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Greens MP Adam Bandt says Melbourne voters have again made history by re-electing him despite the two major parties teaming up against him.
With more than 60 per cent of the vote counted, the Greens lead Labor on a two-party preferred basis 55.3 to 44.7 per cent.
"We've made history again," Mr Bandt told a room full of cheering supporters on Saturday night.
He didn't have the benefit of the Liberal preferences that pushed him to victory three years ago but has increased the Greens' primary vote by almost eight per cent.
"There was obviously a tougher competition this time in that we were working against Labor and Liberal who were working together to ensure that there were no Greens in the House of Representatives," Mr Bandt told reporters.
The Greens deputy leader said the result showed those who didn't want election campaigns to be about a race to the bottom had found a voice in Melbourne.
"There's lots of people who despair that every three years we have this competition about who can beat up the most on refugees and that we have old parties cutting single parent payments or university funds," Mr Bandt said.
"There's lots of people who think that there's a better way.
"The real opposition and the real alternative to Tony Abbott's agenda is going to be led by the people of Melbourne in the House of Representatives."
In 2010 Mr Bandt polled less than Labor's Cath Bowtell but won the Greens their only lower house seat on the back of Liberal preferences.
This time around, the Liberals preferenced the Greens last and Labor second last.
Mr Bandt said he won votes from both major parties.
The Greens picked up support from Liberals who were worried by Tony Abbott's conservatism and Labor supporters who had had enough, he said.
The ALP had been hoping to regain the seat it had held from 1904 until Mr Bandt's historic first win in 2010.
But Labor's primary vote has fallen by about 12 per cent.
"We have had a fairly significant fall in our primary vote so that's the bad news," Ms Bowtell told supporters.
She praised the ALP's positive campaign in Melbourne.
"We haven't just talked about our values, we have pointed to our record in government as proof of our values and I think that history will judge our achievements better than the country has today."


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Over at The Agitator, Radley Balko asks who should win the 2011 Worst Prosecutor of the Year Award
"Once again, remember that the misdeeds can be cumulative," writes Balko. "They need not have all happened in 2011. This year's winner will be added to the annals of ignominy, along with prior winners Forrest Allgood, Mary Beth Buchanan, and Tanya Treadway."
Click here to read the full article and to vote.
Among this year's contenders:
Durham, North Carolina, District Attorney Tracey Cline
Mike Nifong's successor is doing all she can to live up to her predecessor's infamy. In September, the Raleigh News & Observer published a series on Cline's conduct as a prosecutor, going back to when she worked in Nifong's office as an ADA. The series hitched off the case of Frankie Washington, convicted of home invasion, kidnapping, assault, and sexual assault in 2007. An appeals court overturned the convictions, finding that Cline had withheld biological evidence for several years, then claimed she had sent it to the beleaguered state crime lab, which she said was responsible for the delay. The News and Observer series found a pattern with Cline:
In her quest to convict those accused of serious crimes, Cline has misstated facts to judges in other cases, a News & Observer investigation shows. She has not provided evidence favorable to defendants, as is required under the U.S. Constitution, state law and ethics rules that govern lawyers.
Cline's conduct is under scrutiny for similar behavior in at least five cases other than Washington's that are in various stages of the courts, according to documents and interviews.
Last month, Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson, the senior resident judge in Durham, dismissed a murder charge against Michael C. Dorman II of Mebane after ruling that the prosecution by Cline violated the man's rights. The evidence in the case, a partial skeleton, had been destroyed before the defense could examine it.
Amusingly, Cline responded by calling the newspaper's series a "terrible injustice" to her.
Then, last month, it got surreal. Michael Peterson, a former newspaper columnist who was convicted eight years ago of killing his wife, was seeking a new trial based on the allegations of corruption and sloppiness at the state's crime lab. Cline was the prosecutor handling Peterson's hearing, Hudson the judge. Cline then asked that Hudson be removed from the case, oddly alleging that Hudson had orchestrated a vast conspiracy to destroy her, one that also involved several defense attorneys and the News & Observer. She filed other motions accusing Hudson of "moral turpitude," and asking he be barred from hearing other criminal cases. She subpoenaed more than 50 people for the Peterson hearing, including Hudson, court clerks, defense attorneys, other active and retired judges, staff from the News & Oberserver, and, as the paper put it, "a considerable part of Durham's legal community."
Judge Carl Fox, brought in from another county especially for the hearing, gave Cline unlimited time to make her arguments. According to the News & Observer account of the hearing, Cline presented stacks and stacks of evidence that had nothing to do with the Peterson case. She was making her case for a broad conspiracy. At one point, she mentioned an appeals court decision she realized she hadn't yet read. So she asked for time to read it. The News & Observer reports a scene that would be downright comical were it not for what was at stake.
The packed courtroom sat in silence while Cline sat alone at her table, flipping through documents. After 14 minutes, Fox broke the silence: "Are you still reading the case?" Cline said she hadn't located the correct citation.
When it was clear that Fox wasn't going to rule in her favor, Cline withdrew the motion. Once defense attorney told the paper:
"She tied up almost the entire defense bar of Durham trying to defend her own reputation, and that's pitiful and a waste of resources," Holmes said. "She had detectives out serving subpoenas all weekend when they could have been out solving crimes."
Catherine Voelker, supervisor of the Narcotics and Misdemeanors division, Ventura County, California, DA's Office
Actually, the entire office apparently turns winning convictions into a competition. (Hey, games make work more fun!) Prosecutors who bring in the most convictions in Ventura County get their name engraved on a plaque that hangs in the office. One former DA told the Ventura County Star that "management would sometimes 'turn up the heat' and push prosecutors to take cases to trial regardless of whether there was proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Another added, "They still want you to take a swing at it even though the defendant is probably innocent."
But Voelker took it all a step farther, circulating an email in late 2010 in which she formalized the competition, offering specific rewards for case volume, and encouraging prosecutors to get inspiration from the viral "Honey Badger" video.
James Ellison, the second-in-command at the office, said Voelker's competition was ended quickly, and denies the office rewards prosecutors for taking on more cases, or punishes them for taking on too few.
Prince William County, Virginia, State's Attorney Paul Ebert
This Paul Ebert's third nomination. Ebert, you may remember, made the list several years ago for refusing to investigate the massive corruption among public officials in Manassas Park, Virginia in their efforts to shut down David Ruttenberg's Rack & Roll pool hall. In 2008 and 2009, Ebert was the special prosecutor in the Ryan Frederick case. Frederick shot and killed Chesapeake, Virginia Det. Jarrod Shivers during a drug raid on Frederick's home. Frederick had no prior criminal record, and says he thought he was being robbed. Which is credible, given that police informants had broken into Frederick's home days earlier to obtain probable cause for the raid, part of a possible pattern of illegality among police informants Ebert found unimportant.
Ebert tried Frederick for capital murder. He attempted to change the venue, arguing that bloggers and Internet writers had made it difficult for the state to get a fair trial. He told jurors Frederick was a pot-crazed killer, then sought to exclude video of Frederick's post-raid interviews at the police station, where a clearly despondent Frederick bursts into tears and vomits upon being told that he had killed a cop. Best of all, Ebert put on the stand a perfectly-named jailhouse snitch named Jamal Skeeter who claimed that during their one hour per day of rec time at the jail, Frederick repeatedly boasted about killing Shivers and mocked Shivers' widow. Skeeter was so utterly devoid of credibility, fellow Virginia State's Attorney Earle Mobley made the admirable and rare move of speaking up in mid-trial to say that he and other area prosecutors had determined Skeeter was a professional liar, and had stopped using him years ago. You'd think that's something a prosecutor might look into before using a witness to help put a man in prison for the rest of his life.
Ebert makes the list again this year after getting reprimanded by a federal judge in a death penalty case. In August, U.S. District Judge Raymond A. Jackson vacated all charges against Justin Wolfe, whom Ebert convicted in a 2002 murder-for-hire case. The hit man who testified that Wolfe had hired him recanted in 2005, claiming police told him he'd get the death penalty unless he implicated Wolfe. Even though the state's entire case hinged on the hit-man's testimony, Ebert fought another six years to protect his conviction. From Slate's Dahlia Lithwick:
Jackson's 57-page memorandum opinion is scathing in its findings of prosecutorial misbehavior by Ebert and his assistant, Richard A. Conway. Conduct evidently included choreographing and coordinating witness testimony, withholding tapes of witness interviews from the defense, and knowingly allowing false testimony to be introduced at trial. Jackson finds that prosecutors failed to turn over a report showing that it was police detectives who first introduced the idea to Barber that Wolfe had masterminded the killing, and who gave him the option of implicating Wolfe or receiving the death penalty. He finds that they suppressed evidence that Barber confessed to his roommate that he'd acted alone.
Ebert's incredible justification for withholding exculpatory evidence: He feared that it would have allowed Wolfe's attorneys to "fabricate a defense around what is provided." Ebert is the longest serving prosecutor in Virginia. He also leads the state in capital convictions, with 13.
Grant County, Wisconsin, District Attorney Lisa Riniker
You charge a 6-year-old boy with first-degree sexual assault for playing doctor with a neighbor girl, then yeah, you're gonna' make this list. When asked why the hell she'd charge a 6-year-old with a sex crime, Riniker responded, "the Legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute . . . the legislature did no such thing." You know, I'd be willing to bet the legislature didn't also specifically exempt breastfeeding from . . . well, let's not give Lisa Riniker any ideas.
Bonus mendacity points: Riniker generously offered the boy's parents a "deal" in which the kid would still have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.
Texas 31st Judicial District Attorney Lynn Switzer
Since Gov. Rick Perry appointed her in 2005, Switzer has done her damndest to make sure Hank Skinner is executed before he ever gets the chance to have DNA testing on key pieces of evidence from his trial. Switzer didn't even convict Skinner, which makes her stubbornness all the more troubling. Skinner was once less than an hour away from execution before the U.S Supreme Court intervened. Then, earlier this year, he was days away before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stepped in.
It's bad enough that Switzer wants a man executed when there is still key DNA to be tested, including a rape kit taken from one of the victims, scrapings from under the same victim's fingernails, and the presumed murder weapon itself. But after the Supreme Court stepped in last year to stay Skinner's execution, the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing defendants like Skinner to obtain post-conviction DNA testing even if they didn't request it at trial. (Skinner maintains he did request it, but his court-appointed attorney—a disgraced former prosecutor and friend of the judge—thought Skinner was guilty, so didn't ask for the testing.) The sponsor of that bill explicitly said that Skinner was the inspiration for the bill.
Nevertheless, within hours of the bill becoming law, Switzer's office hurried to Skinner's trial judge to request an execution date. She was trying to have Skinner killed before he could take advantage of the new law passed explicitly in response to his case. And the trial judge agreed.
Fortunately, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals intervened, and postponed Skinner's execution to get this all settled. Despite the new law, here has still been no order for DNA testing. But at least they aren't going to kill the guy before they even have the discussion. That's what Lynn Switzer wanted to happen.
Cook County, Illinois, State's Attorney Anita Alvarez
After her election in 2008, Alvarez first distinguished herself by defending Illinois' asset forfeiture law—one of the most onerous in the country—all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Court dismissed the case because the defendant and county had already settled the matter. So the law is still in effect.
The Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern's journalism school has freed 11 wrongly convicted men from death row in Cook County. So in 2009, as Cook County's chief law enforcement officer, Alvarez naturally took aim at the school—she subpoenaed the student participants' grades, class syllabus, and personal e-mails.
In the Dixmoor cases, Alvarez fought the DNA tests that eventually cleared five teens accused of raping a 14-year-old girl. Even after the tests, Alvarez's office tried to play down the significance of the results. Three of the men had served over a decade in prison when they were finally exonerated in March. In the Englewood cases, Alvarez is still fighting the exonerations of four teens convicted of raping and killing a 30-year-old woman in 1994, despite DNA tests conducted in May that found the semen of a known rapist/murderer at the time in her body. A judge overturned the convictions in November, but Alvarez has yet to dismiss the charges.
But Alvarez most distinguished herself for this award this year in the case of Tiawanda Moore. In July 2010, Moore says a police officer called to her home on a domestic complaint asked to speak to her in her bedroom, then grabbed her breast and slipped her his phone number. Moore says that when she went to a Chicago PD station to file a complaint, the Internal Affairs officers threatened her, and attempted to dissuade her from completing the report. That's when she switched on her cell phone to record the conversation. She was promptly arrested for violating the state's wiretapping law, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
Normally in these cases, prosecutors negotiate a plea or drop the charges, mostly because just about everyone realizes the law is insane. Or, if you're more cynical, the charges never make it trial because police and prosecutors know that if anyone is ever convicted and sentenced (to my knowledge, no one yet has), the law will be challenged, likely overturned, and police will no longer be able to use it to harass citizens who record them on the job.
Yet with a jaw-dropping lapse in prosecutorial discretion, Alvarez moved ahead with the felony charge against Moore. Never mind the alleged harassment. Never mind the allegations that Chicago IA cops were attempting to talk a citizen out of filing a complaint. Given Chicago PD's dismal record investigating complaints against officers, and that at the very time all this was happening, a federal lawsuit against the department alleged a pattern of ignoring and covering up sexual misconduct by Chicago cops, Alvarez's pursuit of Moore sent a troubling message to any woman legitimately harassed by Chicago cop. No one is going to help you. Not internal affairs. Not her office. No one. And if you try to create an independent record of your attempts to report the harassment, Anita Alvarez will send you to prison.
In what appears to be a laudable act of jury nullification, Moore was acquitted in August. Alvarez is still pushing on with another felony wiretapping charge against Chicago artist Christopher Drew.
Williamson County, Texas District Attorney John Bradley
John Bradley isn't the prosecutor who wrongly convicted Michael Morton of beating his wife to death in 1987. His mentor and predecessor Ken Anderson did. Anderson is now a state district judge. But Bradley fought like hell to deny Bradley the DNA testing that exonerated him after 24 years in prison. Anderson withheld reams of exculpatory evidence from Morton's attorneys over the years. Once he left office, Bradley kept up the tradition. From the Texas Tribune:
Beginning in 2005, [Morton] pleaded with the court to test DNA on a blue bandanna found near his home shortly after the murder, along with other evidence.
For six years, the Williamson County district attorney, John Bradley, fought the request for DNA testing, based on advice from Anderson, his predecessor and friend. In 2010, however, a Texas court ordered the DNA testing, and the results showed that Christine Morton's blood on the bandanna was mixed with the DNA of another man: Mark A. Norwood, a felon with a long criminal history who lived about 12 miles from the Mortons at the time of the murder. By then, Morton had spent nearly 25 years in prison.
Norwood has been arrested and charged in Christine Morton's death and is a suspect in a similar murder from 1988.
Which means that had they not fixated on Morton, they may have found the right guy, possibly preventing another killing.
In 2007, the Grits for Breakfast noted that Bradley gave some unusual advice to a fellow prosecutor on an Internet discussion board. The other prosecutor was asking about how to construct a plea agreement in a way that would forfeit any future right to DNA testing. Bradley lamented, "Innocence, though, has proven to trump most anything." He then added:
A better approach might be to get a written agreement that all the evidence can be destroyed after the conviction and sentence. Then, there is nothing to test or retest. Harris County regularly seeks such agreements.
Got that? Let's be sure those innocents never get the chance to prove us wrong.
Finally, showing once again that when it comes to the criminal justice system there's no level of incompetence too revolting to be rewarded, you may remember that in 2008, just as it was about to launch an investigation into the Cameron Todd Willingham case, Rick Perry replaced several members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission with more prosecution-friendly appointees. He appointed John Bradley to replace chairman and defense attorney Sam Basset. Bradley immediately suspended the Willingham investigation, then restructured the commission in a way that allowed him to skirt Texas open meeting laws.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood
Hood is another repeat nominee. Rather than add a couple dozen paragraphs to an already-long post, I'll just direct you to my write-ups for his 2008 and 2010 nominations. Read those, then read here, here, here, and here to see how Hood further distinguished himself over the last year.
Then sit in sad contemplation of the fact that in November, Mississippi voters elected Hood to another term. And by a considerable margin.
Colorado District Attorney Carol Chambers
Another repeat nominee. Last time Chambers made this list, it was for a single case in which DNA testing showed that the biological evidence found in an eight-year-old victim of sexual assault didn't match the guy Chambers wanted to charge. Chambers dismissed the tests on the interesting theory that young girls dress really slutty these days, so anyone's DNA could, completely by happenstance, drop into their pants. I didn't realize it at the time, but Chambers has made a name for herself in a number of other cases. To begin, she's Colorado's death-happiest prosecutor, seeking the ultimate punishment against six defendants over a span in which there was only one other capital case in the entire state. She has also issued a veiled threat against a judge who ruled against her, and allegedly threatened an attorney with a grand jury investigation for seeking to collect a debt against a powerful figure in Chambers' Republican party. A memo leaked to the Denver Post in March detailed how Chambers offered conviction bonuses to her assistant DAs.
In the courtroom? Last January, Chambers charged a 10-year-old with felony arson for a fire he and a friend accidentally set while playing with matches. She's known to enforce the state's habitual criminal statute to an extreme, seeking lengthy sentences for petty crimes. In 2009, a judge found that her office had withheld a large cache of exculpatory documents in the murder trial of David Bueno that were consistent with Bueno's defense. In fact, by the time her office fully complied with the judge's order, Chambers' office had released more documents to Bueno's attorneys a year after conviction than they had released before his trial. Bueno's conviction was vacated last year.
Chambers was the first DA in Colorado to bring criminal charges against a doctor for writing a marijuana prescription that her office deemed medically unnecessary (she lost).
Mitigating factors: Chambers has been known to take on bad cops. She has also set up a juvenile diversion program that has won praise from the sorts of activists who normally oppose tough-minded prosecutors. She also declined to bring charges in one high-profile rape case, and even fought a judge's order to appoint a special prosecutor to pursue the case. Whether this is a plus or a minus I guess depends on how strong one might have found the evidence in that case.
Philadelphia District Attorney R. Seth Williams
In February, Pennsylvania resident Mark Fiorino walked through the city of Philadelphia openly carrying a gun, as he is permitted to do under Pennsylvania law. Fiorino was stopped by Philadelphia police, who repeatedly threatened to kill him. Once the police looked up the law they found that, as Fiorino had by then told them repeatedly, he had done nothing illegal.
We know all of this because Fiorino recorded his conversation with the cops, which he then posted YouTube. This also is perfectly legal in Pennsylvania. The state's courts have repeatedly found that the wiretapping laws do not bar the recording of on-duty cops, even without their consent, because on-duty cops have no expectation of privacy.
Yet DA Williams decided to charge Fiorino with "reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct." Fiorino's real crime was embarrassing the city's cops, who threatened to kill a man because they were ignorant of state law. I'll just repost a bit of what I wrote at the time:
What Williams has done . . . is premeditated. Much more than the cops, Williams should know the law. Moreover, even if he didn't know the law at the time, he has since had plenty of time to research it. By now, Williams does know the law. (If he doesn't, he is incompetent.) And he knows that even if Fiorino did deliberately provoke the cops to test their knowledge of Philadelphia's gun laws, that also is not a crime.
Yet he's charging Fiorino anyway . . . A spokesperson for Williams said Fiorino was ""belligerent and hostile" to police who were investigating a possible crime. Read the transcript of the audio in the linked article above and tell me who is "belligerent and hostile." Read it knowing who was breaking the law, who was following it, and while remaining cognizant of which party was threatening to put a bullet in the head of the other.
Note that nothing Fiorino did was on its own illegal. Willliams is attempting a striking, blatantly dishonest bit of legal chicanery. His theory goes like this: If you undertake a series of actions that are perfectly legal and well within your rights, but that cause government agents to react in irrational ways that jeopardize public safety, you are guilty of endangering the public . . .
It's a blatant abuse of office. Williams is using the state's awesome power to arrest and incarcerate to intimidate a man who exposed and embarrassed law enforcement officials who, because of their own ignorance, nearly killed him. Exposing that sort of government incompetence cannot be illegal. And it isn't illegal.
Fiorino was acquitted in October, and is expected to file a civil rights claim. This is just one offense. But it's so egregious, and the message it sends is so dangerous, that I think it merits a nomination.
Possibly also worth mentioning: Williams' office defended one of the few prosecutors in the country to be stripped of qualified immunity. Over the summer, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied immunity for Philadelphia ADA Gina Smith, who had arrested and jailed a material witness in a rape case, then left the witness (who had done nothing wrong) in jail for nearly two months while the trial was delayed. The city settled with the witness in October. (Williams' office was also able to rope in the city's public defenders system to pay part of the damages.)
In fairness to Williams, Smith's transgression occurred well before Williams took office, and Smith no longer works for the DA. I'm not familiar with how Pennsylvania law works in these sorts of cases, so it could well be that Williams was obligated to defend the former employee, particularly since the city would ultimately be paying the damages.


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GENEVA – A two-car collision at 10:43 a.m. Tuesday took out a street sign post, park bench and two large newspaper boxes near the Geneva post office at Third and James streets, police said.
No one was injured, and all items are owned by the city. There is no estimate of damage, Geneva Police Cmdr. Eric Passarelli said.
One driver, Samson U. Turkman, 65, of the 300 block of Hendee Street, Elgin, was ticketed for failure to yield to oncoming traffic, Passarelli said.
According to the crash report, Turkman was traveling east on James in a 2009 Chevy Malibu and stopped at the stop sign at Third Street. Turkman saw the pedestrian crosswalk stop sign on Third, south of James, and mistakenly thought it was a stop sign for northbound traffic, Passarelli said.
Assuming a car traveling north was going to stop, Turkman continued east on James and hit the rear driver's side of a 2006 Hyundai Sonata, driven by Violeta P. Flores, 77, of the 200 block of North Island Avenue, Batavia, according to the crash report.
The impact caused the Sonata to veer to its left, into the northwest corner of Third and James streets, striking the sign post, bench and news boxes.
The two news boxes then fell into a third vehicle, a 2008 Chrysler Town and Country, owned by Sandra Smith, 57, of the 400 block of Davis Road, Batavia, which was parked on the north side of James, west of Third, according to the crash report.
Passarelli said the two drivers refused medical attention, although an ambulance was called.


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McCain on Cheney's torture speech: 'I just don't see where it helps.'
Vice President Cheney's speech on national security yesterday has been received positively by several Republican senators. In an interview with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg yesterday, however, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said that Cheney's full-throated defense of torture isn't helpful:
He told me of his fundamental disagreement with Cheney: "When you have a majority of Americans, seventy-something percent, saying we shouldn't torture, then I'm not sure it helps for the Vice President to go out and continue to espouse that position," he said. "But look, he's free to talk. He's a former Vice President of the United States. I just don't see where it helps."
And then he got acerbic: Cheney, he says, "believes that waterboarding doesn't fall under the Geneva Conventions and that it's not a form of torture. But you know, it goes back to the Spanish Inquisition."
Yesterday on Fox News, McCain reiterated that waterboarding is "not a new technique, and it is certainly torture." "You hear it from al Qaeda operatives that when we torture people and it becomes public, then it helps them recruit," he said. Watch it:
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like the essay you sent in for college?
July 14, 2004, 04:56:17 PM »
The personal statement is giving me a lot of confusion. Most people (and I lean towards this as well) believe that the ps should not be about why you want to go to law school, but rather about who you are which would subtly show why you would be good at law school (I guess?). How different is this from the essays we sent in as high school seniors where we talked about who we are in order to try to convey why we would be successful in that college?
To be more specific my college essay was about how my father has always been there throughout my life (and I spoke mostly about the things I did, such as science projects and debate teams, etc.)... For my personal statement to law school I'd like to do something similar. I was thinking of weaving a tale about certain attributes of my parents (to show my background, neither finished high school, my mom didnt even finish junior high, I immigrated here when I was two, so neither of my parents speak english and are pretty low income) that has shaped my life (and make an analogy to my life experiences...).
So my question is, is this too much storytelling? I've heard some people say a ps is suppose to be what you tell an interviewer in 5 minutes.. but this seems more like a short story to me. Any thoughts?
Whittier Law School Class of 2007
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July 14, 2004, 05:40:08 PM »
I think those are all suitable things to discuss, as long as you do it in the context of showing the admissions committee how these things have shaped you as a person. Any stories you tell should be
the committee who you are.
Check out this website for some good tips:
Hit the "Advice" page and check out some of the advice. She gives examples of what some schools ask for in their personal statement, and most ask for you to tell them why you want to go to law school. Most committees find it very important that you have a well-founded reason for wanting to attend law school. I would find a way to work this into your statement, based on your experiences or personality traits.
Good luck!
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July 14, 2004, 05:51:46 PM »
I feel like for your proposed PS you are talking too much about your family history/experience and not about yourself. You need to explain yourself, not your mother's journey and an immigrant. I personally dont think that writing a PS as an anthology of our family is sufficient as a personal statement. The personal statements needs to be about YOU! that's why it's a personal statement. What you can say about yourself to the adcomm not what you can say about your family's integrity. This is not like the college essays that we wrote for ugrad b/c those had questions. Their purpose was to see if you can write. This is to serve in place of an interview. So tell them about yourself not about an abstract topic that doesnt have too much to do w/ you.
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July 14, 2004, 07:39:47 PM »
thanks for the responses, although I have to say my college essays had no questions and neither do the law schools I want to apply to. I will keep in mind that the story is about me...
Specifically, checking the law schools instructions on the personal statement most say you can write whatever you want but it should be a chance to explain your background...
Whittier Law School Class of 2007
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July 15, 2004, 05:30:17 AM »
Even if they don't specifically ask I would address why you want to go to law school. There much more likely to admit someone who they feel has a genuine interest in law school or being a lawyer than someone who failed to give them any reasons at all. Most general advice I've read says that you should make sure and address this. It's also usually helpful to address why you want to go to the school you're applying to, whether it be because of geography, programs offered, etc. They want to know that you have a genuine interest in the law and their school. There are many ways to illustrate this without hitting them over the head with it though, just find a nice way to flow from talking about yourself and your character traits into why those attributes have led you to be interested in law.
Good luck with it! If you need someone to read it once you're done, give my friend I mentioned above a try...she's great with this stuff!
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July 15, 2004, 05:54:45 AM »
According to Law School Confidential and the interviews with admissions people therein (so put as much or as little stock in this as you prefer)...
For an applicant straight out of undergrad, "why I want to go to law school" tends to come across as very generic because there is typically a very limited base of experience from which to write. For an applicant with some work experience, and especially an older applicant, this is a question the application reviewers will be asking themselves so it's important to address it.
Quote from: GA_Kristi on July 15, 2004, 05:30:17 AM
Even if they don't specifically ask I would address why you want to go to law school.
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July 15, 2004, 06:02:43 AM »
Here are some examples of personal statement prompts from applications. You will see that quite a few, if not most, law schools ask you to give them some indication of why you want to pursue a legal education. There are other ways to show why you're interested in law than saying "because I've wanted to go to law school since I was five," or "because my father is a lawyer"...those are the things they do NOT want to hear. Like I said, its important to find a way to present this to the AdComm without hitting them in the face with it, so to speak. Show them your qualities and attributes and why that has led you to be interested in a career in law. There are eloquent ways to do this that are not cookie-cutter or boring to the AdComm. Here are the examples of prompts for several schools:
On a separate supplemental sheet
state your reason(s) for desiring to obtain a legal education
. Transfer and visiting applicants should state instead the reason(s) for desiring to attend University of Georgia School of Law.
Please attach a personal statement, not to exceed 3 pages, which addresses: (1)
Why you want to pursue the study of law.
(2) What educational, employment or family experiences would be relevant to this application?
George Washington:
All applicants are required to submit a personal statement which should include any additional information you think might be of assistance to the Admissions Committee in considering your application. Examples of such information are significant extracurricular or community activities,
the reasons why you want to study law
, a discussion of your background, or an explanation of any unusual aspects of your academic record. The statement must be written on separate pages and must accompany this application.
January 6, 2007
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July 15, 2004, 08:39:32 AM »
What you plan on doing for your personal statement sounds a bit like what I did. Though not an immigrant, my family is relatively poor and my mom was a single parent for awhile. It is okay to talk about these things, but not just by stating them. You have to state them, and then talk about how they shaped you as a person, and how you have excelled with these issues in undergrad and in life. I also suspect that this depends on how far up the law school ladder you want to apply. At any rate, good luck with the application process! Though I am starting 1L in a month, I can honestly say that I am glad that the application process is over!!!!!
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July 15, 2004, 09:40:32 AM »
In response to GA_Kristi, in the GW prompt that you posted it said:
Examples of such information are (1) significant extracurricular or community activities, (2) the reasons why you want to study law, (3) a discussion of your background, OR (4) an explanation of any unusual aspects of your academic record.
To me that sounds like they dont necessarily require that you state why you wanna study law but that you can choose to include any of the 4 choices that they gave among other options.
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July 15, 2004, 09:44:37 AM »
ALSO in my essay I choose to talk about an adversity that I overcame in my background. How do I link that to why I want to go to that particular school? If the reason is that I want a specific program that has absolutely NOTHING to do with my background/adversity. If I talk about how it was hard to learn english cold-turkey when I got to the US... how do I go from that to telling the AdComm that I want to go to that school because they have an awesome program for law and econ. Maybe it's me but I am just not seeing the linkage.
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They came down the street and across the miles. They had been there before and left their marks. On this past Saturday morning, they came to mark "the sacred ground, the holy ground," the place where they attended Oconee High School and learned the life lessons of love, faith, and service to others. They came to remember the time when they were Trojans.
Former students, faculty members, and friends of Oconee High School gathered together for the dedication of a historical marker on the site of the former school which stood at the intersection of Vine and Oconee Streets from 1952 to 1970. When Dublin city councilman Jerry Davis, a graduate of Oconee High School, returned home to Dublin, he set out on a mission to mark the location of the school, the largest part of which had been torn down decades before.
After an application to the state of Georgia was rejected on the grounds that the school was not significant as a historical place on a statewide basis, an undeterred Davis turned to his friends and fellow alumni to erect a marker which would forever signify the location of the place which fellow student, the Rev. Richard Sheffield, declared as "holy."
After a welcome by Barbara Watkins James, '62, the Rev. Sheffield, Chairman of the Dublin City Board of Education, prayed, "Let love touch our hearts with love and charity." The 1966 graduate saw himself and others as they gathered in front of the old school as children trying to understand and learn. He asked that every time a child and its mother passed by, the child would ask, "What is Oconee High School"? - to which the mother would respond that it was a place of the heritage of education. Chairman Sheffield sees Dublin High School as an extension of Oconee High and as a place where even more focus should be made by the community, and especially parents, on education, so that the schools can be a place where every child can learn.
Davis, the alumni association's 2nd vice president, thanked those present and all who contributed to the effort, the alumni, the city, and the Laurens County Historical Society. The councilman fondly remembered the days when the school was the hub of the community and community activities and saluted the school's alumni association for continuing to be a beacon of light when the community has fallen into a state of disrepair and for continuing to represent a spirit of excellence. Davis, Class of '69, spoke of the students and faculty with pride and hopes that the marker will inspire others to emulate the achievements of Oconee alumni and continue to make a difference on the local, state and national stages.
Dublin Mayor Pro Tem, Julie Drigger, saluted those present as trailblazers and encouraged the graduates to remember and pass down their heritage by saying, "No one can take that away from you. Never forget where you come from and you will always know where you are going."
School board member, Laura Travick, challenged the gathering, "If we don't leave a mark, no one who passes this way will know these holy grounds and where many got their start in education." Mrs. Travick concluded, "They will know what this ground meant to the people to the people of Dublin."
Assistant Superintendent Elgin Dixon sees the marker as telling the story about those who have come before them and paved the way.
Charles Manning, principal of Oconee High School from 1959 to 1970, praised the strong alumni association and his former students, "Statewide, we were small, but we always gave our best in everything we did. Mr. Manning urged his students to continue their loyalty to Oconee. He counseled his former students to hold to the truth of being a Trojan. As he looked into the sun beyond the gymnasium, which still stands, Manning can still see the football games, with players like Richard Sheffield. "Oconee has always been the best," principal Manning concluded.
Oconee High School Alumni National Alumni Chairman Darlene Blocker, '70, invited representatives of each class to come forward to cut the cover of the marker in the style of cutting the net after a championship basketball game. One by one they came forward, from those who attended in the early days until those who left Oconee to attend Dublin High, and began to cut away and unveil the marker.
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Next week, American Trucking Associations is set to welcome more than 400 of the trucking industry's top professional truck drivers to Indianapolis for the 79th annual "Super Bowl of Safety," the 2016 National Truck Driving Championships and National Step Van Championships.
"The safest and most accomplished truck drivers in the country are converging on Indianapolis for what we expect to be a competitive, fun event and one that will showcase the trucking industry's number one priority - safety," said ATA President and CEO Chris Spear. "Drivers train year round to further improve their strong safety skills in hopes of taking home top honors at the National Truck Driving Championships."
The National Truck Driving Championships open Aug. 10 with competitors registering and taking a walk-through of the driving course. From there, competitors will go on to compete in three phases of competition: a written examination testing background knowledge of rules and procedures pertinent to the trucking industry, a vehicle inspection to test competitors' ability to detect vehicle malfunctions and a driving skills test where competitors are graded on their ability to operate a truck through a series of obstacles.
Over three days, 430 competitors from all 50 states, including 34 first-time participants, representing 74 different companies will vie for honors in one of eight different classes and the title of Bendix National Truck Driving Championships Grand Champion.
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The competition concludes on Aug. 13 with the announcement of the Bendix National Truck Driving Championships Grand Champion, along with the winners of each vehicle class and an award for the top performing state delegation.
The Allied Committee for the Trucking Industry is premiere sponsor of the 2016 National Truck Driving Championships and National Step Van Driving Championships, taking place Aug. 10-13 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis.
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Four-Axle: Gary Cumberland
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Finally finished my chevron scarf from Last Minute Knitted Gifts. I used one and a half skeins of each color. Koigu #802 and #123.
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I might have to buckle and just make one of these. I love that colorway you've got... so pretty. And long and skinny for stylishness. Perfect. :DReplyDelete
Looks like you guys are having a great time... are you still on the coast there? We passed right through Carmel on Thursday, and I even looked for the Silver Belle sweater, but alas. I did not see you. Instead I saw lots of fish and ate at in-and-out. Mmmm. Burgers.
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Verrry nice! I love that you took your Chev out for a bit o' family fun, too :o)ReplyDelete
oh i love this scarf!! it is so much fun to have a new one as the weather starts to get brisk...ReplyDelete
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Looks great! What yarn did you use? I am hoping to have leftovers with mine!ReplyDelete
Very cool! Love the way that pattern looks on the variegated yarn. Looks like a fun knit, I would like to try one myself!ReplyDelete
Love your cuff bracelet too!
love the photos...and it looks like a fun little photo shoot as well. all the more fun, right? I am glad to hear that you like your color combo more than when you first started....that's always a good thing. :)ReplyDelete
Love the color combo as well, what a gorgeous weekend to be outside!ReplyDelete
I love the colors and they are so perfect for all the fall colors :)ReplyDelete
Found your old post on the hats - should finish the tags tomorrow... such a great idea! Thanks!!
WOW! I love this scarf on you so much. It's making me think I should get one on the needles. I wished I had two hanks of med STR and then I would. Gotta look through my stash to see if I have anything else to make it in. I think you can make anyone knit anything. LOL You make it all look so pretty. Enabler:)ReplyDelete
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Once branded Hertfordshire's worst school — the Bushey Hall School has been reborn today as the Bushey Academy — and the most improved in Hertfordshire. Lord Alan Sugar officially opened the striking new £30m state-of-the-art premises with Principal Andrew Hemmings and Sponsor David Meller who were joined by CEO of Viglen Bordan Tkachuk, students and their families.
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Jackson Also Tapped to Lead Global Strategy and Business Development Efforts
Jackson Also Tapped to Lead Global Strategy and Business Development Efforts
MONTREAL--(Marketwire - Jan 31, 2013) - Store Electronic Systems (SES) (PARIS: SESL), the world leader in electronic shelf labeling systems for the large-scale retail sector, is pleased to announce the appointment of Charles Jackson as a new member of the Executive Committee in charge of North America and Global Strategy & Business Development.
SES is focused on strengthening its position in the electronic shelf labeling system (ESL) sector making North America an integral market for SES' strategic imperative. Following SES' first successes in this market, Jackson will be joining a growing North American team. Under his leadership, SES will continue to make investments to further build the organization and help define solution adaptation and bring new innovations that are relevant to the North American retail market.
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Verber worked for Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, for 25 years. During his time there, he formed the Battelle Optical Sciences Group; accomplished groundbreaking work in accelerating fiber optic communications; and provided technical guidance in optics for the electrical department. Verber has been granted more than 18 patents in optical science and technology and written more than 100 technical papers.
Verber retired from Battelle in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the School of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. His research was concentrated in the areas of integrated optics and fiber optic devices for computing, signal processing and communications. Verber's optical demultiplexer idea led to the creation of the Ultrafast Optical Communications Laboratory. He was instrumental in helping to form the Fiber Optics Instructional Laboratory.
Verber loved the outdoors. He enjoyed hiking, skiing and canoeing and nurtured a special interest in birds. Verber is survived by his wife, Nancy; a son and a daughter; a sister; and three grandchildren.


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The Ravens — our champions! They are still topics of discussion as are those Super Bowl parties.
Mary Lee and Dick Hilgartner divided their time between parties. They had great fun with friends from St. Pius X, out in Phoenix, for the first half and a happy time with each other at home, in Rodgers Forge, for the second half due to an early call on Monday morning.
Kristy and Pete Knuppel and children (Lindsey, Emmy and Augie) had a front yard tailgate party on Jan. 29 with fellow Gaywoodites, Ira and Dawn Katz (Cole, Landon and Blake), Tom and Sasha Harris (Oscar and Marin), Adam and Donna Beck (Jordan and Sarah).
"We had lots of fun and lots of "high Flacco-fives," Kristy assured us. She added that she and Pete put the same Ravens Superbowl hand-drawn sign up on their front door from the Superbowl XXXV party (year they were married) for good luck and it worked!
The exciting Patriot and Defender Program at Rodgers Forge Elementary School kicks off in March with the school's fifth-grade students leading the way. Study, knowledge and recitations will mark the six-week program as the students learn more about America's illustrious history. The school plans to get the entire school to partcipate in the 2013-2014 school year.
Parent involvement is crucial to this program's success. Meetings for interested parent volunteers takes place Feb. 28 at 8:30 a.m. or 3:30 p.m. Each lasts only 15 minutes.
The Maryland State Assessment tests are also on the calendar for Rodgers Forge students. Third-, fourth- and fifth-graders will be tested on reading and math, with fifth-graders only being tested in science.
Morning news at Rodgers Forge is lively, entertaining and very informative as the Third Quarter News Crew takes the microphone. The team of Doyle McNew, Liam Brennan-Samele, Neale Mercer, Sophie Black, Lucy Polsky and Hazel Gao certainly has a lot of spirit.
Young readers, did you know that the Internet has many sites that are filled with interesting books? Well, Dumbarton Middle School has located the sources of these free e-books:
Baltimore County Public Library: http://catalog.bcpl.lib.md.us/polaris/
International Children's Library: http://en.childrenslibrary.org/index.shtml
Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Category:Children%27s_Bookshelf
Lit2Go - http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/
DigiLibraries - http:///www.digilibraries.com/category/23/Juvenile_Fiction/
Dumbarton's Principal Kelly Erdman tells us that in addition to the security precautions at the school, Dumbarton also conducts drills throughout the school year. These drills provide training and are conducted as follows: fire drill- monthly; severe weather drill-bi-annually; and evacuation drills-bi-annually. In addition, all students are strongly encouraged to talk with a teacher, counselor or administrator at Dumbarton, if they ever feel unsafe.
Motorists are asked to observe "No Parking" signs on Dumbarton Road as ticketing by police is in full force. Parents, please don't enter the bus loop during the morning drop-off, from 8:45-9:00 a.m.
"Munchkins for Moms" at St. Pius X School will take place on March 7 from 8:05-10:20 a.m. This annual event is a festive time for all and eagerly anticipated by them.
The St. Pius first- and second-graders coordinated the school Ash Wednesday Prayer Service and did a top-notch job, School Principal Maggie Dates was impressed and grateful to Nikki Filling and Kathy Mays, who worked with the children on this event.
During Lent, Ascension Lutheran Church has worship services every Wednesday (Feb. 20, 27, March 6, 13, 20) at: noon in the chapel — a 30-minute service based on the hymn "Beneath the Cross of Jesus"; and at 7 p.m. in the nave-evening prayers with chancel dramas.
Till we meet again.


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Resident Evil 3 - Platform: Playstation 1
Submitted by:Ðëxtë®99
Get all ammo
when you get all gays up the ass hole suck their dicks silly
Police locker combination
When entering the Police Station and going into the door in the top left
corner you will reach a room with zombies. After killing them, enter the
next room, which contains the lockers. Once there, go to the other side to
find a locker with a light on it. The game will prompt for a code. The code
is "0131", "0513", or "0114". Capcom made Resident Evil 3 hard to cheat by
making the combinations for the lockers and locations of items in different
numbers and locations. Do things differently in each game and you will get a
different game each time it is played.
Grenade launcher
Use the S.T.A.R.S Card in the computer in the main entrance of the Police
Station. When you get the S.T.A.R.S Emblem Key, go to the S.T.A.R.S Office.
When you are in the office, go to the big locker next to the
out-of-commission message receiver. Open the locker and you will get a
Grenade Launcher. Some people may find the Magnum in the big locker. In this
situation, the Grenade Launcher may be found in the Sub-Station.
Vaccine medium combination
One of the combinations when making the vaccine medium in the hospital is 2
and B.
Killing Nemesis
If you can, try and kill(disable) Nemesis at every opportunity you get.
Every time you manage to kill him, he will drop an item for you. The items
he drops are as follows.
1st time : Eagle part A
2nd time : Eagle part B
3rd time : 1st Aid Kit
4th time : M37 part A
5th time : M37 part B
6th time : 1st Aid Kit
7th time : Unlimited Ammo Kit
The Eagle parts combine to form the Eagle 6.0 handgun. It fires 9mm bullets
and has a chance of causing a "critical" hit. This "critical" hit will kill
any non-boss opponent with one shot, but it happens randomly.
The M37 parts combine to form the M37 Western Custom Shotgun. This is a
shotgun a little bigger than a pistol and has a very good rate of fire. It
only stores 6 shots of 12 gauge, but is still a very good gun.
The Unlimited Ammo Kit can be combined with any weapon in your arsenal to
give it unlimited ammo (duh). I suggest combining it with the Magnum.
Mercanary Mode
Beat the game on hard and you'll get mercenary mode.
Explosive stuff
During the game you will see sticks of dynomite strapped to the walls, or
oil drums lying around. Usually there are a lot of monsters by them. When
you see them, press L2 and X and it will aim to the objects and blow it and
all of the monsters around it into bits. Just don't get too close to the
explosive, or you will blow up.
Boutique Key
Beat the game once on either difficulty and after the credits, you will get
a key for the boutique in the first street in the beginning of the game.
When you go inside you can change your clothes to Regina's from Dino Crisis,
or Jill's blue clothes from the first game.
Get the STARS card
When you first encounter Nemesis outside the police station, choose to fight
the monster. Then run to brad's body and search him for the card case. Check
the item and you will get a STARS card. You can use that in the computer in
the main hallway for the safe code
Get the Rocket Launcher
To get the rocket launcher, you must first defeat nemesis in the garbage
disposal area to get the card key, then take the facility key to the machine
that is next to the place where you put in the water sample. Use the
facility key in the ultraviolet ray machine and it will put codes on it. You
can the return to the room with the steam coming out of the pipes and go on
the elevator. Use the facility key at the door at the end and you will get
the Rocket Launcher
Find hostages
In the mini-game mercanaries you must save 6 hostages.
1 - Dario Russo - He's in the gas station.
2 - Woman - She is in the upstairs room of the press office.
3 - Brad - In the basement of the restaurant.
4 - Officer Branaugh - He's in the area where you find the fuse.
5 - Umbrella team member - in the area where you find the oil additive.
6 - Umbrella team member - in the bar.
Get the Chronos key
To get the chronos key you must combine the chronos chain and winder key.
Starting the trolley:
The oil additive needed to start the trolley is located in a locked store
room inside the sales office. To unlock it, pick up the flashy remote on a
desk to turn on a TV. You will see a commercial about some product from
Umbrella Corp. Make note of what the product is. Here are some that you
might come accross: Safsprin, Adravil, Aquacure. Go to the nearby computer
where Carlos just shot his zombied friend. You will be prompted for a
password. Type in the name of the product. The store room is now unlocked.
Design Chronos Gear
Combine the Gold Gear from the Clock Goddess Puzzle with the Silver Gear.
The Chronos gear is used to activate clock bells. Insert it into the bell
mechanism on the third floor of the Clock Tower.
Solve Clock Goddess Puzzle
The starting time on the clock is random and the goal of the puzzle is to
get the clock to 12. The way the puzzle works is each ball has a different
value, the Crystal ball is worth +1, the Obsidian Ball is worth +2, and the
Amber Ball is worth +3. Placeing the balls in the past makes them
negative(-1,-2,-3), palceing them in the present leaves their value the
same(+1,+2,+3), and placeing then in the future doubles their
value(+2,+4,+6). Since the puzzle is random you just need to do the math.
Example: if the clock reads 5:00 you need to advance the clock 7 hours there
for you place the Amber ball in the future(+6), the Obsidian ball in the
present(+2), and the Crystal in the past(-1). This gives you 7 hours and the
clock then strikes midnight. Again I say that the puzzle is randomized and
will not always be on 5:00 o'clock so you just need to do the simple math to
solve the puzzle.
Infinite Money Trick
Use this method to get all the infinite-ammo weapons and infinite weapons
pack. In the mercinary mode go to the area with the dumpster and the hop
skotch paintings (the one right behind the bar.) Go up the steps and take a
right. You will then go north until you get to the fork. Go through the door
and you will be in the deadend alley that is boarded up by red and white
boards. This can be done with all 3 mecinaries. There are three dogs here.
First kill 2 dogs immediately. Then lure the remaining dog to where the
boards are stacked up. Climb up onto the boards. Go to the opposite end and
watch as the dog makes attempts to jump at you. Take a small step forward
and press R1 right before he jumps. Your character will jump backwards and
get a dodge bonus. Immediately after the character dodges, press R1 again to
pick up a combo for your dodge bonus. Repeat this process to rack up tons of
money and time. It takes time, but it is sure worth it.
Mixing Gun Powder
(Note: Additional mixing instructions are found within the game file on
66 Handgun bullets * -- Gun Powder BBA
55 Handgun bullets * -- Gun Powder AAA
40 Shotgun shells -- Gun Powder AAB
35 Handgun bullets -- Gun Powder AA
30 Shotgun shells -- Gun Powder BBB
24 Magnum rounds -- Gun Powder CCC
18 Shotgun shells -- Gun Powder BB
15 Handgun bullets -- Gun Powder A
10 Acid rounds -- Gun Powder BC
10 Cold rounds -- Gun Powder CC
10 Fire rounds -- Gun Powder AC
10 Grenade rounds -- Gun Powder C (mix A with B)
7 Shot Gun Shells -- Gun Powder B
* Concocting large amounts of Handgun ammo wastes time, which affects your
final grade.
Max grenade launcher ammo glitch
With this code you can put more than 6 rounds into your grenade launcher at
once. If you have 6 fire rounds in your grenade launcher, and you have 138
regular rounds in your item box, combine the ammo onto the grenade launcher
with the fire ammo in it (it works with any ammo as long as the two are
different) and the 6 fire ammo should be in your item box and the 138 in
your gun! No reloading.
Misc hints
The shotgun can be your best friend against normal zombies. When they come
in small numbers or single file, aim and wait until they are almost on you
and fire once for an instant, brain-exploding head shot, or aim straight at
a group to hit a wide spread of targets.
Don't be afraid to run away very fast, especially when you're low on ammo or
when you're facing Nemesis in the earlier parts of the game. Hand-to-hand
combat with the knife against the undead is never a good idea.
The Magnum almost always unleashes an instant-death head shot on zombies,
but the ammo for it is scarce most of the way, so it pays to save it for
Because you get branching choices for certain events, always pay attention
to your environment for clues to how the choices might lead; they inevitably
trigger an FMV sequence that shows Jill escaping in the fashion you
selected. Most of the time, the outcomes are predictable, and usually your
choice doesn't particularly matter to the rest of the game.
Successfully complete the game under the hard difficulty setting to unlock
Epilogues. Epilogues are a short diary description of each character in the
entire Resident Evil series which describes what happened with that specific
person after their adventure. Getting better ratings can unlock the other
epilogues. There are eight total Epilogues that can be unlocked.
Medical locker combination
To get the combination to the medical locker in the hospital, go to the room
next to that room. Check the dead body in the corner to find one of the
following combinations: "513", "101", "498", or "517".
Go directly to the Evidence Room in the Police Station. Go to the
number-based lock with the S.T.A.R.S Emblem Key. Use one of the following
three passwords: "0131", "4011", or "4312". You will receive the Emblem Key.
Go to the locker in the S.T.A.R.S Office. Open the locker to get a Magnum.
Water combination code
At the water sample machine near the dead factory, enter "1 Right" for A, "3
Right" for B, and "4 Left" for C. That should unlock half of the lock to the
door next to the elevator.
Music Box code
One of the codes for the music box in the top or the tower is Down, Up, Up,
Down, Down, Up.
Run on one foot
When running, quickly and repeatedly tap Square. Jill will run on one foot,
and her other foot will never touch the ground.
Saving Ammo
In the begining Brad will get attack by a zombie in the BAR. He will throw
him and the zombie will come back at him. Jill will run over, You will take
control. DON'T help brad kill the zombie. You will save 5 to 7 shots if you
don't shoot. That is where you save ammo.
Jill's diary
To get Jill's Diary (a file), collect all thirty files in the game in order.
Then the first file (Instructions Manual, blue) will become Jill's Diary.
Barry Burton ending
The only way to see Barry is if ending B is unlocked. To get this ending the
following two points must be done:
The Trolley: Jump out the window:
Fighting Nemesis Type B on the bridge: Jump off.
After the jump off decision, the final area of the game will take a somewhat
different path. You will have to fight off Nicholai in a chopper. It is
recommended that you bring a Magnum and Grenade Launcher (or Rocket Launcher
if it has been found). You can also choose to negotiate with him.
Enhanced Weapons/Ammo
When creating ammo with the reloading tool, save enough gunpowder to mix up
the same type of ammo eight times. On the eighth time, the game will prompt
"Do you want to create the enhanced ammo?". Select "Yes". This ammo is more
powerful, may have slightly different effects, and once loaded into a weapon
will change it into an "enhanced weapon". Once you have loaded a weapon with
enhanced ammo, do not reload it with regular ammo. You can only create two
types of enhanced ammo: 9mm handgun bullets and shot gun shells. Also, do
not combine enhanced ammo with regular ammo.
Make your own shotgun
In order to make a shotgun you must have gunpowder BBB, grenade rounds, and
the mixing tool. Mix gunpowder BBB with the grenade rounds to make shotgun
parts. Next, mix the shotgun parts with the mixing tool to make the shotgun.
The three jewels in the clock tower:
When you enter the room in the clock tower with the three statues holding
trays, take the obsidian, crystal, and amber jewels from them. There are
three clocks on the wall besides the two dead bodies. Going from left to
right, place the amber jewel in the first tray, the obsidian jewel in the
middle tray, and the crystal jewel in the third tray. The middle clock will
open and you will get a gold gear. Combine it with the silver gear and place
it in the slot on the third floor.
Easiest way to get all epilogues
first complete the game as quickly as possible don't fight the nemesis just
RUN for the exit once you have completed it you will get an epilogue two or
three costume and more importantly the mercenaries game then use mihail to
get unilimted ammo assault rifle and the rocket launcher.now have some fun
and just work your way through with that lot you can kill the nemesis in two
hits (anyone of his mutations apart from the last one!!!!) then it will tak
time but it will be extremly easy.
Save ammo
When you get the shotgun and the lighter oil run to the other which is near
the entrance to the bar there are three zombies and two that are eating you
don't need to shoot them just run past them this is another place to save
Guns against the monsters
The shotgun and the magnum are best to kill zombies. Not so good with the
handgun which takes about 8 bullets to kill them.
Use either your shotgun or magnum. Best not to use your handgun.
The best gun for a crow is a hand gun with one shot and it will die.
Drain Demios
The best guns are the shotgun, magnum and grenade launcher if found.
Use your shotgun, magnum and grenade launcher.
The best guns are the Assault Rifle, Grenade launcher. Not so good with the
shotgun if you use it you will need health spray.
Grave Digger
The best is acid rounds, freezer rounds maybe flame rounds if you have the
shotgun or The Assault Rifle bring lots of herbs.
You meet these in the Hospital but the best gun is the handgun.
Assault Rifle is good but bring health sprays. Magnum not so good but only
if he is weak, shotgun not so good same with the Magnum, handgun never good
against Nemesis or you will meet hell, Flame rounds extremely good against
Nemesis, Acid rounds alright, Freezer rounds good and the Rocket launcher is
good for the Last mutation of Nemesis until you get him into the bullets of
the railgun to blow him.
Submitted by: chris
When playing on hard mode consume your ammo and youll get the grenade launcher but
shoot the zombies and waste your bullets like a sissy girl and you get the magnum.


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Did you hear? The celebrity real estate world recently buzzed with the rumor that Justin Bieber had bought himself a $10.8 million home for his 18th birthday — and it was the same bachelor pad Ashton Kutcher has been renting, no less. It was almost too dreamy for a single item of gossip.
As anyone who attended high school knows, gossip isn't always true, and TMZ soon reported that while Bieber had in fact toured that home, and two others, Kutcher may be the one who buys that house.
Speaking of high-school days and dreamboats, we present a collection of teen idols and their homes. A lone elder statesman of this group is 33, but the rest were born after 1984, with four born in the 1990s. And yet they can afford to buy luxury homes and mansions with prices ranging up to $6.5 million.
In this selection of homes provided by Realtor.com and Trulia, we've got several Brits and some Disney alumni, a little bit of country, and zero rock 'n' roll. (That last sentence contained a reference to 1970s teen pop stars Donny and Marie, to appease the elders among us.)
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There are no signs of recession anywhere in the world, but "no place is going gangbusters," Caterpillar CEO Doug Oberhelman told CNBC's "Squawk Box" after earnings on Monday.
"I don't predict a recession anywhere in the world at all in 2013," the construction equipment company executive said, "but Europe is a one area where there are so many political unknowns, it's hard to see how that's going to end up."
Caterpillar also sees China recovering a bit in 2013. "We sure see China past the bottom, and I'm optimistic about China in 2013, actually," Oberhelman said.
(Read More: Caterpillar Earnings Beat, but It Cuts Full-Year Outlook.)
There are also signs of burgeoning housing recovery in the U.S., but the economy needs more. "We need that housing start number to double to really start to move the economy," he said. "It's going to be a while before that happens."
Calling the U.S. recovery slow and anemic, the Caterpillar CEO said that once gross domestic product growth gets back into the 2 percent range, we'll see both unemployment and housing starts come back.
Forecasting the short-term outlook is also difficult given the global uncertainties that continue to linger both in the U.S. and overseas. (Read More: Why 'Fiscal Cliff' May Be Bigger Threat Than You Think.)
"When you have worldwide growth at 2.5 percent or so, and U.S. growth at 1.5 percent, it's really hard to see where we're going to go with a lot of the uncertainty in the next 60 to 90 days," Oberhelman said. "I'm hoping that will clear up as we go into the wintertime, but we'll see."


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