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Behind the Chicago trial of a Mexican drug kingpin
Vicente Zambada, accused of being one of Mexico's most powerful drug kingpins, will be tried in Chicago. But does he have his own case against the DEA?
Thu Sep 20 2012
Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
??Military officers in Mexico City keep watch on Vicente Zambada-Niebla (front, third from left) and five men presented as his bodyguards a day after Zambada-Niebla�s arrest in March 2009.
Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AP
Words on a mural in Culiac�n, the capital city of Mexico�s drug-torn Sinaola state, translate to �wave of violence and blood.�
Illustration: Stephen Mancusi
Margarito Flores Jr.
Illustration: Stephen Mancusi
Pedro Flores
Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
Mexican federal police officers escort alleged Beltr�n-Leyva cartel lieutenant Alfredo Beltr�n-Leyva (center) at Mexico City�s airport in 2008.
Photograph: Damian Dovarganes/AP
Alleged drug kingpin Joaqu�n Guzm�n-Loera, a.k.a. �El Chapo,� in June 1993
Photograph: Imperial Valley Press/ Joselito N. Villero/AP
Then-California Attorney General Jerry Brown announces the seizure of more than 550 pounds of marijuana and cocaine, some seen at right, following infiltration of the Sinaloa drug cartel in August 2009. He says drugs smuggled into California by the cartel ended up in cities including Chicago. (AP Photo/Imperial Valley Press, Joselito N. Villero)
Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
Flanked by military officers, Vicente Zambada-Niebla stands before the press in Mexico City in March 2009.
Photograph: Fidel Duran/AP
Forensic workers examine the bodies of police officers, who were killed in May 2008 after surrounding an alleged drug safe house in Culiac�n, Mexico, home to the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Photograph: Imperial Valley Press/ Joselito N. Villero/AP
Weapons and ammunition seized from members of the Sinaloa drug cartel are displayed at a press conference in August 2009.
Photograph: Eduardo Verdugo/AP
??Military officers in Mexico City keep watch on Vicente Zambada-Niebla (front, third from left) and five men presented as his bodyguards a day after Zambada-Niebla�s arrest in March 2009.
The abandoned car of Little Village resident Margarito Flores Sr. was discovered in western Mexico's Sinaloa desert in 2009. A message directed to his twin sons, Pedro and Margarito, was stuck to its windshield: tell those fuckers to shut up or we are going to send you his head.
The Flores twins, 31-year-old Chicago drug traffickers, had warned their father not to return to Mexico, and especially not to the drug-war-torn state of Sinaloa, home to the Sinaloa cartel, which U.S. intelligence considers one of the most powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world.
Margarito Sr. was never heard from again.
The brothers, now in U.S. custody and acting as informants in a plea deal whose details remain secret, will be the star witnesses in the Chicago trial of Jesús Vicente Zambada-Niebla, a head of the Sinaloa cartel and the biggest Mexican drug kingpin ever to be prosecuted in a U.S. courtroom. A status hearing on October 9 will set a new date for the trial, which has been delayed several times.
In court filings, Zambada-Niebla's lawyers claim he, like the Flores brothers, was working with the Drug Enforcement Administration, and that in exchange for intel on rival cartels, the U.S. government turned a blind eye as "tons of illicit drugs continued to be smuggled into Chicago and other parts of the United States." In the months building up to the trial, a litany of court documents has been released that describe Chicago as a major distribution hub. The filings also suggest that damning details will be revealed about U.S. cooperation with some of the world's most powerful narcos.
Between 2001 and 2008, Pedro and Margarito Flores's drug distribution operation flourished. Raised in Pilsen and Little Village, the brothers had direct access to Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán-Loera courtesy of their father, who had made a career of trafficking drugs for the Sinaloa outfit.
Their ties to El Chapo meant they could circumvent the traditional supply chain controlled by local street gangs, and in turn, avoid the gangs' trifling turf disputes. The purity and quantity of the cocaine they received directly from Mexico (roughly between 1,500 and 2,000 kilos, or about 3,300 to 4,400 pounds, of cocaine per month, according to court documents) further ensured the twins answered to no one but the Mexican cartels. The Flores's value and importance as traffickers for the Sinaloa cartel put them among a select number of people to have met in person with the elusive El Chapo, who escaped from a Guadalajara, Mexico, prison 11 years ago and is one of the most wanted fugitives in the world.
By 2001, the Flores brothers had become the main connection to Chicago for several of the leading Mexican drug cartels. They were the principal link in a drug-supply chain that connected Colombian producers with Mexican smugglers and on to North American consumers. According to court documents, the drugs were delivered to the U.S. by a variety of means—on speedboats, fishing vessels, Boeing 747 cargo planes, container ships and tractor trailers, and even by submarine.
The shipments reached U.S. soil in Los Angeles and were trucked to Chicago, where the Flores operation received hundreds of kilos each week. They unloaded trailers of Colombian cocaine and Mexican heroin into inconspicuous warehouses in Bedford Park and Chicago. They would split up the powder and stash it in still more warehouses in Chicago, Justice, Romeoville and Plainfield.
The Flores twins sold some of their product to middlemen who mixed and resold it to street-level dealers throughout the city, but the FBI says the twins handled a quantity of narcotics large enough to supply wholesalers throughout the U.S., presiding over a network sprawling northward to Milwaukee, westward across the Canadian border to Vancouver, and eastward to Detroit, Cincinnati and Columbus, reaching all the way to New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
Court filings estimate their annual income at $700 million, according to a 2009 Washington Post article; the Flores crew reportedly shrink-wrapped the cash proceeds and hid them inside condominiums and brick split-levels in Chicago, Hinsdale, Palos Hills and Plainfield registered to relatives and girlfriends with no criminal records. But there weren't enough trusted homeowners in the network to receive so much money. The immense market share created the necessity to launder the glut of cash in otherwise legitimate businesses, according to sources familiar with the twins. Pedro and Margarito invested in a barbershop in Berwyn called Millennium Cuts, which remains open, and opened a Mexican restaurant in West Lawn called Mama's Kitchen, which is now closed.
To get an idea of just how large the Flores operation was, one only needs to compare their $700 million estimated annual income to the total street value of all drugs seized in Chicago: $208 million worth in 2009, $139 million in 2008, $118 million in 2007, $143 million in 2006 and $235 million in 2005, according to the Chicago Police Department. In any given year, drug seizures never reached a third of the value of what the Flores crew dealt annually. After the Flores empire was dismantled, cocaine prices surged on the streets of Chicago, from $18,000 per kilo to $29,000 in 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
That the Flores operation had grown so huge isn't surprising since Chicago has one of the largest Mexican populations among all U.S. cities, says Special Agent in Charge John "Jack" Riley, head of the DEA's Chicago Field Division. (According to the 2010 census, Chicago's Mexican population is fourth behind Los Angeles, San Antonio and Houston.) "That allows Mexican drug traffickers to blend in more, avoiding sticking out in a crowd, while also having the benefits of more family and friends as support," Riley says. "Family members in the States are key to the cartels, as trust is central to the operation."


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It sounds like an April Fool's joke, but from what we can tell, the Chinese government is completely serious about their latest high speed rail project. According to multiple news outlets, China plans to build an 8,000+ mile railroad (sounds plausible) connecting China, Russia, Canada, and the U.S. that includes a 125 mile undersea tunnel spanning the Bering Strait! The plan was announced in China's state-run newspaper, the Beijing Times, and apparently Russia is already on-board with the plan. While it would be nice to travel from China to America in two days without setting foot in a single airport, engineers around the globe are skeptical.
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Ran 4.0 miles @ 7:40/mile pace.
I did my own little workout before XC practice got started. I meant to run 5.0 miles, but I accidentally cut my route short. Probably just as well, as my pace was faster than I would have liked. Since I only have three weeks here between the ultra and the upcoming marathon, healing up is important and I need to keep that in the front of my mind more.
The good news though is my legs are feeling fine and today's run felt pretty good. I thought my pace was slower, but it wasn't. It did feel like it required a little more effort, but I'm wondering if a good part of that is simply mental.
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Aisha Tyler was only half-joking when she nicknamed herself "the black female Ryan Seacrest."
But her upcoming schedule might make even the omnipresent "American Idol" host and media mogul want to take a nap.
Tyler, one of the hosts of the daily syndicated chat fest "The Talk," is publishing her second book, "Self-Inflicted Wounds: Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation," this month and serving as emcee on a revival of the cult favorite comedy, "Whose Line Is It Anyway?"
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As she's done for many years running, she'll immerse herself in the geeky, sci-fi crowd she describes as "my tribe, my people" at the Comic-Con genre convention in San Diego later this month. She'll be stumping for, among other projects, the next season of "Archer," FX's bawdy animated hit, in which she plays voluptuous super-spy Lana Kane.
There's another stand-up tour in the offing and groundwork nearly completed on a TV comedy special to shoot this fall. Tyler continues to produce regular installments of her popular "Girl on Guy" podcast, while tweeting frequently to her 270,000 Twitter followers.
She popped up on recent episodes of AMC's "The Talking Dead" and CBS' "Hawaii Five-O" and might've inadvertently made herself a go-to awards show presenter when she realized on stage that she'd been given the wrong envelope at June's Daytime Emmys. She vamped until the Emmy folks provided the winner in the correct category. Typical headline from the event: "Tyler's quick thinking saves Daytime Emmys mix-up."
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"When I'm more prolific, I'm more creative, I'm more engaged," she said in her Radford Studios dressing room outside a recent taping of "The Talk." "When I have free time, I tend to drift. But 15,000 jobs might be the limit."
Never mind that she's a good juggler and a multi-talented multi-hyphenate performer, Tyler might just be otherworldly, joked "Archer" executive producer Matt Thompson.
He speculated that Tyler's actually from a place called "Hardworkistan," not San Francisco, and that she represents "humanity 2.0."
"She's prettier and taller and smarter than we are — the collective we, as in the American public — has funnier things to say, reads way more books," Thompson said in a phone call from his Atlanta production offices. "She may be a robot. If lasers come shooting out of her eyes some day, I'll be the one saying, 'Called it!'"
Even her avatar gets around: Tyler, an avid gamer, will appear in Ubisoft's fall-launching action video game, "Watch Dogs," which she previewed recently on "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon."
Some TV viewers got their introduction to the Dartmouth-educated Tyler through E!'s "Talk Soup," where her biting wit and improv chops were on full display. Others know her from dramas like "The Ghost Whisperer," "24" and espionage thriller "Xiii." Before that, she played a love interest to both Ross and Joey on "Friends." Scattered throughout have been roles in movies like "Babymakers," "The Santa Clause 2" and "Balls of Fury."
There's been no well-laid plan for her professional life — "I would love to be that Machiavellian," she said — and Tyler still considers herself an outlier in spite of exposure that's moving her more toward the mainstream every day. (She frequently uses words like "awkward" and "gangly" to describe herself and said she felt like she didn't belong at a recent star-studded Hollywood fundraiser.)
"She's not taking the easy way out, like going the bimbo route," said Wayne Brady, her costar on "Whose Line Is it Anyway," premiering July 16 on the CW. "She stands up for who she is."
That includes telling embarrassing stories about herself, not just in her live appearances but throughout "Self-Inflicted Wounds." The book, launching July 9, was born of a segment on Tyler's podcast where she asks her celebrity guests to talk about ways they've unwittingly sabotaged themselves.
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Since she could relate, she spun it into a memoir of sorts, confessing to bad decisions that include, but are by no means limited to, nearly slicing herself in half on a trash-heap toy horse as a kid and tweeting while tipsy as an adult.
"She's not afraid to be the butt of the joke," said Carrie Thornton, executive editor at HarperCollins' It Books, publisher of "Self-Inflicted Wounds." "There's a fearlessness about her."
Thornton, also publisher of Amy Poehler's in-the-works illustrated diary, said it's a great era for female comedians.
"Self-Inflicted Wounds" is likely to appeal to Tyler's podcast fans, a group that skews slightly more male than female, because Tyler "refused to dumb anything down, even when I said, 'Are people going to understand those esoteric references to literature and sci-fi?'" Thornton said.
Even with the present so jam-packed, Tyler's always considering the future. Her working-class roots — she was raised mostly by a single father — dictate that she constantly hustles, she said.
She doubts she'll ever star in a "Spider-Man-style" blockbuster, "unless Spider-Man is played by Morgan Freeman," even though she's has a lifelong addiction to big-budget popcorn films.
Brady said he could see Tyler hosting the Oscars if she set that in her sights, or starring in a sitcom she writes herself. Thompson, who has worked with Tyler on "Archer" and its touring live show, said she's indefatigable.
"The scary thing is, I think she can do more," Thompson said. "She could take over the world. Or rule Google Glass."
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MSU Wind Ensemble to perform tonight
The Mississippi State University Wind Ensemble will present its first concert of the season at 7:30 p.m. today in the McComas Hall theater.
The concert is free and open to the public.
The program will open with Carl Teike's "Old Comrades," arguably thought to be the most popular march ever written by a European composer.
The music of Richard Strauss will be featured in the popular and beautiful "Allerseelen" from his "Four Last Songs."
The program will include Ron Nelson's "Sonoran Desert Holiday," von Suppe's "Pique Dame Overture" and contemporary composer Eric Whitacre's "Noisy Wheels of Joy."
The student Saxophone Quartet will perform George Gershwin's "An American in Paris" and the Wind Ensemble will close the program with a circus gallop," They're Off," written for the circus bands of the early 1900s.
The Wind Ensemble is the premiere instrumental ensemble at Mississippi State University.
Membership is extended to the most advanced musicians through competitive audition, regardless of university major.
In addition to two to three campus performances each semester, the Wind Ensemble conducts a regional performance tour annually during the spring semester.
The band has been the featured university band at the Mississippi Bandmaster's Convention three times in the past 10 years and has performed for the Mississippi All-State Concert Band.
In 2008, the Wind Ensemble conducted a performance of the British Isles, culminating with a concert at the Royal Armed Forces School of Music in Twickenham, England.
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Peppelman, Keith, Popple and Fox picked up wins for the Crimson in the team's dual-meet finale (Gil Talbot).
New York, N.Y. – The No. 25 Harvard wrestling team closed out the dual meet portion of its schedule on Saturday with a 30-12 loss at Columbia. The Crimson posted four wins on the day as it fell to 5-10 overall, 2-7 in the EIWA.
Columbia (8-4, 4-3 EIWA) opened the day with a 34-4 win over Brown and kept the momentum going against Harvard with a 10-5 decision at 125 lbs. No. 12 Steven Keith put the Crimson on the board and tied the match at 3-3 with a 5-0 victory over Kyle Gilchrist at 133 lbs., his team-leading 27th win of the year. Keith showed good defense against Gilchrist's ankle pick early in the first period, and worked his way to a takedown and back points for a 4-0 lead. The wrestlers took the same score into the third period, where an escape gave Keith the final 5-0 margin.
The Lions picked up wins at 141 lbs. and 149 lbs., however, to open a 12-3 margin. It took two overtime periods to decide the 141 lbs. bout, as Matt Bystol edged Shay Warren, 3-1. Steve Santos posted the first bonus points of the day when he pinned Patrick Hogan at 149 lbs.
No. 7 Walter Peppelman posted a 5-0 decision over Jake O'Hara at 157 lbs. to move the team scores to 12-6. Peppelman held a 2-0 lead after the first period, and went up 3-0 in the third after a stalling call against O'Hara. An escape and riding time advantage gave the junior co-captain the win, moving him to 22-4 on the year and marking his 14th win in his last 15 matches. Peppelman owns a career record of 85-30, and is one win shy of entering the program's all-time top 10.
Ian Roy held a 2-1 advantage after the first period of his 165 lbs. bout and went into the third period against Eren Civan tied, 2-2, but Civan earned a fall at the 6:44 mark after countering a Roy shot to give Columbia an 18-6 advantage. Josh Popple pulled the Crimson within 18-9 with his 5-2 decision over Stephen West at 174 lbs. before Shane Hughes secured Columbia's victory with a first-period fall over Bryan Panzano at 184 lbs. Popple, who has been limited this season due to injury, is 8-6 overall.
James Fox returned to the Harvard lineup at 197 lbs. after missing the last two weeks and earned a 4-2 decision against Nick Mills to move to 19-10 on the year. Kevin Lester finished off the dual for Columbia with a first-period fall over David Ng at heavyweight.
Harvard will now turn its attention to the 2012 EIWA Championships, being held this year March 3-4 in Princeton, N.J. For more information on the tournament, click here.
Columbia 30, No. 25 Harvard 12
125 – Robert Dyer (Col) dec. Max Mejia (Harv), 10-5, 3-0
133 – No. 12 Steven Keith (Harv) dec. Kyle Gilchrist (Col), 5-0, 3-3
141 – Matt Bystol (Col) dec. Shay Warren (Harv), 3-1 SV2, 6-3
149 – Steve Santos (Col) fall Patrick Hogan (Harv), 5:34, 12-3
157 – No. 7 Walter Peppelman (Harv) dec. Jake O'Hara (Col), 5-0, 12-6
165 – Eren Civan (Col) fall Ian Roy (Harv), 6:44, 18-6
174 – Josh Popple (Harv) dec. Stephen West (Col), 5-2, 18-9
184 – Shane Hughes (Col) fall Bryan Panzano (Harv), 2:22, 24-9
197 – James Fox (Harv) dec. Nick Mills (Col), 4-2, 24-12
HWT – Kevin Lester (Col) fall David Ng (Harv), 0:24, 30-12


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Every fall, Iowa hunters head outside into the crisp weather to enjoy a day of pheasant hunting with friends and family. Unfortunately, in recent years this tradition has taken a big hit from a sharp decline in pheasant populations. Concerned Iowa hunters have been looking for answers - and solutions.
Last month, I experienced these pheasant hunting woes firsthand when I went hunting in southern Iowa. As I was walking through the fields with friends and local farmers, we discussed the low pheasant numbers and ways to safeguard a sport so many Iowans love.
Extreme weather has been a major contributing factor to the weak pheasant population. According to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, coming out of the 2010-2011 winter, Iowa marked five years in a row of average snowfall over 30 inches. This causes large mortality among overwintering pheasants. The drought of 2012 also hurt pheasants by hurting Iowa farm production, leaving food sources far scarcer.
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Loss of habitat has contributed to the decline of Iowa's pheasant population. According to the Iowa DNR, from 1990 to 2005, Iowa lost 2,500 square miles of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) lands. That's equivalent to an eight mile wide strip of land crossing Iowa from Davenport to Council Bluffs. And the loss of CRP land leads to heavier game bird losses and cuts deeply into pheasant production.
With the expiration of the Farm Bill in September and Congress' failure to renew it, the Conservation Reserve Program has suspended new enrollments entirely. This means farmland set aside for conservation under CRP can only decline further; new CRP lands cannot be added unless the Farm Bill is renewed. With rising crop prices and no program in place creating voluntary incentives to conserve habitat, it's likely to be another tough year for Iowa's pheasant population.
The first step to solving is problem is getting Congress to pass a comprehensive Farm Bill. Farmers need it in order to plan for the next planting season, consumers rely on it for stability in food prices, and hunters depend on it to help preserve a sport they love. It's long overdue, and it's time to get it done.
Like so many Iowans, pheasant hunting was a part of my family's small town Iowa identity and remains a part of who we are. With so many people focused on preserving this tradition, I know hunters, land owners, and all concerned Iowans can work together to find other ways of safeguarding the future of pheasant hunting for generations to come.


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As many of you already know, this weekend we are celebrating the Ubuntu Global Jam, an event where all the participating LoCo teams gather together and contribute to make Ubuntu even better. There are lots of ways to contribute, from developing, to translations, documentation, packaging or testing. This time we have introduced a new and very valuable way to contribute: Upgrade Jams.
The objective of the jam is easy and everybody can participate prior to start contributing to the rest of the tasks: upgrading your own machines to Lucid Lynx Beta 1 and report back your experience. You can find information about how to run an Upgrade Jam in the wiki.
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Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:15 am
A. C. van Kuijk wrote:After having heared of the reaction between glue and CDs I started to store all CDs in plastic trays. Until now every disc works fine and shows no signs of fog.
Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:35 am
WMarkJ wrote:Trying to understand.. Aren't the CDs already in plastic trays when sent by FTD? My FTDs look like they are in plastic trays to me. Where is the glue?
Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:41 am
ok starting to see. Please elaborate on the plastic sleeves we are putting them in instead. The plastic sleeves are not jewel cases with the same issue right?Matthew wrote:WMarkJ wrote:Trying to understand.. Aren't the CDs already in plastic trays when sent by FTD? My FTDs look like they are in plastic trays to me. Where is the glue?
Holding the cardboard together, and under the trays securing the trays to the card packaging.
Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:14 pm
Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:01 pm
jbgude wrote:I took a chance and used 80% proof Alcohol and gave a scrub to my copy of 'Let yourself Go', and left it out in the open for a couple of hours. Now' apart from a small skip right at the beginning, the CD is playing OK: Strange that this problem is only on a few discs and across different climatic regions.
Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:21 pm
londonflash wrote:Shizers.
The old CD rot has got to my I Found My Thrill CD too.
I don't have any methanol but I do have some Corona's in the fridge. Should I bust one of those bad boys out and clean the disc?
Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:24 pm
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administrator wrote:Hi there,
Someone mentioned to me through e-mail some FTDs ( mostly 2006 releases ) may have problems that appears on their surface ( some kind of mist blur ). The following would be most likely a possible problem :
Southern Nights
Made In Memphis
Let Yourself Go
I Found My Thrill
Classic albums
Loving You
I just checked out mine. '' Southern Nights '' , '' Made In Memphis '' and '' Let Yourself Go '' all have some mist blur appearing on them. '' I Found My Thrill '' is a disaster, a lot of it and even looks like there's ice crystals forming all over it. I can play the CD but there's several skips already on it . I'm playing it now and have problems on all the first 7 tracks. It looks like the whole CD will be good for garbage.
If you check yours I'll be curious to find out what's happening with other copies all over the world.
Take care,
The Administrator
P.S. My CD almost skipped completely '' Sweet Caroline '' and having a hard time to keep playing.
Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:47 pm
WMarkJ wrote:ok starting to see. Please elaborate on the plastic sleeves we are putting them in instead. The plastic sleeves are not jewel cases with the same issue right?
Fri Sep 13, 2013 1:12 am
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When In Rome wrote: I back up all my CD's using a hard drive now, I'm currently half way through importing my collection. It's just nice to have them all in one place on a big hard drive but the eggs in one basket syndrome does make me wonder if it's the right way.
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Hank wrote:I ask again--has FTD ever replaced any defective discs?
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Rich_TCB wrote:Wow . . . that's unfortunate.
I have a question for everyone here. Does anyone protect your FTD's in plastic sleeves?
As far as I know, I haven't had any issues, and all of mine have always been stored in plastic sleeves.
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - President Barack Obama has laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in a visit to Arlington National Cemetery, the final resting place for many American war heroes.
Obama rode by motorcade from the White House to the hallowed burial grounds in suburban Virginia on a sun-splashed, but cool spring holiday. Cannon fire was heard in the distance.
An Honor Guard stood at attention along the road that carried the president to tomb site. The headstones at the national cemetery were adorned with mini-American flags.
Appearing before a hushed crowd at the venerable cemetery, Obama strode with uniformed military officers to the site of the Tomb and set the wreath in place after the playing of the National Anthem.
The president was to give a speech following the wreath-laying.
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Apple has enjoyed the lion's share of the tablet market, for years now; in January to March 2011, alone, over 4.5 million iPads were sold worldwide. Yung Trang, President of TechBargains.com, shares the truth behind who's buying. A recent survey showed that 48% of consumers said they were going to buy Apple's new iPad and of those 74% concede that no tablet compares to an iPad. With a higher-than-average cost to procure one of these iAnythings, however, it may be worth asking "why do people continue to pay more overall for Apple gear?" We look at some of the factors behind why people continue to fork over big bucks for the big brand.
Brand "Belonging"
One reason that so many people ignore the price tag of a new Apple device, and buy with unquestioning urgency, is that the brand name "Apple" means something to many people. There is also a feeling of security that the company has been able to instill in its loyal customers. Justin T. Esgar, CEO of Virtua Computers, an Apple consulting firm in Manhattan, shares that years of PC issues have made his clients feel better about buying Apple products. While the common computer-related issues were years ago, "they switched to Mac and stuck with it." He also shares that the familiarity of Apple has kept them around for the new product launches, and helped bring loyal customers on board with the new innovative tablets and phones Apple offers.
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Another sound reason for paying extra for the Apple brand is that the products seem to hold their value very well. The market has proven that, because people are willing to shell out big bucks for the latest brand new Apple offering, the gently-used version will also command a pretty penny. Yung Trang comments that people can get around $350 for their used iPad 2 on eBay. "For an electronic to retain value of over 70% is absolutely unbelievable." The same may not always be said for competitive tablet brands, something that die-hard Apple fans have in mind when they upgrade to the latest and want to cash in on last year's model.
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Finally, there is still a common thought among Apple owners (iPad enthusiasts, especially), that they are getting a great buy for the money. Daniel M. Ladik, PhD, and Associate Professor of Marketing at the Stillman School of Business, explains it this way, "Until competition can come close to the value equation - i.e., you get what you pay for - that iPad offers, Apple can command that premium price." He goes on to admit that what Apple pays to get the product made and how much margin per unit Apple earns is not relevant to consumers, just analysts. Consumers continue to give their approval of the pricing model with their wallets, something that proves the price is not hindering Apple in any way.
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Apple recently dropped the price of their iPad 2 model by $100 in preparation for their newest model. The TechBargains study, however, suggests that not everyone is on board with the "value" that Apple offers.
"The main reason 16% of shoppers surveyed said they would not buy the new tablet and 36% remain undecided is because of the high price tag. Even most of those who said they won't buy the iPad who have an annual household income of $150,000 or more, say the iPad is too expensive."
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The "value engineering" firm, OAC of Spokane, has saved the school district a ton of money.
The firm was hired in mid-August to review all the plans for the new K-12 school facility, and has come up with revisions and suggestions that could knock $750,000 out of the cost of the project.
The school board moved on a number of suggestions made by OAC at its meeting recently.
The value engineering group is made up of architects, engineers and other building experts who met with the district's architects, engineers and education officials at least twice, and came up with a number of plan adjustments.
The review of plans in the value engineering program is a requirement by the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction to assure that local districts engaged in a building program get the best "bang for the buck," as one official described it.
The school board awarded OAC the contract at a price of $47,500.
Some of the highlights of the report, and what was agreed to by the school board include:
Elimination of one elevator (savings $79,000); eliminate doors on restrooms in both the K-6 and 7-12 wings (savings $70,000); put all heat pumps above the second-floor ceilings (savings $75,000); alternate low voltage systems (savings $3,000); use steel in lieu of wood for exterior brace features (savings $4,000); explore alternates to floor finishes on the second floor (savings being explored); use wide flange beams in lieu of glu-lam beams (savings $100,000); adjust wall layout in the administration area to use braced frames in lieu of moment frames (savings $10,000); reduce the number of small group and in-school suspension rooms (savings $5,000); share one restroom between two kindergarten rooms and delete restrooms in first-grade classrooms (savings $15,000); relocate the painted game area to the fire lane (savings $5,000); align the building design and the education space with current enrollment projections instead of for 800 students (savings $300,000); use an alternate material instead of metal for pitched roofs (bid alternate, est. savings $200,000); and lower the building as much as possible to maintain an exit onto Crest Drive from the parent drop-off area and maintain a 50- by 60-yard play area (estimated savings $250,000).
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Evansville Police Give a Drunk Driver a 50,000 Volt Taser Chaser
There are a couple of things that can make a night of heavy drinking a less than desirable experience – hitting parked cars and being Tased by police officers is definitely high on the list.
Just ask Simon Johnson Jr., of Evansville who is now facing multiple charges which stem for an episode of drunken debauchery that ended with him riding a little bit of lighting after he repeatedly resisted law enforcement.
According to a report by the Evansville Police Department, officers got suspicious when they spotted Johnson's white Ford F-150 run a stop sign on at top speed on South Adams Avenue without any headlights on.
In the meantime, reports started coming in of a woman trying to stop the driver of a white truck after it allegedly hit her car on Adams Avenue, which also caused damage to two other vehicles. What a coincidence – right?
When officers finally got Johnson to pull over, he was apparently so inebriated that he actually almost backed his truck into the police cruiser – which is never a good way to get things started with police.
One of the officers reported that it was "immediately evident" that Johnson had been drinking because he displayed glassy eyes – he reeked of booze and he was slurring his speech. Yep, those are usually imminent signs that someone has really tied one on!
The report states that when officers instructed Johnson to get out of his vehicle he flat out refused, and began reaching for what could have been the hatchet, the hammer, or the unopened beer that he had on the floorboard of his truck. We hope that he was reaching for the unopened beer. After all, it would be a shame to let the last one go to waste.
After Johnson failed to comply with the officer's warnings, he was Tased and then taken to the Vanderburgh County Jail where his blood alcohol registered twice the legal limit.
Although no one was hurt in the incident, we cannot possible image how much worse Johnson's hangover was after police gave him that 50,000 volt taser chaser.


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well i found that site by accident last week, and i thought it was just a bunch of people fed up with how a black person can call a white person a skanky hoe, but if a white person calls a black person a skanky hoe thats racism, and i thought, thats a fair point, i'm a bit fed up of being called a racist if i say a black joke, even tho black people make money from telling joke about while people (i an't saying i don't think its funny, just its a bit like sexism, even tho its fair, woman always get the upperhand)
so then after looking thru the site i find a band called 'Prussian Blue'
that all looks sweet and innocent, but i'm getting the feeling something isn't as friendly as it seems, so after thinking i must be insane thinking these sites are secretly promoting white supremacy, and relgious 'cleansing' i had a quick look on google, and found this interesting article
anywho, another link in me mind was that i noticed someone on this forum seemed to fit the bill for being an avid supporter of this stuff, and thought before this person was just joking but its all a bit crazy, if anyone can be bothered to read it, i'm just wondering on other peoples opinons?
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Since MoP, i feel like being a skilled player doesn't really matter, if you don't play the fotm comp, you just can't win even if you play perfectly.
For example : I queued to a thug, they were at 2350 mmr, 3 humans backpedallers.
I said something like "Yes, free win" on skype, we outplayed them so hard in the arena and at some point, they oneshotted the shaman in less then 3sec. I started to flame my mate saying "dude, they are so shit, how can we lose to them" but I finally realized that it's just how the game is now.
I chedked their armory, they started to play WoW when MoP started. :/
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NEW YORK, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte has acquired substantially all of the business of Monitor, one of the world's leading strategy consulting firms. This transaction combines Monitor's highly-influential brand, strong thought leadership and top-notch talent with Deloitte's extraordinary reach, access, and resources to solidify the Deloitte network as a worldwide leader in strategy consulting. Monitor's talent and assets will combine with Deloitte's consulting strategy service lines and operate under the Monitor Deloitte brand, resulting in a new global presence that will redefine our industry.
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Inconsistent sentencing is a real issue and affects the reputation of all levels of court, Victoria's Chief Magistrate Ian Gray says.
But Mr Gray – who has sat in the top job for more than 10 years – said claims the state's magistrates were soft on criminals were "glib and superficial".
Mr Gray spoke with the Bendigo Advertiser when he visited the region this week.
Part of the chief's job is travelling around to visit all of Victoria's magistrates courts.Mr Gray sat on the bench in Bendigo on Thursday and then in Castlemaine yesterday.
A common public complaint about Bendigo magistrates is that they are too lenient and Mr Gray admitted consistency was a real issue for all of Victoria's courts.
"I think the reputation of the courts do suffer somewhat because there isn't quite enough consistency," he said.
"Sentencing can be criticised and undoubtedly some sentences handed down by courts are lenient and are appealed because they are too lenient. But that's normally at the higher court levels and that's normally where the critique is."
Mr Gray said it was important for magistrates to keep their decisions in line with community expectations, but they couldn't let personal feelings creep in.
"I think we all have things we regard as intolerable individually which some others might regard as bad but not quite so intolerable," he said.
"There's degrees of reaction but we have to temper our personal reaction to achieve a reasonable, balanced outcome.
"Where something calls for absolute condemnation, and the Facebook one here this week was one that called for powerful condemnation, that's what should happen."
Mr Gray referred to the Josh Turner case in the Bendigo Magistrates Court this week, where Turner was given a six-month suspended sentence for setting up a sexually degrading and offensive Facebook page.
"I think it was a very good decision, I think it was a well-expressed decision and I think this is an area where it's new and people do need to understand that offences committed in this way are very, very serious and the implications for victims can be serious," he said.
But Mr Gray said magistrates also had to work within the sentencing law and, as was the case in the Turner matter, other sentencing considerations must be taken into account.
"The sentencing law talks about punishment, deterrence, rehabilitation, holding people to account and taking into account the effects on victims," he said.
"Most cases that come into the Magistrates Court are not so serious they call for imprisonment. A number do and those people go to jail. The jails in this state are utterly full, more than full.
"I just think it's completely wrong to suggest there are people who aren't going to jail when they should be."
Mr Gray said there was always room for debate around sentencing but magistrates did their best to get the balance right.
"In most cases jail sentences won't be necessary and it's not the right option.
"So they are looking at options which are below jail, which involve community corrections orders and financial penalties and suspended sentences and combinations of those.
"Magistrates like to craft sentences which bring together a range of elements to achieve a range of purposes. That's what they do, that's the skill, that's the experience and that's where the wisdom lies.
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NASHVILLE (AP) – The United Auto Workers announced Monday it is withdrawing its appeal of the outcome of a union vote at Volkswagen's assembly plant in Tennessee.
In a statement released one hour before the scheduled start of a National Labor Relations Board hearing in Chattanooga, Tenn., UAW President Bob King said the union decided to abandon the challenge because it could have taken months or even years to come to a conclusion.
"The UAW is ready to put February's tainted election in the rearview mirror and instead focus on advocating for new jobs and economic investment in Chattanooga," King said.
The UAW had filed its appeal after Volkswagen workers rejected the union in a 712-626 vote in February, arguing that public statements from U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and other GOP officials had raised fears about the plant's future if workers there organized.
Leaked documents later revealed that Tennessee had tied a $300 million incentive offer for expanding the plant to the satisfactory outcome of the labor situation there.
Volkswagen wants to introduce a German-style works council at the plant to represent both salaried and blue-collar workers, but the company's interpretation of U.S. law has been that it can't do so without the involvement of an independent union.
The company issued a statement Monday welcoming the UAW decision as "an important gesture for a constructive dialogue in Chattanooga." Volkswagen said it will continue to pursue its efforts to establish "a new, innovative form of co-determination in the USA."
Corker and Haslam oppose UAW expanding its reach in Tennessee, arguing that a win at Volkswagen would hurt the state's ability to attract other manufacturers and suppliers.
Corker, a former Chattanooga mayor, was particularly vocal during the three-day union vote in February, predicting the company would announce an expansion within two weeks of workers rejecting the union.
The senator later blamed the UAW appeal – and the resulting delay in certifying the results of the union election – for putting a hold on expansion talks at the plant.
"This 11th hour reversal by the UAW affirms what we have said all along – that their objection was nothing more than a sideshow to draw attention away from their stinging loss in Chattanooga," Corker said in a statement.
"It's a shame the UAW slowed the momentum on our expansion conversations with Volkswagen, but now it's time for VW, our state and our community to re-engage and move forward with bringing additional jobs to Chattanooga," said Corker, who was traveling in Moldova.
UAW Regional Director Gary Casteel said the union's decision should now put the onus on the state to quickly approve the incentives.
"They have steadily used our objections to their behavior in the election as a scapegoat for the product not getting placed there, so we removed that element," Casteel said in a phone interview.
"Now they need to step up and do what's right for VW and those workers over there, get the incentives without any strings attached, and let VW concentrate on making cars and implementing their philosophy and culture that they use globally into that plant in Chattanooga," he said.
Corker and Haslam had filed motions fighting subpoenas from the union to produce documents and appear at the NLRB hearings.
The vote against the UAW was a setback to the union's goal of expanding into foreign-owned auto plants in the U.S., particularly those in the South.
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CMS Proposes Reduced Hospital DSH Cuts
Some acute care hospitals would see a $1.1 billion reduction in cuts to Medicaid disproportionate share hospital (DSH) funds for two years under a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal.
Some 2,000 acute care hospitals that treat large numbers of the uninsured would see a $1.1 billion reduction in federal subsidies, called Medicaid disproportionate share funds, over the next two years under a proposed rule released Monday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
The reduction methodology to accommodate "data refinement and methodology improvement before larger reductions begin in FY 2017" is being proposed just for FY 2014 and 2015, rather than the full $18.1 billion specified through 2020. The federal funds go to states, which distribute them to hospitals under federal and state eligibility requirements.
Hospital trade groups said they appreciated that the full cuts through 2020 weren't set forth in the proposed rule, but said all DSH cuts should be postponed two years because the premise for the rule, which is spelled out in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, is no longer valid.
The idea is that since starting in FY 2014, or Oct. 1, 2013, hospitals wouldn't need such large DSH subsidies because they would have far fewer uninsured patients to care for. That's because health insurance exchanges are expected to cover more of the uninsured, and because PPACA authorizes states to expand their Medicaid programs to adults under age 65 with incomes up to 133% of the federal poverty level.


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Updated Nov. 28: PCN plans to air coverage of the River Symposium Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 4:10 p.m., and again around 7:30 p.m. Check local listings for availability.
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University will host the 7th Annual Susquehanna River Symposium, "Wasn't That A Mighty Storm! Flooding in the Susquehanna watershed," Oct. 12 and 13 in the Terrace Room (Room 256) of the Elaine Langone Center.
All events in this symposium are free and open to the public without registration.
The symposium is sponsored by the Susquehanna River Initiative of the Bucknell University Environmental Center (BUEC) and the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition for Environmental Studies, a group of faculty and students from local universities whose research focuses on the Susquehanna River.
Because of its geographic location with respect to sources of hurricanes and tropical storms, the enormous size of the watershed, and hydrology and morphology of channel, the Susquehanna River is one of the most flood-prone rivers in the United States, according to Benjamin Hayes, director of Bucknell's Susquehanna River Initiative and chair of this year's symposium.
"Many of us remember clearly the devastation and deaths related to Hurricane Agnes in 1972 and other floods including the ice floods of 1972 and January 1996 and Hurricane Ivan in 2004. In early September of last year, Tropical Storm Lee dumped more than 18 inches of rain in the watershed, which was already water-logged from Hurricane Irene which swept through the basin several weeks earlier.
"Lee was the flood of record in our region. The flooding closed Bucknell's campus, displaced more than 100,000 people, caused massive amounts of erosion and sedimentation, and destroyed more than 100 miles of roads and bridges, farm fields and communities. Understanding the causes of flooding and their impact on streams, aquatic ecosystems, and human life is of great interest to people in our region," he said.
The goal of this symposium is to bring together students, faculty, scientists, engineers, planners, and community leaders to explore flooding in the Susquehanna watershed and its impacts on human and aquatic life, infrastructure, tributary stream channels, and areas downstream, including the Chesapeake Bay. Various speakers also will address the latest technologies and approaches to flood forecasting, floodplain management, and risk reduction.
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I'm with you. I came to learn -- and no I don't mean be spoon fed. I have access to TV thru my hacked T-60 so I'm not looking for a quick fix to free TV. In fact, I gave up another perfectly hackable unit for my HDVR2 because I wanted to face the challenge and learn how the box works, what the commands are, and how it all fits together.
Believe me, I've read MrB's post on the initrd replacement at least 10 times. Even his post on hacking the box is now dated since you can't use the U5 version forever unless you never hook up to the stream. I spent most of this weekend reading here and at the tivo underground trying to understand this stuff. That said, I did notice a recent post here that in a few short paragraphs explained in 5 mins or less almost everything I'd learned about hacking this unit in over 80 hrs of reading.
My impression is there are a few true masters here, like MrB and Kraven, and then there's a bunch of other people like me who are stumbling around who want to learn more but need some basic understanding of linux and the commands (and yes, I've read the faq). I even bought and installed SuSe linux on one of my computers in the hope it would help. It didn't.
Like anything with computers, hands on experience helps. It took me literally hours to figure out how to find my rc.sysinit file let alone mod it.


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The iLP Lightning was the more classy of Ion's product lineup. It's a turntable that will convert your vinyl collection to AAC for playback on iDevices and any other number of machines. A conversion system for vinyl is always welcome, and an old-school touch on the modern world has a powerful appeal.


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Putting together the WO Magazine for the fitness club is always a learning experience for our team. I wanted to share some of the more interesting things we learned this edition (Spring 2012) that were too weird, irrelevant or idiotic to make it into the actual pages of the magazine. So check this out…you know how chef's do this great [...]Read more ›


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FOXBOROUGH — The Patriots placed Shane Vereen on the injured reserve/designated to return list, meaning the running back will miss at least the next eight games.
Vereen broke a bone in his wrist early in Sunday's win against the Bills, but still managed to gain 159 all-purpose yards, including the first 100-yard rushing game of his career (14 carries, 101 yards). He had surgery to repair the break Monday, with initial reports speculating that he'd miss four weeks or so.
Based on the IR/DFR designation, Vereen won't be able to practice until after Week 7, and won't be able to play until after Week 9. The Patriots have a bye in Week 10, so the earliest Vereen could play in a game would be Nov. 18, a Monday night game at Carolina. He'll miss two games against the Jets — including Thursday night's home opener — and also games with Tampa Bay, Atlanta, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Miami, and Pittsburgh.
To replace Vereen on the 53-man active roster, the Patriots re-signed tight end Matthew Mulligan. He was originally signed by the team Sept. 3, and was released two days later. With Rob Gronkowski (forearm/back) and Zach Sudfeld (hamstring) dealing with injuries, Michael Hoomanawanui had been the only healthy tight end.
Meanwhile, wide receiver Danny Amendola, who is battling a groin injury, had limited participation in the team's walkthrough practice for the second straight day.
Three Patriots — running back Stevan Ridley, and cornerbacks Alfonzo Dennard and Marquice Cole — were added to Tuesday's injury report, despite participating fully in the walkthrough at Gillette Stadium.
Ridley was listed with a shoulder injury, while Dennard was listed with an ankle injury and Cole a hamstring injury.
The other players on the injury report were again listed with limited participation: Gronkowski, Sudfeld, Amendola, receiver Aaron Dobson (hamstring), defensive backs Nate Ebner (ankle) and Duron Harmon (hamstring), running backs Brandon Bolden (knee) and Leon Washington (thigh), and offensive lineman Will Svitek (knee).
The team worked out on the upper grass field behind Gillette Stadium in the morning, with players in shorts and T-shirts. There were no pads, and very few players brought helmets.
The Patriots also announced a pair of practice squad transactions: They re-signed defensive lineman A.J. Francis and released receiver Quentin Sims.


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Talk:Special Vehicles
This page really needs a lot of cleanup. I've volunteered, but there's just too much to clean up. Can somebody help me with this? It's getting late here, and I think I can't do any more tonight.
I also got some Liberty City Stories vehicles and put them in tables due to it being cluttered. Fluffy Clouds 05:05, November 14, 2009 (UTC)
Change Format
- Moved from User talk:Gboyers
Do you think that the special vehicles page should be laid out in different articles to the corresponding game?--Gta-mysteries 09:07, February 2, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not sure. Having pages like Special Vehicles in GTA San Andreas would mean repeating a lot of the information (explaining that these are BP/DP/unobtainable etc), and they'd have to go back to Special Vehicles every to figure out how to destroy them anyway. At the most, we could move the code to sub-pages to make it easier to work on and edit? Gboyers talk 12:22, February 2, 2010 (UTC)
What about putting the same vehicle in different columns. Like instead of the same vehicle on one column with all of the abilities marked in brackets, would it be easier to read if they were separated?--Gta-mysteries 21:45, February 7, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't understand. Do you mean having one table for every special vehicle (no matter which game)? Or do you mean have DP/EP/FP/BP as separate columns? That wouldn't be a big change, the page would still be huge. Gboyers talk 22:04, February 7, 2010 (UTC)
Like this:
|Permanent Color
|Grand Theft Auto
|Permanant Color/ BP FP EP
|Grand Theft Auto (permanent color)/Turismo (FP EP BP)
You've put the information twice in there. You might as well do this - Gboyers talk 23:38, February 7, 2010 (UTC)
|Permanent color
|Grand Theft Auto (mission)
|Turismo (mission)
- Got it, thanks.--Gta-mysteries 23:52, February 7, 2010 (UTC)
Just altered it slightly. Gboyers talk 00:02, February 8, 2010 (UTC)
Correction on one of the unobtainable vehicles in San Andreas
I would like to point out that the Patriot in San Andreas is in fact obtainable.
I have a found a FAQ on gamefaqs that has explained how to get it:
Use crtl+f to look for "Patriot"
There are four methods to try out. One of the methods even has a video (it's from a Spanish PC version of the game though).
I haven't tried out any of these methods out myself but this proves that the Patriot is indeed possible to get.
== Unique TLAD Bikes? ==
In the mission where you find out Jason was killed, the AoD drive bikes with a fire paintjob on the front, and the back (front seat and back) are black. They are drivable, but i dont think you can keep one without failing the mission. Jackass2009 05:03, June 20, 2010 (UTC)
Should availability be considered on what constitues "special"?
The light gray Admiral that spawns in front of Diaz's Manstion/Vercetti Estate was listed as special. Does it really have to be on the list if it always available?--spaceeinstein 05:50, August 1, 2010 (UTC)
Tank info
I can't edit this, but the tank info is wrong. I captured the Buffalo from Misappropriation in San Andreas that is damage, explosion, fire, and bullet proof. I've run straight into tanks again and again and it does not budge. So, for that special vehicle at least, tanks do not affect it at all. If something is just fireproof, then of course, because a tank isn't a flame weapon. But, I think it should be removed. If it cannot be damaged at all, that includes by tanks.--Tommy-Vercetti 21:09, 23 June 2011 (BST)
- Why can't you edit it? If you're not sure how tables work, check out Help:Editing#Tables or mw:Help:Tables and just give it a go. Anything you do can be undone, so be bold and see if you can figure it out. If that's not the problem, let me know what is. Gboyers 04:07, 25 June 2011 (BST)
I wouldn't have posted here if I didn't already try every conceivable option open to me to try and edit it. I can't figure it out, so I asked someone who knew what they were doing if they could. If you're not going to do it, at least tell me how to so I can. I cannot edit the box at all, it's just the bottom links.--Tommy-Vercetti 16:12, 25 June 2011 (BST)
- The reason you can't edit it is because it is a template. If you want to edit it, you have to go to Special Vehicles/Header and edit that. Chimpso (Talk) 03:01, 26 June 2011 (BST)
Thank you, Chimpso. I honestly had no clue at all about anything like that. I'll remember it for future edits.--Tommy-Vercetti 22:21, 26 June 2011 (BST)
- Why remove it if you aren't completely sure? I tried destroying Diaz's BP/FP/EP/DP Admiral in Vice City and using a tank worked perfectly. Both running a tank into the car and getting hit by a tank during a 6-star wanted level destroyed it. --Andreaz1 01:04, 27 June 2011 (BST)
Maybe we should just add a note that it works in Vice City, but not in San Andreas. As I've already said, I captured a vehicle with the same properties as Diaz's admiral in San Andreas and tanks do nothing at all to it. I crashed full speed into one and it did nothing, multiple times even. That's honestly wherein the fun of it lies. --Tommy-Vercetti 14:04, 27 June 2011 (BST)
- In my opinion tanks have always been a bit dodgy. Was your tank started? Was there someone in it? What happens if you crash the tank into the car instead? You may be correct, I'm just saying that with GTA you need to test things multiple times in different ways to be able to be absolutely sure of something. --Andreaz1 15:11, 27 June 2011 (BST)
- Only SA gives you the chance of not instantly blowing up when colliding into a tank. The rest of the GTA games don't do that.--spaceeinstein 15:45, 27 June 2011 (BST)
It was a full blown 6 star level that lasted over 10 minutes. My car only got destroyed because I tipped it.--Tommy-Vercetti 15:53, 27 June 2011 (BST)
- I was wrong then. My bad. --Andreaz1 16:47, 27 June 2011 (BST)
Ah I see what you were trying to edit now! When you edit a page, if you look at the very bottom you can see a list of templates used on this page. This tells you which {{templates}} are being used on that page, and is a lot quicker than digging through all the code to find something that might not be there! Check out Help:Templates instead, perhaps! Gboyers 21:27, 27 June 2011 (BST)


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Seven years on from Ronaldinho's iconic Bernabeu display, the Brazil superstar showed this weekend he's still got it.
The 19th November 2005 will always be remembered as the day Ronaldinho single-handedly dismantled Real Madrid, earning applause from a fiercely partisan Bernabeu crowd, and sending him well on his way to the Ballon d'Or award.
It was a scarcely believable individual performance. In the age of Lionel Messi the Nou Camp crowd has become spoiled by such acts of unique brilliance, but at this stage the Barca bandwagon was not quite as domineering.
From 1999 to 2005, the Catalan club one La Liga just once, six months prior to Ronaldinho's Bernabeu expose.
Real Madrid were still Spain's dominant side, despite the emergence of Valencia, and despite Barcelona's La Liga victory in 2004-05, the side from the Spanish capital still expected to knock Barca back off the top.
But Frank Rijkaard's squad marched into enemy territory, chests puffed out, and embarrassed their opponents in memorable fashion.
Ronaldinho's overall performance that day was sensational, but his two goals were mind-altering. Nobody was doing what Ronaldinho was doing on a football pitch.
Picking the ball up inside his own half he turned, and like a shark, homed in on his prey. He was direct, effectively charging at the Real Madrid defence like a hulking bull, but then, when faced with an opponent, the physical front retreated, and with the grace of a ballerina, Ronaldinho danced around a weary defender, not once but twice, faced up to Iker Casillas and whipped the ball into the near corner.
15 minutes later he repeated the trick, and Barcelona were 3-0 up - Samuel Eto'o had opened the scoring in the 15th minute.
A shell-shocked Real Madrid crowd went to reach for the white flag, but thought better of it. Their team were poor, but their opponents were brilliant, and a humbled Bernabeu sportingly applauded their fiercest foes.
In years previous, Madrid were used to inflicting such performances on others - but the light on the Galacticos lamp was flickering, although Vanderlei Luxemburgo could still call on Roberto Carlos, David Beckham, Raul, Robinho, Ronaldo, Zinedine Zidane and Iker Casillas.
Unfortunately, Barcelona had a star to match, and the Brazilian was at the peak of his powers that night. But seven years on, a 32-year-old Ronaldinho has demonstrated he's still got it.
Playing for Atletico Miniero in the Brazilian first division, the former-Milan legend popped up with a last-gasp stoppage time equaliser.
In fact, his form in Brazil has been so good that some have tipped him for a recall to the national team. With the World Cup two years away, such reports seem to be tinged with a nostalgic longing, and few expect the 2005 Ballon d'Or winner to get anywhere near Mano Menezes' squad.
But a Neymar and Ronaldinho combination? That would be something special.
The Santos star has been earmarked as a possible Barcelona transfer target, and although he insists he's going nowhere until 2014, few would bet against the next Brazil star packing his bags and setting off for the Nou Camp.
Neymar has already shown he's capable of dazzling runs to match Ronaldinho in his pomp, abet he's only done so in the Brazilian league so far.
So a chance to play alongside Leo Messi? A chance to follow in Ronaldinho's footsteps. Now that would be something special.
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Camp McClintock
Fly through the air on the zip line! Climb to the treetops on the climbing tower! Get in touch with your inner marksman at the rifle range! Hike, camp, fish, canoe, look at the stars and enjoy the beautiful Osage hills. You can do it all in the 400+ acres of woods, hills, cliffs, creeks, ponds and rocks at McClintock, the ideal setting for your unit's weekend camping trip. There are even showers and modern "facilities" available.
Camp McClintock, a 422 acre camp, located in the Osage Hills West of Bartlesville, OK offers year-round camping and opportunities for awesome hiking and canoeing. The encompassing woods, cliffs, creek and ponds provide a wonderful setting to take a unit on a weekend camping trip. Running water is available throughout the year and numerous picnic tables can be found around the camp.
Camp McClintock has a variety of facilities to accommodate most units. Among them is a spacious Pavilion, great for Pack picnics and Arrow of Light Ceremonies or Eagle Courts of Honor. A Dining Hall with many tables and chairs, and a fully equipped kitchen set up to handle a capacity of 150.
The Cub Cabin, which is 25x40, has a breathtaking view of the "Osage". This facility is ideal for Troop Junior Leader Training or Unit annual calendar planning. We strongly encourage the Cub Packs or Dens to use this cabin for overnights as a bunkhouse. There is both electric service and a wood stove to keep the Cabin warm in cool temperatures.
To get to Camp McClintock, go 9.5 miles West of Bartlesville on U.S. Highway 60, then South at camp sign 3 miles, bearing right at both forks in the road. Or, go 14.5 miles East of Pawhuska on U.S. Highway 60, then South at camp sign 3 miles, bearing right at both forks.
Reservations must be made 10 days prior to your arrival. A small fee of $1 per person paid through the Council office is required from out of Council Units to use Camp McClintock. Other camp fees may apply, depending on the facilities to be used. Camp McClintock rules must be followed by all who use the Camp.
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Chocolate companies offer "mixed-bag" on women's rights
Leading chocolate companies Mars, Mondelez International and Nestle have made some progress on their 2013 promises to improve gender equality in their cocoa supply chains but significant gaps still remain, according to an independent evaluation published today.
Public pressure pushes big food companies to improve their policies in developing countries
Campaign actions by hundreds of thousands of people in the past 12 months have swayed nine of the world's ten biggest food and beverage companies to improve their social and environmental policies
Mondelēz International agrees to address women's inequality in chocolate production
The biggest chocolate maker in the world, Mondelēz International, has agreed to take steps to address inequality facing women in their cocoa supply chains following pressure from consumers as part of the international aid agency Oxfam's Behind the Brands campaign.
Easter chocolate profits should push Mondelēz to do better by women farmers
In a week that will see seventy-one million pounds of chocolate sold for Easter, international agency Oxfam is accelerating its campaign targeting the world's biggest buyer of cocoa, Mondelēz International.
Nestle responds to Oxfam's Behind the Brands
In response to Nestle's public letter to O
The companies that make your favorite chocolate bars are not doing much to support the women who grow and pick cocoa for them. You can change this.


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Creating Change Conference
Kansas City, MO
Wednesday November 8 b Sunday November 12, 2006
Has Your Voice Been Heard??
Next week the NCSF and ITCR will be represented at the 19th Annual "Creating Change" conference, the largest annual convening of LGBT activists in North America! This groundbreaking conference works to provide LGBT activists and their allies with the information, tools and technical assistance necessary to
successfully mobilize our local communities, to combat homophobia and to strengthen our political power in the fight to preserve sexual freedom.
Why should you join us? For an incredible weekend filled with educational workshops, capacity building sessions, community-based caucuses, networking opportunities and fun social gatherings that promote a collaborative and issue-based approach to social justice organizing. Make sure that YOUR VOICE IS HEARD in the dialogue about public policy, human rights, same-sex marriage, hate crimes legislation, sexual health education, employment discrimination and coalition-building in movements for social justice. With four days of hands-on and discussion based programming, you'll be sure to walk away from the weekend with your head spinning, your batteries recharged and your passion for activism renewed.
Classes of interest to our constituency base can be found in (and beyond) an entire "topic area" dedicated to issues of and pertaining to Sexual Freedom, Sexual Politics and Leather, and include:
- Hot Fantasies and Political Nightmares: A Leather Community Primer
- A Dialogue with Youth: Talking about Sex and Sexual Freedom
- Understanding Sexual Freedom as an LGBTQI or Leather Political Leader
- Building a Progressive Queer Movement in the Time of the Right
- Talking about Sex in the Disabled Community
- Sex, Sexuality and Spirituality for Communities of Color
- Public Pillow Talk
- Sexual Freedom as a Fundamental Human Right
- Talking about Sex with Bisexuals
- It's About Gay Sex: Strategies for Working With A Radical Right Obsessed
With Gay Sex Practices
- Effective Defense/Creative Offense: Mastering The Legislative Process
- Polyamory/Non-Monogamy Caucus
- Sash Revolutions: Building Political Power through Contest Culture
- What's $ Got To Do With It?: Sex Work, Economics and Class
- And The Teacher Wore Leather Chaps: Leadership Development, Leather
- Talking about Sex in Communities of Color
- Leather: A Community Building Perspective
- Sex, Race, Class and Gender: Establishing All-Inclusive, Sex Positive
Public Policy
Be sure to join us for the following Special Events over the course of the weekend:
Leather Meet and Greet
Hosted by Jessi Holman Ahart, International Ms. Leather 2005
Daily, 7pm b 8pm at the Westin Brasserie Lounge
Leather Social
A benefit for the NCSF and the Angel Tree Fund
Hosted by the Kansas City Leather Community and the National Coalition for
Sexual Freedom
Friday, 9pm b 3am at bBootleggersb on the second floor of Missie Bbs (805 W.
39th Street)
Community Table
Vending Area
Sponsored by the NCSF, Leather Leadership Conference, the Leather Archives and
Museum and International Ms. Leather, LLC
For more information on the conference, visit
A Project of NCSF
The National Coalition for Sexual Freedom is a national organization committed to creating a political, legal, and social environment in the United States that advances equal rights of consenting adults who practice forms of alternative sexual expression. NCSF is primarily focused on the rights of consenting adults in the SM-leather-fetish, swing, and polyamory communities, who often face discrimination because of their sexual expression.


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1 dead, 1 wounded in shooting at Houston Chinese restaurant
Published 1:15 pm, Monday, September 30, 2013
One person was fatally shot and another was wounded during a robbery at a Chinese restaurant in southeast Houston Monday morning.
The shooting happened about 10:45 a.m. in the 4500 block of Griggs, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said two suspects rushed into the eatery, demanded money and then opened fire, wounding two workers.
One of the victims was shot in the chest and died at the scene, police said. The other victim was wounded in the leg and was taken to the hospital. The person's condition was not released.
The suspects sped away after the gunfire. No descriptions of the suspects or their vehicle were available.


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The Institute communicates its scientific and educational information in a number of ways. One major outlet is peer-reviewed publications and reports. Cary Institute staff regularly publish in the best-rated journals in their respective fields.
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Biomass allocation and multiple resource limitation in tree seedlings", Can. J. For. Res., vol. 26, p. 1521-1530, 1996., "
Competitive hierarchies of temperate tree species: Interactions between resource availability and white-tailed deer", Ecoscience, vol. 12, p. 494-505, 2005., "
Direct and indirect effects of masting on rodent populations and tree seed survival", Oikos, vol. 96, p. 402-410, 2002., "
Ear-tagging increases tick (Ixodes dammini) infestation rates of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus)", J. Mammal, vol. 74, p. 651-655, 1993., "
The Influence of Nearest Seed Neighbors on Seed Removal in Deciduous Forests", Northeast. Nat., vol. 19, p. 43-48, 2012., "
Linkages among canopy tree neighbourhoods, small mammal herbivores and herbaceous communities in temperate forests", Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 27, no. 5, p. 980 - 986, 2016., "
Neighborhood analyses of small mammal dynamics: Impacts on seed predation and seedling establishment", Ecology, vol. 85, p. 741-755, 2004., "
The relationships among habitat distribution, small mammal activity patterns, seed survival and seedling recruitment in temperate deciduous forests", 2000., "
The roles of small rodents in creating patchy environments", Pol. Ecol. Stud., vol. 20, p. 265-276, 1994., "
Soil nitrogen availability, plant luxury consumption, and herbivory by white-tailed deer", Oecologia, vol. 133, p. 517-524, 2002., "