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Spring weather has been slow to arrive this month. Yet I've been craving spring veggies like crazy. In the coming weeks, asparagus will start popping up in the farmers markets, so I thought I would post a stir-fry to get you in the mood for warmer temps ahead.
As I've mentioned before, lately I've been testing out sauces from Soy Vay, with whom I started a partnership in January. This month I decided to try out their recipe for a garlic beef and asparagus stir-fry using their Hoisin Garlic. Here are some discoveries from the Appetite for China test kitchen:
- Doubling as a marinade, this is one workhorse of a sauce. I altered the original recipe a bit, marinating the beef in about 2 tablespoons of Hoisin Garlic to allow the flavors to seep into the meat before cooking. The result was incredibly tender beef; the sauce takes the place of my usual meat marinade of soy sauce, rice wine, and cornstarch.
- It's a little less concentrated than other hoisin sauces I've used, which makes it easier to stir in the pan. This is especially helpful for this recipe, because the flank steak cooks so quickly, and you don't want to overcook the beef before the sauce gets evenly mixed.
- The flavor is slightly sweeter, which balances out the savoriness from the soybeans. No need to add an extra bit of sugar to your sauce, which I often do.
- It's widely available. This is a huge plus. I often get emails from readers and students from my classes asking where to get good Asian ingredients when they can't get to a Chinatown conveniently. (And most other American-made hoisin sauces I've tried are very lackluster.) The Hoisin Garlic sauce is available at Whole Foods and a ton of other big supermarkets.
All in all, this is a great single bottle sauce that can have you whipping up a delicious stir-fry in almost no time, even if you have no other Asian sauces in the pantry.
After I stir-fried the beef, I just removed it from the pan, stir-fried and steamed the asparagus in the same pan, and brought everything together in the end along with the sauce and cashews.
I served the dish over white rice, but it would go equally well with some cold sesame noodles or scallion pancakes on the side.
Garlic Beef and Asparagus Stir-fry
Serves 4
- 1 tablespoon vegetable or peanut oil
- 1 pound flank steak, cut against the grain into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- 1/2 cup Soy Vay Hoisin Garlic Sauce and Marinade
- 1 pound asparagus, ends removed and cut into 1-inch lengths
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup roasted, unsalted cashews
- In a medium bowl, combine the flank steak and 2 tablespoons of the Hoisin Garlic sauce. Allow the steak to marinate for 10 to 15 minutes at room temperature.
- Heat the oil in a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the flank steak and stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes, until mostly brown but not fully cooked. Remove and set aside.
- Add the asparagus to the wok. Stir-fry for about 1 minute, then add 1/2 cup water and cover with a lid. Allow the asparagus to steam for another 1 to 2 minutes until tender-crisp and the water is gone.
- Return the beef to the wok. Add the remaining amount of hoisin garlic sauce and stir until everything is well-mixed and the beef is cooked through, about 1 minute more. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper. Stir in the cashews. Transfer to a serving dish and serve with rice or noodles.
Adapted from Soy Vay.
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A. C. Read Golf Club, Bayou
Average: 2.7 (6 votes)
Bldg 3495, Nas Pensacola
Pensacola, FL 32508
Pensacola, FL 32508
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Played last week There are 3 9s there. The facility is on a Navy Base and is very nice the guy that runs it is one of the nicest golf professionals I have run across guy named Steve, what a guy and loves his job. The course reminds me of some of the old courses lots of big live oak trees, greens big, not many tricky holes and then you have the wind because it is on like a island out in the bay. You do have to go through security to get there. Reminds me of Harbour Towne just not as plush.
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- Architect Name – William W. Amick, ASGCA/(R)Jerry Pate
- Greens Grass Type – Bermuda Grass
- Regulation Length Holes – 27
- Executive Length Holes – 18
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Review and Giveaway: Reach Out by Human Nature
Saturday, March 27, 2010
I recently was sent a copy of Reach Out by Human Nature. I'm a big R&B lover, and Human Nature has reprised many old Motown songs on Reach Out, so I knew I would enjoy this CD!
About Human Nature:
"Human Nature are amazing!" - Michael Jackson
"Wonderful vocalists who really know how to entertain a crowd." - Celine Dion
Reach Out I'll be There
You Keep Me Hangin' On
Baby I Need Your Loving
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Get Ready w/Smokey Robinson
The Way You Do The Things You Do w/The Temptations
My Girl
Stop! In The Name Of Love
You Are The Everything
Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Uptight (Everything's Alright)
Twenty-Five Miles
Dancing In The Street
Ooo Baby Baby
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River Deep Mountain High w/Mary Wilson of The Supremes
I grew up on most of these songs and I was a HUGE Supremes fan so I've really enjoyed this CD! Human Nature is a great group and this is a feel-good CD that gets me jamming out! You gotta hear this for yourself! Check out their video of "Baby I Need Your Loving":
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Oil & Blood
Oil & Blood
The way to take over the world
In its drive toward war against Iraq, the Bush administration insisted throughout the fall of 2002 that its purpose was to eliminate weapons of mass destruction and establish democracy. No doubt, Saddam Hussein's regime was dictatorial and dangerous, and Iraq's civilian population had suffered grievously. But there was no clear evidence that Iraq posed the immediate and growing threat that the administration depicted.
So, why the renewed focus of U.S. policy on Iraq? Was it a desire to fortify U.S. political domination of the oil-rich Middle East? Not at all, said the White House. "The only interest the United States has in the region is furthering the cause of peace and stability, not [Iraq's] ability to generate oil," contended the president's spokesman, Ari Fleischer. Given U.S. addiction to oil and Washington's long history of intervention in the region, this is a disingenuous, if not downright deceptive, statement.
The Middle East-and specifically the Persian Gulf region-accounts for about 30 percent of global oil production. But it has about 65 percent of the planet's known reserves, and is therefore the only region able to satisfy any substantial rise in world oil demand-an increase that the administration's energy policy documents say is inevitable. Saudi Arabia, with 262 billion barrels, has a quarter of the world's total reserves and is the single largest producer. But Iraq, despite its pariah status for the past 12 years, remains a key prize. At 112 billion barrels, its known reserves are second only to Saudi Arabia's. And, given that substantial portions of Iraqi territory have never been fully explored, there is a good chance that actual reserves are far larger.
For half a century, the United States has made steadily increasing investments in keeping the Gulf region in its geopolitical orbit. The investments have included the overthrow of "hostile" governments and support of client regimes, massive arms transfers to allies, acquisition of military bases, and direct and indirect forms of intervention-many of these activities involving shifting alliances and repeated large-scale violence. In Washington's calculus, securing oil supplies has consistently trumped the pursuit of human rights and democracy. This is still the case today, as the Bush administration prepares for a more openly imperial role in the region.
Saudi Arabia has had a close relationship with the United States since the 1940s. But it has long been vulnerable to pressures from the far more populous Iraq and Iran. Iran was brought firmly into the Western orbit by a 1953 CIA-engineered coup against the Mossadegh government, which had nationalized Iran's oil. The coup re-installed the Shah on the Persian throne. Armed with modern weaponry by the United States and its allies, the Shah became the West's regional policeman once the military forces of Britain-the former colonial power-were withdrawn from the Gulf area in 1971.
Iraq, on the other hand, was a pro-Western country until 1958, when its British-installed monarchy was overthrown. Fearing that Iraq might turn communist under the new military regime, the United States dabbled in a temporary alliance of convenience with the Ba'ath (Renaissance) Party in its efforts to grab power. CIA agents provided critical logistical information to the coup plotters and supplied lists with the names of hundreds of suspected Communists to be eliminated.
Even so, in 1972 the Ba'ath regime signed a treaty of friendship and cooperation with the Soviet Union. Baghdad turned to Moscow both for weapons and for help in deterring any U.S. reprisals against Iraq for nationalizing the Iraq Petroleum Company, which had been owned by Royal Dutch-Shell, BP, Exxon, Mobil, and the French firm CFP. Iraq was the first Gulf country to successfully nationalize its oil industry.
Saddam Hussein, a strongman of the Ba'ath regime who formally took over as President in 1979, was instrumental in orchestrating the pro-Moscow policy. But as it became apparent that the Soviet Union could not deliver the technologies and goods (both civilian and military) needed to modernize Iraq he shifted to a more pro-Western policy. Western governments and companies were eager to soak up the rising volume of petrodollars, and to lure Iraq out of the Soviet orbit. During the 1980s, this eagerness extended to supplying Baghdad with the ingredients needed to make biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons.
The year 1979 turned out to be a watershed, as the Shah of Iran was swept aside by an Islamic revolution that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power. One of Washington's main geopolitical pillars had crumbled, and the new regime in Teheran was seen as a mortal threat by the conservative Persian Gulf states. The Carter administration responded by pumping rising quantities of weapons into Saudi Arabia, and began a quest for new military bases in the region (Bahrain eventually became the permanent home base for the U.S. Fifth Fleet). But there was no escaping the fact that neither Saudi Arabia nor any of the smaller Gulf states was strong enough to replace Iran as a proxy.
Instead, Iraq became a surrogate of sorts. Iran and Iraq had long been at loggerheads. Seeing a rival in revolutionary disarray, and sensing an opportunity for an easy victory that would propel him to leadership of the Arab world, Saddam Hussein invaded Iran in September 1980. Eager to see Teheran's revolutionary regime reined in, the United States turned a blind eye to the aggression, opposing UN Security Council action on the matter.
But instead of speeding the Iranian regime toward collapse, the attack consolidated Khomeini's power. And marshalling revolutionary fervor, Iran was soon turning the tide of battle. With the specter of an Iraqi defeat looming, the United States went much farther in its support of Saddam:
- To facilitate closer cooperation, the Reagan administration removed Iraq from a list of nations that it regarded as supporters of terrorism. Donald Rumsfeld, now secretary of defense, met with Saddam in Baghdad in December 1983. His visit paved the way to the restoration of formal diplomatic relations the following year, after a 17-year hiatus.
- The United States made available several billion dollars' worth of commodity credits to Iraq to buy U.S. food, alleviating severe financial pressures that had threatened Baghdad with bankruptcy. The food purchases were a critical element in the regime's attempts to shield the population as much as possible from the war's repercussions-and hence limiting the likelihood of any challenges to its rule. The U.S. government also provided loan guarantees for an oil export pipeline through Jordan (replacing other export routes that had been blocked because of the war).
- Though not selling weapons directly to Iraq, Reagan administration officials allowed private U.S. arms dealers to sell Soviet-made weapons purchased in Eastern Europe to Iraq. U.S. leaders permitted Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan to transfer U.S.-made weapons to Baghdad. And they abandoned earlier opposition to the delivery of French fighter jets and Exocet missiles (which were subsequently used against tankers transporting Iranian oil).
- From the spring of 1982 on, the Reagan administration secretly transmitted highly classified military intelligence-battlefront satellite images, intercepts of Iranian military communications, information on Iranian troop deployments-to Saddam Hussein's regime, staving off its defeat.
- As the war went on, the United States took an increasingly active military role. It tilted toward Iraq in the "war on tankers" by protecting oil tankers in the southern Gulf against Iranian attacks, but did not provide security from Iraqi attacks for ships docking at Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal. Later, the United States even launched attacks on Iran's navy and Iranian offshore oil rigs.
Washington's immediate objective was to prevent an Iranian victory. In a larger sense, though, U.S. policymakers were intent on keeping both Iraq and Iran bogged down in war, no matter how horrendous the human cost on both sides-hundreds of thousands were killed. (The Reagan administration secretly allowed Israel to ship several billion dollars' worth of U.S. arms and spare parts to Iran.) Preoccupied with fighting one another, Baghdad and Teheran would be unable to challenge U.S. domination of the Gulf region. Reflecting administration sentiments, Henry Kissinger said in 1984 that "the ultimate American interest in the war [is] that both should lose."
Oil and geopolitical interests translated into U.S. support for Saddam Hussein when he was at his most dangerous and murderous-not only committing an act of international aggression by invading Iran, but also by using chemical weapons against both Iranian soldiers and Iraqi Kurds. U.S. assistance to Baghdad was provided although top officials in Washington knew at the time that Iraq was using poison gas.
Undoubtedly, U.S. support emboldened Saddam Hussein to invade Kuwait in 1990. But the United States would never consent to a single, potentially hostile, power gaining sway over the Gulf region's massive oil resources. When its regional strongman crossed that line, U.S. policy shifted to direct military intervention.
Following the Gulf War, the United States supplied Saudi Arabia and other allies among the Gulf states with massive amounts of highly sophisticated armaments. Washington and other suppliers delivered more than $100 billion worth of arms from 1990 to 2001. In the late 1980s, Saudi Arabia had imported 17 percent, by dollar value, of worldwide weapons sales to developing countries. In the 1990s, the Saudi share rose to 38 percent.
But rather than becoming independent military powers, Riyadh and the other Gulf states are at best beefed-up staging grounds for the U.S. military: Washington has for many years been "pre-positioning" military equipment and supplies and expanding logistics capabilities to facilitate any future intervention. And although political sensitivities rule out a visible, large-scale U.S. troop presence, more than 5,000 U.S. troops have been continuously deployed in Saudi Arabia, and more than 20,000 in the Gulf region as a whole.
Despite insinuations by the Bush administration, there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime is in any way linked to the events of September 11, 2001. However, the terrorist attacks facilitated a far more belligerent, unilateralist mood in Washington and set the stage for the Bush administration doctrine of pre-emptive war.
Installing a U.S. client regime in Baghdad would give American and British companies (ExxonMobil, Chevron-Texaco, Shell, and BP) a good shot at direct access to Iraqi oil for the first time in 30 years-a windfall worth hundreds of billions of dollars. And if a new regime rolls out the red carpet for the oil multinationals to return, it is possible that a broader wave of de-nationalization could sweep through the world's oil industry, reversing the historic changes of the early 1970s.
Rival oil interests were a crucial behind-the-scenes factor as the permanent members of the UN Security Council jockeyed over the wording of a new resolution intended to set the parameters for any action against Iraq. The French oil company TotalFinaElf has cultivated a special relationship with Iraq since the early 1970s. And along with Lukoil of Russia and China's National Petroleum Corp., it has for years positioned itself to develop additional oil fields once UN sanctions are lifted. But there have been thinly veiled threats that these firms will be excluded from any future oil concessions unless Paris, Moscow, and Beijing support the Bush policy of regime change. Intent on constraining U.S. belligerence, France, Russia, and China nonetheless are eager to keep their options open in the event that a pro-U.S. regime is installed in Baghdad-and accordingly voted in favor of the U.S.-drafted resolution in November.
But the stakes in all this maneuvering involve much more than just the future of Iraq. The Bush energy policy is predicated on growing consumption of oil, preferably cheap oil. Given rising depletion of U.S. oil fields, most of that oil will have to come from abroad, and indeed primarily from the Gulf region. Controlling Iraqi oil would allow the United States to reduce Saudi influence over oil policy and give Washington enormous leverage over the world oil market.
Both in the Middle East and in other regions, securing access to oil goes hand in hand with a fast-expanding U.S. military presence. From Pakistan to Central Asia to the Caucasus, and from the eastern Mediterranean to the Horn of Africa, a dense network of U.S. military facilities has emerged-with many bases established in the name of the "war on terror."
Only in the most direct sense is the Bush administration's Iraq policy directed against Saddam Hussein. In a broader sense, it aims to reinforce the world economy's reliance on oil-undermining efforts to develop renewable energy sources, boost energy efficiency, and control greenhouse gas emissions. The same administration that decided to slash annual spending for energy efficiency and renewables R&D has no problem with preparing for a war that could cost as much as $200 billion.
By rejecting U.S. participation in the Kyoto Protocol early in his tenure, George W. Bush sought to throw a wrench into the international machinery set up to address the threat of climate change. By securing the massive flow of cheap oil, he may hope to kill Kyoto. In a perverse sense, a war on Iraq reinforces the assault against the Earth's climate.
Michael Renner is a senior researcher at the Worldwatch Institute.


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|2012-12-22, 22:49
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Join Date: Aug 2011
It's not that they don't know her name. It's that we don't hear them use it.
Haruyuki didn't know her real name because he's not in her classes and never interacts with her teachers. Before she met him, Haru only knew KYH by reputation, and her nickname was used exclusively because it fit people's glamour image of her.
Yuniko didn't know her real name because they'd never met before. She didn't even know her school nickname, just that she was Black Lotus.
Taku would have been sure to learn her exact real name, but now that he interacts with her, he only calls her "Master" as a sign of respect.
Chiyuri doesn't call her by her real name (if she even bothered to learn it), because that would be too familiar.
Fuuko doesn't call her by her full name because she has a much more personal nickname for KYH. And if Fuuko wants to get serious with KYH, she can always call her Black Lotus as a sign that she means business.
|2012-12-22, 23:19
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I have forget that Haru know her real name...
This name thing really heavens the theory of a connection between SAO and AW... Because if her name don't will cause any great impact, will be just something like: ahn, so this is her real name...
Can be this or can be another big trollingXD like, oooo... You all thinked that her name would carry some special meaning?(troll face)
|2012-12-23, 01:21
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
Of course, her real name must have a special meaning in the AW universe, so special that the author has refused to reveal it until now.
I don't know if Kawahara-sensei has a reputation for being as infamous as Tite Kubo, but I don't think shooting down any connection between AW and SAO by revealing KYH's real name as something inconsistent with the most common AW/SAO crossover theories (such as KYH being Kirito's real-life daughter unlike his AI daughter Yui) would mean he's trolling his fans. Given that he wrote both LNs, it can go both ways, really. Either he makes a connection between them or not.
I do believe that in due time, Kawahara-sensei will reveal KYH's real name, whether we would like it or not.
|2012-12-23, 08:59
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Age: 25
In FFIX,
Spoiler for Garnet's origins + real nameSorry; dynamic content not loaded. Reload?
|2012-12-23, 09:23
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Cainta, Rizal, Philippines
Of course, Kawahara-sensei also has the option not to reveal KYH's real name, but at least he should be able to reveal why she has to keep it secret.
From what I understood, C.C. is an immortal being with the power to make men fall in love with her, so she has become jaded about love because she's not sure whether men genuinely love her or are simply under the influence of her powers.
Since C.C. has lived so many years without entering a relationship, it's safe to say that nobody cares about it anymore because it's very unlikely that someone who knows her from youth is still alive.
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Yeah, I guess so. She even told Haru her real name. So maybe Kawahara-sensei can use the reveal as a sign of significant progress in the KYH/Haru relationship, which from what I have read, is simply not happening as of date.
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Hey Guys! I have a clue on her name!
So if we presume that KYH is Kirito and Asuna's child, her name can be discovered through the LN's of SAO
1.) KYH was called Sa-chan by Fuuko. Chiyuri calls Takumu "Tak-kun. So Sa-chan could be Sachi-chan (The girl whom Kirito failed to save who has deep impact on his character development.)
2.) KYH said to Haru her real name is not that different from her nickname Kuroyukihime. So if we presume (once again) that some part of her name has "Sachi" then we can confirm than her name is "Sachiyuki"
3.) Why Sachiyuki? Asuna, in Mother's Rosario, met a gril named Yuuki (or Yuki) in ALO who is the leader of the Sleepless Knights (the ones with severe illnesses) she befriends her and they were very close before her death.
4.) By adding both parent's deceased close friends together, we can see that:
Kirito chose "Sachi"
Asuna chose "Yuki"
= Sachiyuki
^my theory
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KYH has been chosen as the most beatiful character of the anime industry.
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May God bless her for that...
So I have been reading a little and I can't help it but ask this: is KYH name all that important?
I mean, as it was said before, is like C.C. from Code Geass, we never hear the name and yet when I learn what was it the only thing funny was that is my mother's name, so there is that, but aside from such fact a name doesn't really add that much. Or maybe it does, I don't know and that is why I'm asking.
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K.S.A. 79-201m(a)(2) is analyzed and applied.
Appeal from Board of Tax Appeals. Opinion filed April 5, 2002. Reversed.
Linda Terrill and Benjamin J. Neill, of Neill, Terrill & Embree, L.C., of Overland Park, for the appellant.
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Before LEWIS, P.J, PIERRON and BEIER, JJ.
PIERRON, J.: American Warrior, Inc. (AWI) appeals the Board of Tax Appeals' (BOTA) denial of its application for exemption from ad valorem taxation.
Under authority of Article 11, § 13 of the Kansas Constitution, AWI submitted an application for ad valorem tax exemption to BOTA and requested a hearing.
BOTA received the application on June 24, 1999, and scheduled the hearing for August 24, 1999.
On August 16, 1999, AWI notified BOTA that the application was for preapproval of the tax exemption and requested the scheduled hearing be cancelled. AWI requested BOTA "to determine its approval of our request based on the merits of the project and the support of the county."
On August 20, 1999, BOTA refused to act on the application until the project was complete. BOTA indicated it would cancel the hearing and hold the application until the new business commenced operations.
After making several requests for the status of the project, BOTA rescheduled the hearing for July 19, 2000. On July 14, 2000, AWI requested the rescheduled hearing be postponed again due to further delays in the project. On July 17, 2000, BOTA's counsel indicated BOTA would postpone the hearing until AWI commenced operations and requested additional status reports. On March 17, 2001, AWI informed BOTA the project was operational.
BOTA received the completed packet on March 20, 2001. It published its order on April 11, 2001, without a hearing. Citing the definition of "manufacturer" found in K.S.A. 79-201m, BOTA found AWI did not qualify for the constitutional ad valorem tax exemption.
Specifically, BOTA found:
"[T]he applicant's use of the property is not an exempt use because the collection and sale of natural gas and its by-products is not manufacturing. The applicant does not transform, refine or combine the gas with any other material to convert it to another form. The Board concludes that, because the collection and sale of natural gas and its by-products cannot be classified as manufacturing, research and development, or storage of goods or commodities, the Board finds that the applicant has failed to comply with the requirements of the Kansas Constitution."
On April 24, 2001, AWI sought reconsideration of BOTA's decision and again asked for a hearing. AWI explained the Ness County plant converted substandard natural gas into at least two other products:
"Through the processes involved in the Ness Gas Plant operation, which include compression and cooling to below 250 degrees below 0, the gas is transformed and refined into the two marketable products, helium and compressed industrial gas. These products are delivered to tank trucks and pipeline for sale at the plant outlet."
In a memorandum order certified May 1, 2001, BOTA acknowledged AWI's timely request and denied reconsideration without hearing, because "no new or additional evidence is offered that would persuade [BOTA] the original order should be modified or that reconsideration should be granted."
AWI made timely petition for judicial review May 29, 2001.
Judicial review of a state administrative agency is authorized under the Kansas Act for Judicial Review (KJRA), K.S.A. 77-601 et seq. The taxpayer has the burden of showing the action taken by BOTA was erroneous. K.S.A. 77-621(a). In re Appeal of Water Dist. No. 1 of Johnson County, 26 Kan. App. 2d 371, 372, 988 P.2d 267, rev. denied 268 Kan. 846 (1999).
In April 1986, the legislature passed the legislation for what was to become Article 11, § 13 of the Kansas Constitution. This legislation allowed localities to exempt certain properties within their jurisdiction from ad valorem taxation for 10 years. Prior to this amendment, only the legislature had authority to authorize these exemptions. The original amendment made no explicit provision for review of these exemptions by BOTA. L. 1986, ch. 423, § 1. As early as January 13, 1987, the Kansas Attorney General claimed BOTA had authority to review the exemptions approved under this section of the constitution. (See Att'y Gen. Op. No. 87-5.)
In 1990, the legislature clarified its intent and made this exemption process explicitly subject to the review of BOTA. Pursuant to K.S.A. 79-213(m), the applicant had to receive BOTA's approval to obtain the ad valorem exemption. L. 1990, ch. 345, § 4.
After the applicant provides BOTA with the documents required by K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 79-251, BOTA's decision process is governed by K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 79-213(g):
"After examination of the request for exemption, and the county appraiser's recommendation related thereto, the board may fix a time and place for hearing, and shall notify the applicant and the county appraiser of the time and place so fixed. A request for exemption pursuant to: (1) Section 13 of article 11 of the Kansas constitution;. . . shall be deemed approved unless scheduled for hearing within 30 days after the date of receipt of all required information and data relating to the request for exemption, and such hearing shall be conducted within 90 days after such date. Such time periods shall be determined without regard to any extension or continuance allowed to either party to such request. In any case where a party to such request for exemption requests a hearing thereon, the same shall be granted. Hearings shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Kansas administrative procedure act." (Emphasis added.)
The emphasized text was added by the legislature in 1998. L. 1998, ch. 146, § 5.
In this case, AWI contends BOTA violated due process by issuing its order without a hearing. Since AWI requested a hearing, BOTA was required to schedule a hearing within 30 days of receipt of the complete application. By not scheduling the hearing within 30 days of March 20, 2001, AWI contends that BOTA allowed the application to be approved by operation of law.
BOTA may decide appeals without a hearing if the parties agree to submit the action to BOTA based on the record, or where there are no material facts at issue and the decision is based only on questions of law. In re Tax Appeal of Colorado Interstate Gas Co., 258 Kan. 310, 318, 903 P.2d 154 (1995).
BOTA can take the position that it accepted all the facts that AWI submitted in support of its application. Therefore, no hearing was necessary. Its function was only to interpret law as applied to the given facts.
BOTA can also claim that AWI waived the hearing. AWI requested a hearing in its application, but in August 1999, AWI's controller asked BOTA to cancel the public hearing and asked BOTA to decide the application "on the merits of the project and the support of the county."
This statement could be seen as a waiver, but BOTA did not interpret it as one. On June 9, 2000, BOTA rescheduled the hearing after the "waiver."
Material issues of fact also seemed to exist after March 20, 2001. AWI had not explained the process used to extract helium and nitrogen from the waste gas input. It appears BOTA made its decision on facts not given in the record presented to it. In its initial order, BOTA stated AWI's project involved only "collection and sale of natural gas and its byproducts." This is not what AWI claimed to be doing in its Ness County plant, and AWI's claims are unchallenged.
As BOTA did not schedule a hearing in this case within 30 days of the completion of the application, the application might be deemed approved by operation of K.S.A. 79- 213(g). However, the record is quite confusing as AWI requested cancellation of the hearing, and there was some difficulty in determining if there was a complete record.
We believe BOTA made its decision on the record now before us, and we may, as a matter of law, determine if property is exempt from ad valorem taxation. Board of Johnson County Comm'rs v. St. Joseph Hosp., 241 Kan. 613, 614, 738 P.2d 454 (1987). We will, therefore, review the substantial issues involved.
Tax statutes are construed strictly in favor of imposing the tax and against allowing the exemption for one who does not clearly qualify. The burden of proof is on the person asserting the exemption to bring himself or herself within the exemption statute. In re Tax Appeal of Collingwood Grain, Inc., 257 Kan. 237, 246, 891 P.2d 422 (1995).
AWI contends that BOTA erred by (1) challenging the county commissioners' findings; if BOTA did have the authority to review the county commissioners' factual findings, it erred by (2) not classifying its Ness County project as "manufacturing" or "refining" for purposes of Article 11, § 13 of the Kansas Constitution.
At the time the legislature added Article 11, § 13 to the Kansas Constitution, BOTA did not explicitly have the power to review these exemptions. The legislature added K.S.A. 79-213(m) in 1990. This subsection mandates BOTA review of these applications and allows hearings.
Under K.S.A. 74-2438, BOTA takes other tax appeals de novo. Even before the inclusion of 79-213(m), the executive branch believed BOTA had authority to examine the "legal and factual basis of any such exemption and to determine its merits." Att'y Gen. Op. No. 87-5. In the scheme of the statutes, there is evidence of legislative intent to allow BOTA to review and find facts. In the nature of things, BOTA's review is necessary as a curb on potential excesses. Thus, the statute was apparently designed to permit BOTA to review the determinations of county commissions. AWI's argument in this respect fails.
We must then determine whether BOTA correctly interpreted the statutes. Manufacturing is defined by Kansas statute and refined by case law.
K.S.A. 79-201m(a)(2) defines "manufacturer" as any person, company, or corporation who is "engaged in the business of transforming, refining or combining materials and labor to convert tangible personal property from one form to another including packaging."
In Appeal of Water Dist. No. 1 of Johnson County, 26 Kan. App. 2d at 377, this court held that the initial pressurization of river water, until it reached pumping stations, is a manufacturing process. The pressurization of the water changed its character and quality and thus transformed the water.
Earlier, the Kansas Supreme Court had found that a grain elevator operator who blended, cleaned, dried, and aerated grain produced a different product than it received. By enhancing a product's value, the taxpayer was involved in "production, manufacture, processing, . . . refining or compounding" and gained a tax exemption. In re Tax Appeal of Collingwood Grain, Inc., 257 Kan. at 251-52.
It is not disputed that AWI's Ness County plant pressurizes unmarketable natural gas. The result of the process is the splitting of unmarketable natural gas into marketable helium, nitrogen, and marketable natural gas. This appears to fit squarely within the statutory and common-law definition of manufacturing used in Kansas.
K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 74-2433 binds BOTA to the prior judicial decisions of the Court of Appeals and the Kansas Supreme Court. Therefore, we conclude, as a matter of law, that the process here qualifies as manufacturing as defined in our statute, and BOTA's finding to the contrary was in error.


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Commission proposes further revision of banking regulation to strengthen rules on bank capital and on remuneration in the banking sector
The European Commission has put forward a further revision of EU rules on capital requirements for banks that is designed to tighten up the way in which banks assess the risks connected with their trading book; impose higher capital requirements for re-securitisations; increase market confidence through stronger disclosure requirements for securitisation exposures; and require banks to have sound remuneration practices that do not encourage or reward excessive risk-taking. Under the new rules, banks will be restricted in their investments in highly complex re-securitisations if they cannot demonstrate that they have fully understood the risks involved, while national supervisory authorities will review banks' remuneration policies and have the power to impose sanctions if the policies do not meet the new requirements. The proposal, which amends the existing Capital Requirements Directives, represents part of the EU's response to the financial crisis, and reflects consultation with Member States, banking supervisors and industry. It now passes to the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers for consideration.
Commission President José Manuel Barroso declared : These proposals address risks linked to two major causes of the current crisis, securitisation and remuneration. We are acting ambitiously to prevent lightning striking twice. The proposals aim to ensure that banks hold enough capital to reflect the true risks they are taking. In particular, banks will have to offset risks associated with highly complex resecuritisation products and deal with perverse incentives created by pay and bonus schemes. We will legally oblige banks and investment firms to have remuneration policies consistent with effective risk management. Supervisors will be given the powers to take measures, including increased capital requirements, to address any failures. I am calling on Member States and the European Parliament to back these proposals and on other jurisdictions to act on similar lines, in line with the common commitments made at the G20.
Internal Market and Services Commissioner Charlie McCreevy said: "These new rules target some of the investments and practices that lie at the root of the financial crisis. New rules on re-securitisations – the highly complex financial products that caused huge losses for banks – will require banks to hold significantly more capital to cover their risks when investing in these products, while the additional disclosure rules will help to create a climate of market confidence. The requirements on pay and bonuses are designed to put an end to the culture of excessive risk-taking for short-term success at the expense of long-term profitability and sound risk management. This package of amendments will strengthen the risk management, transparency and sound investment practices that are key to a healthy and stable banking system."
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The purpose of the Capital Requirements Directives (2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC) is to ensure the financial soundness of banks and investment firms. Together they stipulate how much of their own financial resources banks and investment firms must have in order to cover their risks and protect their depositors. This legal framework needs to be regularly updated and refined to respond to the needs of the financial system as a whole. The main changes proposed are as follows:
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Previous discussions have been moved to Grand Theft Wiki talk:Community Portal/Archive1.
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Category Tags
I noticed that there are already some pages in Category:San Andreas Missions... is that the tag I should be using? --GuildKnightTalk2me 21:28, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
- There is a bit of a mess with categories, as both the sets from GTW and the old gta.wikia.com are in here. The categories you should use for most things are "Category:Somethings in GTA San Andreas", eg Category:Radio Stations in GTA III. Category:Characters in GTA Vice City, Category:Missions in GTA San Andreas, Category:Vehicles in GTA IV - all other categories with the same purpose (eg Category:SAVehicles) should be deleted (with all the contents copied across to the proper category) - this is the same structure as page names (Missions in GTA San Andreas). Also, {{prod}} is the "Propose Deletion" template. Gboyers (?) 08:57, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
- Thanks. That's what I'd started using, but got a little confusion. Oh, and thanks for the prod tag. --GuildKnightTalk2me 19:48, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
Some of the stuff on the portal needs updating, like mentions of the merge :) I have a stock CP page which I will post on User:Kirkburn/Dev which you may wish to take some stuff from. Lots of useful links! Kirkburn (talk) 16:54, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
- Okay posted it on User:Kirkburn/Dev - some of the links you already cover, but I would especially recommend adding the link lists at the end. Kirkburn (talk) 17:00, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I've merged in the changes and moved the page back to the "normal" location. Kirkburn (talk) 20:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Wikia Gaming IRC channel
Hullo! I am Kirkburn, your friendly local Wikia Gaming Helper!
You may be interested to know there is a Wikia gaming IRC channel, #wikia-gaming on chat.freenode.net, where you can hop on, ask for help from users of other gaming wikis, or offer your own experiences. If you are not familiar with IRC clients, you can access it from http://irc.wikia.com/gaming.
Different people may be on sporadically, but we organize weekly chats at a fixed time so we can get the most number of people online at the same time to ask and answer questions, or just to hang out. The admins of some of Wikia's biggest gaming wikis (e.g. WoW, Halo) often attend them. You can find the time for the next chat by following this link. {{w:Next gaming IRC chat}}
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask me! Kirkburn (talk) 21:07, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Profile tools
- Discussion moved to: Grand Theft Wiki talk:Profile Tools
Social tools codebase merge
As you may have noticed, the wikis with social tools are not on the same codebase as other wikis - we are planning to merge them very soon, so you can have the benefits of all the current code updates on Wikia, plus the latest version of MediaWiki. We plan to do this next week at the earliest (23rd June onwards). Regarding the skin changes, this is also likely to be the moment when you switch to Monaco 3.1 and get the new main page tags.
The update may affect the functionality of the social tools, but we are hoping to make sure everything runs smoothly. Thanks! Kirkburn (talk) 11:10, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
Style Guide
I've been working on a page I intend to place at Grand Theft Wiki:Style Guide. I think I've got it to the point that I'm ready for it to be moved... I just wanted to get a few people to take a look at it first, let me know if there's anything I overlooked. It's on User:GuildKnight/Sandbox/2|my sandbox 2; discussions on the talk page, please. Thanks in advance, --GuildKnightTalk2me 19:01, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
- There are no arguments voiced, so I'm going to go ahead and move it. Any further conversation regarding the new Style Guide should take place on its talk page. --GuildKnightTalk2me 22:39, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Standardized vehicle article layout
As I've been working on the vehicle articles in an attempt to tidy them up, I've gradually developed a consistent layout that I've been applying to them. The problem is, nothing is accepted as standard and everyone has their own ideas of how things should be done, so if I run through a list of articles that need improving and apply my ideas to them, by the time I'm finished half of them have been changed yet again, my edits have been reverted without explanation, or something. The bottom line is it's impossible to maintain consistency without some kind of established style guidelines for each type of article, and I think it's time that was rectified.
So I've put together an example of how I think a vehicle article should be laid out, with an in-depth explanation of my thinking behind it on the associated talk page. Please take a look and give your opinion on it, and hopefully we can agree on a standardized design for vehicle articles, preventing disagreements. --MattyDienhoff 19:44, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
- That layout would work well. I agree that there needs to be a standard... every GTA IV vehicle page I come across is either poorly worded, redundant, disorganized, or just a stub. Thevictor390 17:53, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Hi all, a quick note for Bureaucrats on a change made today. Instead of the specific special pages for making admins, giving rollback etc. please use Special:UserRights. This now allows you to set the following rights:
- Add bureaucrat
- Add admin
- Add and remove rollback
- Add and remove moderators
Please let me know if there are any problems or if you don't feel this is the right selection of rights for this wiki. Thanks -- sannse<staff /> (talk) 09:41, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
Vehicle page consistency: Defining 'Variants'
I've got a lot to say, and I've spent a lot of time thinking it through so please, hear me out.
In all past GTA games, there have been only minor variations within the confines of each vehicle model (pickup trucks might come with different cargo in the back, for example, and convertibles would come with or without a soft top, etc). Therefore, when writing vehicle articles in the past (for those games), I'd consider a variant of a vehicle to be another vehicle that's clearly based on the vehicle I'm writing about (Example: the Taxi is a variant of the Premier in GTA:SA). The problem is, GTA IV introduces a large number of 'special' versions of vehicles that are quite different to their respective stock models, and are sometimes even badged differently with appendixes like 'GT' or 'XS', but go under the same in-game names as the original models regardless.
To draw a contrast; In GTA VC, as we all know, there were two Sentinels, the stock Sentinel, and the souped up Sentinel XS. Those are clearly defined as two seperate vehicles, yet in GTA IV both variants also appear, but under the same name, Sentinel. Simiarily, in the earlier games unique gang-driven variants of existing vehicles would have a seperate name. In GTA SA this was irrelevant because gangs didn't drive unique cars, but that's not the case in GTA IV. Gangs drive unique vehicles, but they're uniformly referred to the same names as their stock equivalents (Examples of unique gang vehicles are the Mafiya Schafter, the Mafiya Rebla, the Irish Mob Contender, and the Spanish Lords Primo and Cavalcade).
Okay, so what am I actually getting at? I'm trying to figure out how to distinguish between 'variants' as in other vehicles based on this one and 'variants' as in different versions of this vehicle, and I can't think of anything, so I'd like to hear what you guys have to say. --MattyDienhoff 17:38, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Make vehicle pages game specific?
While I'm at it, a similar subject I've been thinking about recently is this; in the case of vehicles that appear in multiple games, would it be worth splitting those articles into different ones for each game? Or, alternatively, split such an article into one for each significantly different rendition of the vehicle? (Like Perennial (GTA III Era) and Perennial (GTA IV)?) My train of thought here is that:
A: Of the vehicles have been featured in almost every game in the series so far, most have changed at least a bit and some have changed a lot in recent times (The Perennial and the Manana are two classic examples that have changed a lot in GTA IV, and the Emperor is a more recent one - the Emperor went from being a modern sedan to a 1970s Cadillac clone) and it's becoming very difficult to keep tabs of what each version of each vehicle looks like and how it works in each game without making the article confusing and contradictory.
B: This is also an issue with the other points of data, like car modifications (SA) and manufacturer (IV). Things like these are only applicable to one of the many appearances of those vehicles, so each article gradually becomes a mixed up collection of facts that all apply to different games, with the parts discussing the appearance and handling of each rendition of the vehicle coming to resemble something of a changelog.
Then there's things like 'variants' which I discussed above. Since designs are always changing, the relationships between different vehicles varies wildly between games. For example, in GTA IV the Ambulance is related to the Burrito as the front bears a striking similarity and it's manufactured by the same company, but these two vehicles bear no such relation in any of the earlier games. Similarily, in GTA III the Rumpo referred to an ordinary van that looked a lot like the Burrito, while the Pony was a tall roofed van. From Vice City onward, the tall roofed van formerly called the Pony was renamed Rumpo, a new van similar to the tall roofed van was created named the Pony, and the Burrito was created, looking a lot like the former Rumpo. Try explaining that away all in one article and you've got yourself a problem.
This might seem unnecessary at first glance, but some pages are getting very complicated and awkward detailing all of the differences, so I think we should at least consider splitting them. Thoughts? --MattyDienhoff 17:38, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
- I can understand your frustration with some pages getting long and complex. For most articles splitting things into clearly-defined subsections is enough. Use
<br clear="both" />to force a new line before each section, which keeps images and text together properly. Here you just outline the differences for each game, and you can say what they resemble and add an image, and it all stays togehter. The advantage of this is that everything is in the same place, and if there is anything common between more than one game, it can go at the top. Also this helps every page stay the same, rather thaan having some pages split, some not, some long pages, some very short pages etc. However, I appreciate that some pages may be too long even for this process.
- The current (unwritten) policy on that is to split it into subpages (like /walkthrough on missions) - you could do that for a lot of details about the same vehicle, such as Ambulance/handling. If a vehicle is totally different inbetween eras, such as the Police Car or Bus, then I wouldn't have a problem moving the less-important one to another page, such as Police Car in GTA 2. However I don't think we should do this by standard, certainly not for every page. There would be far too much repeated content, and that is hard to update (as most people would only edit one of them, not every copy). And people would get mixed up and link to the wrong one etc.
- So try and use the first method wherever possible (see Comet or Moonbeam for half-examples). If you aren't sure what I mean, show me a page you think needs splitting the most (where there are lots of differences), and I'll edit that as an example. When we need to split stuff into pages, then we can, but we HAVE to maintain links between them all at all times, which is more important than an easy-to-read or massively detailed page. Hope that all makes sense - Gboyers talk 19:08, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
Game Pages
As I've been wandering around the wiki, I've noticed that some of the game pages are rather messy and unorganized. Following the examples set by Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, I've rewritten a few in my sandboxes:
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
- Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Grand Theft Auto III
You'll notice, in the "Game Information" sections, that most are links to "Things in GTA #". The ones linked to subpages of the main article are articles about the game itself, not about playing the game. These are subjects that would normally be on the main article, but due to size and ease of use considerations have been split from the main article.
So... Love it, hate it? --GuildKnightTalk2me 20:21, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
Login Time
Is there any way at all to show if a user (particularly staff and friends) is online/logged on? So that if you want to ask them something, and you need an urgent answer, you would get an answer right away. Just suggesting. Masterpogihaha 10:39, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
- Check Recent Edits and see if they've been editing. Staff are easier to locate because of the colour, as for friends, just read the names. Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 10:51, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
I, Gstancourt accidentally rejected two friend requests when I meant to accept them. Please resend your requests.
Just to clarify the situation on adverts. If you are logged in, you will ONLY see adverts on the Main Page. If you are not logged in, you will see adverts on other pages. If you don't have an account, just register! Gboyers talk 02:16, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
- Is it allowed to talk about hiding the adverts from view?--SpaceeinsteinTalk 04:54, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Bot Flag
Just to inform that the bot flag has been applied for User:Wikia, which is only used for the automatic welcome messages when someone joins the wiki. This will hide the edits from Special:RecentChanges, but this only applies to that user's edits from today onwards (previous edits are still visible as normal). If you want to be able to see these, just click "show bots" on Recent Changes, or look at that user's contributions. Gboyers talk 18:03, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
Staff Promotions
There are a few promotions to staff going on. All users are invited to ask questions, and give their opinions. The following users are up for promotion. Click on the first links to see the discussions - Gboyers talk 13:57, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
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The promotion of users on Grand Theft Wiki to become staff members is decided through a promotion process which includes a nomination, discussion and approval:
- Users are nominated by existing staff members. Staff will select nominees through the criteria below, and a Manager will ask the nominee if they want to become staff.
- If the user agrees to the nomination, a promotion discussion will be created by a Manager and listed on Community:Promotion
- Any user can ask questions on that promotion page for the candidate to answer, and can also leave comments to show whether they support the promotion or not
- When everyone has had a chance to discuss, a Manager will decide whether or not to promote the user
- The user will then be given staff rights, and can then use the staff titles, icons, colour and templates, whilst the promotion page will be protected and maintained as an archive
Please note that this has changed from the old process - users can no longer ask to become staff, or nominate themselves or each other. This is because new staff members are not always needed, and when they are, we often require specific skills rather than just approving anyone who asks.
Managers have full authority in deciding who is to become an Administrator on Grand Theft Wiki. Only Executive Managers can promote users to Manager or above.
Speedy promotions may be carried out by an Executive Manager. This can be an instant promotion without discussion. The reasons for such a promotion may be an old staff member returning (where there is no need to discuss suitability), an emergency which requires additional staff, or where the promotion is required for technical reasons (ie server administrators).
If you disagree with any nomination or current promotion, you can comment on the talk page. If you have concerns about the conduct of any staff member, report it to a Manager or Executive Manager immediately.
Becoming staff on Grand Theft Wiki is not an automatic right - you should not expect to become staff after a certain length of time or number of edits. That is not how it works at all.
If the staff agree they need a new staff member, we will look at who is active, who has the right skills, and who can be trusted with the powerful and dangerous tools the administrators have access to.
However, the following criteria is an example of the sort of things we would expect from a user before they would be considered for promotion
- Experience across the wiki, not just on the main articles (edits to older games, community pages, talk pages)
- A very good understanding of how wikis work (categories, templates etc) and the use of some advanced syntax (tables, PF, MW etc)
- A good understanding of the inner workings of the wiki, including the deletion, promotion and other management processes
- A good understanding of Grand Theft Wiki policy, procedures, rules and conventions
- No evidence of any spamming, arguments, edit wars or negative attitude
- A willingness to get involved in discussions (talk pages), as opposed to undoing others' edits without asking first
See also:
- Promotion discussions (for current & past discussions)
- Staff positions & rights
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Copying of WikiGTA
I have noticed that some of your users is copying images of WikiGTA.nl. The moderator GTA4PC for example; Katana vc.png, Knife sa.png, Sawn-off.png, Silenced sa.png, Machete.png, Tec9LCS.JPG, etc. I have renderd them, so I can say, I've even took the screenshot used for the Machete. Which is really hard, since it has no spawnpoint. Even when they have a logo on them, he uses them. But instead of the hole image, he just cuts a piece out of it; Our version, GTA4PC's cutout. Hell, almost all images of your Beach Patrol are ours; Our page vs. yours. But wait, by the rewards you get linked to Sunshine Autos.. But wait again, your picture of the Vice City Stories version.. Where do I have seen that before? Ohyeah; here. This one has been stolen by Mcanmoocanu. Who has also stole a lot. Look for example on the Characters in GTA Liberty City Stories page, and our page; Characters (GTA Liberty City Stories). I can live with one image, but this is just insane! --ASPHALT 12:57, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for your message. Category:Screenshots of GTA games are copyright to Rockstar Games, not the person who saved the screenshot. Using those screenshots on this wiki qualifies as Fair Use, regardless of who took them. It is not possible to simply re-copyright a screenshot and claim owenership. To this end, we are happy for our users to use existing screenshots on this wiki. However, where there has been significant artistic alteration to the screenshot, then we would usually not allow that to be copied here without permission. This could include labelling maps, or collaging several images together. On top of this, we have a specific agreement with the German GTA Wikia which means we can share all our images. If any of the images you link to don't qualify as fair use, and WikiGTA owns the copyright, and permission is refused (from staff) to use them, then I can ensure they are removed. I hope this makes sense, but let me know if you have any questions. Gboyers talk 18:08, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
Dialog scripts in mission articles
Every one of them seems to have one, but I find it absurd that some of them overshadow the actual content of articles, as I have seen in Keep Your Friends Close, Riot, End of the Line, The Sicilian Gambit and Last Stand. When a typical reader looks up the articles, they are more likely to want information on the missions themselves rather than the things characters talk about. Would it be sensible to separate the scripts into a "(article name)/Script" section? - ZS 17:50, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- I agree entirely. I try to get people to put the dialogue into a "Transcript" subpage, and just link to it (not transclude the subpage). For missions with only a small amount of dialogue (under 10 lines) then it doesn't take up too much space. However longer than that should definitely always be in a subpage. Perhaps there could be a {{transcript}} which links to the subpage in a consistent and noticable fashion? Gboyers talk 18:40, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- Sounds good, although I was thinking about using {{main}} instead. I'm also with you on dealing with this on a case-to-case basis. It's the longer scripts that needs this sort of treatment, but the shorter ones are generally less intrusive. We might want to note this if we go for it. - ZS 19:12, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- It might be easier to create a consistent one that says something like "click here for the full transcript of the mission". However, you could use {{main}}, like if you keep one important/funny quote in the main article (just a couple of lines), then link to the full transcript subpage. I'll help once I get internet access sorted out. Gboyers talk 19:44, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- Any way of compacting the length of the article should do for me. I'm interest to know how you'll go about it. :) - ZS 19:49, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- Well that's several weeks away, so could you start and just do it your way? I was just suggesting that as well as doing it your way, maybe include one important/funny line in the main article, as a teaser of the full transcript (which may encourage people to read it). Gboyers talk 19:54, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
- I'll test it out with a few GTA3 articles first, but it'll be done later. I need to go to bed. - ZS 19:57, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
We Need to Edit Major Articles
I look at the newly edited arrticles and do you know what I see? I see little tiny edits. We need to start editing the main projects that have nothing or barely anything and that there is so much to add. Everytime we finish doing a major article I will add a new one on this board. Today I want us to focus on Secrets and Easter Eggs in GTA Vice City which has nothing but one link. No words and a link. Thats it. Please I can do some stuff, but I need your help. If we all worked on 1 word one this article we could complete it in 5 minutes. Knowing that this is almost impossible I ask just a couple people to add one sentence per day and we will have it done in a week. Thank you. Peter13
- We do already have Cleanup Projects where a number of people sign up to complete big tasks. I sort of disagree that lots of different people can add one word or sentence to an article - it just needs one person to go through it, then another person to check it. There are thousands of articles on this wiki that need this treatment. One article at a time is not really enough to get the whole community involved in, but if (for example) you suggest Category:secrets as as task, then we can assign a few people to that, and other people can help out where they can. Gboyers talk 11:58, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
Ok, I knew it was impossible for one word. I just wanted to be philisophical. I meant that people should do more clean up projects rather than adding something small to a very large article. P.S. Do you add the time you entered that automatically because I want to have my name a nd date without writing the whole thing. Peter13
- Just add four tildes (~~~~) to the end of your comment, and that will automatically sign your name and the date. I agree we need more cleanup projects, but I don't want to flood the community with them - just keep them for when they're really needed. Your best option is to add a Cleanup Template to the top of the page (such as {{expand}}, {{outofdate}} or {{list}}; so that people know it needs work. Gboyers talk 02:59, December 3, 2009 (UTC)
Images Not Showing Up
I'm not sure if this is just me, but I find recently that many images don't seem to load in articles. Article images themselves are fine, but examples or SS's don't appear. And it doesn't look like a link to an empty page, because no red text appears, just the text explaining what is in the image, but no image. Is this just something on my browser, or an issue with the site? Vhazhiphor 06:47, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't seem to be having any trouble viewing images, it sounds like your browser might be configured not to show certain images (as the software isn't telling you of an error, it's just not showing up). Does it happen on any other sites? Other wikis? Specifically on Wikia? Also, what do you mean by examples and SS's? Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 07:07, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Well, I guess one way of putting it is images that are contained within the text of the article. Mostly ScreenShots, such as of vehicles. For example, the following SS from the FCR-900 page, which should show three images; I looked at the source, searched for the image pages, and I could see them fine there. But on the FCR page itself...
- And it's like that on just about every page. Also, I checked on two other wikia hosted wikis and I can see that kind of images on them just fine. Vhazhiphor 07:28, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
- Ahh, yes, the above images don't show for me either... Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 07:33, August 2, 2010 (UTC) EDIT: I use Google Chrome, but also tested IE8 and Firefox on Windows 7. The above images show up in none of them.Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 07:41, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
- The ads could have caused the images to not show up. I blocked all ads on this site when using Firefox and have no problems seeing images but on IE7 some images are not showing up on this site.--spaceeinstein 08:04, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
- I'm using FF, too; didn't check IE, to be honest. So... is there a way to fix that? Vhazhiphor 08:44, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
- (Biggest gta fan ever pinged me) I'd report this via Special:Contact, our team there are best suited to help out. Kirkburn (talk) <staff/> 11:55, August 2, 2010 (UTC)
I see a big empty screenshot. Where is that at? --Uberfuzzy<staff /> 13:13, August 3, 2010 (UTC)
- Works for me. Its possible that our servers were just being slow when they were creating those thumbnails. Uberfuzzy<staff /> 19:23, August 3, 2010 (UTC)
- I don't seem to have any problems with the image in FX and Chrome, but in IE7 the images seem to not appear depending on the size of the window.
- 250px250px--spaceeinstein 20:38, August 3, 2010 (UTC)
- Well, I tried a couple of solutions I've seen around the internet. I tried deleting cookies from this site, and checking the firewall, making sure all images load automatically, but it's still not there. Now, if I log out, I can see them (at least on FCR-900, since we seem to be using that for reference now), but logging in they're not there anymore. I looked around in my preferences but nothing seems to indicate why this happens. I even tried increasing image size limit but it didn't fix the issue. Hope that info helps. Vhazhiphor 01:50, August 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Doesn't work on Apple Safari either. --Gta-mysteries Talk 18:17, August 4, 2010 (UTC)
- Looks more like Wikia servers managing thumbnails are on the fritz again, because other Wikias are suffering the same problem. That's what can be assumed for now. - ZS 09:15, August 7, 2010 (UTC)
Hello GTA community,
As many of you are probably aware, we will soon be rolling out a new skin on all of Wikia. While designing the new look, we did a thorough assessment of all of the features we offer on Wikia. This wiki was one of those trying out the "social tools", which for this wiki were: profiles, userboards, awards, gifts, friends, userboxes and gamercards. These are now quite out of date and so will be removed when we flip your wiki over to the new skin. Some of these social tools have similar extensions that are available, such as achievements. We have created a new version of gamercards, which is now available on this wiki. Please contact us via Special:Contact if you would like achievements, or other new features enabled.
You can view the timeline of the new skin rollout on our recent staff blog post, and more information on our FAQ. Our current schedule to remove the social tools on October 13th, one week after the initial release of the new look. We will update you here as that date nears.
We will be reassessing all the tools to see if any should be developed more fully in the future, so please let us know if there are any that worked particularly well for your wiki --Sarah<staff /> (Help Forum) (blog) 01:27, September 30, 2010 (UTC).


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Mulberry Grove, South Central, St. Elmo/Brownstown and Patoka all won their respective games to open up regional play Monday and Tuesday night, while Ramsey fell to Central A&M, 111-59, to end its season Monday night.
In the St. Elmo Regional, South Central found itself trailing Windsor/Stew-Stras, 40-33, heading into the fourth quarter.
However, Cougar seniors Brett Harmeier and Dre Hill refused to let their high school careers come to an end, scoring a combined 15 points to help fuel a 23-point fourth quarter, as South Central came back to win, 56-50.
Bobby Bradley
Altamont will be holding its annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament March 5, sponsored by the parents of junior and senior players at Altamont. The fundraiser is to support Altamont's postprom celebration.
The cost is $40 per team with play to begin at 8 a.m. Categories start as young as third-grade boys and girls all the way throughout high school. There will also be an over 40 men's division.
SEB Boys Basketball
The Eagles dropped to 12-13 with losses to Altamont and Riverton Friday and Saturday, respectively.
Against Altamont, SEB came out to an early 13-12 lead. However, the Indians came storming back, outscoring the Eagles 40-18 in the second and third quarters to ultimately hang on for a 68-46 win.
SEB vs. Altamont
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Bilingual thoughts on life, language, learning, and all things Latina.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
So tired, I can't sleep
so cold, extra blankets
alarm set, good night.
My eyes opened at 11, I remembered the laundry.
I woke again at 12, counted to 239, thought about work.
I saw the clock at 1:34, wondered if it had to do with age?
Flipped the pillow to the cool side,
threw my arm around my husband at 1:55,
and mulled over an argument.
Counted to three hundred something
and saw green glowing at 2:46,
considered where to stop for gas in the morning.
Unwrapped myself from too-warm covers at 3:50,
tugged at the comforter again around 4:44,
mentally rearranged the next day's class schedule.
Sirens! Screaming! Beeping!
Fumbled for the button at 5:30,
hit snooze, not so gently, for just 10 more precious minutes.
5 comments:
- Lorenzo said...
Sounds like you need some prozac or something! Take care of yourself...
- November 19, 2008 at 7:17 PM
- Mr. Magoo... said...
Pueden ser muchas cosas, pero suelen decir que con la edad uno duerme menos, puede ser una preocupacion en particular, pero la reflejas asi. Solo trata de relajarte o tal vez algo de ejercicio por las noches. Me gusta mucho la manera en que lo expresas, poesia de nuestro acontecer diario.
Un abrazo.
- November 21, 2008 at 1:38 PM
- Buddha said...
You think too much.
- November 22, 2008 at 4:52 AM
- Laura-Whateverebay said...
Mi abuelita diría que es miedo... podira ser??.. Your blog will be a must read for me. I have enjoyed your writing and have read a few selections of the recommended reading. I am so excited to have stumbled upon your site. Fellow Latina/Hispanic blogger :)
- November 22, 2008 at 4:29 PM
- Nardeeisms said...
Good to be here Cassy...Reading this, I almost fell out laughing! I've "been there" so many times that it really isn't funny! Sometimes it is difficult to turn off a day, but lately, I have had to force myself. Wishing you calmer days ahead. - Nards
- November 23, 2008 at 3:03 PM