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As I mentioned in my summary of my experience at Eschaton2012 in Ottawa, I had a brief exchange after my presentation with biologist ad blogger Larry Moran. He took me to task for a statement that I made during my presentation, in which I asserted that race is not a biologically-defined reality, but rather a socially-derived construct. In response, Larry had this to say:
My position is that the term "race" is used frequently to describe sub-populations of species, or groups that have been genetically isolated from each other1 for many generations. By this definition, races exist in humans just as they do in many other species.
The genetic evidence shows clearly that Africans form a distinctive, but somewhat polyphyletic, group that differs from the people living outside of Africa. Amongst the non-Africans, we recognize two major sub-groups; Europeans and Asians. I see no reason why these major sub-populations don't qualify as races in the biological sense. Please read: Do Human Races Exist?.
I don't think that denying the existence of races is going to make racism go away. Nor do I think that accepting the existence of biological races is going to foster racism.
I think that most of my disagreement with Dr. Moran (or perhaps more accurately his disagreement with me) is a product of a number of things. The first and most obvious one is my lack of familiarity with the full scope of the genetic literature when it comes to human beings and their (our) descendent trees. The second seems to be an unfortunate result of the time limit of the presentation and the imprecision of the language I chose. The third one is a bit more complicated, but has largely to do with what evidence we are using to arrive at a definition. I will discuss each of these issues in detail, with the hope of clarifying the problem.
The state of the genetic evidence
I should state unequivocally here that I am not a human geneticist, nor do I have any great background in genetics or anthropology, and so will take Dr. Moran at his word* that the genetic evidence suggests that genetic subgroups exist within a single human species. These subgroups (or 'races', if you prefer) are not at all the same thing as identifying different species (a point that I took as obvious, but that someone at the talk apparently found it worth fighting Dr. Moran over), but rather simply differences in some phenotypic traits that are due to a history of shared geography, of the kind that we see in many non-human species – the day before he had shown an example of Canadian Geese.
This fact, entirely non-controversial to me, does not affect my position whatsoever. It is to be entirely expected from the anthropological evidence that as different groups become separated by time and space, certain alleles will become more common in some populations than others, resulting in groups that resemble each other at both a phenotypic and genotypic level. If this is the definition of 'race' that Dr. Moran is using, then we have no disagreement. It is biological fact, nothing more.
My working definition of race
However, it should be noted that my position is not that "there are no genetic subgroups among human beings". My position is that race, as is relevant to a conversation about racism, is not based on genetic subgroupings. It is based on a much more cursory, and much more fluid divvying up of the human population into groups, to which characteristics are ascribed. One of the more interesting examples of this phenomenon is in the gradual de-racialization of groups like Polish, Irish, and Italian immigrants throughout the 20th century. Before relatively recently (and some would argue that it is still not complete), certain European people were not seen as 'white', but rather had a distinct racialized status. As generations passed, those groups were adopted into the "white" narrative – a feat that was and continues to be quite impossible for those groups who had been there longer (i.e., blacks and Latin@s).
Group membership in races, as understood and operationalized in the real-world context of our society, have never been about genetic differences. Dr. Moran rightly notes that there is a long history of pseudoscientific "scholarship" that ascribes phenotypic differences such as disposition, work ethic, intelligence, human decency, and overall merit, to those genetic differences, but that like all pseudoscience these attributions are inaccurate. And so when I make the statement that race is not biologically defined, that is the reference that I am making**.
Source of the discrepancy
And that speaks directly to the conflict that exists between Dr. Moran's understanding of race, and my own. Dr. Moran is looking at the genetic data and seeing subgroups within homo sapiens. To deny the existence of that data is absurd in the extreme, which is (I gather) the reason why my presentation irritated him.
I, on the other hand, am looking at differences in outcomes, and the attitudes and beliefs that inform those differences, within a societal and historical context. I am looking at the fact that while both First Nations Canadians and Chinese people (to use one example) may both belong to the Asian 'race' (in a genetic sense), they most certainly do not occupy the same social 'race' (in an economic, political, historical, or sociological sense). The fact is that the genetic data do not, in any way, correspond to the way in which different groups are viewed or treated. In the context of a discussion of racism, the fact that some groups share more genes than other groups is not nearly so relevant as understand race in the way that we use it as a society.
The issue I still have with Dr. Moran's genetic definition of 'race' is that I do not understand where the discerning line between 'races' is drawn – that is, why it is not simply arbitrary to group people. My father and Barack Obama's father probably share more genetic traits than he does with Barack Obama's mother. However, the senior Obama probably shares more with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki than he does with my dear old dad – what about grouping the three of them all together is non-arbitrary, except insofar as it is possible to observe two separate emigrations from ancient Africa? I would imagine that the people of Cambodia share a number of genetic markers that make them more similar to each other than to the people of either India or China – are Cambodians a hybrid 'race' or a separate 'race', and why?
As far as the bit about "accepting the existence of biological races" not being likely to be used to justify bigotry… I guess Dr. Moran has a much more optimistic view of humanity than I do.
I look forward to discussing this more with him.
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*"At his word" in this case means that he has extensively cited the source of his conclusions, not merely asserted it from thin air.
**I used the term "meaningfully different" in my presentation, by which I meant that there is nothing in the biological evidence to suggest that those characteristics that would inform achievement in a meritocracy are different between racial groups. To my knowledge, the genetic evidence still bears that out.


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Creative Spotlight: Adrian Franks on Adobe Touch Apps
We'd like to introduce you to Adrian Franks (@afranks3) – a creative who celebrates friends, historic figures and admired current icons by creating silhouette sketches using the creative trio of Adobe Touch Apps, Creative Cloud, and Creative Suite! We stumbled upon one of Adrian's impressive sketches on the Adobe Ideas Facebook Page and reached out to learn more about him and his work as we knew that Adrian would have a great story to share.
Get to know Adrian – find out where he likes to create, his ideal travel destination and how Adobe's products have helped streamline his digital workflow in the full Q&A below. Also, visit both our Twitter and Facebook channels to see his work on display.
Adobe: When were you first introduced to Adobe Touch Apps?
Adrian Franks: I started using Adobe Touch Apps when I first discovered Adobe Ideas in January 2011.
What was the very first creation you made with Touch Apps and Creative Cloud?
My creative endeavors with Touch Apps is a line of silhouette drawings called FEARLESS that highlights various people that I admire whether they are close friends, historic figures, or current pop culture icons. Currently, I use Creative Cloud to store my vector-based silhouette and download them to my Mac for further design work in CS6.
Where's your favorite location to create?
My favorite place is at my studio, which is broken down into 2 places. One, being my physical studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, the other is out in the world on the go. Whether I am on my bike, riding the train, the bus, or random coffee shops, I consider that as part of my studio. It helps influence my work.
How has the integration from Touch Apps through to the Creative Cloud features changed your creative workflow?
Creative Cloud has allowed me to produce my ideas faster because I have fewer steps to take. I love the fact that once I am done creating in Ideas it auto saves, syncs to the Cloud where I can download the file back to my computer to further manipulate in Photoshop or Illustrator. Once done, I can post to social or send to a printer. All of this has streamlined the process into a digital workflow. I love it!
Which pairing of the Touch Apps and the applications within Creative Cloud (i.e., CS6), are most instrumental to your creative process and why?
I love the combo of Ideas + Photoshop + Illustrator for creating illustrations and designs. I also love Proto + Photoshop + Illustrator for web design and UX projects.
How much of a difference has direct touch input made to your creations?
The Touch Apps give me the freedom to create and concept like I used to before the computer. It replicates the functions of pen and paper, but maintains ease of use on digital. Touch is the present and future creative.
If you had the opportunity to travel to anywhere in the world with your Touch Apps, where would it be and why?
Africa, especially South Africa. Design there has been in a boom for a couple of years now. Events such as the World Cup and its rich political history have caused a shift in how the world perceives South Africa and its people. With that said, things such as creativity, design, art, and photography have pushed the thinking of South Africans. I would like to be a part of that, I would need to be mobile and believe Adobe's Touch Apps and CS6 would allow me to do that.
Can't get enough of Adrian's work? Visit his Creative Works website to check out more of his work. If you have great work to share, send your creations our way for chance to be featured in an upcoming Creative Spotlight. Reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter or in comments here.

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Former Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don Haidl died of unspecified natural causes at Hoag Hospital at the age of 61. Haidl is best remembered for his roles in two of Orange County's most high-profile trials of the last decade: as the father of Gregory Haidl who was convicted of sexual assault and for wearing a wire to record Sheriff Mike Carona in the corruption probe that sent Carona to federal prison.
Haidl had become Assistant Sheriff in 1999 as part of the "Three Amigos:" Carona, Haidl, and Assistant Sheriff George Jaramillo. Independently wealthy, Haidl did not accept a salary as Assistant Sheriff. Haidl admitted to funneling illegal campaign contributions and numerous personal gifts to Carona and to providing money to Carona's mistress.
The rape trial of Haidl's son, Gregory, marked the beginning of the end of the "Three Amigos." In 2002, 17-year-olds Gregory Haidl, Kyle Nachreiner, and Keith Spann video taped their sexual assault of an unconscious 16-year-old girl in Don Haidl's home. After the first trial in 2004 deadlocked, Don Haidl resigned from the Sheriff's Department to focus on his son's defense, convinced that his position as Assistant Sheriff had caused his son to be treated more harshly by the media and criminal justice system. During this time, he engaged in a tax fraud scheme in order to recoup part of the money he used to pay his son's legal bills.
During this time, Carona urged Jaramillo to obtain leniency for Haidl's son by intervening with District Attorney Tony Rackauckas. Jaramillo initially refused but eventually attempted to intervene in the case. Rackauckas rebuffed Jaramillo and refused to grant Haidl's son any favors, and the trial proceeded. After a series of other issues involving abuse of a Sheriff's Department helicopter and controversy over his relationship with a company attempting to gain contracts with law enforcement agencies, Carona fired Jaramillo in 2004, just a few months before Haidl resigned.
In 2007, Haidl wore a wire three times to record, among other things, Carona's efforts to coordinate their testimony regarding money funneled to Carona. The tapes would prove critical to convicting Carona of witness tampering in 2009, a year after Carona resigned as Sheriff to focus on his own legal defense. Sandra Hutchens was appointed Sheriff by the Board of Supervisors to replace Carona and still holds the post to this day.
Carona remains in federal prison on the 2009 witness tampering conviction. Jaramillo pleaded guilty to mail fraud and filing a false tax return in 2007 and was released in 2011 after serving time in federal prison and a halfway house. Haidl pleaded guilty to tax fraud in 2010 but was spared any prison time due to his cooperation in the Carona investigation and trial.


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The Ark. 1Bezalel made the ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high. 2The inside and outside were plated with gold, and a molding of gold was put around it. 3Four gold rings were cast for its four supports, two rings on one side and two on the opposite side. 4Poles of acacia wood were made and plated with gold; 5these poles were put through the rings on the sides of the ark, for carrying it.
6The cover was made of pure gold, two and a half cubits long and one and a half cubits wide. 7Two cherubim of beaten gold were made for the two ends of the cover; 8one cherub was at one end, the other at the other end, made of one piece with the cover, at each end. 9The cherubim had their wings spread out above, sheltering the cover. They faced each other, with their faces looking toward the cover.a
The Table. 10b The table was made of acacia wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high. 11It was plated with pure gold, and a molding of gold was put around it. 12A frame a handbreadth high was also put around it, with a molding of gold around the frame. 13Four rings of gold were cast for it and fastened at the four corners, one at each leg. 14The rings were alongside the frame as holders for the poles to carry the table. 15These poles for carrying the table were made of acacia wood and plated with gold. 16The vessels that were set on the table, its plates and cups, as well as its pitchers and bowls for pouring libations, were made of pure gold.
The Menorah. 17c The menorah was made of pure beaten gold—its shaft and branches—with its cups and knobs and petals springing directly from it. 18Six branches extended from its sides, three branches on one side and three on the other. 19On one branch there were three cups, shaped like almond blossoms, each with its knob and petals; on the opposite branch there were three cups, shaped like almond blossoms, each with its knob and petals; and so for the six branches that extended from the menorah. 20On the menorah there were four cups, shaped like almond blossoms, with their knobs and petals. 21The six branches that went out from the menorah had a knob under each pair. 22The knobs and branches so sprang from it that the whole formed but a single piece of pure beaten gold. 23Its seven lamps, as well as its trimming shears and trays, were made of pure gold. 24A talent of pure gold was used for the menorah and its various utensils.
The Altar of Incense. 25d The altar of incense was made of acacia wood, on a square, a cubit long, a cubit wide, and two cubits high, having horns that sprang directly from it. 26Its grate on top, its walls on all four sides, and its horns were plated with pure gold; and a gold molding was put around it. 27Underneath the molding gold rings were placed, two on one side and two on the opposite side, as holders for the poles used in carrying it. 28The poles, too, were made of acacia wood and plated with gold.
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Sweet Streets 2 Show at Nucleus Gallery...still time..GO!!
A very good friend of mine Sebastian Hiroshi of 6% DokiDoki fame was doing a fashion show in the new Sweet Streets Show at Nucleus Gallery in Alhambra...and the curator Caro was nice enough to ask me to do a painting for the show. This actually was the 3rd opportunity for me to be in a Nucleus show but for some reason(mostly my laziness) it just never happened before. This time I completed a small painting and was in process of finishing a bigger one but just couldnt manage it on time...just not enough hours in the day to do everything...But I AM finishing it up anyway..and will post it soon to get some feedback from all you guys. In the meantime...here's a look at my piece in the show. It's all real paint..no digital..which I don't do that often. It looks even better in person so if you can make it to the gallery..please check it out. Plus there are some other amazing works there.I think it's still going on for another 14 days so you got time.
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I just wanted to thank everyone who made it out to the meeting, and I hope you all enjoyed learning about Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and their exploitation. You can find the slides from the last meeting here.
As mentioned in the meeting, next Tuesday (April 24, 2012) Lance will be continuing the topic of input validation vulnerabilities in web applications by going in depth about SQL Injection vulnerabilities. The widespread prevalence and impact SQL Injection vulnerabilities can have will make this a very important and interesting topic.
I look forward to seeing everyone at the meeting!


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How to use distant landmarks
Every walker has noticed distant landmarks. Anything can be used as a distant landmark: church towers are classic triangulation and orientation points but modern wind turbines, windmills, office blocks, microwave relay towers, transmission line towers and even trees can be used as landmarks. The landmarks need not be permanent - even a column of smoke is useful and welcome.
But does every walker know how to use a landmark correctly? How to use it for more than orientation? How to use it for psychogeography?
Horizon - A landmark can be used to mark your horizon. You can see the landmark from afar. You may see it many times during your walks. You may get to know it intimately. But still - you can never see all your landmarks up close.
Some landmarks - even most of them - will stay forever out of reach. You can look at them longingly from the distance but you will never touch them. This could make you sad - but it can also make you happy.
Be happy that at least you could see the landmark from the distance - you might not have seen and known it at all. Be thankful for the horizon and the discoveries it promises - and be thankful for the discoveries it hides.
The other side - Often you see the landmark from one side only. Your daily commute leads you past a prominent landmark but you never have time to explore it. Does it really have another side? Could other people see the other side? What is behind the landmark? What does it hide?
Make a decision now - explore or speculate? Destroy the mystery or leave it intact?
If the landmark is on your horizon you will have to walk far to see the other side. Walking far is good - but there will always be other sides that you wil never get to see. This could make you sad - but it can also make you happy.
Be happy that there are still some mysteries in this modern scientific world. Be thankful for the small revelations and mythologies - be thankful for the monsters in the white spots of your personal map.
Changes - Observe how the landmark changes as you move through space and time. Or how it does not change. Usually you travel faster than the landmark. Usually you change much faster than the landmark. This could make you sad - but it can also make you happy.
Be happy with the islands of stability in this unstable world. Be happy if the landmark will survive you - you share in its eternity. (Church towers are especially useful for this purpose.)
Background - Notice how the landmark stands out from the background. Look, think, analyze. What makes the landmark different from the background? Then notice yourself. Look, think, analyze. Probably you don't stand out against your background - at least not as much as the landmark. This could make you sad - but it can also make you happy.
Be happy with the role of observer - as part of the background you go unnoticed, you can see things that other people overlook. Be thankful that you can save your energy - being a landmark is a tiresome business.


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Emerald View Park Green Jobs training program receives honors
July 26, 2011
A crew of five 18 to 21 year olds who have spent the last eight weeks constructing trails in Pittsburgh's newest regional park, Emerald View Park, were honored with an invitation to speak at the Congressional Listening Tour of the Progressive Democrats of America and with a Proclamation sponsored by Councilwoman Theresa Kail-Smith honoring their work at City Council.
These five young men are part of a cooperative effort between the Student Conservation Association, A. Philip Randolph Institute, GTECH Strategies, One Vision One Life, Environmental Planning & Design/Nature Shape and the Mount Washington Community Development Corporation to provide workforce development, work skills training, experiential learning, job placement and work experience for young adults residing in the City of Pittsburgh.
All five men graduated from the A. Phillip Randolph Foundation's six-week long "Breaking the Chains of Poverty" program where they earned a variety of OSHEA certifications.
They have each overcome personal struggles to complete the program and successfully entered, and maintained jobs in, this difficult job market.
Since May 16, the five men have been working to construct trails on the challenging terrain of Emerald View Park. Since then, they have, together, created more than a half mile of the park's signature trail, removed more than 40 tons of rock, debris and invasive plants; restored hillside vegetation; created erosion control devices and built retaining structures to fortify the trail.
The program is funded by the Pittsburgh Partnership / City of Pittsburgh Department of Personnel, Birmingham Foundation, and the Joella P. Bane Trust Fund through the PNC Charitable Trust Grant Review Committee. Additional fundraising is underway, and donations for the Emerald View Trail Crew may be sent directly to the MWCDC, or be made through http://www.causes. com/campaigns/158292?cause_id=621611.
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Better find a big vault at Gringotts for the new "Harry Potter" film's box office haul.
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1" netted $24 million early Friday to give the franchise its best ever midnight debut, The Associated Press reported.
The film could be on track to earn over $100 million for its opening weekend, Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian told the AP.
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The first of two films based on J.K. Rowling's final "Harry Potter" book, "Deathly Hallows" topped last year's $22.2 million midnight opening for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
But "Potter" fans' purchasing power wasn't enough to land an Avada Kedavra curse on the "Twilight" phenomenon.
"Deathly Hallows" places third on the list of highest grossing midnight debuts behind the last two installments of the teen vampire-werewolf drama, the AP reported.
"Twi-Hards" helped "Eclipse" rake in $30 million for its debut last summer, while "New Moon" reportedly earned $26.3 million at the witching hour in 2009.
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New products and changes introduced over the last week include coming MLP ETNs from Barclays and OFI Global Asset Management and three liquid alternative mutual funds from Brinker Capital.
In addition, the Marathon Value Portfolio announced a fee reduction and Anfield Capital Management has been appointed the sole advisor to the Anfield Universal Fixed Income Fund.
Here are the latest developments of interest to advisors:
1) Barclays, OFI Capital Management to Offer MLP ETNs
Barclays Bank PLC and OFI Global Asset Management, which consists of OppenheimerFunds Inc. and certain of its advisory subsidiaries, announced the planned launch of the Barclays OFI SteelPath MLP ETNs. Barclays plans to apply to list the ETNs on the NYSE under the ticker symbol OSMS. If the application is approved, Barclays expects that the ETNs will begin trading on April 24.
The ETNs will be linked to the volume-weighted average price of the Barclays OFI SteelPath Midstream MLP Index, which is designed to track the performance of a basket of direct interests in master limited partnerships (MLPs) and limited liability companies.
2) Brinker Capital Launches Trio of Liquid Alternative Mutual Funds
Brinker Capital has announced the formal launch of three 40-Act liquid alternative mutual funds. The Crystal Strategy Absolute Income Fund (CSTFX) seeks to provide current income and downside protection to conventional equity markets with absolute returns over full market cycles as a secondary objective. The Crystal Strategy Absolute Return Fund (CSRAX) seeks to provide positive returns over full market cycles. The Crystal Strategy Leveraged Alternative Fund (CSLFX) seeks to provide long-term positive absolute return with reduced correlation to conventional equity markets as a secondary objective.
The funds will be offered primarily through the insurance-based and independent broker dealer channels as well as through RIAs. The funds are available via the Fidelity IWS and NFS, Pershing, Schwab, TD Ameritrade (AMTD) and LPL custodial platforms.
3) Marathon Value Portfolio Reduces Management Fee
The Marathon Value Portfolio (MVPFX), a mutual fund focusing on long-term capital appreciation, has announced a reduction in its management fee.
The Marathon Value Portfolio is advised by Atlanta-based Spectrum Advisory Services, Inc. Spectrum has made the decision to reduce the Marathon Value Portfolio's management fee by 10 basis points, from 120 to 110. This change took effect on March 1.
4) Anfield Capital Management Now Sole Fund Advisor
Anfield Capital Management has been appointed the sole advisor to the Anfield Universal Fixed Income Fund (AFLIX) by the fund's board of trustees.
AFLIX, which aims to give fixed income investors an unhindered alternative to benchmark-driven investment strategies, is not tied to an index. The principals at Anfield formerly worked together for 15 years at PIMCO. They are David Young, founder and CEO of Anfield; Cyrille Conseil, senior portfolio manager; and Peter Van de Zilver, director of portfolio analytics and risk management.
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Two Troy High School students interviewed Wayne State University Distinguished Professor of Law Robert Sedler for a documentary film on a precedent-setting Supreme Court case from 1969.
High school juniors Jason Ji and Frank Boudon chose Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District as the topic of their film, which they're making to enter in the annual National History Day Inc. contest.
The Tinker case, which began in 1965 in a Des Moines, Iowa, school, was about students' rights to wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. The case defined the constitutional rights to free speech of public school students and is still used by courts today.
On Thursday, Jan. 30, the Troy students interviewed Sedler, considered one of the nation's foremost scholars on constitutional law, in his Wayne Law office about the case and filmed his responses for their documentary.
The professor answered the students' questions about Tinker and its relevance today and told the teens about a local federal case he litigated in 1999 for the American Civil Liberties Union when he successfully defended the right of a Lincoln Park High School student to wear a pentacle as a symbol of her Wiccan religion. School officials had banned the pentacle, lumping it in with gang symbols. The precedent set by Tinker played a role in the 1999 case, Sedler said.
"Tinker was very much a breakthrough case," the professor told the students. "It was the basic and precedential case on students' rights to free speech."
After the hourlong interview with Sedler, the teens were pleased.
"We got some really good stuff," Ji said.
National History Day Inc. is an independent academic program for students, who compete at local, state and national levels, where their entries are evaluated by professional historians and educators. The national contest is held each June at the University of Maryland.


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Up to ten additional phases are needed to produce the folding models.Each example is made in its entirety and then carefully broken at three points, on both sides and the bridge.
The bridge: Housings are created in the upper and lower parts to accommodate the hinges. The folding areas are then filed smooth for maximum comfort.
The Sides: After fitting a core, the hinge is applied and the sides then go through the finishing process.
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In order to ensure a perfect fold, the nose pieces are slightly different to those of other Persol models.
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KANDAHAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Soldiers from 584th Mobility Augmentation Company held a breast cancer awareness 5K run at Forward Operating Base Walton Oct. 27 in support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The event was held to spread awareness and support throughout the FOB and to the families touched by cancer back home.
According to U.S. Army Capt. Joseph Frederick, 584th MAC commander, Task Force Outlaw, this is a topic that his soldiers are passionate about, and wanted to bring awareness and support to.
Pfc. Trevor Gregorvich of 584th MAC's 3rd Platoon influenced all around him through his contagious passion to support the planning and preparation of the event. Despite being deployed, he said he became inspired to plan and execute this run.
"No matter what your situation is, you can make an impact," said Gregorvich.
Gregorvich explained that his mother-in-law, Leslie Moddy, inspired him to create this run. She fought cancer and won five years ago. He donned a shirt that read, "I run for Leslie Moody" in support of her and her victory.
Each participant wore a sign that proudly said "I run for" and they inscribed the person that inspired them to run the race.
The signs are pinned to the custom pink shirts that Sgt. First Class Melendez designed and Capt. Frederick purchased in support of the event. The shirts displayed a Wooly Bully protecting second base from breast cancer, who is trying to steal it. The shirt represents the company, the cause and the fight that impacts so many people.
To help support the cause, more than 80 participants from the FOB participated in the 5K. The runners came from three battalions and five companies to participate in the event.
"Everybody knows what they are running for; not an award, but for the people out there struggling with cancer," Gregorvich asserted. "We are here today to support [awareness of] this particular cancer."


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Jerez de los Caballeros
Jerez de los Caballeros
Church of La Encarnación
- 自治州 : Extremadura
- 県/島 : Badajoz
A city in Badajoz where many different cultures, knowledge and artistic styles overlap, from prehistoric times to Gothic and Baroque. It is surrounded by meadows with excellent pasture for stockbreeding, the base of the local economy. Its old town has been declared Property of Cultural Interest.
The origins of Jerez de los Caballeros date from the time of the Phoenicians, although it has always been inhabited by the various cultures who arrived on the Peninsula. The oldest archaeological finding in the area is the dolmen at the Granja de Torriñuelo, declared a National Monument and beside which were found paintings and an interesting burial treasure. Roman villas, Visigothic remains and Arab influences all form part of the landscape in this area which lies halfway between Portugal and Andalusia, and this cultural diversity can also be found in many of its traditions and customs. But Extremadura has always been the cradle of explorers and conquistadors; specifically, Jerez de los Caballeros was the birthplace of the first European who laid eyes on the Pacific Ocean, Vasco Núñez de Balboa. After the colonisation of America, many nobles and public officials returned to the land of their birth bringing with them riches from the New World. Thus the historic quarter of Jerez de los Caballeros combines both popular architecture with ancient churches, convents, noble houses and mansions, all presided by the imposing Templar fortress with its Arab origins. Artistic and architectural heritage The walled perimeter of Jerez de los Caballeros extends for one and a half kilometres. It is built of masonry work and stone blocks (15th-16th centuries) on top of the original Arab walls, and is reinforced by defensive turrets and towers. Several of its gateways still survive, and contains on the interior a 13th-century Templar castle which was reformed in the 16th century. Interesting religious buildings include the churches of La Encarnación (16th century), San Bartolomé (15th-17th centuries), San Miguel (16th-18th centuries) and Santa Catalina (16th century), as well as the convent of San Agustín, today the site of the Town Hall. Outstanding examples of civil architecture are the Casa del Concejo building (16th century); the hospitals of San Bartolomé and La Caridad, and the palaces of Bachiller Martínez de Logroño, Marquis de la Lastra, the Guzmanes and the Dukes of T'Serclaes-Tilly. Narrow streets with whitewashed façades dotted with stone towers are the backdrop for the religious processions which take place during Easter week, a festival which has been declared to be of Regional Tourist Interest. The religious images, which are the object of veneration in the churches, are paraded through the streets to fervent acclaim from hundreds of participants. Another excellent time to visit Jerez de los Caballeros is during the Iberian Ham Fair. For a few days, the products labelled with the Designation of Origin 'Dehesa de Extremadura' vie with each other to offer the best cured hams and sausages produced with acorn-fed Iberian pork. This gastronomic tasting session might continue with tomato soup, roast lamb or lamb stew, and different types of cheeses. All the dishes are made with the delicious local olive oil. And an excellent accompaniment to these mouth-watering delicacies is the wine from the Designation of Origin 'Ribera del Guadiana'.
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
An Overseas Fund Raisng Trip
In a two days late reference to Owen Glenn refusing to give money to Labour, reference was made to a statement by party secretary and general oaf Mike Williams who had met with Mr Glenn in Nice during an 'overseas fund raising trip.'
Well well well. Overseas fund raising, eh?
Where else have you been selling policies and political favours, Mr Williams?
Teheran? Tripoli? Moscow? Riyahd? Bejing? Beirut? Pyongyang?
It's long past time this gang of crooks was brought before a judge and put under oath.
Key rules out Peters altogether
What does he know do you think?
A Small Win For Bloggers
Duncan Webb
Duncan Webb is a professor of law at the University of Canterbury and a political commentator. He is a Labour Party member and has held prior roles in Labour's Christchurch Central branch.
Not Out
Is this cricket's newest international umpire?
Tony Greig with a sun tan?
Dear Leader's List
NZPA has some details of the Liarbour Party List.
Rejuvenation includes adding the 62-year-old former Race Race Relations Commissioner Rajen Prasad on board.
I'll add more when I can.
But NZPA need to know Sir Ronnie Flanagan is not and has never been Home Secretary in Britain, but is one of Britain's top cops.
I do hope candidate Jacinda Ardern has not been embelleshing her CV.
Anyway, seems like the usual ragbag of public sector 'workers', unionists and the odd lawyer to me.
Still the same old Liarbour Party!
But Jacinda looks too pretty to be a socialist :)
UPDATE: Martin Kay of Stuff offers more detail, but still makes the same mistake about the UK Home Secretary.
That is Jacqui Smith, NOT, I repeat, Sir Ronnie Flanagan.
UPDATE2: Full list here, which Mike Williams describes as 'talented'. Notable entries include Judith Tizard at 38 (will she survive if National take Auckland Central?), and Jordan Carter at 71.
I see the official Liarbour release makes the error about Jacinda Ardern working for the UK Home Secretary 'Sir Ronnie Flanagan.'
Are Liarbour so dumb to make foolish errors like this? But obviously the media must be equally dumb for not picking it up!
UPDATE3: The Hive offers its analysys of which MPs will stay and go. Darien Fenton and Judith Tizard are on the endangered list.
UPDATE 4: David Farrar offers his analysis here and notes other Liarbour blunders here.
New Zealand First - Bought And Paid For
After decades of abuse leveled at the National Party over imaginary conspiracies with big business, Winston Peters sold out his party, its members and its voters to big Labour. He has turned New Zealand First into the Labour affiliated Geriatrics Union.
How ironic that it is Labour, who for years have railed against big money and its influence in politics, which turns out to be furtively wheeling and dealing behind the scenes, buying and selling political favours like water melons at the Otara markets.
This is the same dirty Labour Party which harbours the execrable wretch Mallard who, without a shred of evidence, accused National of receiving money from American interests.
This is the same evil Labour Party which vilified seven innocent but naive church members who decided to become political activists and spend some of their own money.
This is the same scurrilous Labour Party which rushed through the disgraceful Electoral Finance Act in order to allegedly stop other people doing exactly what it has been doing all along.
This is the same nasty vicious Labour Party whose trademark is lies, half truths, distortions, slander, denigration and mistrust.
Good on Jeanette Fitzsimmons for today saying that she would have difficulty ever trusting Winston Peters. It's time she severed her relationship the the most untrustworthy party of all, Labour.
New Zealand can never again trust the word of Helen Clark. On anything. She is finished.
And they also believe Winston is innocent!
The Sunday Star-Times says its survey of Kiwi beliefs shows New Zealand First voters are more prone to believing in conspiracy theories.
New Zealand First voters were more likely to believe that. . .
* New Zealand is constantly manipulated by big business (70 percent believed this);
* The All Blacks were poisoned before the 1995 world cup final in South Africa (47 percent);
* The US government knew about or planned the 9/11 attacks (52 percent);
* A secret elite cabal controls world affairs (38 percent);
* Princess Diana was assassinated (38 percent);
* World governments are hiding evidence of alien visits (35 percent); and
* Elvis Presley faked his own death (5 percent).
But the report added one important caveat, showing there are some beliefs that are truly embarassing.
Just 60 people said they were New Zealand First supporters, but according to the survey's creator, Marc Wilson, this figure is still sufficiently large to draw sound statistical conclusions.
Oh! And I thought the EPMU was a independent third party
The EPMU is a highly political union with deep roots and formal affiliation to the Labour Party. It was a founding member and regularly puts its union affiliation to a vote of its members. Rex Jones was the Labour Party president in the late 1980s while heading the union.
Union head Andrew Little is a popular fancy to replace Mike Williams as Labour Party president after the election.
Perhaps someone should tell the Electoral Commission.
Blood Brothers or Thick Thieves?
This morning's Sunday star Times carries an interesting story about Labour's challenge to Rodney Hide's Epsom victory in the 2005 election. It's not on line yet but the piece by Denise McNab lifts the lid on Labour's behind the scenes funding of NZ First and its cronies.
"Was Rodney Hide Winston's real Target in 2005?"
It's interesting (a) because of the names associated with the challenge and (b) because of Labour's inability to tell the truth about anything.
First there are the lies and then there are the names.
The lies.
"But Labour Party president Mike Williams said yesterday that although he believed Mr Hide had blown his budget, Labour had little to gain from challenging him."
The real truth of it is, the fools didn't get their challenge in on time and the courts refused to grant them an extension. In fact they had everything to gain. These are the incompetent clowns who have been running the country for nine years.
The names
Mike Williams and Helen Clark - of course they are no surprise. But hang on, what on earth are Owen Glenn and Brian Henry doing, fooling around in Epsom? How many blood brothers does Mr Henry have?
Just how much more money has Owen Glenn donated to Labour or personally spent on causes close to Labour's heart?
For the first time, it is becoming evident Labour has been using a foreign billionaire to fund their very own secret agenda - their campaign behind the campaign. The real secret agenda is Labour's extremely subversive and sensitive scheme to suborn other political parties, thereby manipulating MMP to buy their way into power, no matter what the minor parties' voters thought they were voting for. Any thought that the party's chief strategist, Helen Elizabeth Clark, new nothing about any of this is preposterous.
No wonder they don't have any policies. They don't need them when it is so easy to just buy the small parties.
Owen Glenn has been duped by these crooks into funding a highly immoral and probably illegal secretive plan to buy an election, to buy the support of NZ First, to bribe the Maori Party and to buy the overturning of electorate voting decisions in Tauranga and, now we find, Epsom as well. Adolf would like to hear from Mr Glenn, what other secretive activities has he been duped into funding because 'he supported Labour?'
Fortunately the people in the Maori Party are honorable and refused the bribe. I'd like to see Tariana Turia called before the privileges committee and asked to provide details of the approach.
These same people who screamed abuse at Don Brash and vilified seven businessmen whose only crime was to highlight the flaws in Green Party policies, (because the MSM were too bloody lazy or incompetent to do the job themselves) turn out to be selling favours and political patronage to overseas interests in return for funds to buy their way into power. Not only that but they did it when they already had stolen $800k of taxpayer funds and embezzled tens of millions of departmental funds to peddle their putrifying political promises.
Is their no end to Labour's appetite for other people's money?
The real irony in all of this sordid mess is that the dosy Greens who gave their support to Labour, received not one penny of this illicit largess and as well, were royally screwed.
The Banning of Sean
Here's why.
In a comment stream on the choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin as Republican candidate for vice president, Sean offered the following quote.
"Nevertheless, she [Palin] is under investigation for her firing of a state official, Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. She has been instructed to hand over documents and recordings of telephone conversations as part of the inquiry, which grew out of allegations that she sacked Monegan for refusing to fire her former brother-in-law from the state police...Palin has admitted that the call could be interpreted as pressure to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was locked in a child-custody battle with Palin's sister."
Here is the original quote which Sean deliberately doctored to make it seem that Mrs Palin herself had phoned Monegan and instructed him to sack her sister's estranged husband. Spot the difference, highlighted in red.
" Nevertheless, she is under investigation for her firing of a state official, Public Safety Commissioner Walt Monegan. She has been instructed to hand over documents and recordings of telephone conversations as part of the inquiry, which grew out of allegations that she sacked Monegan for refusing to fire her former brother-in-law from the state police.
She has denied wrongdoing.
But Palin acknowledged that a member of her staff made a call to a trooper in which the staffer suggested that he was speaking for the governor.
Palin has admitted that the call could be interpreted as pressure to fire state trooper Mike Wooten, who was locked in a child-custody battle with Palin's sister. She suspended the staffer who made the call."
No Ethics, No Morals, No Shame. Labour
Because all the people in Labour have spent all their lives cloistered in unions or universities, they don't realise that real people in the real world know how to recognise when they have backed a loser. Owen Glenn certainly has.
Now that Labour has publicly denigrated him and cast aspersions upon his character, they can expect nothing to be held back at the privileges committee this week. He should be asked to show the committee Helen Clark's tooth marks on his 'once were generous' hands.
Labour - Coalition Corpse
Just a further sign of a National, Act, Maori Party coalition. In other words a government of national unity.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
So why are we in recession then?
A candidate of decency
Just prior to Barack Obama's nomination speech, rival John McCain posted an ad noting the importance of Obama's achievement in being the Democrat's candidate.
Doesn't this show the decency of John McCain?
Of course, Obama replied with , I think, 21 negative mentions out of 22 mentions of McCain in that speech.
Have we ever seen our own Dear Leader note any achievement for John Key, or say any kind word concerning the lad from a state house, who has succeeded in the business world and looks set to take her job!
Hat tip: Iain Dale
The only time when Liarbour MP and Class A go together
One of its so-called rising stars Darien Fenton has been exposed as a former junkie.
Ian Wishart, once more delivers the stories the MSM fears to find, that of a junkie MP who has struggled with Class A drug abuse.
Some of her fellow druggies , it seem, were also less than complimentary on the List MP and trade unionist.
"I do not consider Darien Fenton to be worthy of being an MP, and was stunned when I read she was a Labour list MP. I thought [her one] of the worst people I met. [Her] reputation amongst the other people on the programme was very bad - liars, thieves etc."
I guess having pot heads in the Green Party were the least of our worries!
Hat tip: Whale Oil, TGIF
We are having an election, aren't we?
The secret scampi tapes
Helen Clark the narcissist
Game Changing Moments
First, John Key's rejection of any future dealings with NZ First and or Winston Peters.
Second, John McCain's choice of Governor Palin as his presidential running mate.
McCain is to be applauded. Less than 24 hours after Obama's schmaltzy showbiz acceptance of the Donks nomination, McCain stole the media limelight which his surprise announcement.
Let's compare the two teams.
The Donks
Obama whose ONLY executive experience was a few years chairing a terrorist's charity and supervising distribution of over $100m to dubious recipients is teamed with an aging and vain political hack whose only serious achievement has been to become known as a wind bag. Both of these men are effective spruikers but none have any principles on which to spruik and no record of performance. Two word summary: Shallow and risky
The GOP
McCain whose record of experience and judgment is impeccable, along with Sarah Palin whose own record is equally impressive and who is unmistakably identified with the aspirations of blue collar America. Two word summary: Safe and exciting
I'd say that, failing an unforeseen disaster, the game is already over and Mr Obama can slink back to the back streets of Chicago where he belongs..
Fangs For The Memory
Parties, Seats, Policies, Bought and Sold
The Winston Peters saga is what I'm on about. It all seems so Byzantine but when you stand off a little and look from a distance, then perhaps a few things come into focus.
As an aside, the first question in my mind this morning is 'Where is the money coming from for QC Peter Williams' fees?'
But back to the villain of the piece, the scampiwag, if you will.
It seems to Adolf that yesterday's events were a little like the opening five minutes of a rugby test match. The preceding questions and 'points of order' stonewalling in the house, clownish press conferences, accusations of who said what and where etc were the media lead up to the game.
The real play now is under way and, like QB at the Hive, I believe that the main play will be the battle of the scampi. The killer punch for Peters, and by association Helen Clark, will be the tapes and affidavits showing Peters corruptly soliciting $50k in return for closing down the scampi quota select committee enquiry.
I'd go further and suggest that yesterday, Peters was pulling the same trick with Helen Clark. It did not take a two hour meeting to resolve something as simple a a minister standing aside while being investigated for fraud.
No, yesterday the terms and conditions of NZ First support for Labour during and after the election campaign were negotiated. Ironically, John Key gave Winston the opportunity to go for Clark's jugular yesterday. Labour will pull their vote in Rimutaka to ensure NZ First wins a seat and gets back in with four or five members and Winston will keep his baubles of office. Winston will give Clark his vote on confidence, supply and pretty much anything else Clark wants. Oh, they might go through a public charade of disagreement but that's just for the chooks in the media.
Remember, Helen Clark will do 'whatever it takes' to hold onto power.
It seems to Adolf that as far as Peters' political future is concerned, all of the to do about Owen Glenn's donations and the privileges committee are small beer. To get rid of him one needs to have him convicted and sent to jail. That is why the scampi evidence is needed to bring down this vile, malevolent and evil little king maker.
Meanwhile, the privileges committee and Owen Glenn will do sufficient damage to finish off Helen Clark for she will be the real target now. The evidence will show she conspired to buy out the NZ First Party, tried to bribe the Maori Party (who also should be called to give evidence) and made out that Mr Glenn would receive his reward by way of consulship.
It might even set fire to her draft UN curriculum vitae.
My bet is that Owen Glenn will be quietly determined that Clark's face never gets anywhere near Turtle Bay.
Oh and by the way, best comment of the week goes to Ed Snack over at Farrar's place: 'Did owen Glenn give $100k to Howard Morrison too? To stop him singing?'
Well done Lemur.
Idle speculation
- Winnie does have a full set of paperwork for all those donations, which turn out to be all entirely legal. He's just been enjoying winding journos and political enemies up into a fury of condemnation.
- He lays it out in front of the SFO investigators, who decide there's no fraud for them to investigate.
- Winnie gets his job back, and gets to spend the election campaign fired up like a flamethrower against the wicked perfidy of The Media and John Key.
- NZF romps back into Parliament with essential support nicked from National, and Key's deep in the shit.
Friday, August 29, 2008
While you were looking the other way............
The VRWC celebration this evening was indeed a pleasant affair. Champagne was quaffed, and scampi was consumed, though sadly I arrived too late for the latter and the atmosphere was most convivial.
However, while we all basked in the warmth generated by the fallout from the week's political fission, I couldnt escape the feeling that we were missing something. The nation's attention has been firmly fixed on Winston, and while most of the populace are aware that clark needs him and his party in order to ramrod the ETS through the house, I wonder how many have any inkling of the details of that legislation? Do they know what it means for the future of our country, and what are the implications for our standard of living? I can't say I do right now but I will shortly. Would they give a rats arse about winston's legal bills and his donations if they realised that our economic base is about to be reorganised at the whim of the most corrupt administration we've known in this country?
Hopefully winnie tosses his toys out now he's stood down and the ETS doesn't get passed before dear leader has to go to the country, but even so, I'd encourage everyone with the ability to do so to study this scheme, and the one that National have said they'll come up with, and do their best to get it's ramifications out into the public arena in detail.
What does She know?
What with Dear Leader dropping the bombshell yesterday of knowing for six months about the Owen Glenn donations, we really need to focus on the role of Dear Leader in this whole sordid affair!
They're coming to take me away, ha ha!, they're coming to take me away
Censorship: Alive and well and living in New Zealand
I recall a fellow academic approaching me when I started writing the book and warning me that I was putting my career in jeopardy by tackling this subject. At first, I dismissed the caution, but when others began making similar comments, I came around to the view that I would be risking my integrity as a historian by being bullied into silence.
Wrong And Wrong Again
But today he is wrong and doubly wrong.
"There will be relief in Labour ranks. Given the increasing political stench coming from the direction of NZ First, Labour could only hold its nose for so long. Thanks to the SFO, it has been given a breather."
No, it's too late for a breather. To suggest that the SFO investigation of the slippery Winston Peters' dodgy dealings lets Labour off the hook is to ignore the vast damage which already has been done to Labour and in particular to it's scrawny scheming leader.
"Being able to resolve things now means Clark no longer has to worry about the upcoming privileges committee report on the contempt charge against Peters."
Wrong again. John Armstrong doesn't seem to be able to see the wood for the trees in the forest. The unavoidable danger to Clark from the Privileges Committee is testimony which links her directly to the Glenn donations and attempts to purchase political favours for the Labour Party.
The minute the ETS bill is passed, an election date will be announced and parliament will rise, in order to shut down the PC and protect Helen Clark.
Champi And Scampi - VRWC
The Auckland chapter of the Vast right Wing Conspiracy invites all enemies of the Corrupt Little Pin Striped Prick to a celebratory evening of champagne and scampi this evening at the Cavalier in Ponsonby. (the usual place)
5.30 for 6.00.
I will pre-arrange for scampi and champagne to be supplied and I expect the cost of same will likely run to around $15 per head, depending on how many enemies turn up. We'll divy up the tab at around 7.00.
All are welcome, even Labour Party members. The only qualification for entry is a profound dislike and disdain for The Honorable Winston Peters.
Don't forget, this might be your last chance to say what you really think about him before his political corpse ceases to breathe, for one cannot speak ill of the dead.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
The Knives are out
But Barack Obama
First the Republicans
And now this one
And here's another anti-Obama message John McCain probably approves of, but it's not from the Republicans.
It's not looking good for the Leftist lightweight, despite support from Bill and Hill yesterday.
Helping ACT and saving Winston First
RIP Winston Peters & NZ First
The main reasons for our continued participation in the parliamentary process are threefold I believe. We have excellent longstanding philosophies and principles. We have excellent, loyal, dedicated people (mostly volunteers). And we have, and have had, excellent politicians. ACT is a party based on a belief that governments are inherently destructive and not constructive: they should be out of our lives as much as possible. We believe people make better choices than politicians. We believe regulation might be a requirement, but is certainly not a necessity. Sure, we have some rogues and we have had to swallow some dead rats in the past but ACT people are bloodyminded and determined. ACT's beliefs and policies are the best for New Zealand, there is no doubt in my mind. And all ACT loyalists believe that and will work for that, even in the bad times.
Here's the dichotomy. New Zealand First and Winston Peters couldn't be more diametrically opposed to how ACT is. It has no principles, or at least Winston has just flushed them down the toilet. It's people use zimmerframes. And its politicians, even according to its ex MP's (Laws & Widerstrom) are useless.
ACT has survived because it has foundations. By comparison New Zealand First is a leaky home. It cannot survive what is happening I believe. The end is nigh.
Virgin Queen loses potency
If only she could have axed it sooner!
The Police are that much more amenable.
And as for that pesky Priviledges Committee, yes, let's get rid of all the National MPs on it like Dear Leader suggested.
Stacked with Liarbour lickspittles, it truly would get to the bottom of the matter wouldn't it?
She certainly shows her promised higher standards of government here!
Prawns And Beer
What will they use to lure away Ron Mark?
What will they do to inveigle the fool Woolerton who can't quite get his questions right?
What will be the incentive for the pommy gibberer Peter Brown, whose hair is thinner than his intellect?
What of the dimwitted imbecile Dale Jones? A year's supply of North Sea cod and chips?
Now The Dirty Game Becomes Clear...
The Bitch knew all along about the $100 grand. That will turn out to be only one tenth of the sordid truth as it becomes more obvious each day that Clark's in this up to her ears.
Funny thing is, I haven't heard a raucus fat female TVNZ reporter screeching 'When are you going to resign, Prime minister. When are you going to resign?"
Why suddenly does Clark reveal her duplicity? Because she is desperate to close the whole story down and it is about to get ten times worse.
She knows Qwen Glenn is going to testify to and be cross examined by the Privileges Committee next Thursday and she can't allow this to happen because he will reveal her complicity in all the dirty dealing. It is my guess it will turn out to be Helen Clark who put him up to donating to NZ First, who put him up to an attempted bribe of the Maori Party
You see, she will have regarded Mr Glenn as being one 'of her class and stature' and you couldn't possibly have yokels like Mike Willians dealing with really important people like us. So, she would have fronted the whole deal herself.
She has brought her ETS bill up to No 1 on the order paper so that she can get it passed, if necessary under urgency, in time to prorogue parliament and call an election on Wednesday next week, thereby closing off the incriminating privileges committee.
Bloody hell, I'm glad she was never a currency trader. What a sorry loser!
The Parable of the Trader
"Teacher, how is it you, with no years of experience and wisdom, are standing before your elders and betters, purporting to tell us about God?"
Jesus said to them
'The Kingdom of God is like a land of milk and honey, in which all is not as it seems. There was such a land of milk and honey in which there were two opposing political parties, one led by a middle aged woman who had forsaken motherhood in favour of devoting her whole being to the study of political theory and internecine party dealings, assisted by an academic teacher of high intellect and wit, well versed in history; the other led by a young man of humble beginnings and great wealth gained from a life of commercial trading in far off lands.
The politician and the teacher were feted by the people and were lauded for their perceived wisdom and experience while the trader was looked down upon and scorned for his lack of political experience.
When the time came for a reckoning, the trader used his hard won instincts for risk taking and timing, honed in the cauldron of international trading, to outwit and defeat the politician and the academic whose apparent experience and judgement proved to be shallow and worthless.
Such is the Kingdom of God"
Adolf has been mightily impressed by John Key's quiet, careful, unflustered, hard headed and no nonsense approach to politics.
Clark and Cullen really don't know what is hitting them. They haven't got a clue.
Public finding Winston Guilty as Rodney gets his reward
I guess a 'correction' was inevitable in the political market.
After a few months with leads of over 20% , the Herald Digi-Poll shows the lead down to just 13.7%, well down on the 24% or so of last month.
Liarbour can take heart its support is heading up, at 36.3%.
BUT: National is at 50% and can govern alone and ACT is up 2 to 2.3% showing Rodney's efforts over Winniegate is paying off. Liarbour seems to be eating its coalition partners, as Adolf noted in other recent polls.
Of course as Winnie suffers from the allegations, which have grown far worse in recent days, since after the poll was taken, his support can only drop further.
Indeed Dear Leader and Liarbore can only suffer an inevitable drop too from her steadfast support: Guilt by association in the court of public opinion.
Krauthammer on Obama
"Or maybe he'll just do a Napoleon and coronate himself. By the time Napoleon made himself emperor, he had won the Battles of Lodi, of Arcole, of Rivoli, of the Pyramids and of Marengo. And had promugulated the Napoleonic Code. He had yet to write a single autobiography."
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
well fancy that!
Political correctness destroying New Zealand
That is why this photo is so important.
If Winston lied about this then he can't be believed on other things. Glenn can.
Judgment for the plaintiff, Mr Hide for the sum of $158,000.00
Joke: What's the difference between
New Zealand First and a spermbank?
With a spermbank you can't lie about your donations.
Hillary Screws The Dopey Donks
No-one puts it better than the excellent and astute Victor Davis Hanson
"Bottom line: she remains loyal Democrat, dissed victim, the should-have-been nominated candidate, senior healer ready to clean up the mess of 2008, and savior in 2012. Note well Chelsea's ubiquity, the slick Hillary infomercial, Bill's wide grin, and the Clinton triad everywhere.
'Fucking them with kindness.'
Key Boots Peters Out
No coalition with a Peters led NZ First is what this means.
Look for the NZ First party to ditch Peters before the week-end is over.
Biden Proves To Be A Winner
Since Biden's selection as VP, McCain has 'surged' ahead of Obama.
Winston Lied
It is difficult to see how Clark cannot fire him. She must be desperately trying to find a way to sack him and still secure his vote.
Wish List
Here's my wish list for while I'm away
1. Winston Peters is finished off , but as HC is unlikely to do that, then National come out and say that they will have nothing to do with him, ever. Assuming the SFO don't get him.
Update Looks like OG has done the business and I aren't even out of the country yet. Is this the end of Labours ETS or will HC follow her long history of breaking every rule of decency and use him one final time.
2. The Greens disappear under 5% as the young people who think its cool to support them , discover that their freedoms are seriously at risk and rush to ACT.
3. The 35% of people who still support Labour wake up and realise that their free lunch is over.
4. That the All Blacks tackle Sterling first time.
there's more but I don't want to be greedy.
Best wishes to all our readers and keep up the good work.
Final Update
Thought I would post this picture again so people don't forget that Peters has got in the position where he is today because of Clark being on heat
Of weasels and evil HR directors
Clydesdale's discussion paper is here. Worth a read if you plan to wade through the HRCs parade of euphemisms and finger-wagging.
The most pointless bureaucrat in New Zealand, Joris De Bres, has spent a shitload of our cash getting into an argument with Dr Clydesdale over this paper - an argument De Bres is ill-equipped for, given that his opponent studies this subject for a living. De Bres' report on Clydesdale's paper has just been released and is available here.
De Bres' arguments:
1. A newspaper report on the discussion paper..."prompted a considerable amount of misinformed and racially prejudiced comment." p5
OK, I'm sorry but that just isn't worthy of a response...
2. "Peer reviewers of his paper were critical of its academic standard." p5.
One might get the impression here that Clydesdale had submitted the paper to an academic journal that subjected it to peer review. That would of course be wrong - the "peer review" referred to here is by hatchetmen assigned to the task by the Ministry of Pacific Affairs, and someone assigned by Massey University to further its "review" of Dr Clydesdale's employment. This is not the stuff of which reliable peer review is made. I'm not sure on what basis you would carry out a "peer review" of the draft of a discussion paper in any case.
3. "Dr Clydesdale is selective in his quote from the Statistics New Zealand and Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs Pacific Progress report." p28
The implication being that he's cut out information that undermines his case, as demonstrated by this paragraph from the report he didn't quote:
These difficulties were accentuated by the restructuring of the late 1980's and 1990's, which had a disproportionate effect on Pacific people, many of whom worked in industries and occupations that bore the brunt of job losses.
Since that time there have been considerable improvements in the economic position of Pacific peoples, particularly for some of the younger, New Zealand-born people. Overall, levels of education have improved, unemployment has fallen and there has been a move away from traditional areas of blue-collar employment into more skilled white-collar jobs. However, these trends have been occurring not just for Pacific peoples but also among the wider New Zealand population, and consequently there are still economic disparities between Pacific people and others. There are also some groups of Pacific people who may not have experienced improvements in their economic situation, such as the older, Pacific-born and lower skilled sections of the population. p28-29
Given that the restructuring of the 80s and 90s affected the PI population disproportionately for exactly the reasons Clydesdale outlines in his paper, it's hard to see how his position is undermined by leaving out this quote. I can't decide whether De Bres is claiming this point out of ignorance or malice.
4. Clydesdale based his paper on info from the 2002 Pacific Progress Report and didn't update it using info from the 2006 census before it was released - ie, his paper was based on "outdated" information:
The 2002 Pacific Progress Report provided a comprehensive picture of Pacific peoples in New Zealand at the time but is now out of date. Results from the 2006 Census have been summarised in Statistics New Zealand's Quickstats About Pacific Peoples. p6
But for De Bres to score any actual point here, there'd have to be something in the 2006 census info to suggest Clydesdale was wrong. So was there? According to De Bres,
The available data generally indicate a trend of improvement rather than deterioration in Pacific peoples' economic and social situation. p6
OK, how much of an improvement, and is that improvement more rapid than the increase in numbers of the Pasifika population population due to the birth rate and immigration? I'm picking the answer to that last one is "No," because De Bres is forced to fall back on
Pacific peoples suffered more than any other group from the economic and social policies of the eighties and nineties and their recovery from this major setback has taken time. Pacific peoples do continue to experience significant inequalities and addressing this situation must remain a priority. p6
I would have thought the first step in "addressing this situation" would be confronting the facts about it without running them through a euphemism filter and an ethnic Auto Da Fe. We should be thanking Clydesdale, not martyring him.
This issue of the "outdated data" is actually very significant. The accusation of using "outdated data" is in academic terms the only serious one levelled at Clydesdale. The report does give us Clydesdale's response to the accusation:
- Although he based his findings on the 2002 Pacific Progress report other more recent research and reports confirmed his analysis.
- The 2006 Census data only became available as he was finishing off his paper last year so he did not have time to include it. The Census did not reveal any radical improvement in the position of Pacific peoples in New Zealand. p36
In other words, the accusation is spin, nothing more. They've caught Clydesdale out for failing to meet best practice, and pretended it somehow refutes his findings. It doesn't.
The essence of De Bres' problem with Clydesdale is in the executive summary:
It is not a new truth that there are continuing disparities between Pacific peoples and some other groups in our society. No-one is denying that this is the case, and attending to these disparities must remain a priority. But it is also evident that Pacific peoples' contribution to our economy, our culture and our society is highly significant and will become more so. This contribution should be acknowledged and celebrated, not demeaned or denied. p4
In other words, it may be true but he shouldn't have said it, because we should be kind to Pacific Islanders. To which Massey University's response ought to have been "Tough shit pal. An academic's job is to research the facts and present what he thinks they mean, not run a diversity propaganda show." Ought to have been, yes. So, what did the institution actually come up with?
First of all, that familiar, chilling bureaucratic pronouncement:
The university says Mr Clydesdale's employment has been under review since the complaints.
You see, Clydesdale may have academic freedom, but the modern university in no sense extends that freedom to giving the institution a bad name with potential fee-paying punters. The first rule of modern university administration is that academic freedom must under no circumstances put cash flow at risk. Thus we witnessed Acting VC Ian Warrington apologising for his colleague on 3 News, an unedifying spectacle that must have done more than anything in a long time to put academics off aspiring to administrative roles.
Massey's shame doesn't end there, though. Its publication Massey News featured a further back-stabbing for Dr Clydesdale:
Concern at the negative impact on the Pacific Island community following publication of a Massey research paper on immigration has prompted Massey's Acting Director Pasifika Sione Tu'itahi to highlight the University's efforts to advance Pasifika education.
I'm chuffed at the good work Tu'itahi's doing in promoting education to Pasifika students. However, the article goes on:
He says Pasifika people have contributed hugely to New Zealand's sporting and arts successes both regionally and internationally.
By measuring people as economic units, Dr Clydesdale has presented a limited view of the positive role and contribution of Pacific Islanders to New Zealand society.
I'd love to know why Mr Tu'itahi imagines that a report looking at economic aspects of immigration should include blather about Pasifika types being jolly good at sports, but he doesn't enlighten us. I'm sorry, but this is academia - in an argument over economic issues, claiming that looking at economic issues is a limited view may be completely accurate, but it's also completely irrelevant. One imagines trying to claim that Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker was "limited" because it discussed the role of genes in evolution without discussing the glories of music and literature. There's simply no merit in that argument.
No doubt Clydesdale will be hounded from his post by the cold, calculating bean-counters of Massey University, in a repeat of University of Auckland's shabby treatment of Paul Buchanan. Oh, would that Mr De Bres were in a similar position...
Prepare To Meet Thy Doom
In fact, these are the first real allegations of genuine corruption.
Everything which has gone before has had links to corruption, a hint of corruption, the suggestion of corruption but this lot is the real deal, no holds barred 'gimme the money and I'll look after you' raw blatant corruption of the worst possible kind.
Let's look carefully at what has been said:-
The allegations are 'on the record,' so they are not just hearsay or idle gossip.
They are in the hands of the Serious Fraud Office, so it is difficult to imagine they will not be investigated.
They allege a meeting between Peters and Suminovich at which the alligator was present, so there's no wriggle room for the usual go betweens to provide protection.
They contain an incriminating statement 'I'll make them go away,' so there can be no doubt as to the meaning and or intent.
Rodney Hide has backed our slippery PM into a corner by making her tell parliament that she will not impede any SFO investigation. That is not to say she won't try and she has form but now, if there is a hint of interference from any quarter it will be sheeted home directly to her.
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Getting himself thrown out of parliament after a stand up slugging match with peg leg Speaker was fine theatre and superb tactics. It made sure the accusations are indelibly recorded in Hansard.
When Wilson is presented with incontrovertible evidence that the issues raised are not in fact sub judice then she will have no option but to deal publicly to Winston who has been relying on keeping a small number of long ago hopelessly lost defamation cases 'open' for just the purpose we saw yesterday. He just lost the game because yesterday, for the first time, his subterfuge has been revealed to the wider public for what it is. A sham, designed to hide the truth of his crooked dealings.
Peters is facing potentially substantial jail time. The sentence handed down to a cabinet minister for soliciting bribes is unlikely to be lenient.
I call on the National Party Leader to announce in the house this week that upon election his government will
(a) reinstate an independent and effective serious Fraud Office and
(b) refuse to deal with NZ First in any way while Winston Peters remains a member or maintains any connection with NZ First.
The World's Richest Coward
'One must nor speak ill of the dead but I managed to get everything off my chest before she died.'
Such is the case of terminally ill US senator Edward Kennedy, unarguably the United States' most pathetically abject public face of gross cowardice. Claudia Rossett puts it well:-
In the moment, there is an etiquette we accord to those engaged in mortal struggles, and a respect we render to those who do not go gentle into that good night. It would be wild folly, however, and a betrayal of future generations, to translate that wholesale into an embrace of all they have stood for. Watching the Kennedy tribute last night, in which the sea was invoked as the element of renewal, I wondered how many others in the audience thought of Chappaquiddick and Mary Jo Kopechne — left to die in the submerged car while Ted Kennedy meandered off to salvage his political career , a career symbolized in last night's film tribute by that expensive sailboat with Kennedy at the wheel and family aboard.
The year of Chappaquiddick was 1969. John McCain was then two years into his more than five years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi.Perhaps that's why the polls ain't bumpin for the Donks.
The Muesli Party
General Election Match-Up
John McCain vs. Barack Obama
Match-up without Leaners
Match-up with Leaners
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
So now we all want the answer
No, seriously; I know this blog's readership includes a parade of right-wing nutjobs and mouth-frothers who wouldn't have voted Labour under any circumstances anyway, and their opinions are neither sought here nor of interest. But what about those out there who might conceivably have voted Labour in this election - any chance of that now? If so - for your deity of choice's sake, why?
Firstly, my apologies to the families of those who have held their breath since my last post...... it wasn't intentional.
This post is in the form of an omnibus of questions , or should that be a blunderbus of questions, and a few statements on topics that have exercised me mightily over the last few weeks. I,m not expecting serious answers to them all but I feel they should be out there being discussed in the blogosphere.
Have just witnessed margaret wilson's inept performance in the House this afternoon as she ejected Rodney Hide. Short of producing a revolver and actually shooting Rodders dead, was there anything more effective she could have done to silence him from expanding on his allegations regarding labour's lapdog, the lesser striped baublehound?
I think that peters now owes clark for that little favour and will vote for the ETS with only the bare minimum of traditional grandstanding.
Speaking of the ETS, can any passing labour apparatchik confirm that the bill will be any more, or less, haphazardly and appallingly badly drafted as, say, the EFA?
Also why the big hurry??? To whom the good if the ETS is passed into law before the election?
Here's a good drinking game we invented a few weekends ago at a neighbourhood get together. It's called "guess what Clark will do if she wins the next election". It's simple to play, each person simply states the three things they feel that dear leader will do that she wont mention in the run up to the election. Slow learners are provided with examples such "anti smacking bill, and the EFA". On the occasion of the game's launch the group of players were a mixed bunch, a naval dockyard mechanic, a clerk, a housewife, a storeman, and this self employed person, to name a few of the occupations present and one would be forgiven for thinking there were some lefties around. Not so, if the most popular predictions are any indicator. The top three were:
1/ Finding a way to stop people leaving for Australia
2/ Extension of the parliamentary term to 5 or 6 years.
3/ Winston Peters will still be Foreign Minister
In my opinion, only one of the three above is just plain silly.
What was also noticeable was the total absence of such things as:
1/ Leading us into broad sunlit uplands.
2/ Ensuring economic prosperity for all New Zealand citizens
3/ Reducing the politicisation of the public service
Try it at your next soiree.
Last question cluster: How old is Steve Pierson from the standard, has he ever voted before, has he ever had a full time job, and how does he support himself while he's busy writing those endless screeds of trite crap he's famous for?


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So despite my moral dilemma of yesterday, I've decided to go ahead and pull this one out of The Vault. (As it turns out, my threshold for withholding secret recipes is quite shallow, which is probably to be expected from a person who has a blog about recipes on the Interwebs.)
Anyway, perhaps the groundhog will take a page from my book – you know, bringing things to light and such – and ignore his stupid shadow so we can get on with Real Spring instead of this faux Fall we've been having.
Annnnnd, rambling is now over. As I mentioned previously, this recipe has been a long time coming. My cousin Melissia had to watch my Aunt Sylvia make it three times to come up with the recipe because it had never even been written down. So it's old school traditional is what I'm saying.
I'm also saying it is delectable, so even if you have to tinker with it a little bit to get it right, your efforts will be rewarded.
1 pan cornbread
4-6 biscuits
3-4 celery stalks, chopped
1 onion, chopped
2-3 raw eggs
2-3 boiled eggs, chopped
2 cans chicken broth
1 can oysters
1 tsp+ poultry seasoning
1 tsp+ sage
salt & pepper to taste
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Cook celery and onion in broth until tender.
- Crumble breads and mix all ingredients together. Taste and season accordingly. (This is where the extra sage or poultry seasoning comes in.)
- Pour into 9×13 pan.
- Bake for at least 40 minutes (longer if all of the excess moisture hasn't evaporated).


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Gr 1-3 Given a talented and aggressive imagination, even the challenge of as cliche-worn a subject as Santa Claus can be met effectively. Van Allsburg's Polar Express is an old-fashioned steam train that takes children to the North Pole on Christmas Eve to meet the red-suited gentleman and to see him off on his annual sleigh ride. This is a personal retelling of the adult storyteller's adventures as a youngster on that train. The telling is straight, thoughtfully clean-cut and all the more mysterious for its naive directness; the message is only a bit less direct: belief keeps us young at heart. The full-page images are theatrically lit. Colors are muted, edges of forms are fuzzy, scenes are set sparsely, leaving the details to the imagination. The light comes only from windows of buildings and the train or from a moon that's never depicted. Shadows create darkling spaces and model the naturalistic figures of children, wolves, trees, old-fashioned furniture and buildings. Santa Claus and his reindeer seem like so many of the icons bought by parents to decorate yards and rooftops: static, posed with stereotypic gestures. These are scenes from a memory of long ago, a dreamy reconstruction of a symbolic experience, a pleasant remembrance rebuilt to fufill a current wish: if only you believe, you too will hear the ringing of the silver bell that Santa gave him and taste rich hot chocolate in your ride through the wolf-infested forests of reality. Van Allsburg's express train is one in which many of us wish to believe. Kenneth Marantz, Art Education Department, Ohio State University, Columbus
Several treasured titles make a comeback as reissues. In preparation for the November release of the book-based film starring Tom Hanks, Houghton has reshot the artwork for the 1986 Caldecott Medal- winning The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, sprucing up this perennial holiday favorite. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.


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Police cars are emergency services vehicles primarily used by police officers. The cars begin to chase the protagonist of each Grand Theft Auto game when they have received either a police head or wanted star. Police cars are known by different names in different games, whilst GTA IV has two models of police cars: The Police Cruiser and Police Patrol. Since GTA III, the majority of police cars in the game also share the same body design as the Taxi.
Other police and law enforcement vehicles exist. These include the Enforcer police/SWAT van, the Police Maverick helicopter, HPV-1000 and VCPD Wintergreen police bikes and the Predator police boat.
In Grand Theft Auto 1, the police car is known as the "Squad Car". Three variants of the car exist, each appearing in one of the game's three cities. In Liberty City, the Squad Car is rounded vehicle with blue-white livery, appearing similar to a 1990s Chevrolet Caprice; the San Andreas/Vice City variants are actually adaptations of the Portsmouth, with the San Andreas version bearing a black-and-white body color design and similar angular body design, and the Vice City rendition being colored blue and white but features a modified body that appears wider and rounded. In the PC version of GTA 1, the police cars (along with the Ambulance and the Fire Truck) will have their radio tuned to Brooklyn Underground FM, unlike all other renditions throughout the series which only have the standard police dispatch radio.
The performance of GTA 1 Squad Cars are identical in all three cities, and are all essentially the best in the game, with the highest top speed and acceleration among all cars in the game, highly responsive brakes and good grip. While the cars are given a very high export value of $2,000, but the cars cannot be exported, as are other emergency vehicles.
Police cars in GTA London 1969 and GTA London 1961 are known as "Coppers".
In Grand Theft Auto 2, the police car is known as the "Cop Car" and assumes a completely original design, looking like a retro-futuristic squad car with 1940s design cues. Like in GTA 1, it is the fastest car in the game, along with the Meteor, and features responsive cornering and brakes, making it a desirable vehicle to drive. It is also the only car in the game which gives a Cop Bribe when crushed.
GTA III — GTA Vice City Stories
In all the games of this era, the police car has been known as the "Police", with the exception of GTA Advance and GTA Vice City Stories. In GTA Advance, it is referred to as the "Police Car", and in GTA Vice City Stories, it is called the "VCPD Cruiser".
Throughout all GTA III era games, police cars are very fast, with excellent handling, and moderate durability. These stats make it great for drifting. They have two sirens, one default "long-whirl", and the "rotating-weep", triggered by holding the horn button. The player will receive a Shotgun with 5 rounds of ammunition after entering a Police car.
GTA III & GTA Liberty City Stories
The Police Car in these two games resembles a cross between a Chevrolet Caprice and a Ford Crown Victoria. In GTA III, the Police Car was originally intended to have a blue-and-white stripes livery similar to the 1990s/early 2000s NYPD police cars, however, in the final version, they have standard black and white livery like the Los Angeles Police Department. Also, the original Police Car had a more sleek profile compared to the final which appears more angular/boxy (though hints of the aerodynamic design do remain). The Police Cars in GTA Liberty City Stories feature the stripes livery intended for GTA III cars, albeit in black-and-white rather than blue-and-white.
GTA Vice City & GTA Vice City Stories
In these two games, the vehicle resembles a 1980's Ford LTD, and both feature a green and white livery, much like the Miami-Dade Police Department. During development, the vehicle was white with red and blue stripes along each side, resembling squad cars from the Miami Beach Police Department.
GTA San Andreas
There are three variations in GTA San Andreas. The Los Santos Police Department and San Fierro Police Department versions have the same build, based on the Premier, with the San Fierro version having slightly higher suspension most likely due to San Fierro's hilly streets with steep inclines (like it's real life counter-part, San Francisco), and markings for their respective cities. The Las Venturas Police Department version generally resembles a 1981-1990 Chevrolet Caprice, with the sides and back reminiscent of the 1980-1989 Dodge Diplomat, and the closest civilian car in the game is the Tahoma. All police vehicles feature a standard black and white livery.
The police officers in the countryside employ a large, four-by-four Ranger, based on the Rancher, for pursuit on rough terrain.
GTA Advance
The GTA Advance rendition of the Police is designed to bear a likeness to the Police from GTA III, with a generally rounded profile and a black-white paintjob. Unlike other renditions, the car is substantially more speedy, with a top speed matched with the Banshee's. Being a mid-sized car, crushing the Police will only award the player with a base amount of $532.
GTA IV — GTA Chinatown Wars
In Grand Theft Auto IV, there are two similar but separate police cars - the Police Patrol and Police Cruiser. Two more police cars, a Buffalo-based Police Cruiser and a high-performance Police Stinger, are available in The Ballad of Gay Tony's multiplayer.
The player can get in any police car and access the police computer while stationary. Here, the player can access Most Wanted missions, or locate and apprehend nearby criminals. The siren on the Police Car features some variations, including the classic "code-3 siren" wail, the yelp when the siren is activated and the horn button held down, and, if the siren is turned off and the horn button held down, a distorted "crowd control" air horn, as used in real life. One missing siren variation is the code-2 siren which is just lights but no siren. Officers in real life use it to pull over people and respond to domestic calls. In the game you can see officers use it , like when they are chasing you in you vehicle and when they talk to you in the mic you hear the siren turn of with just lights on. In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas you can do it by rapidly turning it on and of until just the lights are on as if you where not in the police car with the lights on.
The player can dial 911 to summon the police car by luring them to a false alarm. Stealing the car (while the officer searches for any incidents), will attract a one-star Wanted level. In some places, a police car can be stolen from a parking lot or curbside without incurring a Wanted level.
GTA Chinatown Wars
Police cars in GTA Chinatown Wars are simply dubbed "Police Patrols", the same name for those seen in GTA IV. While having reverted to a panda body color scheme, the car incorporates GTA IV's police computer for use in vigilante side missions. Although the car is implied to be similar to GTA IV's Declasse-based Police Patrol, pre-rendered depictions of the Police Patrol and the Police Cruiser are used during "busted" sequences in the game.
- The design of GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories' police cars serves as the basis of those featured in the Manhunt series.
- In GTA IV, if the siren takes a hit it will begin to make many different high-pitched noises similar to its normal siren, but severely distorted. Other cars also won't pull over if you are driving a police car with a distorted siren.
- In the beginning of the game of GTA San Andreas, an LSPD Police shows up. But the rims is different similar to that Police and Taxi in GTA Vice City.
Police cars are usually parked in front of police stations and are often locked.
GTA III & GTA Liberty City Stories
- Police Station in Portland View, Portland Island
- Rusty Brown's Ring Donuts in Callahan Point, Portland Island (Liberty City Stories only)
- Police Station in Torrington, Staunton Island
- Police Station in Pike Creek, Shoreside Vale
- Within Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale
GTA Vice City & GTA Vice City Stories
- Police Station in Washington Beach
- Police Station in Vice Point
- Police Station in Little Havana
- Police Station in Downtown
GTA San Andreas
- Police Impound Lot in Pershing Square, Los Santos
- Police Impound Lot in Downtown, San Fierro
- Police Impound Lot in Roca Escalante, Las Venturas
- Broker: Hove Beach; South Slopes
- Dukes: East Island City; Francis International Airport
- Bohan: Northern Gardens; Fortside
- Algonquin: East Holland; Varsity Heights; Middle Park East; Westminster; Lower Easton; Suffolk
- Alderney: Leftwood; Acter; Acter Industrial Park
See also
Equivalent vehicles
- Copper, GTA London equivalents.
- Police Cruiser and Police Patrol, GTA IV equivalents.
- Police Stinger and the Buffalo-based Police Cruiser, The Ballad of Gay Tony equivalents.
- Police Ranger Country/Desert Police cars. in GTA San Andreas
Other police vehicles
- Enforcer
- VCPD Cheetah
- Police Maverick (helicopter)
- Predator (boat)
- Bikes