
will do. Fly over to the Statue of Happiness and getting out is tricky. You
need to get out on the top level, which is just under the statue's feet. If you
are even drifting a bit away or to a side of the level you need to get to, you
will fall to your death. Your best bet is to get close to still at that level,
then drift toward the level, and then jump out. You should then fall into the
level with the doors.
Now that you are on the level, go around to the south side and look at the
signs on both sides of the door. Just go through the door and climb the ladder
to see the heart. Creepy. Yeah, have to jump to your death to get out, but
it's well worth it.
Dial 911 for a bunch of services.
Katt Williams - I know, not a secret, but if you go to the Split Sides club
three times for all of that English guy, the next comedian is Katt Williams.
His second act is pretty good.
* 8. Friends / Girlfriends ( BFF8888 ) *
These are the people that are encountered in the story and will contact you
for "man-dates". They are just people to hang out with once they have run their
course in the story, and they all provide some reward for getting their "Like"
stat up to 100%. I know you don't have to get them all up to 100%, but you may
as well.
They all seem to like all the options available when you call on the phone.
Seems you can only use their service once a day.
Yes, the strip club never fails.
He will do anything with you. The easiest friend to keep happy. There is no
reason to do his taxi missions other than for money, and that is just for the
early part of the game when you are broke and don't do story missions.
100% Like: Call for a cab to take you anywhere for free. Good for when you
take a friend out to drink, as you really shouldn't drive while intoxicated,
virtual life and for real.
Little Jacob
Likes darts, pool, bars, and chicken. His delivery missions help him like
you too.
100% Like: Call to meet Jacob in a nearby alley where you can buy a selection
of guns for cheap. Doesn't have all the guns, but if you ever need armor you
should call him.
He especially likes going on the boat and chopper rides, and all the other
options are fine too. His races boost his like of you too, if you win, and
maybe so do his car deliveries, but I'm not sure.
100% Like: Use his helicopter whenever you like as a taxi.
He likes a spot of the drink and games. Just playing the main story seems to
keep his like of you up.
100% Like: Brings a bomb to place in a car that you can set off with your
Provided you didn't kill him, he likes all the stuff pretty much: drink, food,
and strip clubs. It's easy if you take him to the Cluckin' Bell at Star
Junction because not only does he love that place, you don't have to take him
100% Like: Will send two thugs to help you out.
Only if you let him live do you get a benefit. He will clear your wanted
level. But it's not that big a deal, so no worries if you let him go.
Random People
Here are all the people you can meet throughout the game that are not crucial
to the story, but most are crucial to 100% completion. Only the ones you save
from death (Ivan, Cherise, Clarence) are not toward 100%, and same with Jeff
for some reason.
These guys unlock after certain points in the story. My walkthrough covers them
when they are open, and if all else fails just wait until the end of the game
to do them.
*Broker / Dukes*
First - near Roman's cab building. He just gives you $100.
Second - south of your first safehouse. Just drive him to a deal and then home.
Third - near the gun shop. Just take him to the dealers, shoot them to make
them run away, then take Brian home.
He'll be just off the East Borough Bridge. Take him to the alley and kill the
He will be near the police station on the street of your first safehouse. Take
him to the bad guys, kill the bad guys, then drive Mel back home.
Mrs. Faustin
Remember where you first took Michelle, the bowling alley at the south end of
Broker? She will be here after you guys leave for Bohan, at some point. She
asks you to beat up her daughter's boyfriend, but not kill him.
First - He is in east Holland, near a police station. Just follow his wife to
the cafe, go in and up to take their pick (don't get too close though), and
then walk out.
Second - He calls you and forces you to go to a parking garage (follow the
markers), and then drive the car north while outrunning the cops. Drive it
toward the water and bail out while going at full speed to send it into the
Third - He is south of the "Time's Square" area, or northwest of the gun shop.
Just go there and watch the scene, that's it.
First - He is in Star Junction, the "Time's Square" area. Just fight off the
haters that attack.
Second - He is is still in Star Junction. He is shot, so kill the haters and
drive him to the nearby hospital, with I believe no real timer.
First - South of Star Junction, at a place with a water fountain, is this girl.
Pick her up and take her to her drug dealer.
Second - She is around the area of the Booth Tunnel, where you meet Bernie.
Just drive her to the station and that is it.
Email - After the Marnie encounters, some time later you will get an email
from her about how well she is doing. Pretty cool.
First - West of the gunshop, at night, you will find her. Just drive her way
up north, then beat up her husband.
Second - She is in the southeast corner of the island, at Pier 45, at night.
Just drive to the Pereus, pay for the package, and bring it back to her.
Also west of the gun shop. Drive him to the guy that owns him money, then chase
the dude. The chase ends at a park where you can kill the guy. Once you have
the money, drive Hossan home.
Only if you spared him in the Paper mission "Holland Nights", he will be in the
same area in Holland. Just kill him after you talk.
She is also in the Holland area if you spared her in the Dwayne mission "Ruff
Rider". Just drive her to her boyfriend and beat him up.
First - He is on the west side of this island, at night, in the area called
"Alderney City" (it's a neighborhood). Drive him to the pier, then to
Second - He is north of the @ cafe, at night. Blast him after you talk.
She is back at her house a few days after the final missions for the McReary's
where you let her go; it's west of the gun shop. Just kill her goons after
the scene.
Only if you spared him from Vlad's mission "Ivan the Not So Terrible". He is
north of the gun shop. Just drive him to the thugs and kill them from your
cover. Talk to him and that's it.
Here are some rules for dating:
*Clothes and cars have little affect on the girl's opinion of you, but you
should at least change your clothes for the girl if you can. Don't go too far
out of your way.
*All friends don't want to be picked up late. You have one hour to get to them,
so check you cell phone clock.
*If you keep taking her to the same place, it does get old.
*Try your luck after at least two dates.
*Her words let you know if the date was a success or not.
*Club Liberty, the dance club, is west of the @ cafe in Algonquin.
*If you like Katt Williams, he will show up at the comedy club after a few
shows of that Ricky Gervais guy. The comedy club is west of Star Junction if
you didn't run into it yourself.
You meet her very early in the game, and about halfway through you will no
longer have to worry about her, for reasons I'll let you see for yourself.
She likes any game, getting drunk, Split Sides, and diners. You will mainly
take her to the diner by your first safehouse.
Favorite Clothes: Cheap
You meet her after Packie McReary's missions. She plays a big role at the end
of the game, and her fate purely rests in your hands.
She likes diners, bars, darts, and pool.
Favorite Clothes: Modo
Carmen Ortiz
Met on www.love-meet.net under SoBoHoe; just click date. Wait for them to
email you back and reply nicely. After the first date you will get their number
if you want.
She likes Club Liberty, bars, diners, games, and all clubs (cabaret, strip,
and comedy).
Favorite clothes: Modo and Perseus
Benefit: Restores Health, which is the best one, just call her.
*NOTE: Remember to take their number after the first date. Also, even if their
like of you is at 99%, if you don't take them out on regular dates you will
not get to use their benefit.*
Kiki Jenkins
Met on www.love-meet.net as LawChick; just click date. Wait for them to
if you want.
She likes anything but the strip clubs.
Favorite clothes: Cheap
Benefit: Clears 3 wanted level stars
Alexandra Chilton
You meet her through the somewhat secret website of www.craplist.net. She is
listed under "Party girl seeks man for NSA fun and blog material - 29". Click
the contact button and she will call you soon. Wait for them to email you
if you want.
She likes diners, bars, games, and clubs (cabaret, strip, and comedy). She
likes fancy cars and hates lowly cars.
Favorite clothes: Perseus
Benefit: Half off clothes for a day *wah, wah*
* 9. 100% Checklist ( COMP999 ) *
This checklist is thanks to a helpful thread by Xenctuary:
Main Story (60%):
*Complete all the story missions and reach the game's credits.
Activities (5%):
*Win a 10 round game of bowling.
*Win a game of darts.
*Win a game of pool.
*Beat the high score of 10950 in QUB3D.
-Bowling is easy, so no problems
-Just aim the darts in the center, and when close to 0 make sure you double-out
to win
-Pool is hard only if you don't realize the tiny cue ball line is where the
ball will hit
-For the arcade game, just be patient and smart
Collectables (7%):
*Complete all 50 stunt jumps.
*Kill all 200 pigeons scattered around the city.
*Find and steal all 30 cars requested by text message from Stevie.
Side Missions (8%):
*Do all 9 Assassinations from the Pay Phone in Alderney.
*Win 1st place in all 9 of Brucie's races.
*Steal all 10 "Exotic Export" cars requested by email from Brucie.
*Complete all 10 deliveries for Little Jacob.
*NOTE: You DO NOT have to do Roman's taxi rides, thank goodness.*
-Assassinations are covered in the walkthrough " Assassin's Pay Phone "
-All the races are easy if you know how to turn, especially in a fast car
-Brucie's cars are simple as he marks them in the emails
-Some of Jacob's deliveries are timed, so maybe bring a fast car too
Vigilante (5%):
*Kill 20 criminals in the "Current Crimes" from a police car computer.
*Kill 30 criminals in the "Most Wanted" from a police car computer.
-Just kill criminals under a time limit in the "Current Crimes", and they
leave a lot of money
-The wanted guys are just search and destroy quests, nothing you can't handle,
just bring plenty of SMG ammo and get ready for a lot of driving gun
Friends (10%):
*Little Jacob Like to 60% to unlock his special ability.
*Brucie Like to 70% to unlock his special ability.
*Packie Like to 75% unlock his special ability.
*NOTE: You must take them out on all the available options from the phone.*
Random Characters Met (5%):
*Brian x3
*Eddie x2
*Ilyena (aka Mrs. Faustin)
*Marnie x2
*Pathos x2
*Sara x2
*Note: You do not have to meet Cherise, Clarence, Ivan, or Jeff.*
* 10. Cheats ( CHE1010 ) *
Annihilator Helicopter - Kill all 200 Flying Rats; it's at the MeTV building
in Star Junction
Rastah Color Huntley SUV - Complete 10 Package Delivery missions for Jacob
Remove Ammo Limit - Get 100% completion
Secret in-game website:
Provides maps for all of these: weapons, health, armor, vehicles, pigeons,
ramps, and entertainment locations.
*NOTE: Once you beat the game you get this address in an email so you don't
have to type it in each time. So it's not really a secret at all.*
These are all dialed into your phone (press up twice to pull up the keypad).
*360 NOTE: Not sure as I don't have the 360 version, but if you are an
achievement whore, I would strongly recommend you stay away from cheats of
all kind. I hear just one achievement "Clean the Mean Streets" is disabled,
but I still would avoid until completely finished with the game.*
468-555-0100 Change weather
486-555-0150 Get a different selection of weapons
486-555-0100 Get a selection of weapons
267-555-0150 Raise wanted level
267-555-0100 Remove wanted level
362-555-0100 Restore armour
482-555-0100 Restore health, armor, and ammo
948-555-0100 Song information
227-555-0142 Spawn a Cognoscenti
227-555-0175 Spawn a Comet
938-555-0100 Spawn a Jetmax
625-555-0150 Spawn a Sanchez
227-555-0168 Spawn a SuperGT
227-555-0147 Spawn a Turismo
359-555-0100 Spawn an Annihiliator
227-555-0100 Spawn an FIB Buffalo
625-555-0100 Spawn an NRG-900
Assassin's Greed - Complete all 9 assassin missions
auf Wiedersehen Petrovic - Win all ranked multiplayer variations, all races
and Cops 'n Crooks, as both sides
Chain Reaction - Blow up 10 vehicles in 10 seconds
Clean The Mean Streets - Capture 20 criminals through the police computer
Courier Service - Complete all 10 package delivery jobs
Cut Your Teeth - Earn a personal rank promotion in multiplayer
Dare Devil - Complete 100% of the unique stunt jumps
Dial B for Bomb - Unlock the special ability of phoning for a bomb to be
Driving Mr. Bellic - Unlock the special ability of taxi
Endangered Species - Collect every hidden package
Fed The Fish - Complete the mission "Uncle Vlad"
Finish Him - Complete 10 melee counters in 4 minutes
Fly The Co-op - Beat Rockstars time in ranked versions of Deal Breaker,
Hangman's NOOSE, and Bomb da Base II
Full Exploration - Unlock all the islands
Genetically Superior - Come first in 20 singleplayer street races
Gobble Gobble - Score 3 strikes in a row, a turkey, in 10-pin bowling
Gracefully Taken - Complete mission "I'll Take Her"
Half Million - Reach a balance of $500,000
Impossible Trinity - Complete mission "Museum Piece"
It'll Cost Ya - Complete a taxi ride without skipping from one island to
Join The Midnight Club - Win a ranked multiplayer race without damaging your
vehicle too much and have damage enabled
Key To The City - Achieve 100% in "Game progress" statistic
King of QUB3D - Beat the High Score in QUB3D
Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie - Kill a Rockstar developer in a ranked multiplayer
Liberty City - (5) After you meet all friends, the ones left alive like you
above 90%
Liberty City Minute - Complete the story missions in less than 30 hours
Lowest Point - Complete mission "Roman's Sorrow"
Manhunt - Complete the most wanted side missions from police computer
No More Strangers - Meet all random characters
Off The Boat - Complete the first mission
One Hundred And Eighty - In a game of darts score 180 with only 3 darts
One Man Army - Survive 5 minutes on 6 star wanted level
Order Fulfilled - Complete all 10 Exotic Export orders
Pool Shark - Beat a friend at pool
Retail Therapy - Unlock the ability to buy guns from a friend
Rolled Over - Do 5 car rolls in a row from one crash
Sightseer - Fly on all helicopter tours of Liberty City
Taking It For The Team - Be on the winning team in all ranked multiplayer
Teamplayer - Kill 5 players who are not in your team, in any ranked
multiplayer team game
That Special Someone - Complete the mission "That Special Someone"
That's How We Roll! - Unlock the special ability of helicopter
Top Of The Food Chain - Kill 20 players with a pistol in a ranked multiplayer
Top The Midnight Club - Come first in 20 different ranked standard multiplayer
Under the Radar - Fly underneath the main bridgs in the game that cross water
with a helicopter
Walk Free - Lose a 4 star wanted level by outrunning the cops
Wanted - Achieve the highest personal rank in multiplayer
Warm Coffee - Successfully date a girl to be invited into her house
Wheelie Rider - Do a wheelie lasting at least 500 feet on a motorbike
You Got The Message - Deliver all 30 cars ordered through text messages
You Won! - Complete the final mission
* 11. Author Info / Copyright *
Xenctuary - for this link:
GameFAQs.com - for the cheats, secrets, and achievement list
clouddgr - for pointing out that I had the Okami controls, instead of GTA
Deniz Jablonowsky - for 360 controls.
Bromand - Holland Nights tip.
Coty Roschevitz - for the Gravelli mission tip.
Dennis Marjoncu - for "Lure" tip.
Corey Person - for "Flatline" tip.
Gamersradar.com - for the map that revealed the missing pigeon that Rockstar
failed to include at the in-game website. This is the link, which is actually
a better job than I did, I guess:
Q: Where can I find another Infernus? The one I got from that guy [insert sad
little story].
A: It's rare, so I guess you're best bet is to drive around in a fancy car and
hope one spawns, but good luck.
Someone jumped the gun on me and told me that during Stevie's mission you can
just plant the Infernus in your parking lot and then go get another. I was
going to check this out, so I'll confirm this in the next update.
Q: [Insert sad story about how a mission marker is gone]?
A: No clue, it's a glitch. Hopefully you can still turn off your game, restart
it, and go on from there.
Q: [Insert story about an achievement glitch, which makes ME sad]?
A: Well, I don't own the 360 version, so you are already barking up the wrong
tree. But if you are not getting it then it has to be a glitch.
Q: Which version is better?
A: I hear the PS3 has smoother loading than the 360, and that is because of the
hard drive install. Other than that, maybe tiny graphical edges and what I feel
is just the game on the system it belongs on, there is no real advantage
either way.
Q: Where do I take the cars for Stevie?
A: At the garage icon in Bohan, near your safehouse.
Q: There are no markers on the map for a mission. What do I do?
A: Just a glitch. Some say that going to the place where you get the mission
will solve it.
Here is my website:
Follow me on twitter @ TheGum25
don't think I've updated an older guide.
won't work.
My email: lunatic_252000@yahoo.com
Title of your email should be: GTAIV
of the guide, but only if you like it.
I have other guides floating around too. They are:
Resident Evil 4
Dead Rising
Gears of War
Lost Planet
GRAW 2
Rainbow Six Vegas
TES IV: Oblivion
Shivering Isles
Knights of the Nine
The Darkness
Halo 3
Half-Life 2
HL2: Episode One
HL2: Episode Two
Call of Duty 4
Assassin's Creed
Mass Effect
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin
Perseus Mandate
Sam & Max Episode 203
Devil May Cry 4
God of War: Chains of Olympus
Rainbow Six Vegas 2
Grand Theft Auto 4
Condemned 2: Bloodshot
Metal Gear Solid 4
Alone in the Dark (360)
NCAA Football 09
Madden 09
Dead Space
Gears of War 2
Prince of Persia (2008)
Call of Duty: World at War
FEAR 2
Resident Evil 5
Modern Warfare 2
Assassin's Creed 2
World of Warcraft
Mass Effect 2
Heavy Rain
Splinter Cell: Conviction
Crackdown 2
Halo: Reach
Dead Rising 2
CoD: Black Ops
me, and all because I write these little guides.
GamePro, but I am.
Look to gamerstemple.com for a slew of random reviews.
Here is my list of sites:
GameFAQs (main host site)
GamersTemple (http://www.gamerstemple.com/)
CheatCodeCentral (cheatcc.com)
some that I just don't keep track of.*
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Question from qwweetrtr
How do I solve (Elder Knowledge)?
How do I find the Lexicon or wherever to get to activate the Elder Scrolls? I've been in Blackreach for some time now and I can't find anything.
qwweetrtr provided additional details:
All I'm finding are levers to Skyrim but since I didn't open the gate from the outside I can't get out so I'm just down here trying and trying to find the elder scrolls....
qwweetrtr provided additional details:
Since this won't let me remove it I'll say how I found the answer. There's a certain point as you explore more and more left of the map where you're at the top...the complete top...of the waterfall. Once you are there's a bridge. Once you cross it THEN the quest mark appears for you to follow to the elder scrolls. Simple from there.
Top Voted Answer
DrNewcenstein answered:
The levers to open those gates are on the inside, actually. Light a torch and look on the walls/corners.
I can't recall now, but I think the lexicon is in the actual city part under the huge orange ball. The room you're looking for has a huge ball in the floor. Put the scroll in the machine and the lexicon in the pedestal, then hit the button.
DO NOT forget to take the scroll. You'll go nuts later on trying to finish another quest lol
As an aside, hitting that giant orange ball over the city with Unrelenting Force triggers a dragon.
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Nasur86 answered:
You should get the lexicon from the quest giver north of Winterhold. Sorry, I forget his name thats where I got mine if I recall correctly
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ryan-stocks answered:
You need to north of Winterhold to a place called Septimus Sigmus's Outpost. Talk to him and he will give you a lexicon. From there, follow the quest marker to a Dwemer ruin called Afltand. Proceed through the ruins until u walk into the middle of a fight between two people. make sure to loot both bodies because there is a unique shield called Targe of the Blooded. in the middle of that room there is a pedestal that opens up a hidden staircase when you activate it with the lexicon in your possession. From there head to Blackreach.
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• Insanity : Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results.
MS has tried many vast departures from the public consensus with fatal results. Windows Me, Windows Media Center Edition, Vista, 8, Web TV. Why make changes the consumer is not interested in, or that will actually degrade the consumer experience? It seems their philosophy is "give the consumer what we want them to have, they will accept it."
The Xbox One is Microsoft's solution to their long journey of creating a all-in-one set-top box. This however is piggybacked onto the gamers shoulders. Nice new features are wonderful, but not at the expense of the gaming experience.
Do not kid yourself about the used game policy, new game prices will not be cheaper. Checking in every 24 hrs will morph into always on. Personal data will be shared.
Driveatar from Forza 5, the whole concept is about it learning your personal behavior and distributing it
Kinect camera always looking and studying your face, movements, voice, home, etc. creating a profile of you almost as good as DNA. This data stored in the "cloud", and may be used if you log onto your account at another location.
It is my opinion that MS has lost all focus. It is not like Windows, there is another viable choice, PS4.
• It's innovation. Why make changes the consumer is not interested in? Because, once in a while, you get a huge hit that brings up a whole new audience - See the Wii and Nintendo DS. Right now, as vocal as the online crowd is about what XBoxOne will do, we don't know how the majority will react.
• Agreed. However it seems as MS has went from a gaming device that plays movies & tv to a movie & tv device that plays games. I have not heard many gamers who want kinect features in their games, and adding the device to spoonfeed motion/voice control into all daily use is taking resources that could be used elsewhere. Unless I am mistaken, the o/s or user interface consumes a very significant portion of available resources.
• It's called innovation you should not be putting down a company that tries it on a regular basis. All your complaints are focused on the times that innovation hasn't worked out for Microsoft how about the most recent Windows 8 phone that's competing with the iPhone or the Surface which is a tablet that works like a laptop. These are great advances and you shouldn't knock off the Xbox One as a failed attempt at innovation yet it hasn't even been released yet. Also don't be fooled all these extra services are not cutting away the gaming experience they are just new and like anything else people like advertising new. Why would Microsoft advertise all their gaming features? Those are there and will always be there so they decided to use camera time to advertise something new on top of the great gaming experience we already know.
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Infamous Second Son takes place seven years after the events of Infamous 2. A lot can happen in seven years, so here’s the abbreviated timeline that will prepare you for Sucker Punch’s next super-powered outing.
The first two Infamous games told the tale of what would happen if ordinary people suddenly gained supernatural powers – gifting them abilities that could level buildings. This prospect terrified the general population who were left feeling powerless against the whims of the fortunate few who gained supernatural abilities.
These powered-up individuals came to be known as Conduits, and series hero Cole McGrath was one of the most powerful conduits on the planet. However, it was up to players to chose whether or not Cole used his powers for the benefit of the larger commonwealth or only for himself.
This good/evil system actually helped shape the franchise’s future. Gamers didn’t know they were voting on the fate of they next Infamous game while playing Infamous 2, but that’s exactly what happened.
“When we got done with Infamous 2, we had given players this choice of whether or not they wanted to heroically sacrifice Cole or keep him alive at the expense of the human population,” says game director Nate Fox. “The game shipped and we started seeing trophy data, and 78 percent of players decided to sacrifice Cole and have him die. We wanted to honor their choice so moving forward we said ‘Let’s make a new hero.’” | dclm-gs1-100730000 |
Sunday, June 28
Some quick thoughts on Friday the 13th on Blu-ray
Not seeing this in theaters, I gave in to the peer pressure of other bloggers yesterday and plopped down a twenty and a ten for ze Blu-ray at Wal Mart--Always. ®
Not the smartest choice. Now, I wasn't one of these fans who automatically balked at the mention of this remake. I can honestly say I didn't care either way, didn't follow the progress of its creation online, and even forgot who directed it until last night. Boy, it ain't what it used to be.
One of the first things that struck me and endured throughout was how flat out annoying the group introduced after the opening title was in comparison to the group that was on the brunt end of Jason's machete in the opening attention grabber. Natually, persons 18ish or older are tantamount to cattle for the slicing, but these twenty-somethings on vaca we're forced to stick with are so grating you wish Jason would suddenly crash through a window and get down to some gory skullfucking. Okay, maybe not literal insertion of Voorhee's dork into cranial cavities, but you get my point. Danielle Panabaker (Jenna) looks like a young Leah Remini and one gets the distinct impression Travis Van Winkle (Trent) is a douche both on and off the screen. The on-screen sibling leads also do nothing to move the viewer or even simply side with them being just two attractive, vanilla, and definitely all-American young adults. How boring.
This leads to the interpretation of Jason by Derek Mears. I had heard he was more methodical this go around and upon watching everyone's favorite killer momma's boy it's all maybe a bit too much for my liking. I've always favored the killer an unstoppable "sentient brickwall" whose original rage towards his mother's death has been gradually replaced with a unsettling rendition of a ubiquitous backwooods boogeyman that can molded by an individual's own fears. Michael Myers is another example. This "re-imagining" takes Jason away from that and into something closer to a more "cinematic" horror flick mass-murderer. He's still Jason, albeit less so. The lack of any of real hero shots of the character certainly doesn't help matters. The few that are there, like Jason ominously standing on the roof in the moonlight, are far too short to leave any impact. Lastly, why does he throw shit around or act frustrated? Talk about a load of bullshit.
There's also small things that tweaked my brains the wrong way. The score is essentially electronic droning compared to Manfredini's work. There's nearly no sense of geography concerning the positions of Trent's parent's summer house, Camp Crystal Lake, and Jason's lair. Nispel has no marked directorial style and merely seems to be leaning on the talents of the crew surrounding him. Where's the dilapidated camper cabins inside the camp's boundaries? Why does Jason need to reside in the room that Trent Reznor floated around in from Nine Inch Nails' music video for Closer? Why are the locations so damn cluttered with junk/set dressing? Why does the Nispel/Bay/Pearl "sister film" to this remake (TCM '03) also have sweaty, bizarre, and southern-fried locals?
At least the kills are generally decent, especially the brutal killing and tow truck dragging of Trent. I hope the sequel is better...
New Line's Blu-ray (and DVD) scream re-release as the slim extras are pure short-running fluff. Even the Picture-in-Picture trivia track isn't particularly in-depth. The 1080p VC-1 encoded transfer looks good despite issues with subtle noise reduction and a surprising number of shots both in-and-out of the action sequences looking slightly out-of-focus. The lossless Dolby TrueHD is extremely active to the point I opted to hear it through the TV speakers halfway through. The choosing between the rated and extended rated versions is confusing. The disc defaults to the extended version and the menus speak of no selection between the two, only the theatrical version. If you select the theatrical version, the only way to get to the extended version is by picking a scene to jump to in Scene Selection. Sound confusing? Yes, it is.
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I had the same confusion w/ the extended vs theatrical versions... I kept trying to find the 'extended' choice for like, 45 minutes before realizing that it simply defaulted to that. That said, I do like the movie better than you did. I was prepared to be disappointed, and while they didn't entirely recapture the real spirit of the original run (what I consider to be parts 1-8), they did an OK "update". Nevertheless, I understand your viewpoints, too, and share the hope that the sequel is indeed better. you dare tread upon the staircase? | dclm-gs1-100740000 |
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Isnt this a make believe world? Obama thinks so. He tries to make us believe he actually knows what he is doing and he is always telling the truth and hiding nothing!
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This is probably a fake account from a spambot ... but I won't delete it just yet.
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dtroutma GoComics PRO Member said, over 2 years ago
We’ve been running that maze created by the military-industrial complex since the 1950’s, always a new “enemy”, never an end to the need to spend more. BTW; with all our interventions, why DID Ike do nothing to help the revolutionaries in Hungary, 1956 who were fighting the Russians with pie plates set out to simulate mines, getting their tanks to stop, and be taken? (A friend was one of those Hungarian freedom fighters who escaped to the U.S. later. Despite all our current “righties” who accuse any Democrat, or Liberal, of being "socialist’ or “Communist”, many of us have much more personal experience with totalitarian regimes, “communist” or otherwise, and have valid cause to question what the “TEA Party” and extremists on the right REALLY have in mind for America. Feudalism, fascism, and fanaticism, are the “three F’s” producing the fourth; fear, which THEY use as a tool, and an excuse for their being “Four F” in the real war to preserve REAL freedom from dominatrix assaults masked as “patriotism”/“nationalism”.
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Rad-ish GoComics PRO Member said, over 2 years ago
WWI was partly started because countries had pacts that said, if you are attacked I will defend you.
So now we back S Korea and if N Korea attacks we will be drawn into the war even if the S Koreans can defend themselves. If we get involved in a war between the Koreas, China might side with the north and might even attack Taiwan who we also have a pact with. Russia might back the Chinese and Europe would back the US and so on toward a worldwide conflict.
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iPhone 5S Will Come By September, Claims Analyst
The iPhone 5S will arrive in September according to Peter Misek, an analyst with Jeffries who just finished an interview about the new iPhone on Bloomberg TV.
Misek is the second analyst in the past week to point to an iPhone 5S event in September. Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley points to an iPhone 5S launch in September, though it is not clear if either analyst is discussing the launch or the release of the iPhone 5S.
When Bloomberg asked about the iPhone 5S release in June, Misek waved it off, pointing to later in the year.
It typically takes 60-90 days of production before the phone is introduced to retail. And it hasn’t gone into production, yet, so if we assume production starts in June, that would mean the soonest you’d be able to get it would be late August/early September.
The full interview about the iPhone 5S is below. Misek covers Apple and other tech companies, and weighs in on multiple rumors about the iPhone 5S in this interview.
According to Peter Misek, the iPhone 5S will share a similar design to the iPhone 5, including a 4-inch display. He states, “We think there’s a chance it could still come in multiple colors, a good chance it gets a fingerprint sensor.” and goes on to claim a 12MP camera and a faster processor are all but guaranteed. Misek tells Bloomberg, “changes will be underneath the hood, much like they were with the 4S.”
The iPhone 5S may feature a fingerprint reader.
The iPhone 5S may feature a fingerprint reader.
While the iPhone 5S will compete with the Samsung Galaxy S4, Misek doesn’t see the two as competitors, especially outside of the U.S., stating,
The S4 is a 5-inch screen product, the iPhone 5S is a 4-inch screen product, as best we can tell, and we think, broadly speaking, consumers at least, mainly, outside the U.S. prefer larger screens. So, we actually don’t see the two as all that competitive.
Misek thinks pressure for a larger iPhone will mount, but based on research, Misek thinks Apple is limited to a 4-inch screen until at least June 2014.
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"You will see some larger reasoning behind the cases that we want to reveal," Bokenkamp says. "Ultimately we will be delivering some pretty compelling and satisfying answers. Again, those answers may raise more questions, but we're certainly not afraid of the truths behind the mythology of the show." He adds, "Everyone in our show is going to find themselves in a rather precarious situation by the end of the season. I would hope every episode you're bracing yourself to mourn for somebody you know." Check out the rest of the interview as Bokenkamp answers our burning questions:The revelation of Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) and his other side has been entertaining. I enjoyed watching him punch Liz (Megan Boone) in the head. Jon Bokenkamp: [Laughs] He is a brutal man. What a prick, punching his wife in the head! He also killed Jolene (Rachel Brosnahan), so he doesn't get along with women. And he killed Cowboy (Lance Reddick). That was shocking since he's such a great talent. I thought he would last longer than an episode. Bokenkamp: You know what? I was really surprised about that too. That was one of those choices; we had a story line set up and we cast Lance. Once we saw him on screen and in the part, it was like, "Oh, I wish we hadn't killed him off. It would've been fun to keep him in Red's Rolodex." PHOTOS: Scoop on 39 season finalesDid you know from the start Tom's trajectory, that he was a plant and was working for the man who was targeting Red? Bokenkamp: There's a lot that we make up as we go along, but the Tom-Liz arc is something that fairly early on in the season we mapped out where we wanted that to go. It was something that was personal enough and heavy enough that we couldn't just ignore. We've teased it out as long as we could. We will see a glimpse behind the curtain into Tom's world, who he reports to and what his mission and purpose really is. In the vow renewal episode, Tom's fake brother Craig implied that Tom has real feelings for Liz. Will that be addressed? He's been with her for two years after all.Bokenkamp: I think it's something that we are not ignoring. You can't live with somebody for as long as they lived together and have a life together, whether it's pretend or not, and not in some way have some truth to it, some truth to the relationship. Now that the cat's out of the bag, I'm not sure what Liz would feel about Tom. I think that it muddies it up a little bit and makes it more complex. Where that goes, who knows? But it's something that we're aware of. Although Liz is an agent, she doesn't seem the best at controlling or hiding her emotions. She let her interrogation of Tom get personal, and when she found out the truth about her dad's death, she's now washed her hands of Red. Bokenkamp: I think she is someone who -- as hinted at in the pilot when she stuck a pen into Reddington's neck -- can be volatile. She can not be good at hiding her emotions at times. Sometimes she lets that get in the way of being an agent. She's not just an FBI agent. She's a woman and wife and she's been betrayed. That's really difficult to bottle up and see it through the lens of the prism of an FBI agent. This was a man who she built her life with. We heard Red hum for Liz the song "The Anniversary Waltz" to her, which is something from her childhood. Is there any significance to the choice of that song?Bokenkamp: Frankly, it was just something that would have been in a music box in that period and it was also sort of haunting. I wish there was some great, deep meaning behind that song choice, but to my knowledge there was not. From The Blacklist to SNL: Check out this season's MVPsWe've now seen more about Red regarding the Swan Lake recital he attended in 1987. How much more information will we get about the girl we've seen in the picture by the end of the season? Bokenkamp: I'm not sure where that's going to land. We're still exploring how much of that to reveal. Ressler (Diego Klattenoff) and Red's relationship has evolved. Some even speculate that they're related because they share a blood type. Will we see more of that? Bokenkamp: It's funny. He does have Red's blood pumping through his veins. That is an evolving relationship absolutely. They are two men who don't necessarily respect each other and they certainly don't like each other, but are somewhat finding common ground in very odd ways. The dynamic between those two is a frustrating one, but is emerging. Will we get more on the gender-bender named Mr. Kaplan (Susan Blommaert) this season? Bokenkamp: I don't know about Mr. Kaplan. Mr. Kaplan is somebody who -- I don't have a good tease to throw out there about her yet. We still don't know if Red is Liz's father. Is that the question you get from fans the most? Bokenkamp: Yes, he's a very experienced older man and she is a young, sort of rather inexperienced person in her life. So there's a natural paternal thing going on there. That is a question that I think people like to speculate about. I think it's a good one. She asked him that question point-blank and he answered, "No." But like Red said in the pilot, "I'm a criminal. Everything about me is a lie." Who can really trust anything the guy says? Do you think Red is Liz's father and that it will be answered in the finale? Who is Berlin and why is he after Red? Check out a video of Boone discussing Red and Liz's relationship here: The Blacklist airs Monday at 10/9c on NBC.
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Bipolar disorder
This mood disorder is characterised by extreme shifts in mood, energy and functioning.
Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mood disorder, characterised by extreme shifts in mood, energy and functioning. More recently this term is also used to include the more subtle variants of the disorder, called the soft bipolar spectrum disorders. Bipolar disorder Type I is much less common than Major Depressive disorder, with 1% of the general population affected over time. Males and females are affected equally. The incidence of the soft bipolar spectrum disorders have not been established yet but it might be as high as 6% of the general population. It is also still unclear what the sex ratio of this disorder is.
As a group, the bipolar disorders entail episodes of depression as well as episodes of mania/euphoria or hypomania. The switches between these two states may be fairly sudden and dramatic, but are more commonly gradual in onset. Both mood states may occur at the same time. This is called a mixed episode.
Bipolar disorder tends to be a chronic, recurring condition and is generally considered to have a poorer long-term outcome than Major Depressive Disorder.
During a manic (“high”) episode a person displays behaviour that is out of character. He/she may be “overly” happy and/or highly irritable, have boundless energy, go for days without sleeping and lose their inhibitions in social settings. People with mania may develop unrealistic beliefs in their capabilities that may impair their judgement, the result of which is engagement in foolish activities or projects which often lead them into financial or other difficulties. As a manic episode develops, there may be an increase in the use of alcohol or stimulants, which may aggravate or prolong the episode. Typically a manic person denies that there is anything wrong or unusual with him/her. The changes in mood and behaviour are observable by others who know the person well.
During a hypomanic episode similar symptoms are present but only in a more subtle form. This sometimes makes it difficult to recognize and therefore contributes to the diagnosis being missed.
During the “low” phase the person is depressed, lacks energy and struggles to enjoy activities, which were previously enjoyable. In contrast to the classic unipolar form of depression, a person tends to sleep more and have an increased appetite with possible weight gain.
Some people can experience symptoms of depression and mania at the same time. This is called “black mania” or a mixed episode.
Each of the different phases of the disorder can disrupt the person’s work, school, family and social life. As such it can be very disabling, but if treated appropriately, it responds well. Treatment can help prevent future episodes.
Signs and symptoms of mania include:
• Abnormally “high”, euphoric mood
• Extreme irritability/agitation
• Anger and/or aggression
• Increased energy, activity and restlessness
• Inflated self esteem and self confidence, feeling superior to others
• Decreased need for sleep
• More talkative than usual and talking rapidly and loudly
• Racing thoughts or jumping from one idea to another, making it difficult for others to follow
• Distractibility and difficulty concentrating
• Increase in goal-directed activity
• Poor judgement
• Excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that can have painful consequences (such as spending sprees or sexual indiscretions)
• Abuse of drugs and alcohol
• Denial that anything is wrong
Signs and symptoms of depression include:
• Intense sadness
• Loss of interest or pleasure in activities previously enjoyed
• Feelings of guilt, despair and worthlessness
• Change in sleeping pattern – more commonly sleeping to much (hypersomnia)
• Loss of energy
• Change in appetite more commonly an increase in appetite resulting in weight gain
• Difficulty concentrating and remembering
• Restlessness or irritability
• Thoughts of death or suicide
Some people may have psychotic symptoms during severe episodes of mania and depression. Common symptoms are delusions (false, strongly held beliefs that are not influenced by logical reasoning) and hallucinations (hearing, seeing or otherwise sensing things that are not there). These symptoms tend to reflect the mood state at the time. For example, during a manic phase a person may believe that he is the president or has special powers. Delusions of guilt or worthlessness may appear during depression.
As mentioned, the symptoms of hypomania are similar to that of a manic episode but less severe. Psychotic symptoms are not present and hospitalization is usually not needed. There is also less overall impairment of functioning. It may even be associated with good functioning and enhanced productivity.
There are four main types of bipolar disorder.
Bipolar I
The person involved has one or more depressive episodes with at least one manic or mixed episode.
Bipolar II
The person has one or more depressive episodes with at least one hypomanic episode. When four or more episodes of illness occur within a year, the person is said to have bipolar disorder with rapid cycling.
Cyclothymic disorder
This is characterised by chronic fluctuating moods, involving periods of hypomania and depression. The depressive episode is not severe enough to meet the criteria for MDE. This is often considered a personality type.
Bipolar disorder NOS
This is an older term used to describe variants of bipolar disorder that do not meet the criteria for any of the abovementioned conditions. However, in the modern view of bipolar disorder this would constitute all the variants of what is now known as the soft bipolar spectrum.
Who suffers from bipolar disorder?
Although it is less common than Major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder is probably more common than previously thought. Approximately 1% of the population suffers from Bipolar I disorder. It is however suspected that the lifetime prevalence of the bipolar spectrum disorders (including bipolar disorder type II) can be as high as 6%.
In contrast to Major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder has an earlier onset. The onset is often before the age of 20, but may even start in early childhood, when it is often confused with ADHD. If the onset is after the age of fifty, it is usually due to another medical condition, such as multiple sclerosis or the effect of drugs, alcohol or steroids.
There is no single cause. The disorder tends to run in families, which suggests that there is a genetic link. In people predisposed to the disorder, the onset can be triggered by stressful life events, the use/abuse of drugs and/or prescription medication, including antidepressants and steroids.
An imbalance in various neurotransmitters (chemicals by which the brain cells communicate) may also be involved. There may also be disturbances in the production or release of certain hormones within the brain that contribute to causing bipolar disorder.
Bipolar disorder is a lifelong condition. Bipolar I disorder is generally considered to have a poorer long-term outcome than Major Depressive Disorder. The reasons for this are unclear but may be a result of poor compliance with medical treatment. Bipolar II disorder and the soft bipolar spectrum disorders have a better outcome
The course varies from person to person. Bipolar disorder can start with major depression or a manic episode. Manic episodes usually begin suddenly with a rapid escalation of symptoms over a few days. They tend to be shorter and end more abruptly than depressive episodes. It is important to note that over a lifetime patients with bipolar mood disorder have a much higher likelihood of suffering from a depressive episode than from a hypomanic/manic episode. For some there may be long symptom-free periods between episodes. Episodes have been described to last for days, weeks or months. However, more recent research suggests that some individuals may experience several switches in mood state within one day. The average person with bipolar I disorder has four episodes (manic or depressed) during the first ten years of the illness. A minority of people may have several episodes of mania and depression with only brief periods of normal moods in between.
If properly controlled by medication, a person can lead a full, productive life. If left untreated, moods will continue to swing from one extreme to another and cause severe impairment in functioning. The time period between episodes usually narrows and episodes become more severe. In such cases, suicide is a real danger, especially if the person abuses substances and/or suffers from anxiety.
There is no diagnostic test. In order to make a diagnosis, an evaluation by a psychiatrist, who will take a detailed history and thoroughly assess symptoms, is essential.
It is very useful to get feedback from close family and friends, as a person with this disorder often lacks insight into his/her condition. They will often deny that anything is wrong and resist efforts to be treated. This resistance can often delay diagnosis and effective treatment.
Substance abuse or medical conditions such as thyroid problems can mimic bipolar disorder. These need to be ruled out and effectively treated.
There is no cure for bipolar disorder, but it responds well to treatment. It is a recurrent, lifelong illness. People suffering from bipolar disorder need long-term psychiatric care to monitor medication, enhance treatment compliance and prevent future episodes. A combination of medication and psychotherapy is optimal.
Treatment aims are to:
• Effectively treat whatever the current (acute) episode is (mania, hypomania or depression).
• Effectively reduce the risk and severity of further episodes with maintenance treatment and support.
Vigilance is the key to preventing relapse. If early symptoms are reported to the doctor when first noticed, adjustments can be made to the treatment plan in order to prevent a “full-blown” episode.
In the maintenance phase, support is needed to continue the use of medication to prevent future episodes. This is often difficult as people feel so much better during these periods.
Manic episode
In the first instance a good assessment is essential. Medical conditions or drug intoxication need to be excluded before the diagnosis of a manic episode can be made. Commonly an acute episode of mania will require a period of hospitalisation.
Mood stabilisers are the mainstay of the medical treatment. Various drugs have mood stabilizing action. These include Lithium, some drugs used to treat epilepsy (anticonvulsants) and certain antipsychotics. Lithium remains the gold standard for an acute manic episode. As an alternative, the first line option from the anticonvulsant group is sodium valproate (e.g. Epilim), and from the antipsychotic group, olanzepine (Zyprexa). In episodes where psychotic symptoms are present, antipsychotics are invariably prescribed until symptoms have subsided. Combinations of two or more mood stabilisers are commonly used
Benzodiazepines (tranquillisers) may be prescribed to manage agitation, psychosis or dangerous behaviour, while waiting for a mood stabiliser to take effect.
The depressive phase of bipolar disorder in general does not respond well to anti-depressants when used as a single agent. Moreover, when used without a mood stabilising drug, antidepressants can trigger a manic or mixed episode. Therefore the first line treatment for a depressive episode remains a mood stabiliser. Anticonvulsants such as lamotrigine (e.g. Lamictin) or antipsychotics such as quetiapine (e.g. Seroquel) are used in this context. When antidepressants are used, they are prescribed in conjunction with a mood stabiliser.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
ECT is a safe and effective treatment for both mania and depression. This is generally reserved for people in hospital and, as such, for more severe episodes.
Maintenance therapy
Acute episodes represent only brief periods in the life of most people with bipolar disorder. To lengthen the time between episodes and minimise the effects of further episodes, the continued use of mood stabilising medication (maintenance therapy) is essential. This may be difficult, as maintenance therapy is needed in periods when people feel well. In this phase, people with bipolar disorder need ongoing psychotherapy to assist with understanding the risks of the illness and minimise early discontinuation.
Patients on lithium need regular blood tests to make sure that there is enough lithium in the body for it to work, but not too much which can be harmful and lead to serious side-effects. This monitoring is done in routine follow-up with a psychiatrist.
Psychosocial support
As bipolar disorder disrupts a person’s life and relationships, psychotherapy can help people regain control and re-establish relationships with others. Support should extend to the family and support structures to help all involved to come to terms with the illness. This also aims to help to motivate people for better treatment compliance.
Support groups
Support groups offer a valuable opportunity to people to meet other people with bipolar disorder and to learn more about the disorder and how to live with it. The Western Cape Bipolar Association can be contacted for a list of support groups in the country.
Visit their website at
Previously reviewed by Dr Paul Carey, MRC Research Fellow.
Reviewed by Dr Stefanie van Vuuren, Psychiatrist, MB ChB (Stell), M Med (Psig) (Stell), FC (Psych) SA, May 2014
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IHTM04057 - Lifetime transfers: what is a potentially exempt transfer?
Subject to certain exceptions, a potentially exempt transfer (PET) is a lifetime transfer of value that satisfies three conditions. They are that
• the transfer is by an individual ( IHTM04053) on or after 18 March 1986
• it would be a chargeable transfer ( IHTM04027) apart from IHTA84/S3A (or, if only partly chargeable, is a PET to the extent that it would be chargeable), and
• it is a gift to another individual or to a specified trust, ( IHTM04058). The specified trusts are either an accumulation and maintenance trust ( IHTM16000) within IHTA84/S71 or a trust for the disabled ( IHTM16000) within IHTA84/S89.
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• a deemed transfer of value cannot be a PET even if those conditions are satisfied.
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okay, okay...fill me in. I've been seeing these spots on avatars here...and curiosity to WHAT is that about is forced me into posting it. Right now! Saw a few with a circle with green check, one with looks like a small yellow city. So? whats that all about? :D
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i'm curious about this as well.lol.
Perhaps they mean the person is a moderator or is someone who donates or something?
Ahhh Hah! I think the golden "city" spot is a "Hoop City Teacher". Though I have no idea how they get that status.
Get certified by Safire?
Well I poked around the site and yes, all the moderators have green checks, so, yeah, that's probably it.
As for the instructors, there's a signup page under "teach" on the top bar. Unfortunately, I haven't found a list of hoop city teachers, but I'm thinking that signing up as an instructor is the way to get that badge.
well alright! Mystery solved! LMBO, I'm glad I'm not the only person who noticed them & was like...what????????
Don't feel too bad, I only just recently got the whole "string cheese" thing. though, I still can't figure out these people who say "this ain't string cheese" to hoopers at raves. Just because the band is hoop friendly and identifies with hooping doesn't mean that they have the exclusive on the activity.
Can you only wear costumes at Gwar and Kiss concerts?
Can you only be an asshole at Kanye events?
Can you only spin poi for Bette Midler (look it up... Hilarious)?
Are you only allowed to overdub for Millie Vanillie?
I suppose Disney will have to resort to playing only Deadmou5 sets.
Mermaids, wheel chairs and BALLS oh my :D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_JlAx-TtXU
Yep! You guys got it right! I think the green checkmark works really well but I'm not all that keen on the Teachers icon. It's the Hoop City Network logo but since it's so small on the profile pictures, it's hard to make out.
Any suggestions? Having the word teacher would be nice but again, it would be nearly impossible to read.
How 'bout an apple?
An apple with a T in it, maybe?
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CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- No trash talking needed. Germany was just too good for Argentina.
Injured captain Michael Ballack came down to the field, watching from the bench as his teammates celebrated.
Instead, it is Germany that will play the winner of Paraguay-Spain in the semifinals Wednesday in Durban. This will be Germany's third straight trip to the semis and its 12th overall - nobody has more. [Article continues below.]
First Goal - Thomas Muller (2nd minute):
Second Goal - Miroslav Klose (67th minute):
Third Goal - Arne Friedrich (73rd minute):
Fourth Goal - Miroslav Klose (88th minute):
Argentina and Germany have had a testy relationship since trading World Cup titles in back-to-back finals 20 years ago, and it's been downright ugly lately.
Germany didn't wait for the game to get its digs in this time, with Bastian Schweinsteiger on Wednesday accusing the Argentines of lacking respect for opponents and referees. Captain Philipp Lahm chimed in a day later, essentially calling Argentina a bunch of hotheads.
The trash talking appeared to be carefully orchestrated, intended to ignite Maradona's infamous temper and distract his team. Or, perhaps, to put the refs on notice.
Turns out, Germany didn't even need the head games.
Argentina has been one of the tournament's darlings, with Maradona's every move causing a stir and superstar Lionel Messi showing you don't need to score to be sublime. The Argentines rolled into the quarterfinals as one of only two teams to win its first four games - the Netherlands was the other - and had been so powerful they never trailed.
No wonder there was a star-studded crowd on hand at Green Point Stadium, with German chancellor Angela Merkel, Mick Jagger, Leonardo DiCaprio and South Africa's own Charlize Theron all spotted in the VIP seats.
But Germany showed that Argentina doesn't have the lock on flair in South Africa.
Its spacing, pace and flat-out stingy defense made the Argentines look out of sorts all afternoon. The Albiceleste didn't get their first shot on goal until the 33rd minute, and any time they appeared on the verge of making something happen, the German defense shut it down.
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But everyone knows that the long-term debt problem is a health care problem, we spend far more on health care than we get back in outcomes, and cutting health care cost growth is the key. If we don't, then we're completely screwed no matter how much we cut Medicare-someone has to pay those health care costs, and if we cut entitlements we're just shifting the problem onto individuals.-The Baseline Scenario
It is now an accepted fact that Rep. John Murtha died of a medical error: he was undergoing "routine" laparoscopic gall bladder removal, which has been around for almost two decades, and a surgeon nicked an intestine. As a result, he developed an infection. In medical journals, there have been articles about the limits of laparoscopic gall bladder surgery.
All this happened at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the place where the members of Congress, with their "Cadillac" health plans, routinely go. He was not poor and uninsured, or part of "socialized medicine." And yet, he died of complications from a "simple" surgery.
Let's try to put this in a larger context, that of of the Great American Health Care Reform Debate Debacle. What conclusions can we draw?
Once again, I draw on my experience as the widow of a physician, his former "office manager," and a long-time health care marketer.
1. Doctors make mistakes. They are human. No matter how much we pay them, they will continue to make mistakes. They feel terrible about them, they analyze them, but they continue to make them.
2. Hospitals are places where patients routinely suffer from infections -- some preventable, some not. Medicare knows this, and has taken steps to stop paying for preventable incidents.
3. Accidents happen everywhere, from France to the U.S. to India, to Africa. Above a certain baseline level, they're not confined to "free markets" or government-sponsored health care.
4. Nor are accidents confined to the poor, at County Hospitals, or to those without insurance.
5. American physicians do care about their outcomes: after the Murtha incident, this week's Medscape [may require a free log-in] has a headline about "The Malpractice Risk When Your Hospitalized Patient Has a 'Never' Event" (a "never" event is one that should never happen, and therefore is not paid for by Medicare or Medicaid and the patient's family sues the doctor because they can't pay the hospital bill). But they can't predict them. That's why they're all so frightened of malpractice suits, and why their malpractice insurance is so high. Tort reform would help this, but won't happen until we change our thinking about what health care should do.
So we, as Americans, have to change our expectations. We need to expect less from modern medicine. Yes, we can press for greater quality, but we have to recognize we're not going to get immortality, no matter how much we pay. We need to spend less, so that we align the outcomes with the expense, and the expectations with the realities.
That means every hospital may not get an MRI machine of its own, but perhaps one hospital in a municipality gets one, which means we as a nation pay less for every new medical technology. RIght now, not only to hospitals all have MRI machines, but private partnerships also have them outside hospital settings. (My husband was a partner, with a group of other doctor-investors, in an MRI machine).
Or it means we reimburse more for primary care, rather than for specialists. Or spend more on underlying process improvements (information technology, hand-washing training) than on just paying providers (hospitals and physicians).
This kind of thought process, to me, is much more important than mere insurance reform. We have been taught to expect far too much out of our medical system, and to ignore its shortcomings or think we can fix them with more money, more technology, more whatever.
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The Flint Journal
December 30, 1996
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Burma visits affront to many
As a Burmese on a Christmas vacation in Flint, I thank The Flint Journal =
for publishing the article on Burma ["Hard choices: Decision to visit =
Myanmar carries political baggae," Dec. 15, Travel, Page H1] To visit =
or not to visit Burma is a topic currently receiving a great deal of =
media interest in this part of the world. There seems to be a debate =
between two kinds of people, namely, those who see Burma simply as a =
newly opened up place to go or a business opportunity and those who are =
concerned about Burma's democracy movement.
As a refugee and a former political prisoner, one who has fled from the =
persectuion by Burma's terrible military regime, I would like to make a =
simple plea to the American public: Please don't go.
In need of hard currency, the current military government in Burma is =
looking at the easy money to be gained from rich tourists. Still, more =
than half of the national budget is spent by the military, even though =
the country has no external enemies. In reality this money is used =
simply to hold onto their illegitimate power.
Flint Journal readers may remember that the military regime held an =
election six years ago and heavily lost to the pro-democracy opposition =
party. Nevertheless, the military shamelessly clings to power and =
continues to enrich themselves by promoting fake development projects.
In the eight years since the suppression of the Burmese people's =
uprising in 1988, many Burmese generals have become milllionaires by =
world standards. They have sold off everything that could be bought by =
foreign customers at giveaway prices.
Not satisfied with the results of these gross violations of human =
decency, because of the resistence and rebuke by some of the =
international community, the generals are now seeking to fleece rich =
tourists by offering the country's sites at unreasonably high rates. =
The exorbitant rates for hotels and tours confirm this.
Recently, the Burmese people have risen again. The recent =
demonstrations have been shown on many newscasts in the United States =
during the last month.
In such a situation, visiting Burma can only further the generals' =
efforts to boost foreign currency earnings while ignoring the sufferings =
of the people. The sole legitimate leader of Burmese people, Aung San =
Suu Kyi, has explicitly advised the international community not to visit =
Burma until democracy and human rights are fully restored.
Visiting Burma now and throwing money into the pockets of the SLORC =
generals may be construed by the Burmese people as rubbing salt into =
their wounds.
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Tuesday 6th of October 2015 06:48:04 AM
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Operation Bye-bye huts
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Local and international efforts ensure that Rwanda becomes a Nyakatsiless country
One morning, at the foot of the rolling hills of Shyorongi, a small town a few miles from Kigali, Daphrose
Nyiramirimo, a mother of four stood over her dilapidated grass thatched home, locally known as Nyakatsi, in despair. Her roof was so weak that wind alone could blow it apart and every rain caused it to leak.
Little did she know that within a matter of weeks, Rwandan President Paul Kagame himself would arrive in Shyorongi to help build Nyiramirimo a new home. Together with hundreds of neighbors, Kagame carried bricks, mixed sand and cement. Housing projects from Rwanda are seen on display at the Biennale Giardini in Venice on August 28, 2010 during the opening of the 12th Architecture Biennale whose theme is “People Meet in Architecture”. Rwanda is in the final stage of eradicating grass-thatched huts as the a form of housing for the poor
Before her new home was constructed, Nyiramirimo was part of approximately 120,000 Rwandan families languishing in terrible housing, void of electricity, access to clean water and other infrastructure.
According to Augustine Kampayana, the Chairman of the Rural Resettlement Taskforce, many of these families used their grass thatched homes as a store, and a kitchen as well. As a result, cases of burnt houses, deaths and loss of property appear repeatedly in district reports. These properties are also known to attract disease-carrying agents like mosquitoes, rats, snakes and jiggers.
The Rwandan government, in turn, has been engaging the people through churches, non government organisations and the private sector to help poor communities acquire better housing through a habitat program.
It all started about four years ago when district mayors filed reports on the status of governance and security in villages. Reports indicated that “shelter” was one of the daunting problems many families faced across the country. The reports prompted an intense preliminary debate that resulted in the creation of a parliamentary committee, which was assigned to oversee the matter and carry out a national survey, establish facts, and advise the government on what to do.
The committee members discovered that families who live in grass thatched houses have numerous categories arranged in order of O, A, and B. Category O, which constitutes the most vulnerable, includes old men and women, orphans, genocide survivors and those living with HIV. This was the category where Nyiramirimo belonged.
Category A constitutes poor families who can only afford two or three iron sheets but still struggle to get basic goods such as soap, clothing, food and medicine. Many youths, especially uneducated youth in the rural areas, belong to this category.
Category B individuals live in Nyakatsi because it is what they grew up in; it is a cultural heritage passed on by grandparents. Grass thatching is Rwanda’s iconic architecture and a significant number of families in Rwanda grew up in grass thatched houses, even President Kagame’s family and the King of Rwanda lived in Nyakatsi. In fact the King’s Palace in Nyanza, Southern Rwanda is Nyakatsi.
People in category B feel comfortable living in such houses. They are not poor. Some families in this category have big cattle farms and trucks that transport agricultural goods to the market. They have money in their bank accounts. And if they are not rich, some of them have rich relatives.
“You will find ministers, director generals and businessmen here in Kigali who have parents or relatives living in Nyakatsi somewhere in the rural area,” explains Kampayana, whose family also once lived in Nyakatsi.
Eng. William Ngabonziza, an expert in the local government charged with the civil works of the habitat program told The Independent that the model of the project would be a modern village in every part of the country. The design of the structure would meet a certain standard and would be located on the same site.
This way, explains Ngabonziza, “it will be easy for government to roll out infrastructural facilities like water, hospitals, electricity and roads.”
The idea has met resistance from some individuals who are not open to change, but after the government pledged 30 percent of the funds to buy iron sheets for the roof, nails, windows and doors, the results have been encouraging.
In 2010, the government mobilised 1.5 billion frw earmarked for roofing materials, doors and windows.
Every district fills in a requisition form to pick iron sheets and nails when a house is ready to be roofed.
At first, when the government contracted factories to supply materials, only a portion of the materials would be delivered, as factory workers would agree with someone from the local government to deliver a fraction of the materials. Then local councils would divert some of the materials. Eventually the beneficiary would get only a fraction of the iron sheets they were entitled to. There was a time when many finished houses waited for weeks to get roofing material because iron sheets had been swindled.
After discovering the malpractices, the police and the army stepped in. The thieves were jailed. Now, the team that handles the procurement and distribution is made up of three parties: the army, the police and the local government. For example, when a truck from a certain district arrives at the factory to pick iron sheets and nails, a representative from the army, the police and the local government have to sign on everything loaded on the truck. They also record the number plate of the truck.
At the district, a team of three also receives the materials, one from the army, one from police and another from the local government. Iron sheets are then counted one by one to prove that they were all delivered.
Since the army and the police took over the responsibility to ensure that all the procedures are run efficiently, avoiding all unnecessary bureaucracies, and physically participating in the construction of the houses, the project is expected to finish, if anything, ahead of schedule.
However, when the program began the government faced numerous obstacles: since all families had to be moved from their land to community settlements, the government had to find a suitable site to establish the settlement. Some sites belonged to government while others belonged to individuals. For the sites that belonged to individuals, the process involved compensating the owners, which was not always easy. In such cases, friends and neighbors had to come in and help raise funds for every family that could not afford the compensation.
Another obstacle was the overwhelming number of people living in Nyakatsi compared to the available resources. When government calculated funds needed to buy all building materials, it found out there was not enough money in the coffers, thus inviting the beneficiaries to contribute.
Meanwhile, Rwanda faced intense criticism for enforcing this policy. In some districts, local officials were reported to have razed all the Nyakatsi disregarding circumstances like rain or loss of property.
Kampayana says those reports were hyped by the press, but he agreed that there were some isolated cases where some families were forced to pull down their Nyakatsi because they were not willing to give up living there. “Sometimes we apply some force,” says Kampayana. “When the government gives houses to those who can’t afford the houses, then I think they must comply with the policy.”
The government has since set a deadline of May, 2011, to phase out the offending structures across the country. “We are not flexible on this, and they [owners] should not be flexible, we have provided all the resources,” says Kampayana. Local leaders have been put to task to ensure that the deadline is met.
Neighbours together with local councils and religious groups go out and identify poor families with a Nyakatsi house and during Umuganda, the period every month when communities work together to clean up their villages, make bricks or cut trees to raise walls and then wait for the government to deliver the roofing. The army and the police are also part of the project.
Rwandans in the diaspora have also been remitting millions of francs home to support a project they called “Bye Bye Nyakatsi.” The project intends to construct 504 modern low-cost houses for underprivileged families in Bugesera district.
Corporate companies are weighing in too. On January 28, 2011, Rwanda’s beverage and beer manufacturer, (BRALIRWA) donated over 21million frw to the Rwanda Diaspora Global Network (RDGN) to support Bye Bye Nyakatsi. “The project itself is of high importance and highly creative,” said BRALIRWA’s Managing Director, Sven Piederiet. “I believe, today, there is no better project in the same sense that exists.”
A Bill Clinton funded project, Partners in Health (PIH), is also partnering with the district of Burera, in the north of the country to build new houses for 39 families in the district. These families live in scattered poor houses in a remote village of Nyamicucu. Recently, seven of the 39 families were each ushered into a four-room decent house with a concrete floor and tin roofing. The house, at a cost of about 2.4million frw (approximately $4000) includes a separate portion with a kitchen, a storeroom and a toilet. The remaining 32 houses are under construction and should be complete by the end of May, 2011. Matthew Craven, the country director of PIH told The Independent that there was more to the houses. “We have also provided basic furniture, including beds and chairs for the new houses.”
In Rulindo district, World Vision has also pledged 500 iron sheets for 50 houses for vulnerable residents living in Nyakatsi before the end of March.
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written by mulumba Abudallah, April 22, 2011
I wish Ugandan leader could swallow their pride and take lessons from kagame!
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Blur to reunite for gig in the park
Blur are getting back together, it was confirmed on their their website today. All four members of the band will play a concert in London's Hyde Park next summer.
It will feature the full line-up of Graham Coxon, Alex James, Dave Rowntree and Damon Albarn.
They will be onstage together for this first time since their Royal Festival Hall performance in 2000.
The concert will take place on Friday July 3, and tickets will be on general sale from 9am this Friday at http://www.livenation.co.uk .
All tickets are £45, are limited to six per person, and are subject to a booking fee, the website said.
The band also issued a brief press release confirming the gig.
Coxon left Blur six years ago and the band's last album, Think Tank, was released in 2003.
In a joint interview published on the NME's website today, Albarn and Coxon explained that they had put their differences behind them.
"It just felt it was right again," said Albarn of Blur's return.
Coxon agreed, explaining that the band were "making public what's been going on a little bit privately".
There have also been reports of further dates, including a possible appearance at next year's Glastonbury festival.
Albarn promised fans that there were more shows on the horizon.
"We'll do something in London because that seems sensible," Albarn told the NME, "but we're also playing in other parts of the country, working up to there."
Formed in Colchester in 1989, the band have recorded seven studio albums and had a string of top 10 singles including two number ones with Country House and Beetlebum.
Blur hit the height of their fame as the poster boys for Brit Pop in the mid 1990s, and were known for their chart battles with contemporaries Oasis.
Albarn has since gone on to form virtual band Gorillaz, to huge commercial and critical success.
His projects have included supergroup The Good, The Bad & The Queen and the much-lauded Monkey: Journey To The West.
Guitarist Coxon released solo work since quitting the band and has collaborated with Pete Doherty.
Bassist Alex James swapped his bad boy image to become a Cotswolds cheese maker and is a talent judge on Channel 4's Orange Unsigned Act.
He recently had a bowl of pasta thrown over him after he criticised a band's performance.
Drummer Dave Rowntree made an unsuccessful bid to become a Labour councillor last year.
Albarn recently gave hope to Blur fans that a reunion was on the cards after the singer enjoyed a reconciliatory lunch with Coxon.
The pair were childhood friends before the group got together.
"The truth be known, Graham and I have been hanging out together a bit. We had lunch the other day," Albarn previously told BBC Radio 1.
"It's very possible I'll go back to Blur, it really is very possible... it's fantastic to get my old friend back."
In their interview with the NME, on sale tomorrow, Coxon and Albarn talked about burying the hatchet.
Albarn said: "Ten years ago Graham and I found ourselves very uncomfortable, very over-sensitive with each other, and it hasn't felt comfortable before now.
"Now it feels like we should be accountable for that stuff and not just have it as a burden.
"It was something that had to be sorted out between Graham and myself, it goes right back to childhood..."
Coxon said that 10 years ago "we were both carrying some troubles, but it was our group and we didn't want to hurt each other's feelings by saying 'Look I need a break'."
Albarn said: "I miss that dynamic that Graham and I always had, it's great.
"And Dave and Alex were part of that so we can't do it unless it's all of us.
"As I said before I would never, ever have thought of doing this again unless Graham was part of it, it's just not fun otherwise."
Coxon added: "It's not that Blur ever stopped, no, we just did other things...
"Plus it's not a reunion where we come back and we are peerless.
"A lot of people get back together and their peers from the original time are gone, retired or died. Everyone is still there, the same groups really."
The band plan to play some old favourites.
Albarn said: "That's interesting, reassessing stuff, finding out what works now.
"That's what we're going to do now and see what really works now, that might mean quite a few that we've hardly ever played."
He added: "Yeah, Girls And Boys has to be in there really, doesn't it?"
In an interview with Absolute Radio, James admitted: "God, the thought of doing it again is a bit scary actually."
He added: "It's good that we're all still friends because so many bands end up hating each other which is really tragic...
"It's 20 years since Blur started this Christmas. It's a long time in showbusiness."
Asked about the best thing about being in a band, James said: "The best things about it when you're 20 are the worst things about it when you're 40.
"As I sat down to appraise it all when Blur stopped and thought 'What the hell happened there?', what endures most of all is the songs and the music and the sense of camaraderie, which is why it's nice that everyone is friendly again."
The best thing about touring James said was "Shagging and boozing... Do you need anything else?"
On the state of the music industry, James said: "I think things have changed a lot.
"The real problem for record companies at the moment is not that people can get music for free but that music isn't the focus of youth culture, celebrity is.
"It used to be Smash Hits that sold a million copies an issue but now that doesn't exist any more and it's Heat magazine that sells those kind of quantities."
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FBI looks clueless as bomb investigations get nowhere
The failure to deliver a happy outcome has dismayed the US, writes John Carlin
The lesson of the FBI investigations into the explosion of TWA flight 800 and the bomb at the Olympic Games has subversive connotations for a people educated in the proposition that life imitates the movies.
The FBI, repository of many of the celluloid myths that shape the American mind, has betrayed an all-too-human fallibility in its efforts to track down those responsible for what appear, in the light of the evidence unfolding inch by inch in the TWA case, to have been the year's two big terrorist outrages. And, as if that were not humbling enough, the indications are that the Untouchables' case against the two men accused of last year's bombing in Oklahoma City - the worst crime ever committed on American soil - may not be as open-and-shut as it once seemed.
Each of the three incidents has received the full infotainment treatment from American TV. Each has been portrayed as an unfolding drama, replete with good guys and bad guys (with the curiosity in the Atlanta case that the security guard Richard Jewell found himself playing first one role and then the other). Each has seen the FBI presented in a heroic light, as the reassuring real-life expression of those qualities which are the ingredients of every Hollywood blockbuster and by which Americans believe they are defined: boundless optimism and faith in the belief that virtue, dedication, and hard work shall prevail.
The common goal is the happy ending, previously known as the pursuit of happiness. In the particular case of the FBI this means catching and locking up criminals. When the FBI fails to do this, and especially when it is under the national spotlight, the general happiness is diminished. TV has presented the TWA case as a whodunnit thriller. As such the cinematic expectation right from the start has been that the FBI would see justice done. Indeed, James Kallstrom, the FBI officer heading the investigation, played his tough-guy part to perfection when he promised in his first news conference that he would catch "the cowards who did this".
Things have not unfolded according to the script, however. Never mind the "cowards", the main challenge has been to establish whether the explosion was a criminal act at all. The FBI, assisted by a cast of thousands which has included the US navy and Nasa, has pursued its objective driven by another favourite American myth: that if you throw enough money and resources at a problem you will solve it. "I get anything I want," Mr Kallstrom declared at another of his news conferences. "I can use anything. I can do anything I want to do. I don't have any limitations."
The scant fruits of Mr Kallstrom's Messianic bravado were revealed in a New York Times article on Friday which said FBI scientists had found conclusive evidence of explosive particles inside the passenger cabin of the TWA flight that crashed on 17 July, killing all 230 aboard. The FBI confirmed the discovery, but crushed any premature celebrations by adding it was still too early categorically to tell whether the plane had been destroyed by a missile, a bomb or a mechanical aberration.
Either way, the FBI investigation into the plane crash has advanced significantly more slowly after five-and-a-half weeks than the investigation into the Olympics bomb had after five-and-a-half hours, by which time the precise nature of the homemade device that disrupted the revels at Atlanta's Centennial Park had already been established.
As for the identity of the culprits in each case, the FBI does not appear to have a clue. If Richard Jewell, the security guard on whom suspicion fell after the Atlanta blast, has been subjected in recent weeks to trial by TV, this has not been so much the fault of the media as of the FBI. For it was their investigators who made it known that Mr Jewell fitted the profile of the home-grown American terrorist before proceeding to ransack the apartment he shares with his mother.
Last week Mr Jewell submitted himself to a 15-hour lie-detector test, after which the former FBI agent who conducted it declared himself fully satisfied that the suspect was "totally innocent". Now Mr Jewell is demanding an apology from the FBI and hinting that he might sue for defamation.
A deeper embarrassment might lie ahead when the Oklahoma bomb trial eventually takes place. It was not so much Elliot Ness genius as freakish luck that secured the arrest of the prime suspect, Timothy McVeigh. The former soldier was caught speeding by a traffic policeman a few hours after the explosion on 19 April last year, which left 169 dead. The trail led from Mr McVeigh to his friend and co-accused, Terry Nichols, whom the FBI persuaded to implicate Mr McVeigh in the bombing. Or rather, they thought they had.
Last week a judge dealt a potentially damaging blow to the prosecution case when he ruled that statements Mr Nichols made to the FBI after his arrest may not be used in court against his co-accused. The defence lawyers, who won a significant legal battle earlier this year when the trial venue was moved from Oklahoma City to Denver, now believe they may be able to hold separate trials for the two accused. They have been encouraged, too, by a debate raging among seismologists and geophysicists as to whether it was one bomb or two that went off.
Most of the FBI evidence is under court seal, and so it is not certain how great a loss to the prosecution case the absence of Mr Nichols's testimony against Mr McVeigh will prove to be. What is known, however, is that the case is built on circumstantial evidence. No eyewitnesses have come forward to say they saw either of the two accused make, plant or detonate the 4,800lb bomb.
It may be that once again, as in the OJ Simpson trial, circumstantial evidence is not enough. But even if it is, the excruciatingly slow pace of the TWA investigation and the frustrations of the Atlanta case have yielded two pieces of evidence at least as conclusive as the chemical traces found in the wreckage of the downed Boeing 747: that in real life happiness cannot be bought, and optimism is not always rewarded. | dclm-gs1-100920000 |
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What should the internal temp of properly baked bread be?
Is there an optimal internal temperature that bread should have to be neither underbaked nor overbaked?
I saw a bread recipe recently which called for the use of a precision thermometer to take the bread's temp, but I haven't seen any other recipe suggesting this.
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Burf3 years ago
190 degrees to 200 degrees F.
You really are good at this game of finding esoteric information aren't you /
I asked my wife on this one. :)
Re-design Burf3 years ago
Or 180-190 if you like softer bread like I do.
rickharris3 years ago
I find 40 mins at 200 deg C works OK for me. | dclm-gs1-100940000 |
Step 7: What is a parabola and how do I make one?
The definition of a parabolic curve is "a line equidistant between a point and a straight line." Go to a large table top and make a large sheet of paper from small pieces of paper. Newsprint works if you are using a felt tip marker. Make it a color like red or green so it stands out from the printing on the newspaper. Draw a straight line across the bottom. At its center make a line perpendicular to the straight base line. At about 14 inches (35.5 cm) mark the focal point. The distance from the base line to the focal point is completely your choice, but it affects the size of the reflector you make. Mark a point midway between the base line and the focal point. This is the first point you have plotted on your parabolic curve.
The "B" lines are always perpendicular to the base line. The "A" lines change their angle in order to connect with the "B" lines. Use two yardsticks and a square. Plot points where the yardsticks cross over one another while the measurement shown on each yardstick is the same. The more points you plot, the more accurate your parabolic curve will be. If you are careful, you can plot only the left half of the curve and then flip it over to copy it onto the right half of the paper.
The end result is that any signal (TV, radio, sound, light) coming to the parabolic curve in parallel rays will be gathered in strength at the focal point and amplified because they are concentrated.
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<p>How this antenna can be 300 ohm? It looks like a simple dipole with ~75 ohm impedance, not a folded dipole with 300 ohm impedance.</p><p>And if you need 300 ohm cable and you don't have 300 ohm twin lead, you can try using an Ethernet cable connecting 3 out of 4 pairs in series (each pair has 100 ohm of impedance).</p>
<p> Built this and it works great. I have built a few smaller antennas and this one has worked the best so far. I want a small antenna that I can just put behind the TV out of sight. All the other antenna I tried had drop outs. This one does not so far but maybe weather has something to do with it? Did not bother with the little converter. Just stripped the wire put the copper wire on one side and the twisted mesh on the other. Maybe it would be better if I used the converter? Don't know. The tower is across the lake from me and I will never get more than the one channel so as there is no other tower within 200 miles of me with other stations so nothing fancy was required. </p>
I am glad it is working for you. Thank you for the report. If the broadcast tower is that near to you, you might be able to receive a useful signal on the proverbial gold tooth in your mouth. Seriously, proximity does cause a signal to flood a device and expands reception possibilities.
<p> if i can find one of those little dodads i want to try it to see if it makes any difference although since digital is an either or proposition it will be hard to tell without some type of meter. </p>
<p> another question.. why can I not just cut the coax and connect the copper wire to one side, twist the braid and connect it to the other? Do I need the flat cable and converter? Why not just skip that part altogether?</p>
Two words: impedance matching. Impedance is a type of resistance that factors in changes due to the frequency of the current in the signal. TVs with a coaxial cable input require an antenna matched to 75 ohms impedance. An antenna such as I described has an impedance of 300 ohms. Coaxial cable is matched to 75 ohms. Flat twin lead is matched to 300 ohms of impedance. And, you need a 300 to 75 ohm impedance matching transformer. Without matching the impedance in all of the ways I described will result in no signal or a very distorted signal, probably no signal.
<p> I understand that part but why would the aluminum strips have an impedance of 300 ohms? It is just 2 metal strips. As long as I make a solid connect to the strips why does it matter? The antenna I use now is just copper wire bent into shape with a connect to my TV using marettes. I get dropouts. The exact same drop outs I got when I tried using a commercial rabbit ears type of setup with coax cable connections. </p><p> I used to have boxes of those connectors around.. can't find any now.</p>
<p>TV signal reception is full of anomalies, whether analog or digital. I remember that we got one particular local channel just fine, but someone half of a block away could not get it at all. Impedance is strange. A small coil of wire may have almost no resistance to a DC current, but feed a radio frequency current into it and the effective resistance soars. As for why a simple antenna is 300 Ohms, I remember simple UHF bow tie antennae for older analog TVs. They were always treated as 300 Ohm antennae and used 300 Ohm twin lead. The antenna I made essentially duplicates a old UHF bow tie antenna. I expect a TV engineer from the early days of TV could explain the answer. </p>
<p> I have an old satellite dish that I am going to reaim towards the tower to see if I can get a good signal. if I do that do I have the aluminum face the dish or face the tower? I am assuming it should face the dish. </p>
The dish is a parabolic curve and will focus the incoming signal in a way that greatly amplifies the signal strength. But, you will need to have the dish accurately pointed at the signal source. And, you will need the blades of the antenna located as near as possible to the focal point of the dish. I hope I have understood your question. I am not completely sure what you mean by the aluminum. I assume you mean the two blades or dog ears of the antenna. The signal will go to the dish and be reflected to a focal point near the dog ears.
I doubt the will. The antenna elements are usually an inch or more wide.
what do you mean by 300 ohm wire, that the resistance of the wire is 300 ohms? or is it a wire rating of some kind?<br />
Cables for connecting an antenna or other signal device (DVD player, etc.) to a television have an impedance given in ohms. Impedance is a form of resistance to the flow of current and is different from simple resistance in that it involves circuits in which coils of wire (inductances) or capacitors interact with currents at various frequencies. As the frequency of the current changes in these circuits, so does the resistance to its flow. A coil of wire may present only a couple of ohms of resistance to a straight DC current, but apply a current at radio frequency and that coil presents several hundred ohms of resistance to the high-frequency current. That is why small coils of wire in a radio circuit are called a choke. 300 ohm twin lead is flat TV signal cable that presents 300 ohms of resistance at television signal frequencies. See this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin-lead" rel="nofollow">article</a>. Coaxial cables more frequently used now for digital signals have an impedance of 75 ohms. A small transformer can convert the signal from 300 ohms to 75 ohms.<br />
300 oms means that twin lead has a characteristic impedance of 300 ohms. Most UHF TV antennas use a folded dipole as the driven element, a folded dipole has a characteristic impedance of 300 ohms that's why twin lead has been used over the years, so there's no impedance mismatched. LOL just dawned on me you are feeding a plain dipole that has a characteristic impedance of 75 ohms with the twin lead. No matter rabbit ears use twin lead, and all works sometimes. that why the term is "characteristic impedance.
thanks, I never knew that and I wire stuff at work all the time, mostly DC though so low ohms readings.<br />
I do not work with these things, but have read bits and pieces about impedance, also known as reactance. In a radio tuning circuit there is an inductance (coil of wire) and a capacitor. One of those is variable by means of a tuning knob. The resistance provided by the inductance reduces or blocks signals. The same is true for the reactance or resistance provided by the capacitor. But, at the selected or desired frequency of the station you want to hear, the reactance from the capacitor has the effect of countering the reactance or inductance from the coil of wire. The result is the frequency you want is allowed to pass relatively freely. <br /> <br /> I am glad to have been of help.<br />
Don't know if relevant but in Finland these "converter boxes" are called "digi-boxes". Came by when analog transmissions ended here in 2007. <br> Just thought to let you know.<br><br>Digi-digi ^^<br>Over and out.
Try perforated aluminum or perforated stainless steel. Either one will work great and no worries about structural strength. Even heavy mesh metal screen (like a good strainer) can be used with just a little bit of aluminum or steel rod for support.
Hey Phil B,<br> Great 'ible! You did a really nice job of it.<br> <br> But something caught my eye when you said that you "needed a special antenna" to go with your new converter. Truth is, no you didn't! Your old antenna would have worked just fine with your new converter. I wish I could have gotten the word out to more people sooner about this misconception. I want to dispel that rumor about the need to buy a new "Digital Antenna" due to the format changes in broadcast TV.<br> <br> There is no such thing as a Digital Antenna. All radio-waves are analogue (sinusoidal) by nature. The information carried within those radio-waves can be either analogue or digital. The data carried within a transmission has no bearing on the radio-wave that carries it. Hence, there is no such thing as a "Digital Antenna".<br> I feel that it's important for people to know the truth in things. This is one of those things. The amount of dis-information out there on this topic is staggering to say the least. So, I've tried to boil it all down. (Note: I said <em>Tried</em> to boil it down)<br> <br> Note to Everyone:<br> <br> There is NO REASON to buy a new antenna due to the Digital Format changeover! The frequencies for your broadcast stations HAVE NOT CHANGED! Your 40 year old rooftop antenna will work just fine for you as it has in the past. The only thing that changed is the SIGNAL FORMAT.<br> <br> The Stations you watch are still using the same transmitters they were before the changeover. If all the broadcast stations were forced to change out their main transmitting amplifiers, there would have been a HUGE uproar from the station owners\operators in the Broadcast community. The F.C.C. would have had billions of dollars worth of lawsuits on their hands if that had been the case. Not to mention the infrastructure changes! It would be easier to overhaul the entire Internet than it would be to change TV broadcast frequencies!<br> <br> In simple terms it goes like this: Analogue TV is like a dial-up modem connection to the Internet.<br> Whereas<br> Digital TV is like a High-Speed Cable connection to the Internet.<br> <br> The difference is this: Capacity!<br> <br> By changing the Broadcast Format to an all-digital format, the same Broadcast Frequencies can be used more efficiently thereby allowing more broadcast stations to utilize the limited frequency range that is currently allocated for Television Broadcast Transmissions.<br> <br> Currently there are only a few truly "New" channels (at least in my area) that have been added since the changeover to the new format. But, as with anything that has been changed, the Broadcasters are still learning about what they can do with this newly found space in the air-waves. Some stations have second and a third sub-channels they have added to their broadcast line-up. In my area, channels 10 and 13 both have a sub-channel, 10.1 and 13.1. And channel 6 has 2 sub-channels.<br> <br> In a couple more years, even more new stations will pop up and soon we'll be right back where this all began... when someone decided they wanted to start their own TV station, but the F.C.C. had to tell them NO, because there just weren't any channels available. While this is technically true, there are a lot of empty channels that don't seem to be in use by anyone, so how can this be the case?<br> <br> Simple: Someone else currently holds the broadcast license for that channel.<br> <br> So began a series of events that ended in this changeover to DTV. A restructuring and reorganization of the space available within the broadcast frequency range. Now, instead of some 60 or 70 channels carried within the frequency range, there are potentially thousands of channels (or more) now available within that same frequency range!<br> <br> So, if the frequency range that TV is transmitted in hasn't changed, why should your antenna?<br> <br> In short, it doesn't need to change. It's still receiving the same signals as it was. The only thing that changed was the way information was formatted within those signals and how those signals are decoded by your TV's tuner. However, given all that has been said, there is nothing stopping you from designing and building a better antenna! In fact, the antennas that you can buy at places like Wal-Mart, Target and anyplace that sells TVs, leave A LOT to be desired. These antennas will almost certainly be of the Set-Top variety. If you have a good antenna on your roof already, DON"T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!! they're just trying to "Up-Sell" you on junk you really don't need.<br> <br> I mean, who wants a pair of "Rabbit Ears" poking out over the top of their brand new Flat Screen? I have mine sitting on top of the entertainment center where it's less noticeable. LOL!<br> <br> Personally, I think the change that was forced upon all of us was unconstitutional. It caused a lot of people to fork out extra money for these converter boxes or buy new TVs in order to be able to watch TV at all. No one had any choice in the matter. Our government made the decision and we, the consumers, paid the price. At this point I don't know what, if anything, there is we could about it now. But that's just my opinion on this subject.<br> <br> The Fact is, you don't have to buy a new antenna but, better antenna designs are out there if you look around. Radio Shack still sells a few really good roof-top antennas as well. If you decide to build your own, you can get really creative with your designs too. Anything from Retro to Techno is possible. It's up to you, the builder.<br> <br> Phil B has done a great job with this 'ible. I'm not at all surprised that Phil B got better performance from his creation than he did from the store-bought unit. If you're really into building antennas (as I am. Old HAM operator here) then you might want to go check out <a href="http://www.arrl.org/shop/Antennas/">www.arrl.org/shop/Antennas/</a> Great job on both counts, Phil B! Keep up the good work!!!
An old satellite dish should work. There's one on my roof from when I moved in that I don't use. If I pointed it in the direction of the towers and mounted this aerial where the LNB goes, it may be ideal.
Yes, that should work pretty well. A dish focusses to a point where the LNB is mounted. In theory this little antenna is more suited for a parabolic trough as shown in step 6, but I think what you described would work.
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I do not text, so I am not quite sure what "g" means to you. But, thanks.<br />
Love the simplicity of this! Who needs a $300 "digital-ready", amplified ultra-mega-stick?<br /> <br /> Properly "skinned and dressed", the "pelt" of a standard pop can is about 4" x 8 1/4", so you can readily make at least two 1 1/8" x 6 3/4" strips from one can. (To get a strip over 8", try a spiral cut - probably oughta carve a paper template first, then tape it around a "raw" can and trace with a Sharpie, to get the edges to line up nicely.)<br /> <br /> For even more fun, you could select the can(s) and arrange the cut(s) so as to showcase the logo of your favourite product!<br /> <br /> Hey! What if you just mounted two whole, uncut cans to the furring strip?!? That would be so classically "ET-phone-home"! Or would the 4 3/4" cans be too short for DTV wavelengths? Maybe "tall-boys"?<br /> <br /> Aluminum venetian blind strips may also make for easy antenna elements - pre-curved, so if you glued, screwed or stapled two strips back-to-back, it wouldn't need the furring strip, just a good central mounting/connection block....
I have to believe your soda can version would work, as would your Venetian blind version (as long as the blinds are not actually plastic). Give it a try and let us know. Thanks for your comment.<br />
I cobbled this together after my old antenna stopped working. This works really well and we get all the UHF stations in our area (Minneapolis). Thanks a lot. I cut the aluminium strips out of an old discarded gutter. The strips have some ridges on them but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Thank you for trying this. I am glad it worked for you. Thank you for your comment.
But not all digital TV will be on UHF, in some markets it will be on the VHF channels the associated analog signal has used for years. Here the CBS affiliate will remain on 7 NBC affiliate will remain on 2, PBS on 9. I understand PBS will have a HDTV broadcast, but I don't expect HDTV from the commercial networks in this rural market. www.antennaweb.org should help you find out if you will need both an UHF and a VHF antenna.
Just recently I heard that TV broadcast repeater systems in the mountains of Central Idaho (relatively little population, no cities) will broadcast digital TV on VHF frequencies. I am not surprised other places, like your area of Kansas will do the same. In that case, your old VHF antenna will serve you well. These aluminum tabs do a good job with UHF frequencies, and if the signals are weak, the parabolic reflector behind the aluminum tabs makes a super passive amplifier.
I live in Idaho! im in the valley, though
Thanks for the comment. You are over on the eastern end of the state.
How'd you know?
I think your profile says you are from Ririe, Idaho. I checked Google Maps for its location.
LOL. A good example as to why to provide limited personal information in profile sections. In creating or discussing an instructable or anything that matter, you can end up revealing to the extent of your possessions, to those who would seek to relieve you of them. Mild paranoia perhaps, but who can predict what could take place. In cases where on can't avoid using their ham call sign, enough info is provide so one get get driving instructions to the ham's home.
If you want to learn a boatload about what I own, anyone with my full name can do a Google search and you get a bunch of hits on things I have reviewed at Amazon. None of them are very rare or fabulously expensive, though. Still, you would learn a lot about my interests.
With luck you'll be in range of a repeater, that Phil spoke of. Kansas isn't all flat. A nearby small town in a hole, had better and more TV than we living on the flat. The had a tall tower with good receiving antennas that repeated the signals into the hole. I was never aware if they where passive or active repeaters.
I suppose the rural population density, is to low for broadcasters to be interested. Except for the smallest of villages most towns have CATV. I have been toying with the idea of putting up a passive or flea powered UHF repeater, to improve my reception of UHF translator stations. I have to be careful not to mess up the local CATV reception of the translators.
We have satalite TV also, but we cant get 10.2, 10.3, 8.2 etc....
EDIT: through the satalite: we still have to use the convertor. we get 10.1, 6.1, and 8.1
It said on the DTV website that you will not need a digital antenna. You can use your old antenna. But this is good for people that want better quality.
The old antenna will likely work if it has a UHF section. We just added another converter box for another TV. It was connected to our old high gain VHF-UHF antenna located in the attic. That antenna is not adjustable as it is installed. It works pretty well if the weather is just right. But, if a front is coming some of the stations pixelate. Some of our broadcast towers are also in a much different location. We switched over to one of the homemade antennae described in this Instructable. It rests on the floor next to the TV cabinet. When a station begins to pixelate, we can change the direction it points just a little and reception is good again. We cannot do that with our old antenna. Earlier today I saw an advertisement for a local firm that will install a digital antenna on your roof for $172.50 and there is no extra charge for the antenna! A homemade antenna can be an advantage.
I made one using the measurements described out of aluminum foil glued to cardboard and it works great. I also took a piece of 12x18 inch cardboard, covered it with aluminum foil, bent it into a rough parabola and mounted it behind the cardboard antenna using a coat hanger. That more then tripled the signal strength of just the cardboard antenna and took all of 20 minutes. Looks kind of funny but works great!
Thank you for describing your adaptation. One of the great things about Instructables is that users can adapt what someone has posted so it better fits their needs or the materials they have available. I did something like that with my Instructable on a "Pretty Good Postal Scale from Old CDs." To anyone who jokes about the way your antenna looks I would say, "Do you want to receive a good signal or pay big money to look good?" Thanks again. Your comment has brightened my day.
Great Instructable and just in the nick of time. I'm going to try this later after I dig up my old TV wires and stuff. Wanted to also say that you can actually get the needed 3cm x 17cm from an old soft drink can. Simply cut diagonally across the body of the can; one can will yield enough for both strips (you might need to cut the can's bottom off first, to get a good cutting angle). Although, one edge of the strip might be slightly beveled, and I'm not sure this would do to signal reception.
Thanks for the tip on cutting cans on the diagonal. A slight wedge shape on one edge of the strips probably will have no discernible effect. When it comes to the dimensions I gave, the truth is I just eye-balled what I thought looked good from what worked when I made up a couple of these for UHF channels back some years. I think you will be OK. And, you will not spend a bunch of money on an antenna, like we did.
Last night we had a little front come through. One channel in particular becomes difficult to receive when that happens whether by analog or digital. I had to change the orientation of the little antenna described here and we got the station, although it did want to pixelate now and then, especially if someone walked near the signal path. This morning I moved the antenna back to its previous position and we are getting all channels just fine without moving the antenna. Also, back in the 1970s I made an antenna like this with a parabolic reflector. Suddenly we were getting UHF channels from more than 50 miles away.
While I can't speak to whether or not this antenna will do what you need (I don't have the technical chops for understanding antennas), I do feel the need to point out that <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.pbs.org/digitaltv/faq.php#difference">HDTV is NOT the same as DTV</a>. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXPf5Eldz3M">DTV broadcasts</a> will be capable of transmitting HDTV content, but that doesn't mean your television will show a better picture. You'll need an HDTV-capable display for that.<br/>
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I ride a large cruiser motorcycle, and it has a Lexan brand windshield on it. I have researched online, and it turns out I can only find people who will polish and repair Acrylic windshields. They say Lexan windshields need to be replaced. Phooey to that.
A new windshield alone can run upwards of $200.
These days times are hard for all sort of people. Your 50 MPG motorcycle that costs $5 a month in insurance may just be your best bet to get around. There's no reason why you should have to drop more than $4 to get a clear, safe windshield.
A bottle of polish is under $4.
The windshield on my motorcycle is slightly yellowed from age, scratched up from the harsh desert environment where I live, *and* someone apprently had taped a sign to it at one point.
(NEVER tape a Lexan windshield, it removes the protective covering!)
I would have to look over the windshield, or around it, when I am offroad, to avoid rocks, ruts, etc. I couldn't see through it, and that is dangerous on a motorcycle.
Read on and see what I found out worked to make it clear again.
Step 1: Removing the windshield
First, you have to remove the windshield. It's a little hard to polish while it is still on the motorcycle.
My windshield is held onto a bracket by 4 bolts, two on each side.
Each bolt took a 12MM metric wrench. You cannot reach them with a socket, so grab an open end or box-end wrench.
Step 2: Removing the mounting hardware
Next, put the windshield in a safe place.
Using a phillips head screwdriver and a 10MM wrench or socket, remove the screws and acorn nuts, and the mounting hardware.
You will notice immediately how the cushion on the mounting hardware has rubbed the plastic and made permanent marks on it.
You will have to remember two things:
1. How the brackets that bolt to the mount on the motorcycle go (It is easy to reverse them).
And 2. That TWO of the screws are longer than the other. These screws go into the upper corners of the windshield where the strap brackets overlap.
If you forget, it is easy to fix. It's just easier to do it right the first time.
Step 3: Giving it a bath
Next, you will need to give it a bath.
This will remove any bugs, dust, dirt, and the general film layer that forms over a windshield.
I used ordinary dish soap and a soft rag (Don't use anything harsh, remember, this windshield is plastic) in the bathtub with cold water. There's no reason why you can't use warm water, either.
Be sure you have a perfectly clean windshield before you begin polishing.
There's no danger of scratching the windshield with the convex portion on the bathtub if there is a cushion of water there, and treat it with care. I recommend using the shower wand instead, but I just washed each side like in the pictures.
Step 4: Let it dry, and get the stuff you need
Set the windshield on something soft and dry it gently with a soft cloth.
Go and grab your orbital sander w/ buffing wheel. It needs to vibrate and spin, I believe. What I have here is a very inexpensive battery operated orbital sander with the buffing wheel on it.
You need a vehicle clearcoat polishing compound. I am using "No. 7 Clearcoat polishing compound". There's no reason I am using this other than it was on the shelf and it was cheap, under $4.
Step 5: Apply the compound
Next, you will want to get yourself a small, soft rag.
Place a portion of the rag over the opening of the container of the clearcoat polish, and tilt the clearcoat polish to get a SMALL amount on the rag.
Friends, it applies just like liquid car wax.
Use "Wax on Wax off, grasshopper" swirls, overlapping 50% each pass. Take a look and make sure there are no places where you may have missed a spot.
Alternatively, you do not want any big white blotches where it has been applied too thick, these are difficult to remove with the buffer (Just use your fingernail in a rag).
I purposely did not apply any compound or use the buffer on the lower bib of the windshield. I did this to demonstrate to you the difference buffing makes.
Applying the compound to both sides is recommended, however I personally used a 3-1 ration, where I polished the front 3 times for every 1 time in the rear. The front is what gets the dust, the bugs, and the film. But it doesn't hurt to do the back.
Step 6: Time to polish!
This is the fun part.
(Set the windshield on a clean, soft, dry towel)
Make sure your buffer pad is clean and dry, and that the compound you applied is completely dry before you begin. Wet compound doesn't polish well at all. Don't ask me how I know.
You can go one of three routes, and I have tried all 3, and they all work.
1. Pressing hard. It works to get rid of compound that has pooled or is applied too thick. Not too hard mind you.
2. Pressing moderately. It works, too.
3. Pressing lightly/using just the weight of the sander. This method works well, too, but it takes longer. However, the battery lasted longer with this method. I personally prefer this method, but it won't work for moderate scratches.
Don't use a wide swath and try to get as much done as quickly as possible. Take your time. Go slow, and make sure you are really polishing the windshield properly.
For the edges, you will have to lift the windshield up and place it on your knee, perhaps, or find another method.
Something I learned: Even though the carpet is soft, there is a lot of dust in it.
Set the windshield on a clean soft towel regardless. The vibrations of the windshield edges on the carpet will actually bring dust up and on the windshield. You don't want to polish with dust, trust me!
An important thing to remember is if you are using a battery operated unit: When you hear the battery starting to lose power, STOP. Get the other battery, or let the original one charge. It will not polish well at all with even a slightly low battery. It will take longer and you will only drain the battery further.
When you are through buffing, there will be a lot of white dust static clinging to the windshield,. Wipe it off with a soft clean rag.
Step 7: The clear difference between polished and unpolished sections
I purposely did not polish the lower bib of the windshield. (I don't look through there, anyway.)
I washed the portion, but that is all.
Take a look at the pictures, you can clearly see how much polishing helps.
Please remember, too, that I have added no wax. What you see is what you get, the polished portions are clearer than the unpolished sections. Plus, there is still a bit of dust on the windshield, wax will clean it up.
You may have to polish it 10 times or more to get it clear again, but the result is well worth it and better than dropping $200 on a new piece of plastic.
You have to remember that my windshield was so bad I literally could not see through it a few feet ahead of me.
Step 8: Adding some wax for protection
Next, we want to add a good quality wax. i am using a nanowax. It works great!
Why do this? It adds a layer of protection on the windshield and fills in any micro scratches for an even clearer windshield. I used two coats of wax. The wax coating lasts me about a week of riding.
I ride a lot off road, because I live on a dirt road (And for fun sometimes) and I repeatedly will go through dust clouds and dust storms, so my windshield is really exposed to elements that are never seen in a city.
Your wax coating may last quite a bit longer than mine.
Just wax on, let it dry, wax off, grasshopper.
Now is a good time to put a coat of wax or two on the mounting hardware!
Step 9: The final difference
The wax really helps. My poor windshield has been used and abused, and worst of all, taped. I can actually see through it now, which is a small miracle for me.
I think it is important to say at this point, that the lower bib portion was washed, and waxed ONLY. I did not polish it. You can see what the polishing does, and the waxing does for the main upper portion of the windshield.
The wax helps the lower bib, but when ti wears off you are hosed. Plus, it still doesn't look anywhere near as good as the main portion with the wax and the polish.
Thanks for reading.
OK I did it, thanks!
I work with Lexan daily, and you can't really polish it, you just make the scratches smaller. The compound fills them in, for a while. Lexan is used for it's strength to deflect debris off of the rider , Acrylic is too brittle and shatters on impact. Not good on a bike if you get hit by a chunk of tire going 55 mph.
<p>(1) You can polish Lexan. All polishing of all materials is just making the scratches smaller, whether that be steel, diamond, wood or plastic. (2) Lexan (a tradename for polycarbonate) is stronger than acrylic but the windshields of practically all light aircraft are acrylic, as well as those of many motorcycles. Acrylic is much cheaper. <br><br>Watch out using any household detergents or any household glass cleaners as these contain ammonia and ammonia is deadly to acrylic and some other plastics. Even if immediately no damage is visible a clouding and eventually crazing is caused by ammonia.</p>
I hear you. But I do know that I can actually see the road better now, before when a wash and a wax didn't hardly do anything. Also, if you look, there are windshields made of acrylic, and companies who specialize in restoring them.
<p>Thanks for sharing great idea of cleaning polycarbonate <br>sheets with the images. Its really helpful. Its important if you are using best thing that is Lexan polycarbonate sheets or windshield than proper maintenance is required. Keep it sharing.. </p>
<p>Ah ha!<br><br>Let it dry first before polishing! I simply wipe and wipe until dries.</p><p>Will try with Turtle Polishing Compound.</p>
ah've installed an old dishwasher in mah shop after reading this communique!! And ah've found an assorted pack of 1000, 1500, 2000, and 2500 grit sandpaper @ a local autoparts store, although, like Tunny(sic), this is only a very last resort for the worst case. Also, sems rain-x i not a good thing to use on lexan as a wax.... the ammonia maybe?
Toothpaste works well too....
Only use sandpaper to remove scratches that are too deep to be removed by the Plastx. The purpose of the sandpaper is to get the surface flat, as light reflects off the scratches, which causes the glare and haze. Use the highest grit that will cut the surface to the point that the scratches don't show. I use 400 (for really rough plastic), then 600 (for light haze), then 1000 (for restoring the translucency), wet-or-dry sandpaper. When you use the sandpaper, always do 2 things. First, rub the sandpaper against itself several times before use. That will knock down the larger pieces of grit that would leave deeper scratches. Second, always wet sand! What I do is sand with water first, getting a uniformly smooth surface. You don't want any scratches showing that are deeper than others. Then using the same piece of sandpaper, I put the Plastx on the plastic and sand, using the Plastx as the lubricant instead of water. I use the old piece of sandpaper because it has all the high pieces of grit already worn off and won't add any deep scratches, like a new piece would. Then use the Plastx by itself with a polishing cloth. I hope this helps.
Try using a product called <strong>PLASTX</strong> it is made by <strong>Mequire</strong> .It does an exelent job . just follow the directions it removes that yellow haze and removes fine scratches and polishes the surface. It is about $5 a bottle. <br /> <a href="http://meguiarsdirect.com/detail/MEG+G12310" rel="nofollow">http://meguiarsdirect.com/detail/MEG+G12310</a>
Tundrawolf, Hi! <br /><br />Great job, thanks! <br /><br />The bike I ride has a top and bottom windscreen that both are lookingrather ragged. I'll give this a try, probably using anold handheld electric shoe polisher I have. <br /><br />I wonder if a mixture of baking soda and something else might work as apolishing compound. Any thoughts anyone?<br /><br />Enjoy,<br /><br /><br />Liz<br /><br /><br />
Hi Liz!<br /><br />Every time I use the above method it comes out looking a little better.<br /><br />Here's something you might find interesting:<br /><br />I recently tried to polish a helmet visor (Scorpion).<br /><br />I polished it many times with the No.4 polish but it was mediocreat best. So, I took some 1100 grit sandpaper and sanded the frontof it (Trust me when I say, the visor was unusable anyway, Ithought what the heck). <br /><br />I proceeded to polish it like the above method after sanding (Thesanding left the visor barely translucent) and it is coming out GREAT.But, it has taken me at least 35 separate times to polish it. <br /><br />I think if you have the motivation and time, you can make just about anyplastic clear again. It would be very interesting to see how baking soda(And water?) would polish the windshield. <br />
Tundrawolf, Hi!<br /><br />Thanks! I'm going to give it a try. Thepolishing and all might happen over the winter though. Up here inVermont it's been snowing already. Although I might run awayfor a couple of months when it's slow in the winter, maybe ride to thesouthwest or something where it's warmer. <br /><br />One thing I thought of when I was reading about you washing thewindscreens in the bathtub is that I've been putting mine in thedishwasher. Yep, silly maybe, but the two pieces come outspotless. I took the top drawer thingie, that the glasses go in,out of the dishwasher, so I had more height for the wind screens. Does that make sense? <br /><br />I'll try the 1100 grit too. <br /><br />Enjoy,<br /><br /><br />Liz<br /><br />
Liz,<br /><br />If I was you I would try the straight polish first. <br /><br />Honestly, the sandpaper method is for plastic that is so far gone...I have invested much more than $30 in my time (The cost of thevisor) to make my visor usable, and I have no doubt you will bepolishing your windshield for a few weeks to get it so you can seethrough it again after the sandpaper. <br /><br />I actually do not have $30 so it is worth it for me to have investedliterally 10 hours of polishing so far into my visor (My visor is 1/20ththe windshield, so it may take 100 hours of polishing to get mywindshield to this level of clear) to make it usable in these coldwinter days. <br /><br />Plus, the visor isn't Lexan, I cannot say how sanding Lexan andthen polishing it 50+ separate times will make the windshield come out. <br /><br />What I am trying to bring out here is that IF you use the sandpaperroute (I recommend a much finer grade, I just had 1100 at thetime) you MAY be on a MUCH more involved road to making it clearthan you are willing to endure. However, if you are snowed in for weeksat a time, by all means, go ahead!<br /><br />You could sand a teeny tiny spot on the lower windshield and see howlong it takes to make it the level of clear you want. <br /><br />However, the dishwasher idea is fantastic, because you are almostguaranteed to getting the bugs off. I almost wish I had adishwasher for this purpose. Well done! :)<br />
TundraWolf, Hi!<br /><br />I think I'll stick to using your method of polishing the windscreen. It's really not that bad that I'd want to take onthe task of sanding it. I might try polishing my faceshield too.<br /><br />Cool that you like the dishwasher idea. Someone oncetold me a good way to get the bugs off is using hydrogenperoxide. They said it literally eats the bug up, like itdoes when it bubbles in a dirty cut. <br /><br />Enjoy,<br /><br /><br />Liz<br /><br /><br />
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The Wall Street Journal ran a great piece in December about the huge disparity between the average worker's retirement plan and that of those working in the C-Suite. According to the Journal, 25% of the top executives at America's largest companies actually made money on their retirement plans in 2008. Did you? You're probably wondering right about now how they did it considering your 401(k) account probably dropped about 20% last year. It's simple - guaranteed returns. As if it's not enough that CEOs make 300 times more than the average worker, corporate boards also feel compelled to guarantee executives huge retirement packages. It's pure poppycock if you ask me. (Before you retire, read Five Retirement Questions Everyone Must Answer.)
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One of the companies written about in the article was Comcast (Nasdaq:CMCSA), whose executive vice-president, Stephen Burke, made $7.4 million in interest in 2008 from his deferred compensation, which totaled $71 million at the end of 2008. Burke was able to do so well in an awful year because Comcast pays its executives 12% guaranteed interest on all deferred compensation. Two other executives in the company, the vice president and COO, had a combined pension increase of just under $5 million. I wonder how General Electric (NYSE:GE), its new joint venture partner, feels about this?
What a World
It amazes me that the issues surrounding executive compensation continue to focus solely on the banking industry just because it was the beneficiary of so much assistance. This is a gargantuan problem for investors across every industry. It's something that taints us all and I'll continue to bang my drum as long as corporate boards insist on feeding the pigs at the trough. There is no need for the government to allow this to go on, but it does. If you look more closely at Comcast, you'll see that Burke was able to defer a substantial chunk of his total compensation in 2008. Wouldn't it be nice for the rest of us to be able to put aside funds on which we will be guaranteed a 12% return? It sure would. (For more information on executive pay, check out Evaluating Executive Compensation.)
Workers Be Damned
The Journal article highlights the fact that while the Comcast fat cats were making 12% on their money in 2008, its own employees were collectively losing their shirts to the tune of $649 million, or 28% of their 401(k)s. While it's true that Comcast's plan has likely regained much of those losses, this is a matter of fairness. Compensation plans should benefit all or none, but not a select few. Rare are companies like Intel (Nasdaq:INTC), whose executives receive no special treatment in their deferred compensation plan. In 2008, its top four executives lost 35% in their deferred compensation plan, the exact same loss as the employees' 401(k) plan. Now that's more like it.
Bottom Line
Other companies mentioned in this eye-opener of an article include Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Bank of New York Mellon (NYSE:BK) and Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW). All have sweetheart deals for their executives' deferred compensation plans. Having studied executive compensation for awhile, I'd be shocked if the number of S&P 500 companies offering guaranteed rates of return for its executives wasn't well above 50%. But then again, who ever said life was fair?
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Bingo and Other Gaming
Applications for exemption and miscellaneous determination requests are assigned to Exempt Organizations specialists for review. If additional information is necessary to make a determination, a specialist will contact the organization for the information. Here’s a list of questions that might be asked on this topic.
1. For each gaming activity you conduct (or plan to conduct), provide the following information:
a. The name of each gaming activity.
b. Whether members of the general public will participate in your gaming activity or
whether your gaming activity will be limited to members of your organization.
c. When you began (or plan to begin) conducting the activity.
d. The percentage of your time and resources you expect to devote to each gaming activity
e. The number of hours you expect to hold the gaming activity each month.
f. A statement describing how you use your gaming proceeds, including whether you
give your gaming proceeds to other organizations.
g. If you give your gaming proceeds to other organizations, describe how do you decide
which organizations receive your proceeds.
h. Submit copies of advertisements, flyers, pamphlets, announcements, or other literature
that describe your exempt, gaming, or other activities.
2. For each of your gaming activities, state whether you will use volunteers or compensated individuals for various aspects of the gaming operation. Examples of aspects of the gaming operation would include, but are not limited to: managing bingo operations; providing bingo cards, pull-tabs, and supplies; providing concessions; providing security; and providing janitorial services.
a. If compensated individuals are used, provide the following information:
• List the compensated individuals, their job title, and a detailed duty description.
• State the number of hours each position requires per week and the number
of hours that are related to the operation of gaming activities.
• State the amount of compensation for each person or position (if it is not
currently filled).
• Explain how you determine the compensation for each position, including who
in your organization is responsible for setting the compensation amount.
• Identify any relationship that each compensated individual may have with any
of your officers, directors, trustees, or members.
b. If volunteers are used, provide the following information:
• List how many volunteers you use each game/session.
• Describe the duties the volunteers perform.
• State how many hours volunteers work each session and each week
• State whether you provide volunteers with reduced fees or tuition dependent
on the individual volunteering for the gaming activity.
• State whether the volunteers receive tips. If so, describe how you record the
tips in your books and records.
3. Have you ever, or do you plan to, contract with a third party to operate your gaming activities and from whom you will receive your gaming revenue? If so, provide the following information:
a. A description of who initiated the initial contact – you or the gaming operator.
b. An explanation of how and why you chose the gaming operator.
c. A description of your relationship with the gaming operator.
d. Identify any relationship that exists between the gaming operator and any of your
directors, officers, trustees, or members.
e. Submit all copies of contracts you have entered into with any gaming operator.
4. Is the facility where you conduct your gaming activities a commercial gaming facility?
5. Is the owner of facility where you conduct your gaming activities also one of your directors, officers, trustees, or members?
6. Submit copies of all contracts or leases you have with any individual or business, including any lessors that provide you with goods or services related to your gaming activities.
7. Are you a grantor, beneficiary or trustee of a trust or member of a partnership or other entity formed to administer charitable gaming?
8. Provide the following financial information for all gaming activities (both for your current tax year, and projected for your next two tax years):
a. Gross income from each gaming activity, broken out by game category (ex. bingo,
pull-tabs, raffles, etc.).
b. Gross income from non-gaming sources (such as concessions or sales of gaming
supplies) that occur during or are related to your gaming activity. List each source
c. Prizes paid out in each gaming category.
d. Rent, salaries, contract payments, and other expenses from gaming activities, itemizing
each expense.
e. Net income from each gaming activity.
9. Describe the records that you keep to document your gross receipts (before payouts) and disbursements (including payouts), including whether you keep separate records for each gaming activity.
10. Submit a copy of your state and/or local laws that allow you to conduct bingo or other gaming activities.
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[jdom-interest] JDOM BOF at SD West: problem resolving
Joseph Bowbeer jozart at csi.com
Thu Apr 12 20:55:15 PDT 2001
> So we had a great JDOM BOF (Birds of a Feather) session
> at SD West last night.
Thanks, Jason. Wish I'd been there. I have comments on two items.
> * Do we keep original list data in case of illegal add?
> YES, absolutely.
That's how I sided initially, but the fact that IllegalAddException is
unchecked, plus concerns about interaction with subclass implementions
caused me to change my mind. Please see:
In the case of setMixedContent, I suggest we view it as a composite of more
primitive operations. We should strive to make the primitive 'add'
operations failure atomic, but, on failure, we should simply abort
setMixedContent at the point of failure.
By the way, tweaking JDOM for subclassing is a TODO topic in itself. There
are some specific things we can do, such as never calling overridable
methods from the constructors or the "pseudo-constructors" (clone and
readObject). There are also some design/documentation issues concerning
what subclasses are allowed to do. I'll send this TODO item along with some
others in a separate message.
> * Singly or doubly linked list?
> Singly was unanimously agreed on, at least for now.
> In the rare circumstances where you need to iterate
> backward or do indexed access, you can always get
> the List, copy it to your own List, and iterate backward.
> Makes the performance O(n).
When does SinglyLinkedList beat ArrayList? I'd like to see the
memory/performance benchmarks that are driving the SinglyLinkedList design.
I know it's rude to beatup on something that isn't even implemented yet. I
support the iterative approach of implementing and testing, and so on.
Still... Based on the comparison below, I don't see what SinglyLinkedList
has to offer.
Space: ArrayList is almost always more space efficient than *any* linked
list. One exception: remove most of the elements from the ArrayList without
calling trimToCapacity.
Time: ArrayList outperforms SinglyLinked list on *all* operations except
add(beginning), remove(beginning), and clear() -- which aren't the most
common ones.
Compared to LinkedList, SinglyLinkedList is twice as slow, on average,
performing random get(i) or set(i) operations. This is because LinkedList
will access the desired element starting at the head or the tail, depending
on which end is closest.
n/4 = average LinkedList cost
n/2 = average SinglyLinkedList cost
But the fact that SinglyLinked list is slower than LinkedList hardly matters
because *any* linked list implementation is O(n) times slower than ArrayList
when it comes to random access.
Processing in reverse order is the real killer with SinglyLinkedList. (And
who would suspect, unless they happened to read the warning in the JDOM
documentation?) I think processing in reverse order is a common enough
situation that it makes SinglyLinkedList a bad choice. Time-ordered
documents are one example where it's fairly common to start with the
messages at the end (the most recent) and work backwards.
> * Keep getSerializedForm() methods?
> No, deprecate and remove them.
OK. So I guess it doesn't matter that Attribute.getSerializedForm is broken
with respect to the special characters [& < > "] and the characters greater
than '\u007f' ...
Joe Bowbeer
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Henry Jaglom discusses ‘Just 45 Minutes from Broadway’ [VIDEO]
by Naomi Pfefferman
September 10, 2012 | 5:00 pm
Henry Jaglom
Q: What was the impetus for the story?
A: I’ve always been fascinated by theater people, and by the fact of my being Jewish, and those two things together led me to explore something that I’d never had any personal experience with, which is the Yiddish theater.
Not only do I have no experience in the Yiddish theater, I had no experience with the Yiddish culture whatsoever. I grew up in a very assimilated, well-off European family. My father was from Russia but his language was not Yiddish, it was Russian and he came from a wealthy background so he had English governesses and French tutors, who didn’t speak Yiddish. And my mother came from Germany, from a prominent family that traces itself back to Moses Mendelssohn. So she didn’t speak Yiddish; in fact her language was German.
For the past 11 years I’ve been writing and researching a book on Jewish history, and in the section on turn-of-the-century America there is a mere mention, a paragraph about the Yiddish theater, but somehow I started writing this family [the Isaacs]. As a writer you don’t necessarily write and plan things out; I like to see what flows, and out comes this guy, who tells a story that he, his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather, were all in the Yiddish theater; that his great-grandfather was brought over with the Yiddish theater to America, when the czar stopped the Yiddish theater in Russia. And as I was learning more I was writing more, making [Isaacs] the central character, and this whole family comes from a certain tradition from Yiddish theater, and I was absolutely fascinated by it.
Q: Your own family has a unique history.
A: My father eventually became a prominent businessman and actually the person who was running the economy of the free state of Danzig, sort of like the minister of trade, and then when the Nazis came to power they wanted him to continue. And he said, “I’m a Jew, it’s not comfortable to be here, and I’m giving you six months notice.” And so they sent to Berlin and got back the word that they would make him an honorary Aryan if he would stay, and that’s when he told my mother, “It’s time to leave. If they want to make you an honorary what you’re not then it’s not good to be what we are, which is Jews,” and they got in the car and drove off to Poland, and took a plane to London, where I was born.
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Keeping what we earn -- IF YOU WANT to get a rise out of a politician, utter the following sentence: "We ought to keep what we earn."
Nothing disrupts a pol like the presumption that your money isn't his, which is why honorables go apoplectic at the mention of tax cuts.
Republicans want to cut Americans' tax burden by $800 billion over the next decade. President Clinton brands the idea an assault on women -- a topic in which he is said to have some expertise. Vice President Al Gore, echoing the 1996 presidential campaign, labels it a "risky scheme." And Democratic leaders in both Houses warn the economy could explode if working people start heading home each week with extra cash in their wallets.
Given the dire predictions, let us examine in more detail the primary arguments against taking less of our money.
Begin with the claim that Congress must set aside cash to retire the national debt.
This sounds nice, but let's face facts: In Washington, there is no such thing as unspent money. Members of Congress, in their zeal to make life better for us all, invariably find ways to consume every last farthing. The only reason we have a surplus today is that politicians didn't expect it.
The political class honors the dictum that pelf is power. Even though Washington generates almost no industrial output, the town and its environs enjoy an average income 32 percent higher than the rest of the country (as of 1990) and an unemployment rate 30 percent lower. Ohio University economist Richard Vedder attributes the area's affluence to "successful bureaucratic efforts to redistribute income from the general taxpaying public ... to the political center." No kidding: Since 1950, the government's take as a portion of gross domestic product has jumped 61 percent.
So what happens when a surplus appears? Politicians devour it. Vedder and his Ohio University colleague Lowell Galloway have studied government budgets since 1789 and discovered the following: In the 50 years, 74 cents of every surplus dollar has gone for new spending; 21 cents for debt reduction and 5 cents for tax cuts. President Clinton is proposing to use the entire projected surplus on new spending, so national debt will grow more under his plan than under the Republican tax-cut schemes. This raises the question: If he's so worried about the debt, why is he increasing it? And if he's so concerned about profligacy, why is he encouraging it?
Next argument: The sky will fall if Congress cuts taxes. In truth, the Republican proposals are pitiful little things. The government will grant only 1 percent relief for the next couple of years, then 1.5 percent for a few years -- with a full 10 percent reduction delayed for a full decade. In other words, the real reductions may never arise. (When is the last time Uncle Sam remembered a 10-year-old promise, let alone honored it?)
Still, a little is better than nothing. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan has testified twice this week that he'd like to see Congress hold off on cuts, just to make sure the surpluses persist. But he also said if honorables must choose between new spending and tax cuts, he'd take tax cuts. He singled out the president's health-care plans as especially ill-conceived.
Democratic Sen. Robert Kerrey puts the matter bluntly: "To me," he says of the GOP tax cut, "this is a no-brainer. It increases Americans' income by $800 billion.
"The president's always saying he wants to increase people's income. Well, here's his chance. He's not interested in this. He wants to spend it."
Finally comes the president's warning that the GOP tax cut will hurt women. This argument involves amazing audacity. The president bases his accusation on the fact that he has proposed a Medicare reform and Republicans haven't. Since more women are on Medicare than men, the theory goes, Clinton does better by the distaff sex.
Consider the mathematics of the president's prescription drug program: To get the maximum government "benefit" of $1,000, a person must pay what amounts to a $1,000 premium plus $288 in new taxes. In other words, one must pay $1,288 to receive help worth $712 -- not exactly a great deal. Once one breaks the $2,000 barrier for prescription costs, the government stops helping altogether. By the way, 59 percent of the "beneficiaries" of this scam are women.
The debate over tax cuts hinges on a simple question: Who owns your work, you or the president? In voting on taxes, Congress must decide whether to support the parasitic culture of Washington life -- taking something and delivering nothing -- or acknowledge that wages rightfully belong to the people who actually earned them. That, to quote Kerrey, ought to be a no-brainer.
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What's New in Jython 2.5 ************************ Author: Josh Juneau Original Date: 08/20/2009 Modified Date: 03/03/2011 There are many new features in Jython 2.5, the intention of this article is to cover the new additions available with the 2.5 release. The previous release of Jython was 2.2.1, and this release takes a significant step forward adding language constructs and features bringing Jython in-line with more current versions of the CPython implementation. Below is a quick reference for those new features that have been added to Jython with the 2.5 release. In the coming weeks, new content will be added to this article that explains each of the new features in greater detail. New Features - Quick Look ========================= * yield is always a keyword * int() will now return a long instead of raising OverflowError if a number is too large * list.insert() changed to be consistent with negative slice indexing * list.index() takes optional start, stop arguments. * Dictionaries gained a pop() method and .fromkeys() class method. * dict() constructor takes keyword arguments. * Many type objects are now callable. * PEP 279: enumerate() built-in added. * PEP 218: A Standard Set Datatype * PEP 273: Importing Modules from Zip Archives * PEP 278: Universal Newline Support * PEP 282: logging package * PEP 285: A Boolean Type * PEP 293: Codec Error Handling Callbacks * PEP 302: New Import Hooks * PEP 307: Pickle Enhancements * PEP 324: subprocess module * optparse module * ExposeAnnotations * Move antlr parser in /trunk/sandbox/ast to trunk * Hookup asm compiler to antlr, solidify and add 2.5 features * PEP 289: Generator expressions * PEP 263: Defining Python Source Code Encodings * PEP 318: Function/method decorators * PEP 308: Conditional expressions * PEP 343: 'with' statement * PEP 342: Coroutines via generators * PEP 341: Unified try/except/finally * PEP 352: Exceptions as new-style classes * UpgradeTo25CPythonLib * PEP 292: Simpler String Substitutions * PEP 327: decimal type * Ongoing parser fixes (universal newlines, line numbering, newline handling, interactive interpreter bugs) * PEP 237: Unifying int/long * PEP 357: Allowing Any Object to be Used for Slicing * PEP 309: Partial Function Application * PEP 305: csv module * PEP 338: Executing modules as scripts * unicodedata module * PEP 328: Multi-line and absolute/relative imports * elementtree module -> jython-elementtree * New Java integration (based on new style classes) * ReplaceJythonc (Not yet complete) * The socket module now includes ipv6 support * The socket module now also includes Internationalized Domain Names (RFC 3490) support on Java 6 * Performance improvements around method invocation. 2.5.2 runs the richards benchmark 3x faster and the pystone benchmark 20% faster than 2.5.1 * The posix/nt module was rewritten in Java and the performance of its often performance-critical stat function has significantly improved * Improved OSError errno messages on Windows * Slightly improved startup time (ongoing Issue #1380) * Better readline module emulation (required for IPython support) * Python functions can be directly passed to Java methods that take a single method interface (such as Callable or Runnable) * Add google indexer (by Yin Wang and Steve Yegge) Acknowledgements ================ The authors would like to thank those developers that made the Jython 2.5.2 release possible. We also thank the community for helping to repair any issues that are found. | dclm-gs1-101050000 |
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RICHARD BRANSON, one of the world's most famous and admired business leaders, argues that it's time to turn capitalism upside down-to shift our values from an exclusive focus on profit to also caring for people, communities and the planet
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"It's a vibrant and definite sea change from the way business was always done, when financial profit was a driving force. Today, people aren't afraid to say, "Screw business as usual "-and show they mean it.
"It's amazing how I keep coming across the same message, from bustling global cities to the townships of South Africa to small villages in India to G8 climate conferences.
"It's no coincidence that so many people are talking about the same thing. There's a real buzz in the air. Change is happening.
"People often associate me with challenges, with trying to break records while sailing the Atlantic or flying in a jet stream in a balloon or going into space with Virgin Galactic. But this book isn't just about fun and adventure and exceeding one's wildest dreams. It's a different kind of business book. It's about revolution. My message is a simple one: business as usual isn't working. In fact, business as usual is wrecking this planet. Resources are being used up; the air, the sea, the land are all heavily polluted. The poor are getting poorer. Many are dying of starvation or because they can't afford a dollar a day for lifesaving medicine.
"But my message is not all doom and gloom. I will describe how I think business can help fix things and create a more prosperous world for everyone. I happen to believe in business because I believe that business is a force for good. By that I mean that "doing good is good for business."
"Doing the right thing can be profitable. I will show how this works step by step in the following pages. It's the core message of this book. I often say, 'Have fun and the money will come.' I still believe that, but now I am saying, '"Do good, have fun and the money will come."'
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MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. - Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron won a second BCS National Championship on Monday, but it was his girlfriend who won the Internet.
Katherine Webb, who has been dating the Alabama quarterback for about a month, started trending on Twitter early in Alabama's win over Notre Dame. Plenty of air time during the broadcast and an awkward exchange between the ESPN announcers served as a Twitter boost for the former Miss Alabama USA.
Webb, a 23-year-old Montgomery, Ala., native and Auburn alum, saw her followers increase from around 2,300 to more than 109,000 by early Tuesday morning.
But as her following grew - including for a brief time Miami Heat forward LeBron James - Webb was mostly oblivious. Her phone was dead.
"I did get to check it a little bit through a friend's phone," she told USA TODAY Sports. "It's been crazy."
Among the more bizarre turns of her moment-by-moment increase in popularity was Arizona Cardinals DT Darnell Dockett posting his number and inviting her to a strip club. He later deleted the tweet and said he meant to send Webb a direct message.
McCarron responded to some of the tweets on Tuesday morning. To Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray, who said Webb needed to become a Bulldogs fan, McCarron wrote, "u don't win enough bud!! #15"
To Dockett, McCarron wrote, "u better worry ab being in them playoffs, then going to king of diamonds homie.. #betterkeepdreaming like the rest of these dudes."
Coming off his second national championship in as many years, McCarron couldn't feel threatened by the attention. Both Webb and McCarron said he's not the jealous type, at least not about unwanted advances Webb gets from other men.
Getting a follow from James, however briefly, that's a different story.
"Say you swear," he said to a reporter after being told of James following his girlfriend. "Man, I'm gonna tweet him and I'm gonna get a follow. That's messed up. Hey, I guess she's more famous than me now."
The Twitter frenzy started early in the first quarter with Alabama already up 14-0 when ESPN cameras found Webb and McCarron's mother, Dee Dee Bonner, in the crowd.
"You quarterbacks, you get all the good looking women," said play-by-play announcer Brent Musberger. "What a beautiful woman. Wow."
Kirk Herbstreit chimed in to say that McCarron must be doing some things right before Musberger added, "If you're a youngster in Alabama, start getting the football out and throw it around the backyard with pop."
Told later about her ESPN appearance, Webb said, "Oh Lord. This is the first time that's kind of ever happened, for me. I've never dated someone who's actually been in the spotlight, so it's a new thing for me."
Webb finished in the top 10 in the Miss USA competition in June. A model who lives in Los Angeles, she's used to attention, but even this was unique.
Bonner said she first got a sense of what was happening when she got a text to smile because she was so frequently on camera. The attention wasn't surprising, she said, and was tamer than some of the "crude and harsh" comments they sometimes hear from rival fans.
"As old as I'm getting, hell, I appreciate the compliments," Bonner said.
Appropriately, McCarron and Webb met via Twitter when a friend connected them in November. In December, McCarron went to the pageant for Miss Alabama USA 2013, where Webb ended her reign, and the two have been together since.
"I know she's good looking. She's gonna have guys that jaw-drop over her," McCarron said. "That's life. I guess I'm the blessed one at the end of the day. She's gotta put up with me."
Following his television interviews on the field after the win, McCarron jogged to the Alabama end zone with a slew of photographers in tow. He hugged his mother and father, fist bumped several other family members and finally found Webb, who bent down for a kiss.
The relationship is still new, but both are excited. McCarron seems to have little to worry about. Webb is talking about moving back to Alabama to be near him.
It'd likely mean more time in the spotlight, but after the wild events of Monday - a second national title and Twitter explosion among them - they expect they'll handle it just fine.
Early Tuesday morning, Webb tweeted for the first time to her new legion of followers.
She wrote, "So extremely blessed... @10AJMcCarron. Congrats to Alabama and making history! #BCSChamps."
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is known by most people as a Lakers legend and an NBA Hall of Famer. But to some, he will always be Roger Murdock, the co-pilot on the classic comedy movie "Airplane!"
On Tuesday, a new commercial was released where Abdul-Jabbar re-creates that classic role, alongside "Airplane!" star Robert Hays and Otto, the auto-pilot, in an ad for Travel Wisconsin.
Watching the ad, which you can see in the video above, reminds me of this classic exchange when a young boy named Joey visited the cockpit during the movie:
Joey: Wait a minute. I know you. You're Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. You play basketball for the Los Angeles Lakers.
Roger Murdock: I'm sorry, son, but you must have me confused with someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I'm the co-pilot.
Joey: You are Kareem! I've seen you play. My dad's got season tickets.
Roger Murdock: I think you should go back to your seat now, Joey. Right, Clarence?
Captain Oveur: Nahhhhhh, he's not bothering anyone. Let him stay here.
Roger Murdock: But just remember, my name is... [showing his name tag] Roger Murdock. I'm an airline pilot.
Joey: I think you're the greatest, but my dad says you don't work hard enough on defense.
[Kareem gets angry]
Joey: And he says that lots of times, you don't even run down court. And that you don't really try... except during the playoffs.
Roger Murdock: [breaking character] The hell I don't! LISTEN, KID! I've been hearing that ever since I was at UCLA. I'm out there busting my buns every night. Tell your old man to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes.
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May 3, 1971
Copenhagen, DK
K. B. Hallen
Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Since I've Been Loving You, Dazed and Confused, Black Dog, Stairway to Heaven, Going to California, That's the Way, What Is and What Should Never Be, Four Sticks, Gallows Pole, Whole Lotta Love (medley incl. Let That Boy Boogie, Bottle Up and Go, Mess of Blues, Honey Bee), Communication Breakdown (incl. Celebration Day), Misty Mountain Hop, Rock and Roll (aka: It's Been a Long Time).
A rare setlist including the only known performance of Four Sticks, and the debut of Misty Mountain Hop. Over 4,000 fans in attendance pack the K.B. Hallen where they play a blistering and unique show for well over two hours.
NEARLY 4,000 Danish fans were left with almost split eardrums in Copenhagen KB Hallen, when Led Zeppelin played 135 minutes of heavy, loud rock '71, but everybody enjoyed the session and kept calling for more!
Led Zeppelin played so much better than a year ago and sounded closer in their instrumental pieces, as if knowing each other better. Jimmy Page' played some really outstanding guitar, electric as well as acoustic, and he could be "the new Hendrix," if he wants to making his guitar do almost everything in sound.
Zeppelin played material from their three LPs and presented a few new songs, which we were told appear on their next album. The best one's title was drowned by the applauding and cheering audience, but is called something like "Stairways To Heaven," a beautiful number, starting softly with Jimmy Page on guitar and a silent Robert Plant, joined by John Paul Jones on organ and then building and building in force and speed into a breathtaking climax, where everybody went wild, a real inferno of sound.
Running through well-known items, such as "Tangerine," "Gallows Pole," "Dazed And Confused," "Since I've Been Loving You," etc, the group seemed stronger than ever, controlling themselves and their music perfectly. The impact made on the fans was overpowering. They were treated almost Jaggerishiy by vital Robert Plant, who was almost all hair and voice — and what a voice!
He must have screamed away his tonsils a long time ago. Surely he has the loudest and highest voice on today's beat scene, and how he uses it! But at the end of the song, he's still got his normal voice left. Incredible and unbelieveable!
Led Zeppelin is THE rock'n'roll band in 1971, no doubt! They ended very suitably in a tribute to Elvis, including heavy versions of "That's Alright" and "A Mess Of Blues" in the middle of "Whole Lotta Love" — a marvellous show topper.
But Led Zeppelin is more than just a 'headache! They are so much more versatile now. Their music is a lot more than just blowing the heads off the audience. They are too good instrumentalists for that, the four of them, and they prove it by playing acoustic guitar in the middle of the concert and making everybody keep cool before the next musical hurricane takes off!' -G. SORENSEN, NME 1971
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Concert description
An incredible show that previews almost the entire fourth album eight months before its release! Robert's voice is exceptional, going higher than the parts on the records! Jimmy, Jonesy and Bonzo are relentless too, and they include two big surprises! Some bad things happened inside the audience so Robert Plant appealed for calm after Heartbreaker: "Whoa, stop! You stop! Tell him to stop - because any trouble and we go off! We can't play if there's gonna be this going on through every number, so somebody had better tell him in Danish what the score is! We cannot play if there's gonna be a constant passage of people moving. We'd rather people sit on the floor, sit down! We wanna give you a concert of music and we cannot do that if there's a lot of people running around." Four Sticks has a very unique intro and is played really well, and it sounds good on stage. "We're gonna try something that we have never ever tried before and there's every chance it'll fall apart. If it does, we'll stop and start again. This hasn't even got a title yet but we'll think of one as the night goes on!" It and the rocking Gallows Pole (with 12-string electric guitar) should have been elaborated on more ... they could have easily been done in the set. This is the only time the band ever played these live, and added to the fact that the rest of the show is amazing. | dclm-gs1-101090000 |
Olympics Opening Ceremony #nbcfail
I’m not sure what bugs me most: That NBC had commentators talking over many of the best parts of Danny Boyle’s Olympics opening ceremony; that they cut out what looks like it was, in some ways, the most moving part of it (see Here’s The Opening Ceremony Tribute To Terrorism Victims NBC Doesn’t Want You To See); or that they replaced the 7/7 victims tribute with a Ryan Seacrest interview.
I could really do without Ryan Seacrest interviews, generally.
Also #nbcfail-worthy: Making a joke out of Tim Berners-Lee’s obscurity.
I look forward very much to being able to view a version of the opening ceremonies that has those mistakes corrected. By which I mean, a version that just gives me the audio and video feed as it was intended to be seen, without added inanity.
7 Responses to “Olympics Opening Ceremony #nbcfail”
1. knarlyknight Says:
My sympathies how MSM messes things up.
Have you seen reports of the Koch brother’s new study on AGW / Climate change? Read the bbc summary, but here’s another: http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-muller-climate-20120730,0,3167677.story
The evidence supporting knarly’s law keeps growing, .. shcb speaks, ergo it’s false.
2. shcb Says:
If the allegations are that Muller was bought off by the Koch brothers for his earlier skeptical views of AGW, why is it not being alleged that he has been bought off by someone in the environmental industry for his sea change?
3. knarlyknight Says:
4. shcb Says:
I don’t understand your coy answer to my reasonable question.
5. knarlyknight Says:
A highly qualified team of climate science skeptics conduct well funded study of climate data and conclude categorically that the IPCC was too cautious because human contribution to global warming is greater than thought in previous expert consensus.
That is the point. Shcb comment is attempt to obfuscate and is example of his predilection for misdirection to lead to mostly irrelevant conclusions aka “slam dunks into gatoraid barrel”. Hence, I LOLZ.
6. shcb Says:
The point is your obsession with who is funding these people, so Muller changed his mind, Watts changed his mind too. I have no idea where Watts gets his funding, don’t care. Did the Koch’s bribe Muller for lack of a better word? I don’t see any evidence of it in this article, just as I don’t see any evidence the environmental industry bribed him. But you seem to convict by association, Koch= oil= bribe. But if he changes his mind there is no chance of a bribe from enviros. I don’t trust Muller because of his statement that man absolutely has caused all global warming in the last ? years. Really? Absolutely? Nature had nothing to do with it? Doesn’t seem very scientific to me.
I’ve always been amused by people that are shocked when their spouse is caught sleeping with someone else, but then have a rebound affair with someone that is still married and are just as shocked when that second mate is caught cheating a few years later. It takes two to bribe, the briber and the bribie. So you are critical for Kochs bribing Mueller (without evidence) (to complete the loop he would have had to accept the bribe) but there is absolutely no way he is being bribed now. Odd logic.
7. enkidu Says:
I think the ‘obsession’ is all yours wwnj. You brought up the word “bribes”, not knarly. Everyone knows BEST was set up (funded) by skeptics and oil interests to say ‘the data is all garbage! we need to start over! it’s all tides! sunspots! volcanos!’ Only problem? When they looked at the actual data, the actual science, they discovered that ACC is real. Discovered is perhaps the wrong word: maybe ‘reconfirmed’?
That noted ‘denier’ or ‘skeptic’ (just choose whichever term floats yer boat) Rich Muller has concluded the data is accurate and mankind appears to be driving most of the climate change is a pretty big story. I know someone who has had lunch with Rich a few times, and I’ve met him personally (he gave a energy lecture at the local high school). Mr Muller appears to be convinced by the science, by the actual data, but you’ve got your taxamagical filbbertygibbit to cling to… and as you’ve stated before ‘you will never be convinced by the science’ (I’m paraphrasing, but here is the actual quote http://www.lies.com/wp/2012/04/11/15000-warm-temperature-records-broken-in-march-2012/#comment-316879 )
If BEST had ‘discovered’ that the data was all bunkum, you know you would be trumpeting this left right and center… and we’d probably be saying that the analysis was tainted by oil money… that the opposite has happened, that the data points to ACC being a real phenomena must be a real head-popper for you wwnjs.
Now can we stop arguing about if it is real or not (it’s real) now can we start doing something? Cheap, smart, fast, but most of all NOW.
If this were a commie asteroid hurtling towards Earth, painted red with big hammers and sickles all over it, you wwnjs would be demanding action. But since it might shave a penny off the oil/coal profits, you just bleat whatever Rush regurgitates and fox amplifies. Again. Hey btw did you hear that over here in Reality, there were NO Iraqi WMDs? True. (listens for wwnj head popping sounds)
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Uncle Orson Reviews Everything
J.K. Rowling, Lexicon and Oz
by Orson Scott Card
April 24, 2008
Can you believe that J.K. Rowling is suing a small publisher because she claims their 10,000-copy edition of The Harry Potter Lexicon, a book about Rowling's hugely successful novel series, is just a "rearrangement" of her own material.
Rowling "feels like her words were stolen," said lawyer Dan Shallman.
Well, heck, I feel like the plot of my novel Ender's Game was stolen by J.K. Rowling.
A young kid growing up in an oppressive family situation suddenly learns that he is one of a special class of children with special abilities, who are to be educated in a remote training facility where student life is dominated by an intense game played by teams flying in midair, at which this kid turns out to be exceptionally talented and a natural leader. He trains other kids in unauthorized extra sessions, which enrages his enemies, who attack him with the intention of killing him; but he is protected by his loyal, brilliant friends and gains strength from the love of some of his family members. He is given special guidance by an older man of legendary accomplishments who previously kept the enemy at bay. He goes on to become the crucial figure in a struggle against an unseen enemy who threatens the whole world.
This paragraph lists only the most prominent similarities between Ender's Game and the Harry Potter series. My book was published in England many years before Rowling began writing about Harry Potter. Rowling was known to be reading widely in speculative fiction during the era after the publication of my book.
I can get on the stand and cry, too, Ms. Rowling, and talk about feeling "personally violated."
The difference between us is that I actually make enough money from Ender's Game to be content, without having to try to punish other people whose creativity might have been inspired by something I wrote.
Mine is not the only work that one can charge Rowling "borrowed" from. Check out this piece from a fan site, pointing out links between Harry Potter and other previous works: And don't forget the lawsuit by Nancy K. Stouffer, the author of a book entitled The Legend of Rah and the Muggles, whose hero was named "Larry Potter."
At that time, Rowling's lawyers called Stouffer's claim "frivolous."
It's true that we writers borrow words from each other ? but we're supposed to admit it and not pretend we're original when we're not. I took the word ansible from Ursula K. LeGuin, and have always said so. Rowling, however, denies everything.
If Steven Vander Ark, the author of Lexicon, had written fiction that he claimed was original, when it was actually a rearrangement of ideas taken from the Harry Potter books, then she'd have a case.
But Lexicon is intended only as a reference book for people who have already paid for their copies of Rowling's books. Even though the book is not scholarly, it certainly falls within the realm of scholarly comment.
Rowling's hypocrisy is so thick I can hardly breathe: Prior to the publication of each novel, there were books about them that were no more intrusive than Lexicon. I contributed to one of them, and there was no complaint about it from Rowling or her publishers because they knew perfectly well that these fan/scholar ancillary publications were great publicity and actually boosted sales.
But now the Harry Potter series is over, and Rowling claims that her "creative work" is being "decimated."
Of course, she doesn't claim that it's the Lexicon that is harming her "creative work" (who's she borrowing from this time?); it's the lawsuit itself! And since she chose to bring the suit, whose fault is it? If she had left Vander Ark alone to publish his little book and make his little bit of money, she wouldn't be distracted from her next novel.
But no, Rowling claims Vander Ark's book "constitutes wholesale theft of 17 years of my hard work."
Seventeen years? What a crock. Apparently she includes in that total the timeframe in which she was reading ? and borrowing from ? the work of other writers.
On the stand, though, Rowling's chief complaint seems to be that she would do a better job of annotating and encyclopedizing her own series.
So what?
Nothing prevents her from doing exactly that ? annotating and explaining her own novels. Do you think that if there were a Harry Potter Annotated by the Author, Vander Ark's book would interfere with her sales in any way?
This frivolous lawsuit puts at serious risk the entire tradition of commentary on fiction. Any student writing a paper about the Harry Potter books, any scholarly treatise about it, will certainly do everything she's complaining about.
Once you publish fiction, Ms. Rowling, anybody is free to write about it, to comment on it, and to quote liberally from it, as long as the source is cited.
Here's the irony: Vander Ark had the material for this book on his website for years, and Rowling is quoted as saying that when she needed to look up some 'fact" from her earlier books, she would sometimes "sneak into an Internet cafe while out writing and check a fact rather than go into a bookshop and buy a copy of Harry Potter."
In other words, she already had made personal use of Vander Ark's work and found it valuable. Even if it has shortcomings, she found it useful.
That means that Vander Ark created something original and useful ? he added value to the product. If Rowling wants to claim that it interferes with her creativity now, she should have made that complaint back when she was using it ? and giving Vander Ark an award for his website back in 2004.
Now, of course, she regrets "bitterly" having given the award.
You know what I think is going on?
Rowling has nowhere to go and nothing to do now that the Harry Potter series is over. After all her literary borrowing, she shot her wad and she's flailing about trying to come up with something to do that means anything.
Moreover, she is desperate for literary respectability. Even though she made more money than the queen or Oprah Winfrey in some years, she had to see her books pushed off the bestseller lists and consigned to a special "children's book" list. Litterateurs sneer at her work as a kind of subliterature, not really worth discussing.
It makes her insane. The money wasn't enough. She wants to be treated with respect.
At the same time, she's also surrounded by people whose primary function is to suck up to her. No doubt some of them were saying to her, "It's wrong for these other people to be exploiting what you created to make money for themselves."
She let herself be talked into being outraged over a perfectly normal publishing activity, one that she had actually made use of herself during its web incarnation.
Now she is suing somebody who has devoted years to promoting her work and making no money from his efforts ? which actually helped her make some of her bazillions of dollars.
Talent does not excuse Rowling's ingratitude, her vanity, her greed, her bullying of the little guy, and her pathetic claims of emotional distress.
I fully expect that the outcome of this lawsuit will be:
1. Publication of Lexicon will go on without any problem or prejudice, because it clearly falls within the copyright law's provision for scholarly work, commentary and review.
2. Rowling will be forced to pay Steven Vander Ark's legal fees, since her suit was utterly without merit from the start.
3. People who hear about this suit will have a sour taste in their mouth about Rowling from now on. Her Cinderella story once charmed us. Her greedy evil-witch behavior now disgusts us. And her next book will be perceived as the work of that evil witch.
It's like her stupid, self-serving claim that Dumbledore was gay. She wants credit for being very up-to-date and politically correct ? but she didn't have the guts to put that supposed "fact" into the actual novels, knowing that it might hurt sales.
What a pretentious, puffed-up coward. When I have a gay character in my fiction, I say so right in the book. I don’t wait until after it has had all its initial sales to mention it.
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From LXF Wiki
A Shell command that allows the user to change file permissions for a given file/directory (they are treated the same in Unix/Linux systems). It is exceptionally powerful and allows you to change read/write permissions for the following 3 categories. Owner of the file. Group owner of the file. Other potential users of the file.
Example 1
chmod 777 anygiven.filedirname
Would allow anyone in the three groups to be able to access your files. It is equivalent to writing
chmod a=rwx anygiven.filedirname
Example 2
chmod 700 anygiven.filedirname
Would allow the Owner of the file rwx permissions but no-one else.
Test it on a file, individual rwx values can be set purely by changing the values 0-7 for each group. You can see read/write permissions within a file for all ownership permissions by typing
ls anygiven.filedirname -g
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Creating chroot sftp Jails with Jailkit
One of the things I both love and hate about my job is getting assigned new projects. They can be about anything and everything. A few months back I was given an assignment to create some chroot jails for a group of customers so that they could securely upload files with sftp. The requirement was that the customers needed to be able to upload file, but in a secure and private way. Customer One should not be able to see Customer Two's files, for example. And neither customer should be able to browse the filesystem of the server. I was also asked to define a process whereby our support staff could add new jails as needed.
I've used the chroot command many times, it's a very handy way of fixing servers that can't otherwise be fixed --- like when no one can remember the root password on some box that no one has touched for years. Simply boot the server with a live CD (Knoppix is a personal favorite, I have it loaded on a usb key that I carry with me everywhere), mount the main drive and then issue a command along the lines of:
chroot /mnt/hda1
Suddenly it's like you are root on the local filesystem and not on the live CD. I can then change passwords, run programs, and generally get myself into trouble. :-)
You can do a lot more with chroot than simply use it as part of your system recovery toolkit though. Chroot is _very_ useful on a day-to-day basis for jailing applications and users that should (or need) to be isolated from the rest of the system (and from each other).
To create a jail you create a folder that has a replication of the directory structure of a normal Linux box. The difference is that you only copy in the bare minimum of what you need into the directory structure. The way you find out what libraries and files an application needs is by using ldd or strace. If I can get away with it, I prefer using ldd since its output is much more readable, but there are times when both are needed to track down elusive libraries.
As an example, lets say I want to have a jail that contains the bash shell, just that and nothing more. It's a stupid example, but very easy.
I first need to create the directory that will house the jail:
daniel@bart:~$ mkdir /opt/jail
It's just an empty directory now, so we now need to add some apps to it. Bash lives in the /bin directory so I first recreate the /bin directory and then copy the bash binary into it like so:
daniel@bart:~$ mkdir /opt/jail/bin
daniel@bart:~$ cp /bin/bash /opt/jail/bin/
Then I run ldd on bash to find out what libraries it uses like so:
daniel@bart:~$ ldd /bin/bash => (0xffffe000) => /lib/ (0xb7ec2000) => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ (0xb7ebe000) => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ (0xb7d7d000)
/lib/ (0xb7f1f000)
I can ignore the file, it's a virtual object created by the Linux Kernel, but I need the others so I create the directories and then copy them over:
daniel@bart:~$ mkdir -p /opt/jail/lib/tls/i686/cmov
daniel@bart:~$ cp /lib/ /opt/jail/lib/
daniel@bart:~$ cp /lib/tls/i686/cmov/ /opt/jail/lib/tls/i686/cmov/
Now I can test the jail like so:
daniel@bart:~$ sudo chroot /opt/jail /bin/bash
The presence of the bash-3.2# prompt tells me I was successful.
This is a pretty useless jail right now, with only bash. I can 'cd' and 'pwd' and 'exit' and do other bash built-in commands, but I can't 'ls' or 'less' or 'cp' or 'mv' or anything else that is external to bash. Adding more binaries is the same as adding bash: copy the binary in and then ldd it to find its libraries and then copy them in. A lot of programs use the exact same libraries, so often you'll find that copying the binary in to an existing jail is all you need to do since the libraries will already be there.
Once I copy in a few binaries this could turn into a very nice sandbox. However, I had some specific needs when I started out building custom jails, and there are a few gotchas that the above jail doesn't come close to meeting:
1. Users assigned to a jail need to be automatically chrooted into their jail when they login
2. There should be no shell access --- we don't want them to be able to ssh in, they should only be able to use sftp and scp
3. This needs to be done yesterday, and it needs to be repeatable.
Number one is easy enough in theory, just create a false shell whose sole purpose is to chroot you into your jail. Yeah. Easy. Oh, and do it securely with no shortcuts that might open up security holes. Yup, definitely easy.
Number two actually is easy in theory and practice, just copy in the sftp and scp binaries and leave out the ssh binary and any shell binaries.
Number three is the real kicker. I needed a quick, repeatable process. Especially since once things are up and running the plan was to turn everything over to the support group so that they could create new jails as needed.
So what did I do? I went looking for something someone had already built and I found Jailkit.
There are other tools out there for automatically creating jails, so please do some searching and explore all options when choosing your own solution. Some of the things I like about jailkit are:
1. It has many pre-configured collections that you can mix and match to build the perfect jail. I call them jail-sets.
2. If none of the existing jail-sets meets your needs you can customize them or create new ones.
3. Creating multiple jails is easy and each jail can have multiple users assigned to it --- users can't belong to more than one jail though, but that's a good thing IMO.
4. Adding users to jails is very easy, almost to the point of "that's all there is to it?"
5. The fake shell that Jailkit uses to chroot users when they log in checks for potential security risks every time it is run and will disconnect the user if it notices anything bad (like the jail directory being setuid root, for example).
6. The Jailkit website has clear, easy to follow directions that walk you through several potential jail setups and it has a good troubleshooting section to help you when things don't work for some reason or other.
Here's what I did to create the jails on my server:
As far as the actual server is concerned, I didn't do much to it apart from installing a base ubuntu-server OS with the ssh-server option. Oh, and I also installed the build-essential meta-package so that I could compile and install Jailkit.
After downloading the tarball from the Jailkit website, Jailkit is installed from source like so:
daniel@bart:~$ wget
daniel@bart:~$ tar -zxvf jailkit-2.5.tar.gz
daniel@bart:~$ cd jailkit-2.5
daniel@bart:~/jailkit-2.5$ ./configure
daniel@bart:~/jailkit-2.5$ make
daniel@bart:~/jailkit-2.5$ sudo make install
The whole unpack-compile-install process is really quick. By default, Jailkit installs its binaries into /usr/sbin/ and the configuration and template files into /etc/jailkit/.
Once installed, creating jails is easy. As I said above, Jailkit comes with several default jail-sets. These are defined in /etc/jailkit/jk_init.ini and they include things like scp, sftp, apache, basicshell, and so on. As far as learning about what jail-sets are available and what each jail-set includes, the best thing I can say is to look through the /etc/jailkit/jk_init.ini file and familiarize yourself with them. This file is also where you can define your own custom sets.
You create a jail using the jk_init script and specifying where you want the jail to be located and what jail-sets you want included in the jail. The example below is what I use to create a jail that has sftp and scp functionality:
daniel@bart:~$ sudo jk_init -v /path/to/jail sftp scp jk_lsh
The jk_lsh jail-set provides a special shell that limits the binaries it will execute via a config file. That way, even if a user uploads their own binary file, they won't be able to execute it.
The jail at this point (assuming nothing went wrong) is technically a valid jail, but there aren't any users in it yet and because this jail has no 'shell', it is pretty useless to try and chroot into it manually to test it. The next order of business therefore is to create some users and add them to the jail. Once a user has been created and added to a jail using the method below, they will always be put in that shell whenever they log in. So you absolutely need to create special jail-only users. Do not put regular users into jails!
daniel@bart:~$ sudo groupadd companyname
daniel@bart:~$ sudo useradd -g companyname -m username
daniel@bart:~$ sudo passwd username
daniel@bart:~$ sudo jk_jailuser -m -j /path/to/jail username
The reason I create a group is because I am creating jails per client company on this server and it made sense to group (no pun intended) all the users that way. I also threw in the passwd command into the example above since the useradd command (on Ubuntu at least) doesn't set a password by default. Things may be different on your Linux distro of choice.
The jk_jailuser utility, when run as in the example above, changes the shell of an existing user to jk_chrootsh in the /etc/passwd file and it changes the home directory to /path/to/jail/./home/username. It also adds the user to a stripped down passwd file located at /path/to/jail/etc/passwd and adds the user's groups to a stripped down group file located at /path/to/jail/etc/group.
If you want to edit the two passwd files yourself you can do so. Just change the user's line in /etc/passwd to something resembling this:
and change the user's line in /path/to/jail/etc/passwd to something resembling this:
(I'm afraid of messing things up if I do it manually, so I use the jk_jailuser utility whenever possible.)
Now we need to allow the user to execute the scp and sftp programs. Edit the /path/to/jail/etc/jailkit/jk_lsh.ini file and add in some lines like so:
[group companyname]
paths= /usr/bin, /usr/lib/
executables= /usr/bin/scp, /usr/lib/sftp-server, /usr/lib/openssh/sftp-server, /usr/libexec/sftp-server
That's all there is to it. I now have a fully functioning jail and I can test it by connecting to the server using sftp or scp. When I sftp in and look around, I only see the directories below the jail directory, exactly the behavior I wanted.
Should you find later on that the jail needs to have some other binary in it, Jailkit also includes a handy copy command that you can use to copy additional files into jails like so:
daniel@bart:~$ sudo jk_cp /path/to/jail /path/to/command
Very simple, and it handles all of the locating of dependencies, libraries, and whatnot. The only gripe I have about the jk_cp command is that you have to specify jk_cp instead of doing it the way the cp command works, which is cp .
On occasion I have run into issues where Jailkit doesn't copy over everything properly, or it simply misses some libraries. In those cases I had to experiment with copying over additional libraries. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I'll just point you to the Jailkit website, which has a very nice page on troubleshooting jails. (it's in the links)
Once I had jailkit working on my jail server and I had a repeatable process for adding users, my next step was to create two _very_ simple shell scripts for creating jails and creating jailed users. These scripts are used by our support staff, who have limited sudo access to run only these scripts as root along with the passwd command (so that they can change jailed users' passwords, if need be).
The two scripts are called mkjail and jailuser. They're not all that pretty, and they could be considered dangerous if used by the wrong people. But for internal use by a select group of specifically authorized and trained people, they work fine.
With the server set up and the scripts in place and the staff trained my job was done. The server is under constant use and new jails are created whenever they are needed with no intervention needed on my part. Of course, the minute the project was completed I was immediately assigned three more . . . but that's what's great about working in technology, right? It's never boring, that's for sure. :-)
Admittedly, creating an sftp jail is probably not something that everyone will need to do, but jailkit has found its way into my sysadmin bag of tricks. Whenever I need to isolate a user or a process into a sandbox, and a Xen virtual machine is way too much overkill, the first thing I reach for is jailkit.
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Chroot SFTP natively with OpenSSH
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I've seen your guide for chrooted SFTP, and I've learnt from a lot of tutorials as yours. Here my compendium to configure better clients and servers:
(special care of users and permissions)
removing sftp users?
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thanks for the great instructions! :)
I've successfully implemented it on an Oracle Linux server (same as a RHEL AS 4u5 server).
One note: I had changed the default to disallow subsystems such as sftp, so I got no connection. (Duuh!) So enabling it again in /etc/ssh/sshd_config was enough.
It would be nice, though, to add a little note about how to remove the jail for a company of user when it's no longer needed. I hate lingering accounts that no one uses. ;)
I second that request...
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How can we remove jailed companies and individual users within jailed companies? Is it as simple as removing the directories?
Running PHP as a jailed binary interpreter
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Hello, Daniel.
Great article! I am about to set up a mini-jailed environment and want to know if such a jail is what I really need.
A client has a dedicated (not shared) server running PHP4 installed from the SO repositories and a lot of other packages depending on it.
Cron jobs for PHP5 (compiled from source by me with fork support) need to be fired as CLI mode and I was wondering if the same case you described so kindly can be emulated for chroot'ing a source-based PHP5 install & the at and cron daemons.
Thanks in advance,
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OpenSSH 4.9 and higher supports chroot environments natively and ships with an internal sftp-server, so that you don't have to copy every library into the home directories of your users. | dclm-gs1-101130000 |
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EaselJS is a free JavaScript library that makes creating interactive web content for HTML5 more straightforward and intuitive. This course transitions web designers, animators, and content creators who may be used to working with Adobe Flash and ActionScript to this new open web standard. Author Ray Villalobos first explains the capabilities of the EaselJS framework and the HTML5 Canvas element, and what they mean for web design. The rest of the course shows how to use EaselJS's helper classes and hierarchal display list to load images, draw, animate, and handle mouse input from visitors.
Topics include:
• Installing EaselJS
• Understanding how Canvas draws and animates
• Drawing lines and strokes
• Drawing with graphic primitives
• Using the chaining and compacting commands
• Animating shapes
• Working with text
• Importing bitmaps and vector graphics
• Working with sprite sheets
• Handling mouse events
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Transforming and animating shapes
Transforming shapes with EaselJS is done through a class called the DisplayObject. However, you don't actually access that class directly. Instead, you work with DisplayObject subclasses, like Text, Bitmap, and Shape. When you use one of these subclasses, you have access to a variety of traditional transformations, like Rotation, Scaling, et cetera. So let's take a look. So I'm starting off with a basic HTML template. If you haven't already, make sure you watch the video on Creating a Template and Installing EaselJS.
If we go to our script file, we notice that I have a canvas object, as well as a stage and a shape. There's already a shape in the canvas, so if you need to review how to draw graphics, make sure you check out the chapter on Drawing Graphics. So after you have a shape, you can apply some additional transformations to that shape by just calling the different DisplayObject methods. So I can do shape.rotation=, and I can use degrees for rotations, so let me type in 30, and I'll Refresh, and you can see that it's rotated; however, it may not be what you expected.
Like with canvas, rotation is done against a registration point, and that registration point is always by default at the top left of the stage. Now we can easily move that registration point with the regX and regY properties of DisplayObjects. Before I do that, though, transformations are more easily seen in an animation, so I'm going to add an animation. If you want to review how that's done, make sure you check out the video on Comparing Canvas versus EaselJS. So I'm going to rotate this object eight times through each tick, and then I'm going to update the stage.
So I don't need this stage.update right here, because the stage is going to be updated 30 times per second. I also don't need this rotation anymore, because I'm changing the rotation in every tick. So I'm going to Save and then Refresh, and you can more clearly see that, that rectangle is rotated around this point of origin right here, or this registration point. By making the origin of this object when we drew it, 50 and 50, we've actually moved the object 50 pixels from the left and 50 pixels from the top. So that object is already down a little bit into the stage.
So in order to fix this animation so that it happens around the center, we need to move the registration point of this object. So we're going to move the registration point to 100x100. So let me go ahead and Save. Now it is rotating around the center of the object. Let's go ahead and move this to another position in the stage. So you can see that we can reposition this object wherever we want just by changing the X and Y property. Now why was the registration set to 100x100? When we drew this object, we drew it at a position that was 50 pixels from the left and 50 pixels from the top, and then we told EaselJS that we wanted this object to be 100 pixels by 100 pixels.
Because we had already moved it, to make the registration point in the center of the object, we have to go 50 pixels in, plus half of the width of the object, so that's 50, plus another 50, so that's 100x100. Sometimes this notation can be a little confusing, so you've got a couple of options. Number one, you could set the original position of the object at the top left of the stage. If you do this, we'll Refresh, now the object is rotating around this point, because we've told it to go in 100x100 pixels.
You can come over here and change that to 50, 50, and this is half of the width of the object, the width and height are 100 right now, and if we Save that, then that works really well. If you don't want to use registration at all, you can just delete these two registration points, then automatically position the object so that it's centered already at the 00 point. That means the object will be at -50, -50, and be 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. If I Save that, now the object rotates around the center and we don't need to use the registration commands.
So that's pretty cool! You can actually animate all the different kinds of properties of the DisplayObject, so make sure you check this documentation right here for some of the other options. You see that you have alpha; you also have stuff like regX and regY, the rotation is right here, plus you have a scale factor that you can adjust, as well as skewing and other things. So if you're used to using something like Adobe Flash, these properties will be very familiar to you. Let's go ahead and try some of them. So let's go ahead and move this object horizontally by 1 pixel every grain.
So I'll Save this and Refresh, you can see now the object is moving very slowly. So plus plus in programming languages means that you're going to increment this by 1 every time. So this is the same thing as writing shape.x = shape.x + 1. If you want to do more than one, then you can use +=, just like rotation, do += 5 pixels every time you would do that, so that's moving a lot faster. And the same thing for the Y. So just adjust the Y position by 5 pixels and rotate, and now you could see it moving diagonally.
Now you can also scale things in the X and Y direction by using scaleX and scaleY. A scale of .5 is half the size of the original object and a scale of 2 times is twice the size. So watch how you scale these. Let's go ahead and try some of those. I'll get rid of the position adjustment, so that's in the same place. Then I can come over here and say shape.scaleX = 2. Let's see what that does, and now the object is twice the width.
And I can do the same thing for Y with scaleY, and now the object is twice as big in every dimension. You can also do .5 to make it half as big, and you can tell that everything that EaselJS draws is in vectors, so it doesn't matter what size we make that object, it scales very nicely. You can animate that if you want to. So we could do something like multiply this by 1.1, and I'm going to Refresh, and you could see that it's growing a little bit through every frame of the ticker.
So another useful transformation is alpha. Let me go ahead and get rid of this, Save this, and Refresh. You can set the alpha of a shape by typing in the alpha property and sending it to a number from 0-1. So if we say .5, then the alpha will be 50% of whatever the color of the object was before. If we say 0, then the object will be completely invisible; and 1, completely opaque. So of course you can animate the alpha just like you can any other property. We can do something like times =.8, refresh that, and you can see the object kind of disappear.
So let's get rid of that so we can see our object. You can also skew a shape, and skewing is really an amount you want to skew an object by. So it's not a number from 1-0, like scale and alpha. You usually have to skew by a significant amount. So let's do shape.skewX = 200, and we could see that, that object is kind of skewed over to the side by 200 pixels. Let's go ahead and stop the rotation here, let's comment that out. And you can do the same thing in the Y direction. So if I wanted to animate that, I would do something like I will go ahead and keep the rotation and we'll Save that and we'll Refresh, and you can kind of get an interesting look and effect by skewing object. It's almost like a 3D effect when you combine skewing with the rotation.
You can also set the visible property of an object. Visible is sort of like alpha, so let's go ahead and set the shape.visible = 0. That means that the object is completely invisible. This is different than completely transparent. A transparent object will still be there and will still be drawn and you can click on it, whereas a visible object is not drawn at all, it's not there and you can't click on it, so that's an important difference between the two. Let's go ahead and turn that off.
So there's a few more options, and you should definitely check out the documentation on the DisplayObject to find out more information about this. So placing your graphics into shapes gives you the ability to access the properties of the DisplayObject. This is a powerful class that lets you perform all different kinds of transformations. Shapes are the EaselJS version of vector graphics. Unlike canvas, once you draw a shape, you can continue to animate it and transform it. This is one of the coolest features of EaselJS!
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Oops! You’re not a child pornographer after all.
Righteousness is one thing, competence a whole other.
DHS "SEIZED" screen
Homeland Security done goofed.
Beware of moral absolutes. For example: there’s not much room for debate in the war on child porn; we all agree that the stuff is atrocious and must be snuffed out. So we hand over extraordinary powers to those who would fight it. But righteousness and competence are two different things.
Case in point:
Last week the U.S. Department of Homeland Security proudly announced that they had “seized” thousands of child porn websites. Visitors to the sites now found stern government message screens reading “SEIZED” and warning that “Advertisement, distribution, transportation, receipt, and possession of child pornography constitute federal crimes that carry penalties for first time offenders of up to 30 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine, forfeiture and restitution” (link).
It was later revealed that the DHS had goofed—84,000 of these sites were seized by accident, and had nothing whatsoever to do with child porn. Given the special place in hell we reserve for child pornographers, one wonders what the innocent owners of those websites thought about being publicly associated with kiddie porn on their own homepages.
It’s not the first blunder (or questionable outcome) in the global crusade against child porn. Here are a few others:
• Parents charged with child porn for taking bathtub pics of their own kids. Walmart turned them in when they went to have the shots developed, and their kids were taken from them by Child Protective Services. The parents have since sued (link).
• Minors charged with child porn for texting nude pictures of themselves. It’s happened a bunch of times. (link) (link) (link).
• Australia’s national Internet filter was sold to citizens as a safeguard against child porn. But the “blacklist” of censored sites got leaked, and was shown to include many errors, including a dog kennel and a dentist. Also on the list were political enemies of the government, and Wikileaks. Not to mention the problem that a leaked index of child porn sites is a handy resource for none other than child pornographers. (link)
While many innocents can have their lives and reputations ruined by over-zealous law enforcement, actual for-profit child pornographers have had plenty of success evading authorities and Internet filters. The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin reports that savvy criminals use a combination of proxy servers, encryption, and foreign computer servers to place themselves out of the reach of the law. Facing a tangle of technological and bureaucratic hurdles (extradition, etc.) police often skip the big bad guys and focus on low-hanging fruit (link).
Oops! You’re not a child pornographer after all.
1. This kind of thing is all to common. Teachers never hug students anymore because they don't want to be seen as being perverts; parents are afraid to grab their children in public lest they be accused of physical abuse. Meanwhile, the real abusers (sexual and physical) are so manipulative and devious that they carry on their destructive behaviors without ever getting caught.
2. A friend of mine told me this story: one of her best friends went through a messy relationship break up. Of course there were all the usual results: angry phone calls, missing personal items and terrific ill will. The best friend's brother is and was a cop. As a means of retribution he placed the ex-boyfriend on a list of possible child sex offenders. Whenever an incident was reported, this guy would get hauled down to the station for questioning. Nice, eh?
I find it mildly irritating that the police work on computers pretending to be 13 year old girls, engaging men in conversation, then agreeing to meet at a motel whereupon they bust the guy for "internet luring." In the good old days that was considered entrapment. But today, because of the "we'll stop at nothing" attitude regarding child sexual anything, everyone just shrugs it off.
Remember the alleged Satanist cults of the late 80's and 90's? The RCMP toured the country in numbers to warn everyone about these cults and their depraved rituals. I'm not saying there isn't child porn, and I'm certainly not saying that offenders shouldn't be prosecuted – they're the lowest of the low, by any standard. I'm just talking about pendulums swinging and the tendency of the police to be oh, a little zealous.
• I have no problem w/ police pretending to be young children in order to catch pedophiles, as long as the on-line conversations are properly supervised to prevent over-zealousness.
3. "police often skip the big bad guys and focus on low-hanging fruit"
No doubt! I suspect that the worst of the worst child-porn offenders probably learned very quickly to avoid the internet completely. I suspect it's much safer, and basically just as easy to package a DVD and FedEx it to it's recipient.
By targeting internet child-pornographers, I suspect that the consumers of such material are getting caught more often, but I doubt that stemmed the production much, if at all.
But law enforcement will continue to do this, because it's a high-profile way of showing that they're "doing something" about the problem, with little to no work involved on their part. And governments will continue to condone it for political reasons, and they'll accept any reason to try to regulate the internet.
4. god damn cops in this country. Stop focusing on the small fish and go after the damn real criminals who embezzle and gouge money out of us.
• That would be Rogers/Bell?
5. Barbara Amiel wrote an article titled “Hysteria may well create the truly dangerous pedophile” and expressed concern that "minor offenders are pushed to more extreme measures to avoid capture, since they are already so thoroughly stigmatized they feel irredeemable"; she also wrote about a similar craziness that erupted over Polanksi.
Thankfully Jesse Brown has taken up this torch and is carrying it well.
6. Uh… I did stupid things when I was a teenager, and took some webcam photos that I shouldn't have. They're still kicking around somewhere I bet. Could I be arrested for possession of child pornography if someone found them? :S
7. Yes it has become ridiculous what is seen as abuse surely violent and aggressive behavior towards children is bad as is less ext ream behavior towards older children but some common sense would be nice, I think we all need to be more willing to speak up and ask questions when we see things. Some people feel awkward confronting others but it needs to be done, part of the problem in large cities like here in Vancouver is a lack of familiarity with your fellow humans.
8. I would love to see a class action suite against the government by those whose sites were "seized" to be falsely portrayed as purveyors of child porn.
• @s_c_f, I would love to see the same thing. Unfortunately, unless the falsely accused have tremendous resources, they cannot hope to stand up to the unlimited power of the federal government.
Our only hope is a healthy dose of Libertarianism into the body politic.
9. "A major federal investigation has found that dozens of military officials and defense contractors, including some with top-level security clearances, allegedly bought and downloaded child pornography on private or government computers."
For those that are interested, former FBI profiler Ted Gunderson is an active investigator of child pornography (and far worse abuses) among individuals and groups that are certainly not of the "low hanging fruit" variety.
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A 16-year-old girl was sexually assaulted during a rave at a house on Harris Road in Pitt Meadows in September 2010. - The NEWS/files
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The lawyer for a young man accused of assaulting a teenage girl at Pitt Meadows rave has characterized police statements about his clients as a witch hunt.
Although Crown stayed a charge of sexual assault against Colton McMorris on Tuesday, RCMP continued to maintain a day later there was evidence to prove otherwise.
At a press conference with the victim of the alleged assault and her father on Wednesday, Sgt. Peter Thiessen bristled at suggestions that police had blown up the alleged assault.
"I can assure you knowing the content of these photos, it was not exaggerated what happen to this girl," said Thiessen, referring to the graphic and sexually explicit photos that spread across the Internet following the rave.
"I would say if anybody heard the details of what this girl experienced, we wouldn't be having this discussion. I can assure you, you will all be shocked by these photos."
Tony Serka, who represents McMorris, stressed his client is being "put through a mill" for something he didn't do.
"This isn't the way to run a state. They are saying things like they are facts," said Serka.
"They are planting the seeds so people can hate my client. If he is innocent - as I believe he is - he is the one that should get sympathy."
Crown entered a stay of proceedings Tuesday effectively bringing criminal proceedings against McMorris to a halt, five days before he was scheduled to stand trial.
The sudden stay came after a senior prosecutor reviewed the available evidence and concluded there was no longer a likelihood of a conviction.
Serka said his client came forward on his own and spoke to police a few days after the rave - without a lawyer present.
The police interrogation generated a transcript that's 119 pages long.
He had two officers yelling at him for sometime, added Serka.
"This is the guy who has never been in trouble in his life, who is honest and he is being painted with this brush for the rest of his life."
A lawyer since the 1970s who is known for two landmark Supreme Court of Canada cases, Serka remains shocked by the conduct of RCMP and the "inflammatory language" they initially used to describe the alleged assault.
"[Sgt.] Peter Thiessen should remember that a person is innocent until proven guilty," said Serka.
"You can't say things like - make no mistake about it, this is a rape when you really don't know. That inflammatory language is for a reason, it's to inflame people."
The "code of silence" police blame for hinder their investigation, Serka completely dismisses.
"It's not a code of silence. It's just that the people who are talking are saying things that the police don't want to hear. Many people don't want to be involved with this."
Serka believes his client should pursue a defamation lawsuit.
"By telling lies - they have branded this guy, they've given him the scarlet letter.
There has got to be some consequences for that. But it's the police and it's a different kettle of fish and they have different rules."
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Here’s the question: If I was a Martian (or a visitor), and I showed up at your church this weekend or called your church offices this morning, could I identify your real mission? Would I come up with something pretty close to what you say or your senior pastor says when it’s vision weekend?
Or would there be enough out-of-place junk that would make it pretty hard for the fresh eyes of a Martian (or a visitor) to overlook?
Need an example? Maybe you say your primary customer is unchurched thirty-somethings with young children but your music style reflects the milder tastes of an early sixties boomer.
Or your weekend experience for young children is understaffed but your midweek program for children is booming (and actually draws in kids from other churches).
Or how about this…you say you want to connect unconnected people but the curriculum you choose doesn’t even come close to peaking the interest or meeting the needs of the people on the edges. See also Does Your Topic Connect with Your True Customer?
Maybe even the way your receptionist answers the phone is a tip-off that you’re saying one thing on the wall but another thing entirely with your ministry design.
Reading through The Advantage our team has wrestled more than once with mission clarity. We’ve found ourselves coming back again and again to Patrick Lencioni’s six critical questions that create clarity. Determined to get it right, we’ve stopped mid-discussion to revisit them once again.
Why? In the 8 zip codes surrounding us there are 180,000 unchurched people. There are only 30 churches for the quarter million people that live in our part of Las Vegas.
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— Tying One On
Dear Tying One On: First of all, you are not alone. Almost no one who has reached puberty looks good in swimwear. Those wraps you're talking about are also known as sarongs and pareos, and boy do they come in handy for hiding the bobbly bits at beach or pool. The two easiest ways are to simply take the top two ends and tie them in a secure knot at one hip, or wrap it like a towel and tuck it in. If your beach wrap is wide enough, these methods can also cover your top, sort of like a dress. You can also cross the ends and tie them around your neck like a halter dress. For a fast tutorial try this YouTube video:
Meanwhile, store buyers are finally catching on to the fact that we really want to show as little flesh as possible poolside. They're now offering more coverage with swim skirts and swim shorts to pair with a swim top. And I've noticed that the celebs frolicking at exotic beaches pictured in People Magazine etc. are often wearing long-sleeve T-shirts designed for swimming. This is a trend we can all embrace. Land's End ( is a good place to start for swimwear pieces that cover.
Dear Answer Angel: I was wondering if you can wear pantyhose with sling back pumps?
— Jill
Dear Jill: Yes you can! Hosiery is back — and for many of us it never went anywhere. Sure, bare legs are still popular. But Kate Middleton and common sense tell us that there's nothing wrong with hosiery. And that goes for wearing it with sling back shoes too. Frankly, a lot of us have feet that won't stand up to much scrutiny, and covering them, even a little, makes a lot of sense. With your sling backs choose very sheer flesh tone only. Tinted hose and tights just don't look right. Another point: Hosiery and peep-toe or open-toe shoes are an absolute don't. If you don't feel comfortable with bare legs in those styles, don't buy them in the first place.
Dear Answer Angel: I have been looking for a simple everyday necklace to wear that won't break the bank. Any suggestions of some online sources for a delicate necklace that goes with work clothes? I am a middle school teacher out of college for just a couple years without a big budget.
— Emily
Dear Emily: The problem with your question is that there are too many answers. When my friends ask me where to buy jewelry that's special but not too expensive, I send them to designer Erin Gallagher's, where you can buy one of Gallagher's creations or design your own by choosing a style, genuine gems and the type of chain. It's easy and many are less than $100. Also, there's always, where you can spend hours scrolling through the choices. When I last checked, there were 6,164 necklaces less than $25. This is not a place to go if you have trouble making up your mind. For on-trend and virtually disposable jewelry of all sorts and every imaginable color, I'm wild about Charming Charlie. which has stores in 35 states ( for locations). But, it's revamping its website, and it won't be back until fall. Check back then.
Dear Answer Angel: In a moment of weakness, I recently purchased a bottle of foundation/moisturizer by Make Up Forever. So now I love it, but by no means can I afford the price tag on a regular basis. There seem to be lots of drugstore options, but I don't want to spend money trying all the different brands. Do you know of a cheaper option?
Anna E.
Dear Anna: I wrote a column earlier this year about drugstore dupes — cheaper drugstore makeup that mimics the more expensive boutique-y stuff: A good website to find cheaper substitute products is the searchable "dupe list" at If you don't find what you want, it's a trial and error situation, I'm afraid. But many drugstores will take back makeup after you've used it if you don't like it. But ask before you buy.
Dear Answer Angel: Is there a rule? How short is too short for your age when it comes to summer shorts? Like after 40, they should be knee length?
B-town Peggy
Dear Peggy: There are no rules. If you're 40-plus and look like Jennifer Aniston, sure, wear short shorts. But if you have to ask you probably already know the answer. Longer is better as those legs start to show their age. As you know, I detest capris (make legs look stumpy) but why not try a floaty dress or summer skirt to the knee or just below?
Dear Answer Angel: A few years ago I found a great pair of navy shorts for exercising in the gym, flat front, mesh fabric, nice side stripes and Bermuda length. The shorts are nearly worn out. Although I have continued to look for similar designs, most active wear is either very, very short shorts or long black capris. Any suggestions?
Dear Vicki: Try the boys' or men's department. That's where you'll find them.
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14 Pains Worth Enduring
Every man gets hurt, but he's made stronger in the process
Friday, April 19, 2013, 12:00 am
Every man gets hurt, but he's made stronger in the process. Start the new year with some new scars.
Going All In, And Losing
Your rush will fade as fast as your hopes—and remind you that gambling is actually nothing more than entertainment you can control the duration of. Why hurry?
Splurging on a Thousand-Dollar Suit
You'll wince at the hit to your budget. But once you own a suit worth being buried in, you'll start finding ways to make sure someone will be at the funeral to tuck a flower in your lapel.
Watching The Notebook
Sure, Ryan Gosling spends every day recounting the tribulations of his relationship with Rachel McAdams. (Groan.) But listen, there's a reason women fawn over this film: On the screen, unconditional love and devotion always prevail. Watch the movie. Fast-forward through the slow parts. And then impress her by remembering the plotline.
Buying a SaladShooter
Even a strong man can succumb to a late-night huckster. The useless plastic doohickey you bought still serves a purpose, though: It's hard evidence that many things in life really are too good to be true.
Fumbling Through a Bad Date
You show up late. Your jokes bomb. You take a dig at her favorite band. Here's your three-step plan to recovery: Apologize, self-deprecate, and move on. Unless you dwell on your slip, she'll only see you for what you really are—human.
Eating Ramen Noodles
Anything that comes in brick form and costs 50 cents is a building material, not a foodstuff. Slurp up a bowl of sodium-soaked strings and you're guaranteed to appreciate a costlier (and healthier) feast.
Dating a High-Maintenance Bombshell
She'll drain your savings and sap your sanity. Then you'll learn why a woman who looks good in sweats and loves Chinese takeout is a keeper.
Running for President
Or campaigning for any long-shot score—a huge job or a bar beauty's phone number. The strain is humbling, regardless of the outcome. But take a lesson from John McCain's failure: If you lose once, don't stake everything on a second try. You'll grow bitter if you insist on traveling only closed roads.
Drinking Green Beer
Yeah, we love St. Patty's, too. But once you try holiday booze and its novelty wears off, you can move on to more authentic fare. Ask the 'tender to pull you a Beamish or pour you two fingers of Redbreast. You'll enjoy what you're drinking (for once) and look way more debonair in photos.
Taking All-You-Can-Eat Wing Night Literally
Oh, the heartburn! Cramping! Stinging toilet sessions! There's no better endorsement of moderation than a Kobayashi-size food hangover.
Undergoing a Colonoscopy
You got a free pass for decades. Time to man up.
Visiting Disney World
Lying to Your Mother
If you always told your mom the truth about where you were going, you never would have touched your first breast.
Training Poorly, Then Competing Anyway
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Taylor Swift's Rhode Island home was attacked by beer-bottle throwing fans last weekend.
No word on how many of the suspects she dated, dumped and wrote songs about.
The local Westerly Police Department told E! News that at 7:43 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to a report that three suspects were throwing beer bottles onto the property from the neighboring east beach (Swift wasn't home at the time).
A security guard told them two males and one female threw beer bottles onto the property and were flipping him off, and that all three were still on the beach.
Boy, did John Mayer and his buddies really think they could get away with this?
Because people who throw beer bottles at Taylor Swift's house and don't immediately leave are incredibly intelligent, police then arrested Michael Horrigan, 29, Tristan J. Kading, 28, and Emily E. Kading, 26, who were later charged with disorderly conduct.
Swift's rep didn't comment to E!.
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Field Test: Studio Projects B Series Mics
During the past few years, there has been an explosion of almost unbelievably low-priced Chinese condenser mics that look like prized German beauties. 3/01/2004 7:00 AM Eastern
During the past few years, there has been an explosion of almostunbelievably low-priced Chinese condenser mics that look like prizedGerman beauties. But while they look similar, not all of these mics arecreated equal. Some are shoulder-shruggingly okay, and some are prettygood. However, Studio Projects' B Series, a new line of mics that looklike little U47s, range from only $100 to $350 list and sound betterthan pretty good.
The B Series comprises three large-diaphragm (1-inch) models: thecardioid-only B1; the multipattern, dual-capsule B3; and thecardioid-only TB1, which uses a tube and comes with a separatedual-voltage (115-volt or 230V) power supply. Although the B1 and TB1do not have controls, the B3's 3-position switch lets you choose eithera highpass filter or a -10dB pad.
While the build quality of these mics is adequate, they do vibrate alittle when you tap their bodies, as the manufacturer readily admits,but they certainly don't rattle or feel rickety. Studio Projectsrecommends using a shock-mount to combat the vibration, and thecustom-fitted one provided holds the mics snugly in position. Thisshock-mount is an improvement over those generic ones with the rubberband in the middle or the nylon cord that quickly loses itselasticity.
The B1 and B3 come in plastic zipper bags, and the TB1 comes in afoam-lined briefcase that holds the mic, power supply and cables, butnot the shock-mount. All three models come with a foam windscreen.
I ran these mics through a Millennia Media STT-1 channel strip usingits solid-state setting with the transformer switched out. This makesthe preamp about as neutral as you can get; impedance considerationsaside, what you hear is the mic and not the preamp.
You do hear a noticeable quality improvement as you go up the BSeries line. However, even the B1 sounds quite a bit better than theShanghai U87-alike I compared these mics to, and it sells for the sameprice.
The exception is that the Shanghai mic sounded better than any ofthe Bs on male voice-over, but that's almost certainly due to off-axisreflections picked up by the Bs' wider pickup patterns. (This includesthe B3 in cardioid mode.) The wide cardioid does make them moresensitive to what's going on off-axis, so be mindful of things likenearby walls when you're positioning them. A strategically placedAuralex Max Wall, which is a couple of sideways 2×4-foot foamsheets impaled on a mic stand, can really help.
The B's performance with what's in front of the mic is surprisinglygood. Some side-by-side male vocal recordings through the TB1 and a$2,000 RØDE Classic II — an undeniably great mic —were a real eye-opener. The RØDE definitely sounded bigger (and infact, it is bigger!) and is more midrange-forward, but I couldn't saythat the TB1 sounded worse in this application — justdifferent.
Normally, you can identify inexpensive mics right away by theirsteely high end, but the TB1's high end is smooth and open, toe-to-toewith the RØDE — very impressive. While the solid-state mics(B1 and B3) aren't quite as nice overall, they do share the same soundquality.
The TB1 has a noticeable amount of the typical “tube”sound, a buttery effect that you hear on the transients and not verydifferent from tape compression. That isn't always what tubes do, butin this case, it's reasonably descriptive. The effect is quite obviouson shaker, a broadband instrument that behaves almost like pink noisewith transients, and can really point out what a mic does to thesound.
Studio Projects bills all three models as general-purpose recordingmics, which is fair, as they have some character and a slightlyrecessed midrange, but the sound isn't colored enough to relegate theBs to specialty mic status. The Bs work on a lot of instruments thatmany users wouldn't think of recording with a large-diaphragm mic. Forexample, I wouldn't normally mike a solo cello with a large-diaphragmmic, but the B1 didn't bring out the resonances to excess. That's notto say that it would be my first choice, but it does work. The TB1'srecessed midrange sounded good on alto recorder. It also sound okay onacoustic guitar, although it's certainly not rare to use alarge-diaphragm condenser in that application.
The B Series mics also did well on instruments that are normallycaptured with a large-diaphragm mic., such as close up on an uprightpiano. The proximity helped bring out some of the low end on a smallpiano that's pretty weak at the bottom.
Two B3s or a B1 and a B3 would make a very nice budget M-S mikingsetup. The B3s' 14dBA noise rating (12dBA for the B1) proves thatthey're quiet enough to use some distance from the source, which wouldalso make them good choices as room mics.
Even though the TB1 is noisier than the other two (18 dBA), its tubecircuitry gives it a rounder sound that makes it very appealing. The B1and B3 specs list a 132dB SPL handling ability (128 dB for the TB1), soyou're not likely to blow these mics out in front of a guitar amp.Their output is hot enough to allow the preamps they're feeding tooperate at a comfortable, quiet range.
It's pretty scary that mics this inexpensive can sound this good. Byall rights, the $100 B1 shouldn't even be usable, and the $200 B3shouldn't be a dual-capsule model with switchable patterns. But if youhave to choose one of the three to get excited about, it's the TB1, a$350 tube mic that stands up to world-class mics that cost more thanfive times as much.
Studio Projects, dist. by PMI Audio Group, 877/563-6335, www.pmiaudio.com.
Nick Batzdorf is a composer, audio and music toy boffin, andwriter.
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Column: Detroit Lions should end Jim Schwartz era
Lions coach Jim Schwartz has been on the hotseat for much of the second half of this season. Now that Detroit is out of playoff contention, things really are starting to heat up. (Mike Mulholland |
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on December 23, 2013 at 4:59 AM, updated December 23, 2013 at 6:21 AM
DETROIT -- The time is 8:44 p.m., and a stadium worker just drove toward midfield in what looks a lot like a lawn mower. It isn't a lawn mower, obviously, because Ford Field doesn't have grass. But it looks like one.
The machine has bristled plates on the bottom which rotate violently, and the worker is riding that machine up and down and back and forth over the Lions logo at the 50-yard line.
Only an hour and change has passed since Detroit suffered a 23-20 overtime loss against the New York Giants on Sunday evening. And already they are scrubbing away that midfield logo.
There's something poetic about this image. A half-erased lion, mere minutes after the Lions themselves were erased from playoff contention.
And now the Jim Schwartz era should follow suit.
It's time for this era to be scrubbed out.
The Lions have one more game, next Sunday in Minnesota. But that's a mere postscript after Sunday's loss against lowly New York eliminated them from the playoffs.
Detroit (7-8) started 6-3, yet was caught from behind by a Chicago team that has lost three of its past five games and a Green Bay team that is 2-5-1 in its past eight.
The Lions simply were buried in a flurry of interceptions, penalties, drops and turnovers. They are 1-5 in their past six games, despite leading in the fourth quarter of each of those games.
Adding some insult to injury, Chicago and Green Bay both lost Sunday, meaning the Lions could have controlled their own destiny today. All they had to do was win against the awful Giants, who hadn't beaten a .500 team in almost two months.
And Detroit couldn't even manage that.
It'll go down as just another missed opportunity in a season with oodles of them.
"You pray to the football gods that they bless you with a season where teams in your division are down," receiver Nate Burleson said. "We had that. The football gods gave us a gift, and in so many ways as a team, we squandered it.
"I've been playing 11 years, and that situation doesn't come about. So it's frustrating. This season is going to sting, but at this point, it is what it is. We got to take our lumps."
mjm_LionsGiants_19.JPGMatthew Stafford has struggled for the past six games. Could he be in need of new coaching, or would he prosper with another year with Jim Schwartz?
Burleson would never say it, nor would any of his teammates, but one of those lumps has to be Schwartz's job.
How can you bring back a coach who is 29-50 in five seasons, and call that progress? How can you bring back a coach with just one playoff bid in five years, and feel good about it?
The greatest case of all might by Matthew Stafford. He's supposed to be the franchise quarterback -- at least that's how the Lions are paying him -- but he's not getting any better.
He threw two more interceptions against New York, including a costly pick-six that forced Detroit into the overtime. That's his 12th pick in six games, and he's officially reeling.
Perhaps a new coach could iron out Stafford's footwork and decision-making, and finally help his elite skill-set translate into actually elite quarterbacking.
Schwartz has done some good things, to be sure, including elevating Detroit out of the horrors of 0-16. He presided over a 10-6 season just three years later, and that's commendable.
But there's only so long you can rest on those laurels. Detroit is just 11-20 the past two seasons, and 2-13 in the second halves of those seasons.
It clearly has hit a wall.
"Sometimes there's a brick wall in front, and you just have to decide to go through it," left guard Rob Sims said. "We just didn't. We didn't get it done. We didn't go through the wall."
The losses are damning enough, but Schwartz might have sealed his own fate at the end of regulation against New York when he appeared to lose his cool with the fans.
Schwartz elected to run out the final 23 seconds, rather than use his two timeouts to go for a game-winning score, and was lustily booed by the home-town fans. That's when TV cameras appeared to catch him shouting expletives at the crowd.
Running down Jim Harbaugh over a rough handshake? That's one thing. Showing up an opposing player? That's another.
Taking on the hometown fans? That's career suicide, especially for a coach known in NFL circles to be ego-driven and difficult to work with.
To be fair, Schwartz denied he yelled at fans, claiming instead that he was addressing his players. But it doesn't take a lip-reader to see exactly what he was saying, and it wasn't pretty.
The losing should have been enough to fire Schwartz, if this organization cares about winning. And even if it weren't enough, that sideline tirade will do him no favors when Black Monday arrives in a week.
photo(10).JPGFord Field maintenance workers start removing the Lions logo from midfield shortly after Detroit's final home game of the season.
The good news is the Lions have a core of talent that many teams would envy. That core is in its prime and locked up for next season.
This is not a rebuilding project. This team can win big now, which is precisely why Schwartz needs to go.
Just think of the baggage his return would carry. Every turnover would be shrouded in scrutiny. Every bad outing from Matthew Stafford would offer more catcalls that he isn't developing.
Every loss would be magnified, and engender fear that another was on the horizon.
Detroit needs a fresh start, which means it needs this era to be scrubbed away.
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Cigarettes, Booze and Kids
Two Sundays ago, I picked up my nine-year-old daughter from a girly girl sleepover birthday party at her friend Jo-Jo’s, five minutes from our house. In addition to her rumpled pink sleeping bag, my daughter left the host’s front door carrying a purple balloon and a goodie bag filled with unicorn stickers.
Before we got home, her eyes welled with tears.
“Mom, you won’t believe it,” she said, the tears slipping down her cheeks. I thought of pulling the car over to the side of the road. Had she witnessed a kitten being tortured?
“Jo-Jo’s dad was… SMOKING.”
Long parental pause. I kept driving. How to proceed?
“Cigarettes?” was the first question I ventured, my voice shaky. My 70s mind immediately conjured marijuana, crack, an orgy of drugs and sex with wide-eyed nine year old witnesses...
“Yes, cigarettes!” my daughter said in a tone of outrage and disapproval more commonly associated with heroin addiction funded by street prostitution.
“Jo-Jo caught him. He said he was really sorry but he’s a little bit addictive. She says he’s going to die.”
More tears flooded the backseat. TEARS! Triggered by a friend’s 40-year-old father puffing a Marlboro on his back porch? For heaven’s sake, even President Obama sneaks a cig here and there!
Then I realized: in nine years of life on this planet, my daughter has never seen a live human being smoke a cigarette. How utterly amazing. By the time I was her age, I had already smoked my first cigarette. I had also drunk an entire plastic cup of beer from a keg at a touch-football game and gulped a huge disgusting sip of a martini while cleaning up after one of my parents’ frequent cocktail parties.
With the fog of social stigma and legal repercussions having firmly attached itself to cigarette smoking and even the most genteel drunken debauchery, the casual adult vices many of us grew up witnessing have vanished from the world of many American children.
None of my friends smoke any longer (okay, one does…but that’s top secret). My husband and I have beer and liquor in our house for guests, but we never booze it up ourselves. The results of my own experimentation, plus evidence collected from myriad out-of-control adults, convinced me early in life (long before I had kids) that alcohol, cigarettes and drugs were indulgences I couldn’t afford . Our friends and family members rarely drink more than a glass of wine at dinner. Our children have never witnessed firsthand any adults getting intoxicated, passing out on the toilet, or throwing up in the front yard (things I took for granted by the time I was nine).
What a refreshing change.
I really don't think Jo-jo was over reacting when she found out her dad was "addicted to cigarettes" - Good chance she will see him die a slow and painful death from cancer when she is in her 20s, 30s or 40s. I would freak out too if I was her.
You are so right about today's children being sheltered from adult vices.
Neither myself nor my husband or any close friends smoke. I do however have relatives that have smoked for decades that just can't break the addiction. It's quite bewildering for my kids to see them smoke (outside only). We do have beer and wine on ocassion but never over indulge to the point of regretting it the next day. My 2 teenagers know that they'd be in for some serious punishment if they ever came home drunk, high or under the influence of the drug of the week. They've told us about other kids getting into trouble for alcohol, pot etc. and so far they think it's a stupid thing to do. I know they will probably experiment sooner or later but I'm very impressed with their attitudes about partying. They know they can have a good time with friends, music, video games, movies, dancing, etc. without adding any illegal or dangerous substances. | dclm-gs1-101280000 |
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Tyson, Mannie and Jason grew up together in a tough inner-city world, where no one could be trusted and everyone was out for themselves. With opportunities limited, it's crime that pays the bills. For Tyson, it's not about living the lifestyle, it's about supporting his little sister, Nyla, through school and paying off his mum's gambling debts. When he meets Tia, she helps him see there are other ways to escape the cycle of poverty. But with a final job promising a big pay day, Tyson prepares to take his biggest gamble yet. Caught up in an escalating chain of violent events, will he have to make the ultimate sacrifice?
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For the Greeks one of the biggest pleasures is to go out, drink and spend a lot of money at the ''Bouzoukia''...
In general, the history of the bouzouki is actually intertwined with the rebetika songs, which is among the most distinctive Greek music sounds.
The culture of rebetika songs started blooming in the hashish venues and prisons of the port towns in Asia Minor and the Aegean Sea islands at the early years of the 20th century, and reached its peak later during and between the main World Wars.
These rebetika songs had lyrics about hookers and pimps, drugs, love, money, death and everything that could be associated with everyday life. The chords of the songs were based on a wide range of rhythms and ancient modes, and stood out due to the improvisation of their introductions known as taxims.
Today, the music and the clubs that play this music, are referred to as bouzoukia (deriving from the plural of the word bouzouki), after the primary instrument involved.
Bouzoukia are a main entertainment for the Greeks and especially from the 80's they have become a profitable business.
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Figure 3.
Density of states for small systems. (Color Online) DOS and LDOS for a NC = 258 nanodisk (a,d), a NC = 245 one-pentagon nanocone (b,e), and a NC = 246 two-pentagon nanocone (c,f). LDOS curves for the different atoms shown in Figure 2, solid line (black atom 1), dashed line (red atom 2), and dotted line (blue atom 3). Vertical lines in each panel indicate the position of the Fermi energy.
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physcoblonde blogged
Jan 03, 11 5:35am
I'm stealing this idea from Cam (Dramon Knight) but since his post isn't up yet, I'm going to claim it as my idea. :D Kidding, but just letting you all know IT WAS HIS IDEA. I AM SORTA COPYRIGHTING...
Anyways, his idea was to write about what you though about 2010. And I thought it was a brilliant idea and promptly told him I was going to steal it.
So what I thought about 2010...well, I joined Neo about halfway through the year, and nothing but good things have come from that. I met Cam, Kalia (xMoonLightx), Gwen (135jif), Louise (LT23), tyranitar999 (haven't spoken to her in a while, so if you read this, drop me a line :), Asphyxiating (she's currently doing a BB for Sims and so far it's amazing), nigmos and Simshero. And as long as they aren't hiding their secret physco-murderer side DEEP down inside, as far as I can tell they're all really helpful and friendly on the Sims 2 forum.
Also having to do with Sims and the internet, I am stalking people's stories and legacies over at the actual Sims 2 site, or whatever the name of it's called. I've also started my own legacy a few weeks ago, which I would constantly be playing if I didn't have a social life to worry about.
Aside from what some would deem boring online life, in my personal life, nothing much has changed; single and not hating it. School-wise though, I started high school. People told many thing that I should expect, like middle school doesn't prepare you for high school and whatnot, but I beg to differ. First semester grades were finalized a week or so ago, and I'm very happy with all my 1's (otherwise known as A's for us who don't understand GUHSD grading scale).
Wow, I think I've rambled on enough now for many posts, but I haven't done so in a looooong time, so I'll let you read this and do what you will with it.
Until next time, later!
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physcoblonde blogged
Nov 22, 10 4:57am
Does anyone know where I could post a question about my phone? Like it has some serious issues that I think could probably be solved by a person who has a lot more knowledge than me on all that sort of techy stuff. So does any one know?
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physcoblonde blogged
Nov 15, 10 4:55am
Really Neo? Now you're claiming I have TWO unread PM's?! No. I do not! It's really starting to bother me now. Unless they're like hidden in some random folder somewhere, I have no idea what you're talking about. So please, just stop?
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physcoblonde blogged
Nov 14, 10 6:35am
Hey uhm Neo? Why are you saying that I have an unread message when I clearly don't? I've even checked my "Unread PM" box and it says "No Messages Found." It's really no big deal, but it kinda bugs me and my OCD-ness...
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physcoblonde blogged
Nov 12, 10 5:00am
I felt so adult today and you'll never guess why so I'll just tell you: I called 911. Yup, me. And it wasn't for anything personal, let me start off by saying that. So here I go: My friend and I were walking to school when we hear CRUNCH. We look up towards 19th Ave and there is some smooshed cars. We pause for a moment and start saying things like "Should we call 911?" "I think we should." "Do you wanna call?" and so on and so forth until I take my phone out and dial. It even said "Emergency Call" on my phone's screen. I mean, I was like OMG this is my first real call to 911. It wasn't for anything major, but I felt pretty darn good about it. :)
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physcoblonde blogged
Oct 17, 10 3:50am
I had the strangest dream last night, that I just remembered. It went like this:
I was in some alley and following Professor Snape from the Harry Potter Movies. He had a big bucket thing and stopped at a swamp/lake. In the bucket was a bunch of recyclables and he was going to dumb them into the water when I said:
"I can take those home and recycle those if you want me to..."
He stood there staring at me, holding the bucket off the ground.
"If you pour that in there, I will never talk to you again."
Despite what I said, he dumps the whole thing in the water. Then next thing I remember is we're at this humongous house and my family and I are leaving. I went into Snape's room, and that's where I woke up.
I think was spurred by my thinking of Harry Potter recently and the fact that one of my friends was asking why I was such an eco-freak. Just because I believe in recycling and use a metal water bottle, doesn't make me an "eco-freak." Does it?
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physcoblonde blogged
Oct 17, 10 3:12am
The clock ticked by the minutes as we sat in the corner office. The man next to me was Seth Philips, another intern like myself. He began fidgeting with his tie and I twirled my hair.
"Ah! You must be the new interns!" The greeting was spoken from the white haired, portly man entering the room. "I'm your new boss, Mr. Samuels. If you have questions on anything, don't hesitate to ask. Now I am a very busy man and don't have time to chit-chat. Mimi will show you to your desks."
A petite woman opened the door, motioned us out, and shut the door behind her. "I'm sorry if Mr. Samuels was short with you, but he is terribly busy." Mimi lead us down carpeted hallway after carpeted hallway until we reached an office marked Nathaniel Evans. "Do whatever he tells you to." She turned on her heels and walked back the direction that we came from.
"Hello, hello, hello! You must be the new interns! Please call me Nathan as I find last names much too formal," the man said standing up to greet us.
I glanced over to Seth, but he made no move to speak first, "My name is Paige."
"Well, hello there Miss Paige. It's a pleasure to meet you." He said sitting back down and turning to Seth "And you are..?"
"Seth," He mumbled beneath his breath.
"Alright, good good. I know it's your first day and all, but I do have some work for you to do. Please follow me," He picked up some files on his desk and went out the door. I looked after him; waiting for Seth to follow first. He stood there and stared at his hands. Sighing, I went out the door.
And there you go. It's probably not the most interesting of beginnings you've ever read, but I promise it will get better. Comments and criticism are appreciated!
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Oct 17, 10 2:16am
"While everybody else is getting out of bed, I'm usually getting in it"
physcoblonde blogged
Oct 16, 10 4:05am
I was going to wait until morning, but I'm impatient. :) I write (occasionally) and want to put it out there for other people to see. However, I'm a scaredy cat and won't put it in The Writer's Lounge. It seems as if I blog it, it well be seen by less people. I don't know, weird logic going on in my mind here. But I want to at least start putting something out there because someday I plan to be an author. And authors have their work distributed in a myriad of places. I just have to get over my fear of being judged, so if I do ever post some of my writings, will you all give me honest critiques? I don't mean sugar-coated things, but honestly tell me if it's crap-tastical. Please, I don't want it left up if it's horrible. I'm rambling now, so I'll see how I feel in the morning. :)
physcoblonde blogged
Oct 16, 10 3:04am
I didn't even know Neo had a place for useres to blog. Show's how much of a newbie I am...anyways, I'll try to keep this blog for technical things (and the occasional rant :) since I already have a personal one. Oh and books/writing as I see those are Categories. This could be very interesting... :D
Oct 16, 10 2:25am
I just wanted to take the time and thank you all who are on here :)
Oct 06, 10 4:30am
Finally done with everything for end of quarter...thank goodness, I would have burst soon
Sep 29, 10 3:44am
How is it that I'm always distracted by something?
Sep 28, 10 3:48am
Oh Justin Bieber, I hate you for making catchy songs
Sep 28, 10 1:59am
Mator UFO is so ah-dorable!
Sep 27, 10 5:33am
I strongly dislike being partly insomnic
Sep 18, 10 5:15am
As soon as you're born you start dying, so you might as well have a good time
Sep 08, 10 4:16am
I am sucessful, but below average? Explain that
Aug 30, 10 4:00am
Haven't graduated any of my own Sims yet, they still have a year to go. Getting there, but it takes a looooooooooong time TheSims2University PC
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I am almost done with Demon's Souls. If I would play it again I'd probably would reach the point I am in half of the time. It's a game which really reward knowing what to do and going to the right places in the right order. I believe most of the fame it gets it's because it rarely hold the player hands, and the whole "die in the boss, restart the level" can be punishing to people used to savepoints.
What I enjoyed more is the way combat works. Rarely I found a game which your weapon of choice matter so much. I started with a Knight (free long sword) and end up I just stuck with using it. I tried all different weapons but no one feels as right as my trusty long sword. I ponder if I had started with another class I would have a different opinion (almost went Templar)
This said, near the half of the game magic kinda start being more and more useful and like everybody pointed, using a bow makes lots of things easier. | dclm-gs1-101340000 |
By Imran Khan, Patna, March 21 IANS | 2 years ago
Former officials, including those from the elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS), seem to have kept caste equation in mind while choosing the constituency from which they want to contest the Lok Sabha election. Half a dozen former bureaucrats are in the political fray in caste-ridden Bihar.
R.K. Singh, a Bihar cadre IAS officer who is a former union home secretary, is contesting the Ara seat as a BJP candidate.
"After Singh joined the BJP, the party has fielded him from Ara taking the caste factor in his favour," a BJP leader said.
For Singh, a Rajput, an influential upper caste, and native of state's Supaul district, Ara is considered to be a safe seat with a strong presence of his caste men and other upper castes.
"If R.K. Singh has taken the poll plunge to make a difference in politics, he should have contested from Supaul or Madhepura. Why is he contesting from Ara? It raised many eyebrows as it is a sign of the caste factor," said Ranjeev, a political analyst here.
Bihar's ruling JD-U's sitting MP Meena Singh is also a Rajput. She is in the fray again.
Former commissioner of Delhi Police Nikhil Kumar, a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer, is contesting the Lok Sabha poll from Aurangabad as a Congress candidate. He too seemed to have taken the caste factor into consideration.
Kumar, a Rajput, resigned as Kerala Governor, and represented Aurangabad as MP in the past. He is confident of winning the seat considered a traditional seat of his family due to the strong presence of his caste men.
Aurangabad is considered a stronghold of Rajputs in state politics.
The ruling JD-U expelled its sitting MP from Aurangabad Sushil Kumar Singh, who is contesting as the BJP candidate. He is a Rajput.
The JD-U has fielded former Bihar cadre IAS officer K.P. Ramiah for the Sasaram seat. Ramiah, a Dalit, is a native of Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh, who took voluntary retirement last month. He joined the JD-U last week and is eyeing the strong presence of Mahadalits, poorest among Dalits, to decide his fate.
Ramiah, who helped Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to implement several development and empowerment schemes for Mahadalits, is confident to get their support.
Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar is the sitting Congress MP from Sasaram. She is a former Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer and daughter of late Congress leader Babu Jagjivan Ram, a veteran Dalit leader.
Another retired IAS officer Pancham Lal is not as lucky as Ramiah. Lal, a native of neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, tried for a ticket from national as well as regional parties to contest the Lok Sabha poll, but failed. Now Lal, a Dalit, is contesting for the Patliputra seat in Patna as a Forward Bloc candidate.
He said that for him a win or a defeat doesn't matter. "What is important is to raise the cause of the oppressed and weaker sections, who are exploited and victimized."
With three Yadav caste candidates, including former RJD leader and now BJP's Ram Kirpal Yadav, JD-U's Ranjan Prasad Yadav and Lalu Prasad's elder daughter Misa Bharti in fray in Patliputra, Lal is eyeing the nearly 250,000 Dalits votes in the constituency.
Former Bihar police chief and RJD leader Ashish Ranjan Sinha joined the Congress early this week to contest the Lok Sabha poll from the Nalanda constituency, a home turf of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Sinha is a Kurmi - a backward caste - and was nominated by the Congress for Nalanda, locally known as 'Kurmistan' due to the dominance of his caste. He is a native of Nalanda.
Sinha, considered close to Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, was hopeful that his name will figure in the list of RJD candidates for the polls, but his name was dropped due to an alliance with Congress.
"Sinha was keen to contest from Nalanda and the seat went to the Congress under the alliance. Lalu has provided a strong candidate to the Congress from Nalanda," a RJD leader said, indicating that despite an alliance, Sinha was able to become the Congress candidate thanks to Lalu.
Ruling Janata Dal-United's Kausalendra Kumar, a Kurmi, is sitting MP of Nalanda and contesting the poll again this time.
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Rio de Janeiro, July 13 IANS | 2 years ago
Santos have blamed Robinho's high salary demands for the club's failure to lure the AC Milan winger back to Brazil.
Talks over a possible transfer broke down Wednesday after the 29-year-old refused to reduce his USD 500,000-a-month wage request, reports Xinhua.
"The decision is definitive unless something changes on the other side. Milan finished up at a pretty reasonable price-tag, less than six million euros. What Robinho wants to earn coupled with what the club would've paid Milan, creates a figure that is unreasonable for any Brazilian club," Santos president Luis Alvaro de Oliveira Ribeiro said Friday.
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Edible insects — which are part of the traditional diet of an estimated two billion people around the world according to the United Nations — are creeping into mainstream American cuisine, and closing in on Philadelphia.
Take the chapuline, for instance.
Sold at open air markets and at concession stands across Latin America, this small grasshopper is actually a field pest. It's harvested as both a source of income and nutrition.
But the chapuline is also a comfort food, particularly in and around Oaxaca and Puebla, Mexico. Philadelphia is home to a thriving Latin-American community, many of whom hail from these regions of Mexico.
Chef Lucio Palazzo of Manayunk's Taqueria Feliz first tried the popular snack five or six years ago at Xochitl in Society Hill. He had them again in a soup during a trip to Mexico and remembers the salty, earthy, grassy, almost truffle-y flavor.
Traditionally chapulines are toasted with garlic, lemon and oil to unlock the nutty flavor.
Years later he decided to put them on the menu at the approachable Philly taqueria on Main Street and is now selling 20 to 30 orders of "Tacos de Chapulines" a week, at $6.95.
In a town with a food scene sometimes criticized as vanilla, a plate full of grasshoppers can spark up a conversation.
"I think the goal is to have enough edgy stuff on there that if someone is into that sort of thing, they could kind of geek out on it," said Palazzo during a tasting at his Manayunk eatery. "I mean this is geeky food. This is for food nerds."
A taste of 'Comida Loca'
After a quick toss in the frying pan with garlic and oil, the Latin-born hoppers get placed in palm-sized corn tortilla topped with a smear of guacamole and a sprinkling of diced onion and cilantro. A squeeze of chili-coated lime and it's off to the races.
I picked up my first grasshopper taco and took a bite. My mind's eye saw them in there. Grasshopper heads rolling around my mouth, brushing up against my teeth and tongue; like a washing machine of insects.
After the initial discomfort had passed, the flavor and texture of the dish I was served began to emerge. And it was... good.
They were crispy and salty and could have inconspicuously passed for any number of things without a cringe. I finished my taco in another two bites; I even picked up a straggler from the plate and tossed it in my mouth, crunching it up ever so proudly.
It was the first time I'd been served an insect, but I have a feeling it won't be the last.
Bringing over bugs
For the folks at Mt. Airy's Weavers Way, edible insects are nothing new.
"We've been talking about this for a long time," said Glenn Bergman, the co-op's general manager. "We just have to find a source for them and we will be selling them — we will attempt to sell them."
Bergman is currently testing out samples.
"I have sitting on my desk samples from Thailand of scorpions, mealworms and silkworms," he said. "I have about 10 different varieties."
Some come in freeze-dried pouches. Others come in cans. Bergman is still hunting for just the right products, including live varieties.
The market is still very much untapped and unregulated.
The United Nations found that only some of the edible insects making it to countries like the United States and Canada require any safety testing. Though with only a few exceptions, international trade in insects is still seen as insignificant.
"I think the [United Nations] study was a big deal," said Bergman. "And as the world gets a little smaller, who knew, 50 years ago, people wouldn't know half of the things we'd be eating today."
Insect sightings
There are only a handful of notable restaurants serving insects — mainly on the West Coast and New York.
Here in Philly, Palazzo is holding the torch. But an event last year in honor of the Big Bugs exhibit at Chestnut Hill's Morris Arboretum offered what no one else in the city was doing.
Chef Josh Hunter of Company's Coming Catering was recruited to orchestrate the menu. He did some digging, researched the history, flavors and availability of different edible insects, and built a menu around the concept.
Sourcing mainly from a Louisiana insect farm, Hunter was able to put together a menu of organic appetizers —cricket fritters served with a coconut dipping sauce; silkworm summer rolls in rice paper wrappers; a grill-your-own giant hissing cockroach station; a bamboo worm bruschetta; and fresh cut steak fries topped with smoked mealy worms.
Hunter admits that he is in no way an expert, or an entomologist, but his experience in sourcing and serving has set him apart from the rest.
"I'm sharing with people the experience," he said. "I wanted to show different ways to incorporate this into cooking their own menus."
Sustainable sourcing
While the product cost is pretty comparable to chicken or shrimp, edible insects offer sustainability that traditional proteins can't provide.
Insects like grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, weevils, termites and stink bugs, those eaten most often in regions of Latin America, Asia and Africa, can help reduce environmental contamination and can literally be reared on human waste, though there is still much research to be done in that area, according to UN reports.
They pose less risk of transmitting infections to humans compared to traditional sources of protein in America, the report said. They are highly nutritious and high in fat, protein, vitamin, fiber and mineral contents.
So far the only drawback of eating insects can come from the possibility of dangerous amounts of lead or gastrointestinal blockages caused by excessive eating.
And while Philadelphians are a far cry from self-inflicted stomach problems caused by excessive bug consumption, the lasting impressions left by chef's Hunter and Palazzo suggest bugs may be here to stay. | dclm-gs1-101380000 |
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:43:41 -0800 (PST) From: T. Chase McPhee Subject: The Tidelight Zone 05 The story below is a work of fiction, set in the format of reality. Any resemblance to real people is entirely coincidental in nature. It is not meant to accurately reflect upon persons in towns, cities, or governmental areas, in which the story is staged. If a sexual scene involving male-to-male relationships offends you, then you should not read this story. Additionally, if you are under 18 years of age, in most state and countries, you are not allowed to read this story by law. Check with your local laws regarding such. Sexual safety matters. This is fiction. Use protection in real life. `Got condom?' "The Tidelight Zone" 05 wriTten by T. Chase McPhee % "You know you're a rightly fun guy to be with, Steve." "Thanks, Tom." "Hey, you care to dance?" In his few years on the island, Steve has never once set foot on a dance floor with any guy or other variations of the species. "Um.. ah, I'm not sure." "Honest answer, however if you notice Steve, on the dance floor there's only guys dancing with guys?" Steve figures how stupid can he be, by looking around the gay club. Sure enough, guys abound, waving their arms or bopping to the rhythm. "So, what do you say?" "Um.. okay. But one thing, Tom." "What's that Steve?" "I've been meaning to ask you this since we came in." "Don't keep me in suspense, Steve." "Aren't you a bit worried coming into a gay club with your police uniform on?" Tom belts out with laughter. "Sorry `bout that Steve. Here, let's get up and boogie!" On the way to the dancefloor, the twenty-four year old police officer points out the two sweaty men, shirts stripped, dancing close to one another. "See the guy in the jeans?" "Which one?" Pointing to his own ear, Tom says, "The one with the earring." "Yeah, I see him?" "His locker is on the other side of mine." "He's a cop?" Turning, Tom takes Steve's chin in his hand, as if pointing a compass needle. "The blonde stud, dancing with the guy with the navy tank top.... Mike Phillips, two lockers down from me." Steve began feeling his neck loosen up, as Tom pointed out four more police officers. "Damn, the place is crawling with them!" "Yeah. The management likes it when the force is `out' in numbers!" "I'll bet." With that out of the way, Tom began to concentrate on one man. Even though the music streamed through the club, fast as a locomotive, it didn't keep Tom from loosening up Steve's shirt, pulling it from his pants, unbuttoning the gauze fabrice and letting it hang from his shoulders. "Your turn!" Tom yelled to Steve. Being on the shy side, Steve wouldn't have offered to do it on his own, especially it being a police officer's uniform, but with the offer he made light work of unbuttoning Tom's police officer's decorated shirt. With three beers in him, the stepped up pace of the club music, plus the stirring in his loins at the sight of Tom Morito's hot, hairy, beefy body, Steve had no problem in stripping it. He had the look on his face of `what do I do with it'. Unlike his gauze shirt, the navy blue policeman's shirt, laden with patches and name plate weighed ten times more. Grinning, Tom rolled it up into a ball, called out, "Gimme your's!" Incorporating Steve's white, gauze shirt in his own bundle, Tom turned towards the bar, hollaring, "Hey Slim!" A beefy, muscled bartender turned in Tom's direction. With quick reflexes, he caught the tossed bundle, acknowledging the receipt. "How convenient," Steve replied. "He'll be looking for a big tip!" Tom commented. Steve looked down. "Oh, not `that' kind," Tom told him. "The real, paper kind!" Laughing, Steve got even more sweaty when Tom's hairy body sweat mingled with his own. % Five minutes into working over Jay's ass, John said he felt damn funny that Anthony sat there watching. So, a half hour ago, Anthony mounted Jay's chest and began to slowly feed his 8.5c down Jay's throat. Holding onto the metal frame, at the top of the bed, Jay went for the ride of his life. "Here, switch!" "Switch?" Anthony questioned John's idea. "Yeah. I feel like choking Jay for the last time!" Anthony wasn't so sure about that, knowing he himself was an 8.5c and John measurably longer. "Are you sure, John?" "Hey, who do you think taught Jay to deep throat cock?" Anthony got up to change places, even though he wasn't sure that Jay could take that monster down. But it felt so nice replacing his cock into Jay's warm chute that he forgot about John deep throating Jay. Not that he was listening for it, but he didn't pick up on Jay getting strangled of anything, either! After an hour so, pumping at both openings, John and Anthony yelled out. John's semen wound up in Jay's belly, but Anthony pulled out to spray the biggest orgasm he's ever had, through the valley of Jay's legs. "Hot, literally speaking, orgasm!" John told Anthony, wiping it off of his back. "Oh, sorry about that, John. I didn't mean to..." "No problem, Anthony. Our little cumslut here wouldn't mind cleaning me off!" Giggling, Anthony thought John hilarious, but also caught onto the possessive slang. He didn't mind sharing Jay at all, not feeling an ounce of jealousy or anything. "Hey, anytime John." "Don't wish for something you might regret, man." "I'm not. I think it was kind of hot, John." Jay lay there, kind of hoarse. "Hmm... how about catching a shower with me, Anthony?" "Shower?" "I don't know about you, but I feel all sweaty and gritty." "Same here, but what about your businessman?" "He's a quick trick. He can wait." Entering the jon, Anthony got more of a visual perspective of John's naked bod. "Wow!" "What?" John said, standing before the toliet, tinkling. "You're... um... gorgeous!" John laughed his ass off. "You think so, do you?" "That's a def. Do you workout?" Anthony didn't rightly know much of a conversation to carry on, but his immediate question was drawn out enough that he could take on the view of John's features, without making it seem like he watched the twenty-four year old, six foot tall jock, pissing. Resembling a cross, John's light brown body hair extended from one side of his pec to the other. From mid-chest, it it ran up to his neckline, in a single path. Shooting downwards, it became more defined when hitting the border of his chest and stomach. Then, swirling around his deep navel, it formed a defined path to his pubes. Of course it looked darker, being glued to his body by sweat, plus his hand that had smeared some of Anthony's cum into it like hair gel. "I'll start the shower. You gotta piss?" "Um, yeah." Like he watched John piss, when his heated liquid came out, it first had to blow the plug of semen. Then it squirted out with no problem, adding to John's smelly. Smiling a toothy grin, John appeared, his hand on the handle. He flushed. "Kind of funky, huh?" "Good thing you arrived. I was ready to keel over!" Anthony joked back. "C'mon. I think I need a nice `long' shower." Something about John, drew Anthony into the shower, expecting more than getting clean. Entering the pulsing jet streams, John got in first, leading Anthony. "Oooooh, does this feel awesome!" Anthony bellowed out. "Yeah, does," John agreed. Anthony felt something amiss, but let it go. He figured it just weird being in the shower with a guy he met only hours ago. "C'mon, take the soap and do my back." "Yeah, okay," Anthony agreed, taking the bar of soap from John, whom had picked it up from the soapdish. "By the way, I was wondering something, John." "Shoot!" He replied, waiting for the question. Being three inches shorter, Anthony stood behind John, waxing his back with the soapy lather. He got down to John's waist and began swirling it around the sides of his bod, cutting off at the small of his back. In the middle of telling his tale of how he and Jay met, about eight years ago, John tells Anthony, "Keep going." "Um, beg your pardon?" Reaching behind himself, John moves Anthony's hand right over his ass crevice. "Um, you want me to..." "If you don't mind?" "Um, okay." Anthony didn't mind it at all, to slip his soapy hand into John's lightly haired ass crack. "Oooooooh, that feels so good!" Not believing what he was hearing, the proof came about, as his finger made contact with John's asshole. Instead moving forwards, John encouraged Anthony, pressing backwards. "Um, John, I thought..." "Two fingers, please." "But, you're a top?" "Yeah, but what man doesn't like having his ass played with!" "Are you serious, John? You want me to stuff two of my fingers inside you?" "Sure. Why? Haven't you ever done that to a guy before?" A moment of silence fell upon the shower. "You're being serious, Anthony?" "Well, I've felt up my own asshole. Does that count?" "Let me ask you, Anthony. Is it more pleasurable to jerk yourself off or have a hot bottom's lips wrapped around it?" "Oh," Anythony got the analogy. Turning back around, his ass towards Anthony, John once again places the hand to his ass. "What do I do?" "Same as if you're doing to your own ass, only more so." "More so, huh?" Anthony said, as he probed the small cake of soap inside the twenty-four year old's crevice. "Oooooh yeah... yeah... move it against my sphincter... yeah, force it in, Anthony... that's it..." "Um, isn't this going to like, stretch it, John?" "A little. Feels real cool, though. Keep pushing it." As Anthony did what John requested, he noticed the thin cake of soap bend. "Uh-oh!" "What?" John questioned. "Nothing, John, other than I lost the soap!" "No problem." "No problem, John? The bar of soap is in your ass!" "It's small. It'll come out. But thanks. It felt real hot while it lasted. Besides, then maybe I wouldn't need as much lube." With a strange look on his face, Anthony asks, "Lube? For what, John?" Turning, John had a smile on his face. A hand behind him turned off the water. Then both came to rest on Anthony's shoulders. "I know Jay would tell you this himself, only he's kind of got a `sore' throat." "Tell me what?" "Our childhood bet." "Wait. You don't have AIDS do you or anything?" "No, nothing like that. Trust me." For whatever feeling pervaded, Anthony did trust John. "I do, John." Smiling, Anthony wasn't ready for the next course of action. Moving his head forward, turning it slightly, John cupped his lips over Anthony's. The nineteen year old didn't fight the feeling. In fact, when John pressed his wet chest against Anthony's, he let it happen. "Wow! You're a great kisser, too." "Not so bad yourself, hot shot!" John grinned, as he complimented. It then occured to Anthony, "Hey, isn't there like a few years difference in your ages?" Meaning John and Jay. "You know, there's a lot of explaining to do. Why don't you and I get dressed and get some dinner?" "What about Jay?" "Sore throat. Remember?" "Oh yeah." "Besides the guy would be walking kinda funny!" It was Anthony's turn to laugh and he did it with heartiness. He was finding John to be fun with. Exiting the jon, Jay entered, brushing chests with John. "Dumb, Jay. Real dumb. I just got out of the shower and your sweaty, cummy bod slithered all over my fresh skin." Before Jay could respond, Anthony checks out, "Um, John and I are going to dinner. You want to join us?" "Oh no," Jay replies, with a yawn. "You two got me all tired out. Go on. Have some fun." Anthony more thought that Jay would object. He wondered about the response, adding `have some fun'. If in Jay's place, he would be questioning John and Jay going out without him. Right now, one of his opinions of John included being a hot fox. "Here, wear this." "Where did this come from?" Holding up a pair of jeans, torn here and there, he wonders. "I think you're Jay's size. They'll fit." "Might be a bit tight, John." "Show off your shapely figure?" "Besides, I thought you wanted to go to dinner." "Sure, at the gay club. Here, throw this tank on." "Um, okay." However, even though John put his jeans back on, he fed his arms into one of Jay's white tees over. Walking out the door, John commented, "Just for show. Soon as we hit the club, it'll be coming off. Oh, almost forgot..." Anthony watched John comb through Jay's pants pocket, producing a set of keys. "Hey Jay, borrowing the jeep," He yelled to the jon, loud enough to wake up Elton and Marc, but didn't. "Yeah, okay," came the response, with the toliet flushing. One last time, before they departed, Anthony asks Jay, "Sure you don't want to come, Jay?" "Oh no. I don't know what it is, but my throat feels real scratchy. You two go. Live it up!" "Okay. If you say so," Anthony replied. Feeling good about going out with John, he did have reservations about leaving Jay there. Only a couple of hours ago, it seemed like Jay was pledging his love to him, making him feel convinced they had been a couple. With John in the picture now, that vision seemed foggy. "You coming, Anthony?" "Yeah. Sure." Watching Jay fall face first into the pillow, he turned to be escorted out of the room. "Poor guy," Anthony said to John. "Yeah right. Wouldn't be the first time he wound up with a sore throat. "John can I talk to you about something?" "Sure." "Can you keep it confidential?" "From whom?" "Jay. I know you're buddies and go a way back. You seem to know a lot about him." "There isn't much we don't know about each other," John confides in Anthony. "I kind of got the feeling tonight that Jay and me... well..." "Want to be a couple. I figured that's what Jay was getting at. I think it's nice." "But John, it also seems like. Well that there's this attachment between you and Jay. Meaning, close?" Starting up the engine, John smiled, replying, "Only in friendship. Sure, he's a hot fuck, but as far as the `newlywed game', nada!" "Do you have a man in your life right now that fits that cliche?" "Might be." Anthony thought that John was getting too close to him, or on the other hand, taking Jay away from him. With the aspect of a man in his life already, he lightened up on the subject. "What's he like?" "Average guy. Young, good looking, innocent, nice bod." "Sounds dreamy." "Oh, he is." "Will I meet him tonight? Is that where you're taking me? To meet him?" "I guess you might say that." "Cool!" "Does he work there?" "Where?" "At the gay club you're taking me to!" "Oh! Yeah... I mean no. No, he doesn't work there." Still, Anthony put together his own facsimile of John's boyfriend. % At the Triple Army Medical Center, Mehmet waited outside the examination room, with Keffen Naegelen. "Why did you bring him to an army hospital, Keffen?" "Loyalty, I suppose." "You were in the US Army?" "Yes. Almost wound up medical, but other things transpired." Mehmet, shy about people, didn't pry, letting the explanation go. "Tell me about you, Mehmet," Keffen `did' pry. "Not much to tell about me." "I take it you're gay." "Yes, sir." "How does your parents take that fact?" Shrugging his shoulders, he replied, "My mother doesn't mind much. My father doesn't like the idea. I try not to bring up the subject." "So, they both know you are." "Yes, but my father doesn't want to believe it, I think. In my country we have traditions." "Like anywhere else, but I suppose... is it that you're from Egypt?" "Yes, sir." "Then I can see where being gay would give your father thoughts. Would you ming sharing them with me?" Taking a deep breath, then swallowing, finally clearing his throat, Mehmet got up the nerve to say, "He didn't like it very much." "Um, you father?" The nineteen year old nodded `yes'. Bending over in his seat, placing his elbows on his knees, Mehmet looked at the floor tiles, revealing, "I couldn't get much in, other than telling him I was gay. He got so violent." Keffen leaned forward, putting his arm on Mehmet's dark, hairy forearm. "I'm sorry to hear that. What happened, if you don't mind sharing?" Keffen Naegelen didn't let on that his original area of medical endeavor had been psychology. In reality, their conversation resembled a therapy session. "First he told me that I couldn't be gay. I told him I was and that nothing could change that. I wanted to speak my mind. Don't you think that it was alright to do that, Keffen?" "Of course. If you feel strongly about something, you should talk about it." "But my father didn't want to hear anything of it." "Question, Mehmet?" "Yes?" "How old had you been when you told your father?" "Sixteen." "What made you come out to him?" "I don't know. I had met this boy in school. We talked that afternoon. He told me that he was going to tell his parents that night. I wanted to be brave like him... only." Again Mehmet's head sank down between his shoulders. "What is it, Mehmet?" Keffen pursued, putting his arm around Mehmet's shoulder, the opposite of his sitting position. "He didn't tell his parents. I wound up telling mine, but he told me he chickened out." "How did you feel?" "Livid. I was, as Marc put it, `angry as all hell'!" "Marc you say?" "Yes. We're all related, Marc, Elton and I." "Cousins?" "Yes and we're all gay. Anyway, that's when I began going over to Marc's house a lot. His dad had passed away and he welcomed the company." "You're telling me a lot here, but let's get back to your father. I take it he still doesn't recognize your gay sexuality?" "Never did. He made it clear, after the first beating that..." "Wait a minute. He beat you?" "Dammit! I wasn't going to ever tell anyone!" Mehmet's throat then filled up, his sinuses feeling congested. "That's alright," Keffen forced the nineteen year old Egyptian teen into his arms. "Let it all out, Mehmet." "I was scared." "Of course you were." "He pulled so hard on my shirt that he tore it. Then he unbuckled his belt and took it off. Pushing me over the end of the sofa, he whipped me and whipped me, telling me, `no son of mine is going to be a faggot!'" "That's alright. Let it out Mehmet." "Hey, what's happening here." Suddenly, in the face of the guy he only met an hour and a half ago, Mehmet quickly wiped his tears away, dousing his aggravated attitude. "Are you okay, Mehmet?" Sitting down on the other side of Mehmet, Sean acted all concerned. "Are you okay?" Mehmet hit Sean with. "Doc says I checkout okay. Man, do you see all these hot looking jarheads?" It made Keffen laugh, carrying Mehmet along on the comical manner in which he giggled. "So, what's with you?" Sean didn't let whatever was troubling Mehmet, subside into a meanlingless matter. "Nothing." However, Keffen chanced cluing Sean into Mehmet's personal matter. "Mehmet was telling me about his first coming out moment with his parents." "Damn, I hope it was happier than mine!" "Um, I don't know," Mehmet replied. Before he had to tell Sean, he asked, "What happened to you?" Sean was nonstop into the explanation, "Oh shit! When I told my dad, he went ballistic! Started slapping me around. Broke the lamp and forget it when my mom came in. My dad told her I just told him I was a faggot." "Faggot?" Keffen asked. "I didn't tell him I was a faggot, I said I was gay. Still, he didn't care what it was called. But I figured at least my mom would understand. But she was into one her drinking fits and joined forces with my dad. The first thing she did was slap me across the face, telling me she was sorry she had my worthless little ass." "I'm sorry, Sean," Mehmet replied, in earnest. "Yeah. Well thanks. It was a long time ago." "How old?" Keffen inquired. "I was seventeen." "And you're how old now?" "Nineteen. My birthday was three days ago." "Wonderful!" Keffen replied. "Happy Birthday, Sean," with a hand to his back. "Thanks Keffen." "Happy birthday," Mehmet also added. "Thanks. It's no big deal though." "Surely your mother offered her congratulations, Sean?" "Nah. She's a go-go dancer. After work, she brought home some trick at two in the morning. I couldn't sleep from hearing the bed banging on the wall for two hours!" Keffen could see that Sean didn't have any real family life. As for Mehmet, he had this constant loaded grenade over his head. "What would you boys say going out for a drink?" "I don't drink," Mehmet told them, "except spring water." "You've never had a beer?" Sean asked him. "Oh yes. Elton and Marc buy me one at the club." "And?" "Hold it a sec," Sean put his hand on Mehmet's thigh. Sean's attention had been drawn to the rear of two passing jarheads. Keffen called, "Hey, Phil... Joaquin!" "What are you doing?" Sean asked Keffen. Before Keffen could give the explanation, he was introducing the two. "I want you to meet my friends, Sean and Mehmet." The two youthful jarheads didn't look much older than Sean and Mehmet. "Nice to meet you," Phil said, taking Mehmet's hand in his. "Are you boys going off duty?" "Matter of fact, we are, Keff," replied Phil, scanning the two. Coincidentally, it's the bod that Sean was admiring. "My friends here and I are on our way to the club, for a birthday celebration. Would you care to join us?" "Who's birthday?" "Sean's," Keffen relayed to the two. Sean wasn't any dumb bunny. He's seen it a hundred times when a man has given his mother the once over, three times! He came right out and asked, "You gay, Phil?" Acting like it was preposterous... how could Sean tell, Phil gave in, saying, "Yeah and I hope `you are'!" "Only one way to answer that." Boldly, Sean stepped forward, cupping Phil's head in his hand, bring their lips together. "Damn, you move fast!" Phil replied. "Don't like fast men?" Sean joked with Phil. "I `love' fast men!" Phil replied, his hand cupping Sean's left ass cheek. On the other hand, the other jarhead took Mehmet's hand, saying, "I guess I know who my date is. Let me introduce myself... Joaquin Alejandro Martinez, at your service." Phil replies to that, "Joaquin here is a little old-fashioned!" "Shut up, Phil," Joaquin elbows him in the gut. "Can't you see I'm trying to make an impression?" Cutting up, Phil retorts, "Yeah. Any lower and that would have been `some impression'!" Keffen laughed along with the quartet, Mehmet smiling, but not exploding with as much laughter as the other four. "Hey, do we get to change?" Phil inquires. "Yeah, we won't be caught dead at the club in our uniforms!" Sean asks, "Need some help with those buttons, Phil?" "Hmm!" He replies, wiggling his eyebrows. Phil and Sean pair up, already good buds, walking, arms over shoulders, down the hospital wing. "You can come along too, if you want Mehmet?" Mehmet looks to Keffen, as if asking permission from his father, which would be totally ludicrous anyway. Keffen boldly replies, "I think you should! I'll wait here." "C'mon," Joaquin replied. Not as gruff, he added, "You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. I'm... I'm not like Phil. Really I'm not." "Okay," Mehmet replied. Unlike Phil, Joaquin took hold of Mehmet's hand. "It okay that we walk holding hands, Whakin?" "Joaquin.... like in keen?" "I get it. Where are we going?" "Lockerroom. Oh but you can wait outside if it bothers you." When they arrived, neither Phil, nor Sean had been outside. Entering, Joaquin and Sean heard soft sounds coming from the shower area. "Son of a gun!" Joaquin shouted. Lying on the bench, tumbling onto the floor, was Phil's uniform, white tee shirt and briefs. Strewn, intermixed, Sean's clothing lay nearby. "Those are Sean's clothes!" Mehmet replied. Already unbuttoning his shirt, Joaquin told him, "I'll only be a second, Mehmet. I don't need to really shower." It suddenly hit Mehmet that for the last few years he's been living his life in the shadow of his father. All the fun the guys, Elton, Marc and Anthony had, he's been reserved on participation. He even figured his lack of confidence had robbed him of his opportunity to seize a relationship with Steve. As he watched Joaquin undress, pull the tee shirt out of his pants, strip it, divulge the dark brown hairy pits, lifting the tee shirt up. Around each brown, perky nip, ran an inch of chest hair. A small patch, midchest, fanned out, then came to a trickle, as it descended Joaquin's taut stomach, dipping into his deep navel. "I think you should shower." "Huh?" Joaquin questioned, unbuckling his belt. "I think you should shower and I can shower with you." "Shower with me? Are you sure about that?" Mehmet then thought twice about it. His intentions hadn't been at all like Sean's. He wasn't trying to make a fast play. "I don't have to." All along, Joaquin had detected the shy repose of the Egyptian teen. He also knew that along life's highway it was each of our jobs to help bring guys out, develop their true self. "You know, Mehmet, if probably wouldn't hurt?" Not fully understanding what Joaquin meant, Mehmet asks, "Do I smell?" Joaquin couldn't help laughing out loud, which fortunately brought a slight grin from Mehmet. With only his belt unbuckled, he approached the nineteen year old. They stared at each other before Joaquin made the first advance, doing what Sean did in the hallway. Mehmet let the latino place his hand behind his head and touch lips, with his own. Standing there, hands at his sides, Mehmet let it happen, allowing Joaquin's hand to slide down the back of his shirt, then use two hands to pull the dress shirt out of his pants. He stood there, still embracing their lips, allowing Joaquin to feel his hairy body, allowing the latino to move his hands flat against his sides, then feel up his stomach and chest. "I'll undo my shirt, okay?" "No babe, allow me," Joaquin announced, withdrawing his hands from their wanderings. "I liked your kiss." "Me too," Joaquin said. However, when he had Mehmet's shirt fully opened, draped behind his back, Joaquin had the best comment. "Beautiful!" "What is beautiful?" Mehmet questioned, looking down his front. "All this beautiful hair!" All Mehmet could do was sigh in pleasure, as Joaquin leaned down, forward, his tongue making connection with the black hair follicles on the nineteen year old's chest. Sticking his tongue out, he painted a path around Mehmet's left nip. It seemed that Joaquin did more moaning than Mehmet. Being not totally confident about meeting a man, Mehmet asked the first question that came to mind. "How old are you?" "Twenty. Is that okay? Why? How old are you?" Mehmet felt overpowered, but also answered, "Twenty is okay. I'm nineteen." "We're almost the same age. I'll be twenty-one next month." "I turned nineteen two months ago." "Oh," Joaquin then felt a let down. "But you not too old for me!" Mehmet assured him, with a wry smile. "That's good." "Why?" "Um..." Trying to find his own path of words, Joaquin said something stupid, like, "because... because I'm really getting to like swirling my tongue around your hot nips?" Like an idiot, Joaquin stood there, looking at Mehmet's face, waiting for a reaction. Not sure what to say, nor think, Mehmet came back at Joaquin with, "Can I taste your nips?" Joaquin laughed, which made Mehmet join in on the laughter. % 5 Continued.... Copyright 2006 T. Chase McPhee This story may not be sold or made part of any collection without prior written permission. | dclm-gs1-101390000 |
'Muppets Most Wanted' movie review: Kermit the Frog, a comic caper -- and a case of deja vu
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on March 21, 2014 at 6:20 AM, updated March 21, 2014 at 3:04 PM
Tracking the trajectory of the Muppets' big-screen career reveals a pretty-hard-to-miss arc. It's roughly the same arc you'd get if you viewed Gonzo the Great in profile.
This is a franchise that was at its height in 1979 with the lovely, lively and laugh-filled original "Muppet Movie." The eagerly awaited sequel would end up being a somewhat less lovely and less lively caper film ("The Great Muppet Caper"), followed by a string of decreasingly clever movies that would eventually to a Gonzo-shaped nose-dive into shrug-worthy material worthy of little more than the direct-to-DVD bin.
Fast-forward to the post-Disney-acquisition of Jim Henson's beloved creations and the subsequent rebooting of the franchise, and it's hard not to feel a bit of déjà vu.
The Muppets' second big-screen life launched with 2011's lovely, lively and laugh-filled "The Muppets," which wisely followed the blueprint set by the 1980 original, incorporating a raft of fun celebrity cameos as well as playfully quirky production numbers. Now, with the arrival of the follow-up "Muppets Most Wanted," it would appear the Muppet masters might be following the blueprint a bit too closely.
This just-amusing-enough second outing is also a somewhat less lovely and less lively caper film. Can the direct-to-DVD bin be far behind?
That's not to say "Muppets Most Wanted" is all stuffing and nonsense. The franchise hasn't declined that much just yet. There are entertaining moments to be had here, for sure.
For starters, songwriter Bret McKenzie -- who won an Oscar for his tune "Man or Muppet" from the 2011 reboot -- is back for more, penning a number of dead-on genre satires that double as concise bits of toe-tapping character development. A personal favorite: the MGM-style musical number "We're Doing a Sequel," in which Kermit and pals acknowledge that follow-ups are rarely as good as the original.
That, it turns out, is downright prophetic.
McKenzie's songs are smart and silly and fun -- and they are what many non-kindergartners will likely wish the rest of "Muppets Most Wanted" was. Unfortunately, though, "Muppets Most Wanted" is decidedly less clever on the whole. In fact, it comes dangerously close to being "just another" Muppet movie.
Even the story feels like one the Muppets have told before: While they are out on a world tour, their fearless froggy leader -- that would be Kermit the Frog -- is kidnapped by a criminal genius named Constantine, who harbors secret plans for an elaborate jewelry heist.
As it turns out, Kermit is key to that plan, since Constantine is a nearly flipper-for-flipper twin of him, and since the Muppet world tour would take Constantine to venues that are within striking distance of the targets for his brand of amphibious nefariousness. And so just like that, Kermit finds himself locked up in a Russian gulag while Constantine fools all of the other Muppets into thinking he is the real deal.
Naturally, none of the sweet but simple Muppets notice that Kermit has been replaced by an imposter. Neither do they seem to notice that the new "Kermit" speaks with a thinly disguised Russian accent. That is the downside, I suppose, of having a head made of felt, fur and/or feathers.
Director James Bobin, who directed 2011's "The Muppets," also returns for this one, and he's got a strong human cast to assist him. In addition to those aforementioned cameos (Lady Gaga, Zack Galifianakis, Stanley Tucci, Salma Hayek, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christoph Waltz ...), we get supporting performances from Ricky Gervais as Constantine's No. 2; Tina Fey as the iron-fisted commander of a Russian gulag; and Ty Burrell as a very Clouseau-informed detective.
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Those are three funny people, and they make the most of what they have to work with here. But there are still too many lulls in the film's nearly two-hour running time, and too many opportunities for ordinariness to creep into the mix.
Oh, your pre-schooler will probably enjoy the novelty of seeing a singing, dancing frog alongside a joke-telling, hat-wearing bear and a lovestruck pig. But the Muppets have always been at their best when they remember to include the parents in the fun along with the tadpoles.
Unfortunately, that's one area where "Muppets Most Wanted" is left wanting.
2 stars, out of 5
Snapshot: A family-friendly adventure in which Kermit the Frog -- unbeknownst to his Muppet brethren -- is kidnapped and imprisoned by a nearly identical criminal genius who then assumes his life as head Muppet.
What works: Songwriter Bret McKenzie, who won an Oscar for his work on the 2011 "The Muppets," once more contributes several dead-on genre satires that are turned into clever and toe-tapping production numbers.
What doesn't: The fun is more sporadic than in its 2011 predecessor, with a film that feels dangerously close to being "just another" Muppet movie.
Cast: Ricky Gervais, Tina Fey, Ty Burrell, Jemaine Clement, with the voices of Eric Jacobson, Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, Matt Vogel and Bill Barretta. Director: James Bobin. Rating: PG, for some mild action. Running time: 1 hour 52 minutes. Where: Find New Orleans and Baton Rouge showtimes. | dclm-gs1-101400000 |
Frustrated by Feinberg in BP claims process: An editorial
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on December 26, 2010 at 6:30 AM, updated December 26, 2010 at 7:40 AM
Elmer Rogers doesn't know what else he can do. In applying for some of the $20 billion that BP is setting aside for those harmed by this year's historic oil spill, the 43-year-old fisher from Gretna presented a stack of supporting documents to the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. He didn't just show those documents to somebody low on the organization's totem poll.
ishers-elmer-rogers.jpgElmer Rogers,43, of Gretna, has been fishing out of Empire in Plaquemines Parish since he was 7 years old. He has been trying to get BP settlement money from the oil spill but has run into nothing but roadblocks.
Quite the opposite: Mr. Rogers won an audience with claims administrator Kenneth Feinberg himself, and he showed him his tax returns, trip tickets, fishing licenses and sworn statements. He'd be paid within 48 hours, he says Mr. Feinberg promised.
That was three months ago.
As of this week, Mr. Rogers had yet to receive anything. He's been told that his claim is legitimate and that he should have been dispensed $46,000 the very day he met with Mr. Feinberg. But he hasn't received a check, and he's understandably angry.
Mr. Rogers is hardly the only fisher who's frustrated with the Gulf Coast Claims Facility. He's one of many thousands. About 30,000 applicants -- many of them ethnic Vietnamese -- have been unable to collect on their loss-of-subsistence fishing claims.
Another group of applicants has gotten money after making some kind of claim, but people in that group haven't gotten an amount equivalent to their stated losses. Then there are people like Mr. Rogers who say they've provided everything they've been asked but have been inexplicably kept waiting.
Mr. Feinberg received high marks for the way he handled claims made by family members who lost relatives during the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, but the number of people directly harmed by the oil spill greatly exceeds the number of people who lost close family members on Sept. 11. People of varying professions were harmed in varying degrees from the spill, which only adds to the complexity of the situation.
Nevertheless, Mr. Feinberg promised that legitimate applicants could expect to receive money within a day or two. Yet, many applicants have languished for months without receiving anything, and Mr. Feinberg appears loath to blame his organization for that. If a person's been waiting for money since August, he told The Times-Picayune, there must be something wrong with the application. "All I can say is there's a very, very good reason for it." Apparently not so good a reason that he can share it with frustrated applicants. Mr. Rogers says he doesn't know why he hasn't gotten a payment.
Mr. Feinberg's presence here along the Gulf Coast is supposed to guarantee that people with legitimate claims can get damages they're owed by BP without having to give a portion of it to a hired lawyer. Yet, hundreds of people were so frustrated with Mr. Feinberg's slow pace that they lined up in the cold this month to sign over a third of any money they get to attorney Tim Porter if Mr. Porter can help them secure the money. That should be a sign to Mr. Feinberg how frustrated people are with him and his organization.
He set high expectations when he said that people who suffered because of BP's spill could get money quickly. Yet, Mr. Rogers had his lights and water cut off Monday. His money hasn't come quickly enough. | dclm-gs1-101410000 |
Michael Haneke
France / Austria / Germany / Italy, 2005
Review by Chiranjit Goswami
Posted on 07 October 2005
Source Sony Pictures Classics 35mm print
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There is a scene near the beginning of Michael Haneke’s Caché that probably goes unnoticed by casual spectators, but reveals a great deal about the intentions of a film that distracts, confounds, and frustrates so many viewers. Unfortunately, it’s easy to discard the sequence as merely imparting plot details if one is overly fixated on the thriller aspect of Haneke’s film. The scene begins routinely enough with a close-up of Georges as he hosts his book-review TV show and then slowly pulls back to a wider shot as he bids goodnight to his loyal audience. As is customary the discussion panel is revealed and the director asks them to hold for the credits to roll. Based on the familiar situation, it’s clear that the perspectives of both the fictional TV program and Haneke’s film have become temporarily synchronized during the show’s closing segment in order to show Georges at work. At this point the perspective of the TV program harmlessly supersedes the viewpoint of the film. While the panel continues their discourse, a woman notifies Georges that he has an urgent phone call. Considering the recent unnerving events that have frightened his family, Georges is flustered and walks off the TV set into a nearby hallway. It turns out his family has been harassed yet again by their unknown enemy and Georges must hurry home. The sequence seems fairly ordinary within a standard thriller.
However, there is a distinct incongruence in perspective during the scene if one questions just who has positioned the viewer as a voyeur. If we are watching the production of a French TV show, then why has the cameraman tracked Georges while he takes a personal call in the hallway (the entire shot is unbroken by editing) and why is the sound still on? If we are only watching a simple thriller then why were we obligated to watch the conclusion of the TV show? Just who exactly is watching Georges at this moment? The answer lies in the fact that Caché is anything but a straightforward movie. If viewers seek to crack the mystery Haneke initially assembles they should then be prepared to take their examination far past the limits imposed upon the usual thriller.
Haneke begins his film in high-definition video by having us watch a long, uninterrupted, stationary shot of an undisclosed street in Paris. Given its length and monotony, the visual soon turns tiresome, until the picture suddenly and inexplicably becomes distorted in a familiar fashion. The collective unease is alleviated by the sound of two off-screen voices commenting on the images. It quickly becomes apparent that the unidentified speakers are responsible for rewinding the film.
Though the audience once again comprehends the circumstances, Haneke has forced the viewer to momentarily debate just who exactly controls the image being watched. On some level even Haneke has relinquished a certain degree of influence over the footage. Indeed, much of the unease that Caché exudes is created from the ambiguity of the visual context and the uncertainty over who controls its creation and observation. In retrospect, Haneke’s explicitly states his intentions right away by slowly typing his credits onto the screen. Within a single shot, Haneke has expertly shaped a situation whereby the viewer must constantly be conscious of the position of the camera and it is mandatory to question the perspective of every frame of the film.
The viewer is then allowed temporary relief as Haneke shifts to a more ordinary style in order to arrange his unsettling scenario. The opening sequence is revealed to be from a surveillance video of the home of a bourgeois couple, named Georges and Anne, who are now watching the tape. Georges is a respectable TV personality while Anne works at a publishing company, and they have a teenage son named Pierrot (for the Pierrot le fou buffs, I believe they also have a friend named Marianne). The problem is that the mundane footage is not from any surveillance camera the couple has implemented themselves. Instead, Anne found the tape on their doorstep accompanied by what appears to be a child’s crayon drawing, though the precision of the sketch suggests imitation. The drawing is of a particularly grisly image of red/blood (let’s not forget Godard’s distinction between the two) spilling from a child’s open mouth. More tapes materialize, with each successive video image closing the distance between observer and subject and further invading the family’s privacy. Each new tape is accompanied by another crude drawing, with the severity of the image depicted escalating with each subsequent package. Equally alarming is that their adversary deliberately taunts the family by ensuring each family member receives drawings outside their home, threatening the implicit safety of everyday locations. More disturbing is how the images affect Georges’ memory and dreams, as well as how well they predict events.
With repressed childhood memories restored, Georges assumes he knows the identity of the perpetrator. His suspicions lead him back to his family’s farm, where Georges gently confronts his mother about the childhood troubles he had with a young Algerian boy named Majid, who his parents considered adopting before the conflict between the two boys made it impossible. The remainder of Caché is devoted to investigating the exact details of the childhood dispute between Georges and Majid, as well as whether or not Georges’ childish indiscretion against Majid has any connection to the wave of harassment his family is currently subjected to. The exact details of both offenses remain vague throughout, but Caché purposely leaves one mystery entirely unresolved in order to scrutinize other issues.
Among Haneke’s chief concerns are the consequences of France’s prior transgressions against Algeria, which France now appears content to conveniently disregard. Haneke is not disguising the fact that Georges and Majid represent their respective countries and that their past personal conflicts serve as metaphor for the history between the two nations. The metaphor is especially overt since the childhood rivalry took place during the height of the clash between France and Algeria. However, his allegory could certainly be extended further to a view of any majority in power and the minority trying to subsist.
Convinced Majid is attempting to now settle the past grievance by now terrorizing his family, Georges uses clues planted within the videotapes to hunt down and confront the middle-aged Algerian. His search leads him to a small apartment in a more meager section of town, where Majid calmly invites him into his home with the disparity in their living conditions becoming clear. The discussion between the two men regarding their history and whether either is willing to take responsibility for prior actions explores the prevailing views of the prosperous and the exploited. Majid seems to have accepted his circumstance and remains composed and reasonable throughout their conversation, while Georges is hostile and aggressive at the notion that he is obligated to feel guilty over past childish actions he made before he developed a mature moral code. The reunion ends with a foolish threat that will later be manipulated. Though possibly unwarranted, the antagonistic behavior between the two men will continue. Unfortunately, while Majid’s participation remains unclear, Georges’ tactics display an increasing degree of aggression. As Georges continues to invade and attack Majid’s basic rights through more formal means, determining the offending party becomes problematic, while the ideas of intimidation and terrorism becomes confusing.
Based on his career to date, many view the attitude within Haneke’s films to simply be one of cynicism and condemnation. His supporters usually claim Haneke to be a shrewd critic of Western society who compels his audience to examine their casual assumptions. Meanwhile, his detractors maintain he is overly judgmental and arrogant, creating films that are infatuated with their own nasty morality. Even worse, some view Haneke to be purposely spiteful and cruel to his own characters. It’s actually a tough assertion to refute, given films such Funny Games and The Piano Teacher. However, this viewpoint somewhat ignores Haneke’s remarkable concentration on his characters. Through long takes that allow his actors opportunity to probe, Haneke often spends an excruciating amount of time dissecting characters that others would leave as caricatures. Certainly, there are prolonged moments within many Haneke films, especially his more recent efforts, where we not only understand the plight of his characters, but also identify with their inadequacies and tendencies, however extreme and exaggerated these flaws may seem. Few contemporary directors allow their actors, and thus their audience, to gain such an absorbing intimacy with such distasteful characters. Though slightly more subdued, Caché is no different, as it’s centered on the astute performances of Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche as the frightened couple that have their tranquil marriage disrupted by the husband’s inability to admit his past mistakes or to trust his spouse with the fundamental details of his own character.
It is easy to dismiss Haneke’s message in Caché as just another simplified version of Western guilt over a colonialist history that once exhibited racist beliefs. On the surface Caché appears to be another instance of a director reprimanding the bourgeois for achieving their status through the exploitation of an oppressed class. However, hidden within Haneke’s film is a more considerate appraisal of his lead character’s mentality, which raises Caché above being just another redundant message-movie. Haneke is critical of Georges’ actions throughout and he never excuses the choices his central-character makes, but he does allow Georges the benefit of having the audience not only contemplate his position but often assume his perspective.
Part of the reason Georges becomes increasingly hostile is that the motivations of his adversary remain unclear, which only frustrates him further since he’s uncertain exactly who he has hurt with his prior actions. While it is stereotypical for Georges to assume Majid to be the video-terrorist that is harassing his family, it is not exactly a groundless accusation. In fact, based upon their shared history and the clues given, it is actually quite a logical conclusion to draw. It’s also reasonable that Georges feels seriously threatened by these videos, even if they realistically only menace his life in mundane ways. While his family is only frightened by the acts of surveillance and the delivery of unwanted packages, considering these tapes are supplemented with crayon images that only Georges could comprehend the significance of, they are justifiably more unnerving for him. More importantly, once Haneke’s film adopts Georges’ perspective during his dreams and memories, the audience must realize that Georges is being honest when recollecting his past. Though his actions as a child may have been childish and selfish, the sense of fear he feels from Majid is genuine and appropriate based upon the events we observe. Indeed, because of the fused perspective Haneke applies, the childhood interactions with Majid are traumatic experiences for both Georges and the audience, resulting in some horrific images that startle and frighten all parties involved. Additionally, we must realize the claims Georges made concerning Majid’s poor health were not pure fabrications fuelled by immature jealousy, but an eerie event both Georges and the viewer witness. Thus, it’s apparent that Georges’ rash decisions as a youngster were not motivated out of pure racism, but out of fear that his status within his family was vulnerable due to Majid’s presence. Unfortunately his childish retaliation has dismal consequences that Georges simply cannot grasp as a child.
Although the repression of collective guilt may be the catalyst for the events within Caché, Haneke is more disapproving of Georges’ inability to grasp the consequences of his past actions as an adult. What Georges perceives to be a trivial juvenile defense mechanism turns out to be a critical incident in Majid’s life that has a profound influence on how he lives today. Through a relentless examination of Georges and his sustained effort to keep his past decisions concealed — sometimes completely denying any harm occurred — we observe a man unwilling to take responsibility for his actions. It does not appear that Georges was intentionally racist towards Majid, so much as he simply feared the foreign boy as an outsider attempting to seize some of his attention. However, Haneke appropriately perceives racism as just another childish, irrational, thoughtless reaction, and though he is not deliberately racist, Georges’ response displays the underlying taint of racism. Caché suggests that though we are currently enlightened that racism is reprehensible, we must still recognize our small acts of recklessness mean much more to the wronged minority and also admit our past intolerant indiscretions have negative ramifications in the present. While his characterization of Majid is rather thin, Haneke respectfully depicts his Algerian characters as not demanding any form of restitution or reparation for their struggles. Instead, Majid only requests that Georges understand that his thoughtlessness hindered Majid’s ability to adapt to French society. In essence, the party that has arranged the scenario is allowing Georges the opportunity for redemption, but unfortunately, out of pride or spite, he is averse to making this concession. Since George is unwilling to grant him any measure of respect, Majid perceives himself as confined. Sensing the futility of his labors and unwilling to endure further humiliation, Majid assumes he’s no better off than any farm animal and takes actions accordingly. In the greater context, Haneke is not asserting that France should remain ashamed of its prior actions against Algeria, but instead asks that the nation simply acknowledge that its careless former policies have resulted in adversity for the Algerian people.
Whether the initial offense is invasion, occupation, or oppression, what Haneke is rightfully disturbed by is the reluctance of Western societies to question their own viewpoint or comprehend a differing foreign perspective. Understanding he cannot completely alter the entrenched confidence that individuals have in their own perspective, Haneke makes his case through the style and form of his film. Caché serves as Haneke’s attempt to undermine the implicit trust Western viewers have while witnessing on-screen events by blurring formal boundaries and causing them to doubt the standard perspective assumed in regular thrillers. By constantly distorting his image, switching from ongoing events to recorded footage, and adopting uncomfortable advantage points, Haneke shakes viewers out of their detached passive viewpoint as an audience seeking distraction. Caché forces the audience to actively ponder the perspective of the images they are watching, often making them complicit in the events they witness. In doing so, Caché causes viewers to inspect the natural assumptions made while watching a film, which I’m certain Haneke hopes his viewers will carry further.
Being subjected to another point of view is often an unsettling experience and Haneke isn’t above treating his characters in a similar fashion to his audience. Indeed, part of what causes grief for our middle-class couple is that the anonymous videotapes force them to observe their own lives from an outsider’s perspective. Georges and Anne both have occupations that require them to critique assorted aspects of society, and their home is filled with videotapes and books that allow them to comfortably evaluate culture on their own terms. However, they are not as relaxed once they realize an external party is examining their complacent lives. Even though the images are dull, the notion of surveillance creates an evident sense of menace and paranoia for a couple resigned to their bourgeois stasis. Haneke’s point appears to be that while the affluent find it easy to condemn other countries and foreign cultures for their moral and political conduct, they rarely are willing to endure similar scrutiny of their own lifestyles. Thus, Haneke skillfully turns his camera into a stationary intruder, capable of causing distress in any viewer, whether actual or fictional, with its predatory stare.
Haneke does not limit his analysis only to the viewer, but also to the medium in which images are delivered and received. The communication within Caché is noticeably hindered by the long-standing discord between cultures, whether due to prior political policy that still carries weight today or the concealed existing prejudices that have damaged the characters’ facility for compassion and intimacy. While basic discussion appears unsuccessful in Caché, certain methods of contact are able to pierce through the bourgeois shield, though their value varies. Interestingly, the most effective form of communication is the simple color drawing that seems to convey more meaning in its tiny size than any number of complex conversations. In fact, rather than the monotonous images on the irksome videotapes, it is the buried message within the crayon image that provides context for the video, exhumes memories, and provokes Georges to engage in his unwise pursuit. Oddly, more advanced methods of communication seem to deliver contentious results. The stream of images that video offers yields meaning only when context is provided, and the telephone does not require actual discourse while it obscures the identity of the speaker.
Meanwhile, Haneke is more severe when examining the medium of television. The presence of television seems unavoidable in Caché and its style even appears to invade dreams. Haneke is willing to concede that television serves an important function, especially considering it is the only means of deciphering the video-terrorist’s message. The medium is so fundamental to our comprehension of our surroundings that various characters keep piles of videotapes – perhaps as their own form of documentation – which they seem incapable of discarding. Unfortunately, as in previous Haneke films, television’s persistence inevitably leads to our desensitization. While a crude drawing allows us to concentrate on a single image, the incessant flood of images TV provides us usually allows us to ignore what we have become inundated by.
However, Caché also displays a more complex conception of television. Haneke’s most intriguing use of television comes during a family crisis as Georges and Anne frantically search for a suddenly missing Pierrot. During the scene, as a panicked Anne calls another parent, Haneke places his couple at the edges of the screen while he positions a television in the center of his frame. While the couple’s distress increases, the television streams though a series of images from a broadcast of international news. The footage details the ongoing conflicts and hardships of virtually every “brown” culture in the third world, speeding through images of Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs, and briskly moving from Palestine, to Afghanistan, to Iraq, to Kashmir. Understandably, the couple is too distracted to even note these sensational scenes of the world around them, yet the contrast of their problem to the misery of the foreigners underscores the disparity between nations. The choice of what to concentrate upon is clear for Georges and Anne, but a dilemma is created for the viewer. Do we watch the personal crisis of our fictional couple created in an artificial film, or do we gaze at the authentic footage of real people engaged in a constant catastrophe? On some level we must also ask if it is entirely acceptable for our central couple to completely ignore widespread global adversity for a personal problem. Viewers may also wonder if it is appropriate while watching a film to be diverted by a television screen that our eyes naturally gravitate towards.
What Haneke recognizes is that television is a compelling medium, but it is also an abstraction that allows viewers to maintain a comfortable distance from the subjects within the images being exhibited. That distance allows TV’s images to distract us, but also provides us the option to discard the product just as easily. Hence the distortion allows a TV audience to regard the Third-World populace within the footage as merely images forever trapped in a box that provides passive programming. Whether or not the reality the image is meant to convey remains elusive, Caché ultimately grants the spectator the power of realization. Since he is a TV personality who constantly watches TV and manipulates images both at work (removing a portion of his show during editing because it’s too theoretical) and at home, it’s reasonable to assume that Georges grasps the nature of television. Yet Georges still ignores visual information that does not directly affect his life. Thus, while Haneke often reprimands television for exploiting suffering and desensitizing viewers to violence, Caché also places the responsibility upon the spectator who decides to disregard the images presented to them. Caché may actually be Haneke’s most balanced representation of television’s function to date, since it seems the director is willing to admit the medium has value even while he critiques its use.
Discerning who actually commands the images within Caché and who exactly serves as the spectator to those images becomes an exasperating issue. It is important to distinguish that the film blends various media together and that the images are manipulated by a number of different parties. It is equally important to notice that the film’s audience and the film’s characters often share the same view, but that the film’s audience remains passive and unable to control the action or image. However, with both perspectives fused, the film’s audience should subject themselves to the same scrutiny imposed upon the fictional characters, and consider why exactly we choose to watch a fictionalized film that distorts, and distracts from, the reality of our surrounding world. Furthermore, Haneke appears to invite disapproval of his own decision to fashion an elaborate thriller, since he occasionally allows television, the very medium he constantly berates, to take control of his film.
Caché’s most baffling question is who creates and sends the invasive videotapes to our content couple. Given their content, the videos act as manifestations of the repressed guilt of a disconnected conscience, whether personal or collective. As the target, Georges believes he can sleep off his own misgivings with help from a couple of sleeping pills and a few hours of dream-life. Instead, he ends up trapped in his childhood memories, watching inertly with the audience as we witness the same transgressions occur once more. Anne also carries a noticeable degree of guilt around, though her distress concerns how she is perceived by her son. As Anne’s martial woes mount under the stress of surveillance, the audience is privy to an encounter between Anne and an acquaintance from work that comforts her (notice that Haneke has an onlooker spy on the couple). Amazingly, we later find out Pierrot is distressed by this liaison, though Anne maintains the bond is plutonic. Of course, we have no idea how Pierrot knows about the meeting (could his digital video-camera make him a suspect?), but it feels as though Anne’s misgivings are a result of knowing anyone could be watching her daily activities. Soon it’s as if Caché itself is becoming an embodiment of guilt. By the time the film concludes with a startling and uncertain alliance disposed to the sides of the screen, there doesn’t appear to be an innocent victim among the survivors.
Ultimately, we must recognize that Haneke pulls the strings of Caché and that the film functions as an abrasive experiment more than a straight narrative. Though Caché acts as yet another provocation by Haneke, unlike the typical thriller that exploits the characters’ plight for the audience’s amusement, Haneke’s exercise allows his audience to consider the basic principles and structures of their surrounding civilization. Whereas the French government fabricated a scenario to lure innocent Algerians into a revolting trap, so too has the video-terrorist created puzzling gifts to ensnare Georges into playing his game, just as Haneke has sculpted a video-thriller to entice his audience into examining their own preconceptions. Of course unlike the French government or the concocted aggressor, Haneke’s goals are not self-serving. Instead he has skillfully interlaced the pretense of a thriller into a film that actually seeks to expose the violations we justify and the perspectives we adopt in order to maintain our status within society. With the visual context of the film constantly shifting, Caché isn’t the first film to make the viewer complicit in the events that transpire, but it among the few that have thoroughly analyzed all parties involved in the transmission of images which forms our collective conscience. Since its debut at Cannes, many critics have scoffed at Caché, claiming it to function as just another one of Haneke’s conceited projects designed to amplify his feeling of superiority, with some boldly claiming the film demonstrates that Haneke does not believe in cinema or humanity. Conversely, I believe Caché embraces the possibilities of cinema as an art-form. I’m also certain that Haneke believes in the potential of the human race, especially given Caché’s final frames. It’s just that Haneke simply does not appreciate some of our conduct thus far.
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Risks Up to 40 percent of women with untreated chlamydia will develop pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) -- an infection of the uterus, fallopian tubes, and ovaries -- which can lead to infertility. The bacteria can cause miscarriage, preterm birth, and, if passed to the baby during delivery, infant pneumonia or eye infections.
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Treatment The drug zidovudine (AZT, ZDV, Retrovir) has reduced the mother-to-baby transmission rate to less than 5 percent. Antiretroviral drugs can strengthen a woman's immunity and further reduce transmission risk.
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"ICANN has opened the internet's naming system to unleash the global human imagination," Ican's president and chief executive, Rod Beckstrom, said.
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April 02, 2014
Sweet Tooth Café
Not long after Australian Meilian Tan arrived in Beijing, the self-taught baker decided to set up her own custom cake delivery service, and popular demand meant that in less time still she realised she could lure the city’s sugar-hungry hordes to her own front door with the Sweet Tooth Café. The cosy one-room cake shop hidden up an unmarked alleyway next the Great Leap Brewing Taproom is filled with only a few tables and sofas, but what it lacks in space, it more than makes up for with sheer range of sweets which rotate throughout the week allowing full fork variance on any given visit.
As you’d expect, there are some awesome Aussie specialities on offer, like Tim Tam cheesecake, dense chocolate Lamington cubes rolled in coconut, buttery millionaire shortbread, and pavlova piled high with fresh fruit. But for those unfamiliar with the delights from Down Under, there are also calories-be-damned American classics like carrot cake (for which Tan is particularly famed), chocolate peanut butter pie, muffins and cookies, mini Oreo cheesecake cups, and bitesized whoopie pies (a cookie-cum-pie-cum-cake creation with a creamy frosted filling). And if one slice simply won’t suffice, order a whole custom made cake and take it home with you. Whatever you decide... you can kiss that diet goodbye.
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How can health care professionals improve verbal communication with patients and families?
The average consumer is not familiar with health terminology and does not think about health information in the same way as health professionals. Patients don’t understand or forget at least 50% of what is discussed in a typical office visit.15
There are many simple techniques to improve verbal health communication, such as
• assessing patients’ baseline understanding
• using plain language
• effectively soliciting questions
• using teach-back to confirm understanding
• focusing on a few key points
• giving patients clearly written information to take home
1. Assess patients’ baseline understanding before providing extensive information. This allows the explanation to be tailored to the patients’ needs.
1. Example: For a patient just diagnosed with diabetes, you can state, "before we go on, could you tell me what you already know about diabetes?"
2. Explain things clearly in plain language.
1. Avoid medical jargon. Example: Say "chest pain" instead of "angina" and "high blood pressure" instead of "hypertension."
2. Avoid vague statements that require interpretation. Example: Don’t say, "You should get some aerobic exercise." What is "some"? What is “aerobic”? Instead be specific by saying, “Since you enjoy walking, I’d like you to try walking for 30 minutes each day, 3 or 4 times a week. Walk fast enough to break a light sweat, but not so fast that you can’t carry on a conversation.”
3. Avoid terms that have different meanings in medicine and normal conversation, such as “stool,” “gait,” or “negative.” Example: Don’t say, “Your biopsy was negative for cancer.” Say, “Your biopsy was normal. You don’t have cancer.”
3. When you ask patients for their questions, use an open-ended approach.
1. Example: If you ask, “Do you have any questions?” it’s easy for patients to simply say, “No.” Instead, ask, “What questions do you have?”
4. Confirm understanding through teach-back. This involves asking the patient to repeat back their understanding of the information you have discussed. Teach-back can also be used to confirm that the patient can demonstrate a new skill. Teach-back takes about 1 minute, and it is one of the most important things you can do when counseling patients. There are a few key steps to performing an effective teach-back.
1. First, make it normal, so the patient does not feel singled out. Example: “I do this next part with all my patients.”
2. Second, put the burden on your shoulders. It’s your job to have explained things clearly. Example: “I want to be sure I explained things clearly today.”
3. Third, be specific about what you would like the patient to tell you. Example: “We talked about starting a new medicine today. Please tell me your understanding of why it’s important… Ok, now please tell me your understanding of how to take it.”
4. Fourth, if the patient’s explanation is insufficient, put the burden on your shoulders, reteach the information, and reassess understanding. Example: “I must not have explained that very well. The new medicine is for… I’d like you to take it… Now, let’s see I did a better job explaining it that time. Could you please tell me again what the new medicine is for, and how you should take it?” When the patient teaches back the information correctly, this is called closing the loop.
5. Teach-back can also be used to assess a skill. Example: “Please show me how you would use this inhaler.”
5. Focus on a few key points. It is very difficult for patients to remember more than this. Emphasize those points through repetition and teach-back.
6. Give the patient written information or instructions to take home. Writing down a few key points or providing good quality educational materials is very helpful for reinforcement.
15Kessels RP. Patients' memory for medical information. J R Soc Med. 2003;96(5):219-222. | dclm-gs1-101520000 |
ZFN Technology Advances Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing
Applications of ZFN technology in biopharmaceutical cell-line engineering.
May 02, 2013
Volume 37, Issue 5
Genome editing has played a prominent role in the development of Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells for biopharmaceutical processes. The DUKXB11 cell line was created in 1980 by introducing mutations in the dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) locus. Although the engineered cells were not intended for stable recombinant protein production, the DHFR modification provided a potent metabolic selection marker, and the cell line was quickly used to create stably transfected pools.
As knowledge of the CHO genome has increased, many more potential genomic targets have been identified. Genome editing is now routinely used as a tool to aid biopharmaceutical production. When the DUKXB11 cell line was developed in 1980, the only available genomic modification techniques were exposure to chemical mutagens or radiation. Massive screening and selection methods were therefore required to identify cells with the desired genotype. Mutations in the DUKXB11 cell line were introduced by exposing CHO cells to ethyl methanesulfonate or gamma radiation. The cells went through many rounds of selection using [3H] deoxyuridine to isolate clones that contained the desired genotype. These mutagenesis techniques could introduce undesired random mutations throughout the genome and require massive selection strategies to identify clones with the desired genotype. Today, there are several technologies that enable the user to edit the genome more precisely. One of these technologies is the use of zinc finger nucleases (ZFNs).
Zinc finger nucleases
A zinc finger motif is a natural lyoccurring small protein made up of approximately 30 amino acids, stabilized by at least one zinc ion. Each zinc finger motif binds to a specific set of three nucleotide bases. When several of these zinc finger motifs are connected, they target a precise genomic sequence. A ZFN is formed when a FokI endonuclease is fused to these zinc finger motifs.
ZFNs are designed in pairs that bind to adjacent sequences. When the pair of ZFNs binds to the adjacent sequences, their FokI endonucleases heterodimerize, cutting the DNA at that location. In other words, ZFNs target a specific sequence of DNA and create a double-stranded break (DSB) at that precise location.
Once the DSB has been created, the user can then create specific deletions or insertions at that location, using the natural repair mechanisms of the cell. The precision and accuracy of ZFNs reduce the screening and selection processes needed to identify cells with the desired genotype, reducing timelines.
Other technologies, such as meganucleases or TALENS (i.e., transcription activator-like effector nucleases), can also create targeted changes in a genome. Mega-nucleases (from Precision Biosciences and Cellectis) are restriction enzymes found in single-celled organisms that recognize a large (>20bp) DNA sequence. The disadvantage of this technology is that the protein-engineering process takes several months and cutting efficiencies can be low. TALENS consist of a TALE DNA binding domain that gives sequence-specific recognition, fused to the catalytic domain of an endonuclease. Much like ZFNs, TALENS bind to a specific sequence of DNA and create a DSB. There is, however, a lack of precedence for using them clinically and no clear path to commercial use. In contrast, ZFNs have been used in gene therapy trials. Sigma-Aldrich holds an exclusive license for the ZFN technology through Sangamo Biosciences. | dclm-gs1-101530000 |
Fill 'er Up
BR5-49: From left, Chuck Mead, Don Herron, "Hawk" Shaw Wilson, Gary Bennett and "Smilin'" Jay McDowell.
Robert Matheau
But for every badass rebel's strut on BR5-49's latest disc (including the rocker "Wild One" and the hilarious swing tune "Out of Habit"), there's also something sweet. "Storybook Endings" features Bennett strumming acoustic guitar and crooning over a waltz tempo while mandolin, piano and other instruments create a lush background. Bennett's quivering, nasal vocal delivery enhances the mood as he sings that "Castles and tales where the prince finds the princess ain't real/If you stop believin'."
"We're becoming more focused, realizing what we really are -- instead of a novelty cover band or whatever, you know," says Bennett. "We're doing almost all originals now on stage." With a newly released live album, Coast to Coast (which, ironically, does include a clutch of covers from Bob Wills and Charlie Daniels to Gram Parsons), the band is touring, seemingly incessantly, while Bennett and Mead continue to write songs.
While three Grammy nominations (all for cover tunes, it's worth noting) over the past four years isn't bad for any band, Bennett believes that BR5-49 has not yet fulfilled its potential, especially as a catalyst in reinvigorating the country scene. "I think it's pretty obviously at the end of a cycle. A lot of people hate to see that, and a lot of people are glad to see it," he says. "Nothing new can start without sort of a tearing down of the old guard or the current establishment. And I think that's what's happening in country music."
BR5-49 is scheduled to perform on Tuesday, April 18, at the Bash on Ash in Tempe, with the Road Kings. Showtime is 8 p.m.
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The Playgoer: The Coast of Affordable
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Tuesday, November 21, 2006
The Coast of Affordable WNYC's Leonard Lopate. A half-hour of Coast of Utopia talk, which will probably be as close as many of us get to seeing the show.
I've just found my actual tickets stubs from the original Royal National Theatre premiere of Utopia, almost exactly 4 years ago. I flew to London that November for basically a weekend to see all three plays in one day. I hope soon to type up some of the notes I took back then on that production--as my way around not being able to see and review this production.
But meanwhile, I just want to pass on this observation. Sure, I spent some money flying over there, but note the prices of my three tickets to the trilogy: Voyage (11am matinee) £13; Shipwreck (3:15 matinee) £19; Salvage (7:30pm) £14. Total: £46. The exchange rate then was basically 2-to-1, so let's call that $90. A pretty awesome deal for what were pretty decent seats. (Shipwreck was the splurge.) And that was not a student rate or any special discount.
At Lincoln Center's Vivian Beaumont, $90 will just about cover a $65 seat in the balcony. To one of the plays. And only the last two rows of the balcony. The overwhelming majority of seats are $100. So to see all three--which really is essential to appreciating any one of them--will run you anywhere between (not including fees) $235 for sucky seats and $300. Per person.
Who's up for that?
Answer: wealthy people.
For the record, Lincoln Center Theatre does run a Student Discount program, but it's tightly regulated, requiring people to sign up way in advance, and so membership is currently closed.
By the way, my cheap-deal airfare to London 4 years ago? About $250. So in other words, for just a little more than the price of three downtstairs seats at the Beaumont, I got the same show and a trip abroad.
And there in a nutshell is the difference between a true state theatre and an American nonprofit theatre. I have no doubt Lincoln Center's hands are tied. To mount this enormous show at all requires a certain ticket income to not totally lose money. But I would have almost preferred to see them sell, say, the first 5 rows of the orchestra for $250 a pop, in exchange for more at $65 or less. How about a discount to those serious enough to see all three? (A mini-subscription.) I'm sure such ideas were considered and rejected for various "sound" reasons. But my point is, where there's a will there's a way. If you truly want a wide swath of people to see this, if you care most about the next generation of theatre artists possibly being inspired by seeing the most ambitious work of a major world dramatist, then you work out a price scheme and appropriate fundraising with that goal in mind.
Otherwise, you're just playing the snob card.
Anonymous said...
Nor do they have any sort of volunteer usher deal either, as far as I know. I've been frustrated by the exclusive ticket prices of Lincoln Center for so many shows over the years I've pretty much turned my back on them.
ModFab said...
Not to cut Lincoln Center slack, but the major costs of mounting UTOPIA in the U.S. are due to the unions -- Actors Equity primarily (a cast of nearly 30), the stagehands union, etc. I haven't been privy to the production budgets, but I know enough to know that at $100 a seat, they are still losing money on the production...and trying to make the rest up in sponsorship and fundraising efforts.
Which they will undoubtedly's not hard to raise money for class-A projects at Lincoln Center. But in a longtime subscriber house, they can't jack up the prices on the first five rows the way you suggest. (Those seats are booked for subscribers who have supported the theatre for decades, and are guaranteed year after year.) They could reduce some balcony seats, perhaps. But not a lot.
I feel very odd defending LCT, because I agree with you that they are essentially a playground for the rich. But in the case of this particular production -- enormous cast, set, etc. -- it's not just them who is sticking it to us. Share the blame with the unions, whose overreaching is making theatre too costly for anyone but the elite.
And I support the unions, too, I should be clear. But I think they have created a financial formula for theatres that make ticket pricing untenable.
Jaime said...
I love much of LCT's work, but I've never gotten the impression that, other than through StudentTix, they actually do care about getting a wide demographic in their audience. Some theatres do - NYTW has their $10 Sundays, for example. There are also plenty of theatres that, unlike LCT, sell rush tickets NO MATTER HOW WELL-SOLD A SHOW IS. Fancy that.
And in response to modfab's objection that LCT couldn't jack up prices on the first 5 rows because that's where subscribers have to go, I don't think they have so many subscribers that they couldn't push them five rows back, and offer a premium subscriber ticket so that if people *really* cared about being moved five rows back, they could, even as subscribers, pay more to get the shmancy seats that are subsidizing the rest of us. I actually think, in this case, the premium seats are a great idea.
I also think LCT, and, hell, all theatres that have any pretense of doing worthwhile work that should be seen by anyone other than wealthy 70-year-olds, should ALWAYS make rush tickets available.
Anonymous said...
Actually StudenTix registration was still open last time I checked. Also there's a student rush program that doesn't require advance signup. And there were premium seats for Amercian Express cardholders, IIRC.
I read that even if the show sells out, they'll still be losing $7 million...
Still, you do have a point. I've spent $200 on two shows, one of which is a preview-- owch.
Anonymous said...
Isn't blaming the unions just a way of saying "If only everybody could be paid much less, tickets would be cheaper!"? Not a great solution. And not particularly credible either. Lincoln Center is, overall, probably the most richly endowed cultural institution in New York. If there are villains in this particular case--and I'm not sure there necessarily are--they're not to be found among the actors and stagehands.
parabasis said...
I have a post up at Parabasis about this. But to quickly address the union point- Lincoln Center still gets a deal on salaries compared to Broadway Producers (they have a unique LORT contract that only applies to them, acutally). And while the salaries are expensive, one thing I've tried to highlight in the past are the truly ridiculous costs of marketing a show. I think that's where there's some real creativity to be had vis-a-vis keeping costs down. Marketing firms take a very large comission on placing ads (something in the realm of 12%). So for one ad that costs $50,000 to place, you are also paying a $6000 commission on it.
If we were able to lower that to even 10%, the amount of money saved would be tremendous.
If we're going to try to cut costs, everyone is going to have to sacrifice, not just the class of laborers who rarely get paid a living wage anyway.
parabasis said...
oh, on that LORT thing-- that is based on something that someone who worked high up at Lincoln Center told me once. SO I'm not sure how accurate that is.
The Playgoer said...
An interesting array of responses.
Thanks, anon, for pointing us to what LCT's rush policy actually is. I guess there's hope...But then again the line for those rush tix will be HUGE.
As for the union issues, I concur with the last comment that cutbacks in salary/compensation and work hour issues should not be the first solution in this case when there is so much $ involved in Lincoln Center, and since Stoppard (as much as I love him) is basically a $ magnet.
However, I do agree that the current union contracts are one factor in making large-cast projects prohibitive in the current NY climate. It's almost as if the contracts have adjusted to the other financial realities that most shows have smaller casts, and so no incentive or break is ever negotiated to enable larger shows. For instance, in regional theatre, certain midsize LORT contracts allow for use of local non union actors once you fill a quota of equity personnel (say, 10). Obviously that would not make sense in New York. But what about a break for casts over 30? Or establishing a rank of "apprentices"--young actors still accumulating Equity "points" who could be cast at lower salaries in parts under a certain number of lines. This would enable directors to fill out ensembles without having to worry producers about skyrocketing the budget.
I'm sure those who say LCT is going to lose money on this anyway are right. So I'm not accusing them of greed. They are suffering from this problem in New York that just makes large-cast plays prohibitive, especially for nonprofits, and even on Broadway when it's not a musical that can reliably earn it back.
So while I don't like scapegoating unions, I agree that union contracts would have to be part of a COMPREHENSIVE solution to this problem--as well as all the problems relating to how expensive it's become to produce real estate--I mean, theatre.
Jaime said...
Just regarding rush, I don't believe they do same-day rush all the time. I'm pretty sure it's case-by-case (when-they-feel-like-it, when-sales-are-poor) - there was no rush for Clean House, and I don't think there's rush for CoU. As a non-student (can't sign up for StudentTix) with a left-over student ID, this makes me sad. | dclm-gs1-101550000 |
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