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This is the eighth installment in the 12 day series for SQL tidbits during this holiday season.
Previous articles in this mini-series on quick tidbits:
- SQL Sat LV announcement
- Burning Time
- Reviewing Peers
- Broken Broker
- Peer Identity
- Lost in Space
- Command 'n Conquer
As tradition would have it, this is the first day of the new year. This is the first day of 11111011110.
As tradition would also have it, the New Year also means that there was plenty of partying and reveling throughout the night leading up to and beyond the stroke of midnight. One such party was reported as having the largest fireworks show in history. Seeing some of the video and pictures – it was a spectacular show. Check it here.
If you are interested in some of the other worldwide events, here is a pretty good slideshow of some of those parties too.
Another tradition that comes with New Year's day is the quarterly announcement for MVP renewals (or newals) from Microsoft. If you happen to know somebody that was recently announced has being an MVP for the next year – tell them thanks.


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At last week's James Beard Awards, Emeril Lagasse wasn't the only New Orleanian to strike gold (the Bam Bam Man was named Humanitarian
of the Year). Proving the third nomination's a charm, Tory McPhail of the legendary turtle soup-serving Commander's Palace edged out Jeff McInnis of Yardbird Southern Table & Bar in Miami, as well as a trio of Nola chefs —Justin Devillier (La Petite Grocery), Alon Shaya (Domenica), and Sue Zemanic (Gautreau's)—to snag the Best Chef: South title.
"When I got back to the restaurant, there were balloons in the foyer and a cake," he says.
Now, it's back to making the likes of wild Burgundy escargot and cold-water sea scallops with creamy bacon vinaigrette at the legendary New Orleans institution where he's built his reputation.
McPhail's love for the Garden District restaurant—housed in a quirky turquoise-turreted Victorian that's been a destination for diners since 1880—is deep-rooted. Armed with a reverence for the local and seasonal, the Ferndale, WA native graduated with a Culinary Science degree from Seattle Community College before heading to the Big Easy, where he landed in the Commander's kitchen at the ripe age of 19. Despite his inexperience, he whizzed through all the stations under the prowess of executive chef and mentor, the late Jamie Shannon.
The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida, came next; then London for Michelin-starred L'Escargot and its sister restaurant, Picasso Room, followed by Caribbean-Creole-centric Mongoose Restaurant in the U.S. Virgin Islands. By 2000, Commander's welcomed McPhail back to the family—this time as sous chef of the short-lived Las Vegas outpost—before ultimately handing him the keys to the New Orleans kitchen where he first cut his teeth, in 2002.
Eleven years later, McPhail's authentic Creole creations and upgraded tweaks on classics still enthrall the diners who linger in each of Commander's Palace's grand dining rooms. Yet the chef remains ever-humble. At the Beard awards, McPhail's acceptance speech eloquently paid tribute to the women behind Commander's—matriarch Ella Brennan, her sister Dottie, and Ella's daughter Ti and niece Lally, who gracefully run the restaurant with an evenhanded dose of humor and hospitality. "Ladies, this one's for you," he said, holding up his medal.
Aside from "the hands down best weekend I've ever had in New York," McPhail says winning has been exhilarating because of the "overwhelming support from everyone—friends, family and the entire New Orleans community. People have been coming into the restaurant not only to dine, but just to congratulate me."
Here, the soulful McPhail talks about the 10 dishes that helped him evolve into one of New Orleans' biggest culinary champions, from ones that have appeared on Commander's Palace's own menu, to those that leapt out at him from the cookbooks of some of the country's most influential chefs. Spoiler alert: He's got a thing for foie gras and Louisiana shrimp.
Interview by ALia Akkam (@aliaakkam)

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From now until the U.S. presidential vote on Election Day, millions upon millions upon millions of dollars will be poured into advertising in states considered must-win for both President Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney.
In battleground state Florida, the Wesleyan Media Project found the Tampa market saw more than 6,300 presidential campaign ads Sept. 9-30, the three full weeks after the party nominating conventions ended, Tampa Bay Online recently reported.
That gaudy number puts Tampa behind Denver, Las Vegas and Cleveland -- all major markets in battleground states as well.
"It comes down to being a swing market in a swing state," Travis Ridout, co-director of the Wesleyan project, said. "Those are must-win states for both sides. It's ripe ground for both sides to try to pick up some votes, and that's why you're seeing so much advertising."
That doesn't mean viewers have to like it, though.
"I'm just over it," Joel Davis told Tampa Bay Online. "I'm over the sheer volume of them. And I'm not feeling like I can weed through what are facts and who's just trying to get the upper hand in the popularity contest."
There's a name for that reaction, said Erika Matulich, a marketing professor at University of Tampa.
"There is a concept called 'ad wearout,' which means that when our brain is saturated with a particular ad or even type of ad, we simply tune it out," Matulich said. "And if the ads are so plentiful that they are hard to tune out, the attitude toward the advertiser goes down because we get irritated or angry at being bombarded with the ads."
And if it seems there are lots and lots and lots of ads this political season, it's because it is shaping up to be one of the most expensive elections in history as candidates, the parties, political action committees and special interest groups are jockeying to get a piece of the viewership pie.
Nationwide, roughly 13,000 races -- local, state and national -- will generate $9.8 billion in political advertising, said Kip Cassino, executive vice president of a Williamsburg, Va., advertising consultant Borrell Associates.
"When you look at local runs, state legislatures, local elections, the city council, you have people who used to spend their money on pot luck suppers and lawn signs," Cassino said. "Now they're buying TV time. Everything's ratcheting up, and there's an enormous amount of money floating around."
Late last week, MSNBC reported radio and television ad spending crossed the $800 million threshold and was on pace to near -- or reach -- $1 billion.
Combined, the presidential campaigns and outside groups spent $810 million, MSNBC said.
Not surprisingly, the hottest ad-buy markets last week were in Ohio -- a battleground state.
While trying to woo the Hispanic vote was seen as critical for both presidential candidates this year, a study indicated that really wasn't the case, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce said Spanish-language advertising represented only a small slice of the spending pie, even in states with large Hispanic populations.
"Political commentators from both sides of the aisle have said repeatedly that 2012 is 'The year of the Hispanic voter,'" USHCC President Javier Palomarez told the Times. "But while political advertising spending records are being shattered, neither political party is investing a comparable percentage of their advertising dollars to reach these voters."
The study looked at spending April through September in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Texas and Virginia. Political advertising for local, state and national elections accounted for $358.9 million spent in those states during that time. Of that amount, $16.4 million or 4.57 percent was spent on Spanish-language advertising.
The Obama campaign has spent about 10 percent of its money on attracting Hispanic voters in those 10 states while the Romney campaign spent about 4 percent -- and both camps are blowing a huge opportunity, Palomarez said.
There isn't any appropriate level for Spanish-language advertising, Palomarez said, "but certainly both major parties should be prioritizing Hispanic voters and dedicating real resources to reaching those voters."
In reaching Hispanic voters, Obama has an advantage because of his success in 2008, observers told NPR. Analysts say Obama's Spanish-language ads now -- as they did four years ago -- connect with Hispanics in style as well as substance.
Romney, however, must do more to reach out to this important demographic, said Matt Barreto, an associate professor of political science at the University of Washington who helps direct polling at Latino Decisions.
"They need to really increase that outreach and make a connection," Barreto told NPR. "They need to make a sincere and solid connection with Latino voters, so they can get back up to 30, 35 [or] 40 percent of the Latino vote."
The group's most recent tracking poll shows Romney capturing slightly more than 23 percent of the Latino vote although his numbers are slightly higher in battleground states. The Romney campaign set a goal of 38 percent.
Advertising dollars aren't just going to traditional ad venues. Both campaigns are advertising in video games, NPR said. Video game-makers and websites can sell space on virtual billboards or banners -- and since the games are virtual, ads can be updated.
Gaming advertising is driven by information gamers provide registering for an online service, said Indiana University's Patrick Walsh, who studies political ads in video games. So, a gamer in a solid red or blue state may not see an ad or banner that a gamer in a battleground state may see.
"Signing up for any service, they're going to ask you your name, gender, location, address, those types of things," Walsh says. "So you can be really targeted with the technology."
To try to sway the undecided voters, campaigns have begun using consumer-centric advertising strategies that technology companies use to target consumers, again by using demographic data, The Hill reported.
The number of digitally connected voters makes social media an inexpensive and effective means to reach still-wavering voters, experts said. Plus, they said, Internet advertising results are specific and measurable.
Peter Greenberg, head of Twitter's political ad sales, attributed the effectiveness of net ads to the ability to pinpoint -- geo-targeting -- the recipient of a particular message.
"Geo-targeting can target by interest, location, mobile device access," Greenberg told The Hill. "It's pretty remarkable how minutely we can target."
Google, too, can drill down ads to the gender, age and ZIP code.
And because technology is so precise, experts told The Hill, a campaign can capture how many clicks an ad gets and how long a viewer watches a campaign video.


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XT CONNECT WinSped® is an interface to transmit orders and tours with detailed information for the driver from LIS WinSped® to WEBFLEET® and the TomTom Driver Terminals. Based on the TomTom Telematics Workflow it is possible to send back events related to the orders.
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Texas State Gazette. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1, Saturday, August 25, 1849
Description: Weekly newspaper from the Austin, Texas area that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 25, 1849
Creator: Matthewson, R. C.
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Correos y Telégrafos de Guatemala asks us to inform the Union member countries and their designated operators that for logistical reasons, it will not be able to recommence mail delivery within the allocated time. By the end of January, Correos y Telégrafos de Guatemala will provide an update on the progress made.
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Disease Exposure RoutesDisease causing agents can be spread from animal-to-animal and between animals and humans through a variety of transmission routes. Select each route below for additional resources.
Transmission Route HandoutsThese documents defines the five common routes of disease transmission (aerosol, direct contact, fomite, oral, vector) as well as zoonotic and environmental transmission. They can be used to supplement all of the materials to provide producers with a clear understanding of the route of transmission focus.
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Updated 12:50 pm ET: Democrats won the House popular vote – those who voted in House elections -- but only made modest gains and Republican retained control of the body.
Why? Redistricting was a big reason. Republicans controlled key governorships and state legislatures, winning several of those important, but out-of-the-spotlight races over the past few cycles.
And a Republican pollster says, "There's no crying in redistricting." That's because this isn't the first time this disparity has been seen. In fact, the tables were turned in the 1970s and 1980s.
Bill McInturff, the Republican pollster who conducts the NBC-WSJ poll with Democrat Peter Hart, notes in an email and three-page memo:
"Republicans captured 49.4% of the two-party vote for Congress in 2012, yet won 54% of the seats in the House. This gap between the Republican vote and the seats they won is on the high side, but certainly not without precedent over the past 40 years. If you began your career as a Republican trying to win the House in the 1970s and 1980s, you would adopt, as I do, the borrowed adage 'there's no crying in redistricting.'"
From the memo:
"During the Reagan sweep in 1980, Republicans essentially broke even in terms of the two-party vote cast (49%), yet were only able to win 44% of the seats…the same type five point gap being bemoaned today. Similarly, there was an especially large gap between the Republican percentage of the vote in 1990 versus the percentage of seats won (46% of the vote, 38% of the seats)."
According to the attached tables provided by McInturff, however, there has never been an instance -- aside from 2012 -- in which one party won a majority of the popular vote, but not a majority of seats. 1980, as noted above, came the closest.
"Yes," that's true, McInturff said in a follow-up email, "because the 1970s and 1980 lines were so massively unfair ... and, of course, there's probably no question Republicans, on balance, 'baked in' an important advantage with this set of lines around the country."
McInturff concludes:
"Finally, having said that, there is a legitimate public policy discussion about the merits of there being a relationship between the votes cast by the American electorate and the composition of the House. Don't worry. Forty years of data suggest if a party is able to convince a comfortable majority of Americans to vote for their congressional candidates, they will be rewarded with a majority of the House. As always, though, a relative tie goes to the existing party in power."
McInturff as well as the liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress, says with this current redistricting map, Democrats would like need to win by about 7 percentage points to take back the House.


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|Step 1: What is diabetes?
Diabetes is one of the most important chronic health problems of modern life. The number of people with diabetes is on the rise. Diabetes affects people's health in several ways. For instance, diabetes increases the costs and prolongs the length of stay in about one quarter of all hospital admissions in the United States, from any cause. For reasons like this, diabetes has become the most expensive chronic illness in the country.
Diabetes is a disease that results when your body either does not make enough insulin or does not use insulin properly. Insulin is a hormone made by your pancreas to turn the food you eat (especially the sugars and starches) into the energy you need each day.
When everything is working right, here is what is supposed to happen:
- You eat, and the food is converted into sugar.
- Sugar levels in your blood start to rise.
- This signals your pancreas to provide insulin.
- Insulin "unlocks" cells throughout your body to let the sugar in.
- Your cells use this sugar for energy.
When you have type 2 diabetes, body tissues, such as fat, muscle, and your liver, can't use insulin properly. This is called insulin resistance. Many people with type 2 diabetes for more than 10 years also make less insulin than their body needs.
One key to treating type 2 diabetes is to make your body tissues more sensitive to insulin.
Glucose levels in your blood
The sugar in your blood is called glucose. Insulin and glucose are partners -- both are necessary for your body to function. When insulin lets enough sugar into your cells to provide fuel for your body, the level of sugar in your blood stays safe.
If you have untreated diabetes, your cells may be starving for energy while the glucose in your blood begins to rise. The glucose can reach very high levels. Over time, high glucose levels may damage many different organs in your body. Thus, poorly controlled diabetes can lead to serious long-term health problems, including:
- Heart disease and stroke
- Kidney disease
- Eye problems
- Nerve damage
- Foot problems
Controlling diabetes
The good news is that your diabetes can be controlled, and long-term complications can be prevented or minimized. To do so, you need to learn how to keep your blood glucose levels in the safest range possible. You can accomplish this through good nutrition, reaching and maintaining a healthy weight, and exercise.
Sometimes you'll also need diabetes medicine. And it is wise to add psychological and social support to your plan from the beginning -- rather than waiting for a specific problem. Managing diabetes involves making changes in old bad habits. You'll want all the support that you can get.
Getting the facts will help you take charge. Don't worry about learning everything at once! In time you will become an expert -- you will learn more as you go along.
To continue to the next step of this diabetes guide, click "next" below.
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Reviewed By: Nancy J. Rennert, MD, Chief of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Norwalk Hospital, Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Previoulsy reviewed by Ari S. Eckman, MD, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. (5/13/2010)


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EPIL July 2017 Update Live
August 2, 2017
The latest update to the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law includes 12 updated articles. See below for a full list of updated content.
Updated Articles
|Endangered Species, International Protection
|Peter H Sand
|International Courts and Tribunals, Discontinuance of Cases
|Sir Michael Wood
|Air Defence Identification Zones
|J Ashley Roach
|Neutrality in Naval Warfare
|J Ashley Roach
|Peace Treaty with Japan (1951)
|Mika Hayashi
|Ships, Diverting and Ordering into Port
|John Paul Jones
|Submarine Warfare
|J Ashley Roach
|Weapons of Mass Destruction
|Hendrik A Strydom
|Legal Advisers
|Sir Michael Wood
|International Law Commission (ILC)
|Pemmaraju Sreenivasa Rao
|Teachings of the Most Highly Qualified Publicists (Art. 38 (1) ICJ Statute)
|Sir Michael Wood
|Unilateral Acts of States in International Law
|Víctor Rodríguez Cedeño, Maria Isabel Torres Cazorla
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|Endangered Species, International Protection
|Peter H Sand
|Peace Treaty with Japan (1951)
|Mika Hayashi


text: I have been a huge fan of Dark Shadows and all of it's incarnations since I discovered the original TV show in a Blockbuster back in college. I just discovered that it was available in a fantastic boxed coffin set now. I have no idea how I could have been so stupid and blind to have missed this release! Unfortunately for Scary Hubby this means I need to buy another set of Dark Shadows. Really though? How can you resist this set? If you are a like-minded individual and share my stupidity then you can buy yours here.


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Jon Papernick, The Ascent of Eli Israel & Other Stories, 6/11/09
Eleven of us met to talk about Jon Papernick's unsettling collection of short stories. Several noted the author's powerful and unique writing style; just about everyone experienced a sense of hopelessness and distress while reading about the characters. Such darkness isn't surprising considering that all of the tales take place in Israel, the focus of a great deal of distressing and seemingly hopeless news stories over the years. However DJ, DS & JS were frustrated with the unrelentingly disturbing tone of Papernick's stories, longing for acknowledgment of the great number of thoughtful Israelis that don't engage in extreme and bizarre behavior.
Papernick's stories spurred lively discussion about and tales of members' travels in Israel. DJ told us about the dramatic differences in her experiences walking through Jerusalem, depending on her company – Jewish, Arab, or walking solo. BC reviewed the history of the creation of the state of Israel, pointing out the colonialism, war, and displacement of peoples that have contributed to the apparently unresolvable conflict over the land that exists today. He felt the stories would be more meaningful to those who are familiar with the history of the Middle East.
This reader was stunned by the story of "An Unwelcome Guest." A young Jewish settler plays a deadly game of backgammon with an old Arab who mysteriously appears in his kitchen late at night with family in tow. JW felt this story should be required reading at the United Nations.
Those who wished for more hope and wit in the tales will be interested to know that Papernick's latest work is full of humor. A Waltham resident, Papernick read from his as yet unpublished novel, Sharpy, at the Library on June 25th. In the chapter he read to us, the main character, a con artist on the run, meets his girlfriend's intimidating parents when she brings him to their home to stay for a while. His writing is as fine as ever, and he had us laughing out loud.
As always, we heard tips for related reading from well-read members:
DJ recommends The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan and Books by Amos Oz
RN recommends From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman


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Rebuilding is the only way for the Jets to forge ahead
Newly hired general manager John Idzik doesn't like to use the dreaded "r" word when talking about the Jets' situation these days.
"There's a negative connotation associated with rebuilding, but honestly, I think every NFL team retools or rebuilds to a certain extent," Idzik said.
With all due respect, and as any Jets fan in his right mind understands, this team is the very definition of rebuilding. With free agency not even a week old, the Jets already have said goodbye to seven defensive starters and in all likelihood will have at least four new starters on offense in 2013. And we haven't even gotten to what happens next with Darrelle Revis.
So if you thought 6-10 was bad last season, just wait until you see what happens this year. It could be flirting-with-the-first-overall-pick-in-2014- and-Rex-Ryan-gets-fired ugly.
But as painful as this process already is, it is a necessary part of setting the team on the right course for the future. Rebuilding hurts. But with intractable salary-cap problems squeezing the roster and with the inevitable exodus of expensive veterans, the only way to turn this thing around is to get younger and cheaper through solid drafting and sensible free-agent acquisitions.
This clearly will be Ryan's most challenging season as a head coach, and by the look of things now, he'll have something close to an expansion team to work with.
Sure, there still are quality players such as offensive linemen Nick Mangold and D'Brickashaw Ferguson, defensive end Muhammad Wilkerson, cornerback Antonio Cromartie and linebacker David Harris. Revis might stay too, if the Jets can't field a quality trade offer.
But the quarterback position still is unsettled with Mark Sanchez and David Garrard as the top two passers. Even if the Jets sign former Cardinals quarterback Kevin Kolb, that's hardly a major step forward. Shonn Greene, who wasn't all that good to begin with, is gone at running back, and in his place are Bilal Powell, Joe McKnight and newly acquired journeyman tailback Mike Goodson. (No, I'd never heard of Goodson before this week, either.)
Receiver Santonio Holmes comes off foot surgery, Stephen Hill needs to take a major step forward after an uncertain rookie season and Jeff Cumberland takes over for Dustin Keller at tight end.
The defense has holes everywhere. At outside linebacker. At inside linebacker. At defensive end after Mike DeVito signed with Kansas City. Gone is Sione Po'uha at nose tackle and in his place is Antonio Garay, another marginal talent they got on the cheap.
And then there's Revis, who still is with the team -- and now $1 million richer after Saturday's roster bonus was due.
But it's anyone's guess if Revis sticks around for the season. With only the Bucs interested -- but unwilling at this point to surrender a significant package of draft picks -- the Jets are better off holding on to the injured cornerback and waiting for him to complete his rehab from knee surgery to see just how good he can be.
The free-agent cornerback market already has cratered, and there still are quality veterans on the open market. So getting anything substantial in a trade of an injured player is iffy at best.
If a good deal comes along, fine. But there's nothing wrong with waiting for Revis to get healthy and then waiting for the market to heat up. Injuries to cornerbacks on contending teams will drive up the price significantly, and Idzik then might be able to command a first-rounder plus extras in the package he'd like to get in return for the team's best player.
It's certainly worth taking a shot at re-signing Revis, especially with so many deals coming at under $6 million a season in this year's market. But if Revis still is looking for that $15-million-per-year contract, forget it. Not on this team. Not in this situation.
Just make the best trade, move on and let the rebuilding process continue through the draft and future free agency, when the salary-cap problems are fixed.
This year's draft is considered deep at defensive line and safety, two areas of need for the Jets. And with defensive end Jadeveon Clowney and quarterbacks Teddy Bridgewater and Johnny Manziel expected to headline the 2014 draft, there's a potential reward for the pain of a bad record in 2013.
Yes, it hurts. And it's going to hurt worse starting in September as the losses pile up. But with the mess Idzik has to clean up, it's the only way.


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New images from the respective sets of Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street and Joshua Michael Stern's (Swing Vote) jOBS have found their way online. The Wolf images give us our first look at Leonardo DiCaprio in his turn as Jordan Belfort, a former financial rock star of sorts whose own memoir of the same name is the basis for the film. While we've already seen pics of Ashton Kutcher doing his best Steve Jobs impersonation while wearing a turtleneck and on LSD, today's images give us a better idea of how well he can pull of the "button-up, cardigan, sweater vest" look.
Check out the images after the jump. The Wolf of Wall Street is aiming for a 2013 release and also stars Matthew McConaughey, Jon Favreau, and Jon Bernthal (The Walking Dead). jOBS co-stars Dermot Mulroney, Josh Gad, Matthew Modine, Ahna O'Reilly, and Lukas Haas while also staring down an unspecified 2013 release.
The Wolf of Wall Street images via Just Jared. Jobs images courtesy of X17. More of these set images can be found at each:


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Algorithm Improvement through Performance Measurement: Part 1
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Random numbers are used in many domains, from networking protocols, to cryptography, to selection of a starting point for integrated circuit place and route algorithms, simulations, and computer graphics. When benchmarking algorithm performance, arrays of random input data at times provide the worst case input (but sometimes do not). In this article, I explore several random-number generators (RNGs), along with their strengths and weaknesses, as well as their affects on performance of sorting algorithms.
I used the following method in In-place Hybrid N-bit-Radix Sort, and In-place Hybrid Binary-Radix Sortto generate random 32-bit unsigned values:
unsigned long randomValue = ((unsigned long)rand()) << 30 | ((unsigned long)rand()) << 15 | ((unsigned long)rand());
This method uses the built-in rand() function, which generates a random number in the range 0 to RAND_MAX ( which is 32767). Each call to rand() generates 15 random bits, and three calls to rand() are used to generate 32 random bits for the unsigned long data type (15 bits, 15 bits, and 2 bits). Function srand was first used to seed this pseudo-random generator -- to provide a consistent starting point so as to produce a repeatable sequence of random numbers to fill an array with.
I used a different random-number generator technique for all performance measurements in Stable Hybrid MSD N-bit-Radix Sort:
float f1 = ranX( &randState ); // 0.0 .. 1.0 float f2 = ranX( &randState ); // 0.0 .. 1.0 unsigned long tmp1 = (unsigned long)( (( 1 << 16 ) - 1 ) * f1 ); unsigned long tmp2 = (unsigned long)( (( 1 << 16 ) - 1 ) * f2 ); unsigned long result = ( tmp1 << 16 ) | tmp2;
where ranX() function can be either ran0(),ran1(), or ran2() function from [4], with ran2() used for performance measurements. This method generates 16 bits per ranX() function call. However, fewer number of bits could be generated per call by adding a masking operation as follows:
float f1 = ranX( &randState ); // 0.0 .. 1.0 unsigned long eightBits = (unsigned long)( (( 1 << 16 ) - 1 ) * f1 ) & 0xff;
This implementation generates 8 random bits per call to the random generation function, by taking eight least significant bits of the result. Bits other than the least significant ones could be retained by using a different mask followed by a right shift. To produce a 32-bit random number using this method, four results of 8 bits each would need to be generated and concatenated together as:
unsigned long result32bit = ( eightBit[ 0 ] << 24 ) | ( eightBit[ 1 ] << 16 ) | ( eightBit[ 2 ] << 8 ) | eightBit[ 2 ];
Table 1 shows the number of unique values that each of the random number generators created when filling an array of 100 million 32-bit unsigned elements. Windows C rand(), as well as three functions from [4] and Mersenne twister [5] are compared.
In all cases, 32-bit unsigned array elements were generated by calling each function multiple times. For example, 1-bit at a time required 32 function calls to generate a 32-bit value; and 16-bits at a time required two function calls. The least significant bits were extracted and concatenated into a 32-bit value. For Table 1, an array of 100 million 32-bit values was generated. STL's unique() function was used to count the number of unique values within this array.
All of the functions were seeded with the same value of 2, negating it for ran0(), ran1(), and ran2() as they require. From this simple and fairly weak test (of using STL unique() function) it is evident that the Windows C rand() function can produce poor random number sequences, with only 4K unique numbers within the 100 million element array (only 0.004% unique). However, it can also produce sequences with a large percentage of unique values. This test is weak because it would get fooled by an incrementing 32-bit number sequence, which would have 100 million unique values, but would not be random. But, the test is adequate to detect this issue.
Table 1 shows a problem in the Windows C rand() function, that becomes especially evident when extracting 10 bits or fewer per function call. This does not seem to be a problem with only a single lower bit. When extracting 11 bits or more, C rand() function produced more than 92% of values that are unique.
The other four RNGs tested do not exhibit this issue no matter how many bits are extracted per function call. Their lower bits do not exhibit problems. These RNGs produce more than 97.7% of values that are unique.


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Unique vehicles are not something new to the GTA series, and are seen a multitude of times in Grand Theft Auto IV. Unique vehicles are usually already presented ingame, simply painted a unique color, or rare vehicles that are only seen on once during a certain mission. They can sometimes be very hard to get, as they are either mission related or they just appear as a one-time-only.
Warning: Many unique colored vehicles will be resprayed to normal colors upon repair, you will never be able to revert back to the unique color in Pay 'n' Spray.
This list also includes special types of vehicles such as gang cars, police vehicles and so on.
|Unique traits and availability
|A Banshee with yellow stripe and a orange paintjob is requested by Stevie.
|A blue Banshee with grayer color than normal and a white stripe is requested by Brucie for his Exotic Exports.
|In the mission Meltdown for Ray Boccino, the car chase begins with the player driving a Banshee. This Banshee has a unique grey-and-bluish-green-stripe paintjob.
|Blista Compact
|A pure white Blista Compact can be stolen in the mission Clean Getaway. Also this is the modified variant of the Blista Compact which is normally red. To keep the car, drive it to your safehouse parking space and then commit suicide, which will result in mission failure, but the car will get stored anyway.
|In GTA IV, a Bobcat is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a pale brown body. As a new Bobcat will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
|In GTA IV, a Bucanneer is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, with a uniquely candy maroon and black body color. As a new Bucanneer will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
|A unique dark grey Cavalcade replaces the Esperanto used by Roman's Taxi service once the player has unlocked the Algonquin Safehouse and shortly after the completion of Hostile Negotiation. However, the same driver, Mohammed, will be driving it, and still will throw insults at Niko. However, unlike Roman's Taxi, there is no enhanced performance in this version.
|A unique black tinted (the main color varies) Cavalcade with black rims is also available during the mission Deconstruction for Beginners. It is parked in an alley in Castle Gardens where Playboy X has left it with a supply of weapons. The player can drive this Cavalcade to a safehouse to store it, and still return to complete the mission.
|A similar black-tinted Cavalcade is the target of one of Stevie's Car Thefts; this Cavalcade has a unique green undercoat and dark green trims. The Cavalcade will keep on respawning at the same location until the player delivers it to S&M Autos so the player can drive one to their safehouse's parking space and then deliver the respawned version to Stevie.
|Brucie Kibbutz will send you an e-mail, for his Exotic Exports, for a Cavalcade. This Cavalcade is unique because of its deep matte red paint-job, black-tinted windows and black rims.
|A dark red Spanish Lords Cavalcade with special gold rims, a roofrack/roofrail and stereo systems in the rear. These vehicles' stereos feature a noticeable increased bass effect due to the subwoofers. The Spanish Lords Cavalcades are mostly found around South Bohan, as well as Alderney City.
|A unique baby blue Cognoscenti is requested in Stevie's Car Thefts. The car will be constantly spawn in Alderney City, Alderney until it is delivered to Stevie, allowing the player to store one at their safehouse before delivering another copy to Stevie.
|A uniquely pearl white-painted Cognoscenti can be stolen outside Gracie Ancelotti's home in Alderney City approximately two weeks after the player completes "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend", when she appears as a random character. The car will be parked in the driveway to the house, and will keep respawning until the mission is completed, so the player can take it without doing the mission. Sometimes when the player activates the cheat to spawn a Cognoscenti, a pearl white one will appear.
|A Comet with a unique mauve paint job is requested by Stevie for one of his car thefts.
|A bright yellow Comet is given to player as a race car in the mission No. 1. After completing the mission, Brucie allows the player to keep the Comet.
|A Contender is also requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a dark grey body color. As a new Contender will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another. The maximum amount of money you can obtain from delivering the Contender to Stevie is $8,250.
|A green "Supercharge" Contender is driven by the Irish Mob that can be found in Steinway. It has huge chrome bull bars, four vapid lights atop of chrome anti-roll bed bars, and adorns a special green color. Its speed and acceleration has increased a very small amount from the supercharger being added.
|The Coquette has a unique white-and-red paint job available, similar to that of the 1984-1996 C4 Corvette featured in the television series The A-Team [1]. This paint job, unlike most other unique paint jobs, can be sprayed onto any Coquette.
|A Coquette is also requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, featuring a gray body color. As a new Coquette will spawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another. Stevie's photograph of the car is shown to have no badge or marque on its rear, implying it was not originally added earlier in game development.
|A lustered black Coquette appears in the mission Payback. To obtain it, simply follow the goons until they stop at the building.
|The Coquette also has another unique paintjob. Like the one above, it can be sprayed onto any Coquette. It's a green and black paintjob, apearing black at some angles but green at other angles.
|A DF8-90 is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, featuring a uniquely light blue body color, but may appear in the form of any of the car's three variants. It can be found in a parking lot under the train tracks in the Hove Beach area in Broker. As a new DF8-90 will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
|A lustered black/silver DF8-90 appears in the mission Crime and Punishment. It's in the driveway at Mikhail Faustin's house. You can save it if you want to. It comes in three variants.
|A unique brown Dilettante is requested in Stevie's car requests. It is located across the road from Big Willis Mall in Willis, Dukes.
|In GTA IV, a Dukes is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing across the intersection from Modo in East Holland, Algonquin with a uniquely bright red body with dark metallic red trims. As a new Dukes will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
|In the mission Lure for Francis McReary, a red iridescent Dukes, that can not be seen on the streets, can be found outside the target's apartment in Denver Avenue, East Holland, Algonquin.
|A unique pink convertible Feltzer owned by Gracie Ancelotti appears during "...I'll Take Her", when the car is used by the player to kidnap Gracie for ransom. Upon completion of the mission, the car is driven away to be disposed of.
The player can gain possession of this Feltzer to keep by immediately killing the driver after hiding Gracie in the safehouse, but the player must be quick as it will disappear after about 30 seconds; an ideal method is to snipe the driver promptly as he leaves with the car. Alternatively, it can be acquired by firing a gun across the street from Gracie's house before meeting her, she will run off, but the Feltzer will stay in the driveway. Do NOT respray this Feltzer, as you will never be able to achieve this paint color again.
|A modified version, the Feroci JDM VIP, is driven by the Triads, and can be found around The Exchange or Chinatown. These sport gold rims, a chin spoiler with body kit, and a Chinese knotting attached to the rear view mirror. The JDM VIP Feroci is usually painted cobalt blue although it can be resprayed any color. The JDM VIP is still referred to as 'Feroci' when entered by the player.
JDM stands for Japan Domestic Market, and VIP is a common Japanese label for luxury cars, suggesting a Japanese car; like all Ferocis, however, it is branded as a Bravado, the GTA IV equivalent of the American Dodge Motor Company. Presumably the Feroci is a captive import, a foreign vehicle sold by a domestic manufacturer.
|FlyUS, the fictional airline featured in GTA IV, use the Feroci as their company car. FlyUS Ferocis have FlyUS livery, a roof-mounted light and black stock rims. They are commonly found at Francis International Airport in Dukes.
The FlyUS variant is only cosmetically distinct from the ordinary Feroci, lacking the word 'Feroci' on the back, and possesses identical performance.
|Huntley Sport
|A custom Grey and Black Huntley is one of Stevie's car thefts, parked outside a police station at Bohan.
|Huntley Sports with a yellow, black and green paint job, custom grille with removed badging and side-mounted exhaust pipes are driven by the Jamaican Posse; like other gang-specific variants, all these modified vehicles are still called "Huntley Sport" when entered. These can be found around Beechwood City, Schottler and Willis, and one is given as a gift in the last of Little Jacob's drug delivery missions. This variant can also be obtained through gang wars in The Lost and Damned, as Gang Wars located in Dukes and Broker are often against members of the Jamaican Posse, who, as mentioned above, drive this vehicle.
|A black Huntley, painted with a thin red stripe down the sides, can rarely be found driving around Liberty City. It is one of a range of paint jobs available on default Huntley Sport's.
|After doing a boating trip with Brucie, an iridescent olive and beige Huntley will be parked at the docks where you get out of the boat.
|In GTA IV, Stevie will send you a message saying that he requires a gold Infernus parked near the Soldiers Memorial in Downtown Broker, and can be specifically found parked next to the Pizza Salad Restaurant. After acquiring the car, the player is required to deliver the car to his garage. This Infernus always has a unique gold paintjob. Like all of Stevie's desired cars, it will respawn if taken away, and thus can be "duplicated". Find the Infernus, park it at a safehouse, then return to its original location; a new Infernus will be there, and this can be delivered to Stevie instead.
The golden Infernus' color is very similar to the golden colors of a "gold" Ruiner, the Ruiner's color scheme being more easily available as one of its many conventional color schemes.
|After you complete the mission Buoys Ahoy, Bernie Crane will call you to collect Deputy Mayor Bryce Dawkins' special orange Infernus as a gift. Like many other cars, the Infernus comes in two different variants (with and without Spoilers).
|In GTA IV, a unique dark blue Intruder is requested in Stevie's car thefts. Parked in Rotterdam Hill, at Asparagus Avenue, near the Liberty City Transport Authority building, the car constantly respawns in the same spot until it is delivered to S&M Auto Sales, so the car may be taken and stored at a safehouse before another is sent to S&M Auto Sales.
|In GTA IV, there is a special variant model of the Intruder driven by the Triads. Badged as the Intruder VX, changes include a special candy red paint job, a bodykit with side skirts and a chin spoiler, as well as a yellow Chinese knotting attached to the rear mirror that denotes the car's association with the Triads. The visual modifications of this variant are based on the Junction Produce Infiniti Q45 bodykit.
|The Laundromat is a laundry van that only appears in two missions. The easiest way to obtain it is in the mission Hung Out to Dry. It can be found in the back of the laundromat. Stealing it, however, will result in mission failure. Its second appearance is in the mission Meltdown, where it is used in a scripted sequence. This one can also be stolen, and if you are good at driving a van in a chase, you can complete the mission.
|Three black Lokus' appears in the mission Entourage.
|In GTA IV, a Manana is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a unique white top (if it appears with a top) and grey body. As a new Manana will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
|In The Ballad of Gay Tony, during Arnaud's second encounter, he drives a unique maroon and gold Manana to chase after a pimp, who stole his wallet and beat him up after a rather odd night of opium and prostitutes. After the player drops off Arnuad, the car can be kept.
|A sky blue Marbelle appears in the first cutscene during the mission Clean Getaway. Later in the story, when Vlad tries to escape from Niko, he drives the sky blue Marbelle again in the mission Uncle Vlad. When he reaches the Humboldt River, he leaves the car and makes a run for it. This is the chance to take it and keep it.
|In GTA IV Michelle is depicted to own a unique lustered silver Merit when the player first meets her. The car is used during the mission First Date and can be kept afterwards. It has the same properties as that of a regular Merit. You can save it when the mission is completed.
|In GTA IV, a Moonbeam is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a unique black and red body. As a new Moonbeam will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
|For Stevie's Car Thefts he requests that you get a Patriot. This Patriot is yellow and always comes with the flag vinyl.
|The NOOSE uses a custom Patriot to chase the player when the wanted level is at 3 stars or higher. For more info, see NOOSE Patriot.
|There are modified variants of GTA IV's Patriots with additional accessories along with the optional patriotic paintwork.
|Playboy X owns a unqiue yellow Patriot, which can be seen in Blow Your Cover, Deconstruction for Beginners, Photo Shoot and The Holland Play (if the player chooses to kill Playboy X). This Patriot has no other accessories such as Roof lights or a Flag Vinyl.
|If the player has reached a certain percentage with Dwayne Forge than if you ever request for backup he will send two North Holland Hustlers to assist you. They may come in a unique blood red Patriot, which is obtainable once they exit the vehicle. The flag is also random on this one.
|A sport edition of the PMP 600 can be occasionally been seen on the streets; it usually sports a very dark black, plum or blue paint job, a sport mesh grill in the front, and a small spoiler attached to the trunk. It is often driven by the Mafia.
|Requested backup from Dwayne Forge in the form of two North Holland Hustlers members (available when the player's friendship with Dwayne is sufficiently high) may arrive in a uniquely red PMP 600 (besides a Patriot or Presidente of the same color).
|Police Stockade
|This is a special variant of Brute Stockade 8000. It only appears in two missions. Its first appearence is in the mission Three Leaf Clover, however, it is not recommended to try and take it in this as it requires a lot patience and and a truck. The doors are also locked. It is more easily acquired in the mission Tunnel of Death as the player is required to steal it. After dealing with the NOOSE and police forces, take it and drive it to your nearest safehouse. After you have parked it in the parking space, drive very far away until the mission has failed, the truck will be standing fine in the parking space. Another way to obtain the Police Stockade in the mission Tunnel of Death is by pushing it back to your nearest safehouse, a good vehicle for pushing it is the Phantom located in Normandy just before you go to the secluded area. After that, push BOTH cars until you reach the safehouse, make sure they're ALWAYS close to each other or the Stockade will vanish. Avoid police attention at all costs. It will be pretty hard to lose them because the Stockade will vanish if you go too far away. When you reach the safehouse, just continue with the mission and and go back to your safehouse, it should be there with you not having a mission failure.
|"SPORT" Supercharged V-10 variants of the Presidente are driven by the Korean Mob. Based on the Cadillac CTS-V, the variant has a different front grille with a "supercharged" badge, black rims, dark blue metallic paint, and a rear spoiler.
|A Rancher in GTA IV is among a range of cars requested in Stevie's Car Thefts, featuring a unique blood red and light gray body color. The Rancher may come with or without a camper shell, as well as one of a range of accessories, much like a regular Rancher.
|A Rebla is also requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a uniquely dark brown body color. As a new Rebla will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
|A sports version of the Rebla, found in Hove Beach and driven by the Russian Mafia, is only available in black, and features a dual-sport exhaust, a slightly lowered suspension and a light body kit.
|Roman's Taxi
|The Roman's Taxi is a black Esperanto with an emergency light. This may be the first special car you can get. It's easy to get, but after Roman's depot is burned down, the car is no longer available, as it gets replaced by a fleet of gray Cavalcades.
|A Romero appears in the mission Undertaker. This is the only time it appears in the entire game. To obtain it, steal it when the mission is done, but you have to be fast and alert, otherwise the driver will drive away and disappear. The Romero will also appear on the street, but only if you are driving one at the time.
|A Ruiner driven by Ivan Bytchkov during "Ivan The Not So Terrible", when Ivan attempts to escape from Niko Bellic, is depicted as being painted black with yellow trims, a common Ruiner color scheme. However, the car may appear with one of a variety of iridescence shades, including, but not limited to, red and blue, making the car's body color somewhat unique.
The car can be obtained either after Ivan abandons his car after the chase, or after completion of the mission, when the player can return to the spot where the car is left. Due to the nature of the chase, the car may inevitably be damaged, but can be repaired at a safehouse parking space.
|Sabre GT
|A Sabre GT is wanted by Brucie and Stevie for their export businesses. The Sabre GT wanted by Stevie can be found in a driveway near Meadows Park. It is seen in a unique lime green with a darg greenish-blue stripe and pearlescent tint.
|In GTA IV, a Sentinel is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a unique candy blue and black body color, similar to that of the "XS" Sentinel. As a new Sentinel will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
|A derailed version of the Subway in No Way on the Subway.
|During Stevie's text message car thefts, he will ask Niko to steal a Sultan in Alderney. This is a unique Sultan, with black rims and a slightly more vibrant shade of blue in its paintjob. As the car will continuously spawn until it is delivered to S&M Autos, the player can first drive one in their parking space and stor it there.
|There are three variations of the Sultan in GTA IV; the standard car, the slightly tuned car, and the heavily tuned and independent Sultan RS. The regular Sultan and tuned Korean Mob Sultan, are both four door sedans, while the Sultan RS is a two door coupe. The standard Sultan is modestly styled, with a leaning towards performance, indicated by the small hood scoop, sports rims, and its reasonable performance. The Korean Mob Sultan comes with a blue paint job and a large rear spoiler, and bigger hood scoops, giving the car a resemblance to the Subaru Impreza WRX STi.
|Regular Sultans may also appear with custom paint jobs and spoilers, but no enhanced performance, in The Ballad of Gay Tony's Drug Wars involving the Korean Mob.
|Super GT
|A unique dark grey Super GT appears in one of Stevie's Car Thefts. It is in front of the 69 Exchange in Chinatown, Algonquin.
|One uniquely colored Super GT appears in the mission Union Drive for Bernie Crane, driven by Dimitri Rascalov's henchmen. The paintjob is a metallic red, blue, green, gray, or pink, all of which are unique.
|Another uniquely colored Super GT appears in a Most Wanted mission in which you are after a drug trafficker named Darren Covey. You find him and the five friends of his whom you must kill also on the second floor of a parking garage in Purgatory, with a few cars around them. One of these cars is a Super GT whose paint job resembles a mixture of Irish Mob green and sky blue not found anywhere else in the game.
|A unique coloured dark green Vincent LX2007 appears in the mission She's a Keeper. It can be obtained by either passing or failing the mission.
|A red and black Virgo appears in the mission Concrete Jungle. It can be taken and saved at your safehouse.
|A Voodoo requested by Stevie's Car Thefts, parked in front of the LC24 Tower in East Island City, Dukes, features an all-emerald body with black trims and rims. The car can be taken and stored at a safehouse, as another Voodoo will respawn again at the LC24 Tower until the player delivers it to S&M Auto Sales.
|In GTA IV, a special "Jamaican Flag" (black and green with gold chrome) Voodoo, further distinguished by its side twin exhaust pipes (which functions alongside a normal chrome exhaust in the rear) and rear fender skirts, is driven by members of Little Jacob's posse. Its performance is no different from that of regular Voodoos.
|Elizabeta Torres owns a unique Voodoo that sports a one-of-a-kind white and pink paint-job, and silver chrome trims all around. The car can only be obtained in the mission "Have a Heart", when, it has a slight sag in the rear suspension due to its trunk being filled with two bodies. The only way to obtain it is to park it in the Bohan Safehouse parking space and fail the mission. Save the game and it will be there for you to drive, minus the bodies in the trunk.
- In the mission Ruff Rider, there is a rich cherry red Hellfury that can be obtained after you kill the enemy, Jayvon Simson. Normal Hellfurys have a metallic red, but this one is a glossy red with no metallic added to it. After you kill Jayvon, the mission is completed, so you can take and park it at your safehouse.
- In GTA IV, a unique green and black Faggio is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts. As a new Faggio will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
- In GTA IV, a Freeway is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing in a unique brown colour. As a new Freeway will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
- In GTA IV, an NRG 900 is requested as part of Stevie's Car Thefts, appearing with a uniquely dark gray body color. As a new NRG 900 will respawn at the same spot until the player delivers one to S&M Auto Sales, the player can save one at their safehouse before delivering another.
There are three unique variants of the Maverick:
- One in the missions Dust Off and Paper Trail. In Dust Off, this requires a mission failure to obtain the chopper. It's recommended to save it in Paper Trail, because you can fly it to your safehouse after you beat the mission.
- Another one appears in Babysitting. It is solid black with no white stripes on the top of the body. You need to capsize Derrick's boat, and after it starts flying away, ram it into a building, and then push it to your safehouse after it hits the ground.
Note: There can't be anyone in the chopper after it crashes. Otherwise, it won't save.
- Another one appears in A Revenger's Tragedy ("Deal" ending), where Dimitri flies it. After you crash on Happiness Island, steal the chopper and fly it to your safehouse.
Police Maverick
The Police Maverick is a police variant of the civilian Maverick. Also, the Police Maverick dosen't have a spawn point in GTA IV. To acquire one, good sniping skills will be needed.
- Little Jacob pilots an Annihlator with the side doors closed in the last mission (either ending), to obtain it, fly it to your safehouse and kill Roman or Jacob.
- All of Stevie's car theft's, except for the black Washington, are unique.


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Top 12 Cruelty-Free & Vegan Nail Polishes
Painting my nails (fingers and toes) is one of my all-time favorite pastimes. It's very rare that you'll ever see me out and about not wearing some neon or glitterful, vibrant shade of nail polish. Luckily, for we compassionate nail artists, we have a slew of cruelty-free brands to choose from. There are so many out there that it's difficult to narrow down my faves to just 12 (♥ them all), but here you have it:
What's your favorite cruelty-free vegan nail polish?
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Great post Sunny! It's nice to see just how many brands are foregoing animal testing, and the use of crushed beetles. It's nice to know that more are on their way too! Keep up the great work 🙂
Serendipity Nail Polish is vegan! You can buy it online
I'm surprised you did not include Julep. They are leaping bunny certified and their nail Polish is amazing quality.
My step daughter is interested in these crulety free & vegan nail polishes, but what beauty stores sell these products here in Phoenix Arizona,?
Does anyone know about pure ice? Was it really bought by Revlon?
Someone mentioned Sinful Colors. They are owned by Revlon who do, as far as I know, conduct animal testing and are also not vegan.
LA Colors and LA Girl are cruelty-free. They start at $1! Thats why im a proud distributor of their line in my online boutique. 🙂
Cruelty Free but not Vegan.
I was wondering if Nicole by OPI is cruelty free, the one that collabs with a lot of celebrities and TV shows, not the regular OPI. I saw on other websites that it is, so should I be able to purchase it?
I found some of these to be great along with LVX and a few others that I found on the web that this sight did not put on the list. Great work I hope to find more vegan nail polish and other beauty products.
LVX is a great brand. It's not cheap, but it's incredibly high quality. shoplvx.com
Authority Cosmetics is a new up and coming nail polish line that is cruelty free, vegan friendly, 5-free, and made in the US. The quality of these polish is outstanding. They go on smoothly and most only require 1 coat.
Orly are apparently cruelty free.
I just started wearing polish again after decades of not doing so (in part, because I would only use CF/vegan polish). I'm absolutely LOVING LACC (La Couleur Couture). Every color I've tried so far works on me. It goes on easily (even for a 'new newbie' like me!) and dries fast. It also lasts long (at least long enough for me to WANT to change colors, and not HAVE to redo my nails). LVX and Color Club are other vegan/CF brands that I've tried. Gabriel is also vegan. So many polishes to try!
NONI: for vegan/CF polish remover, I LOVE Tate's odorless polish remover. It contains just minerals, nothing toxic, no bad smell, and best of all, it really takes off the polish (I have tried another, soy-based remover as well, but last manicure I did, the soy-based barely made a dent in the polish and top coat I was removing on one hand, so I switched back to Tate's to take off that polish, and do my other hand as well. It just cut right through it. I only needed to use two cotton swabs for the job because the first one got gooky with polish, not because the remover had stopped working). I bought mine from http://www.veganessentials.com .
looking for cruelty free u.v gel/glitter polish. So far everything i can find is from china!!
OPI is NOT CF. They are sold in China. Any cosmetics sold in China must be tested on animal per their countries laws. One of the few companies that are owned by a non CF parent co that I still support is Urban Decay. They pulled out of the Chinese marketplace and are trying to make changes from within. I hope like hell they manage it. They retain their CF status with both PETA and Leaping Bunny. If more companies, like Essie or OPI would do the same, maybe more parent companies would see the demand for them to stop the unnecessary testing on animals.
Orly ison PETA cruelty free list and they are one of my favorites
The french brand " Avril " http://www.avril-beaute.fr/37-vernis
L.A Colors is cruelty free and $1 at discount stores like family dollar and dollar tree!!! Love<3
Do you know if OPI is still cruelty-free? Especially since they were bought out and I know their parent company tests and sells in China. I'm having trouble getting an e-mail response from them.
Hey can anyone tell me if LA Colors nail polishes are cruelty free?
Is Julep vegan? They don't test on animals. I think their polishes are vegan.
When I asked them I was told that their red polishes were not vegan, but the rest of their products were vegan. Their polishes are also four-free, woohoo!
I love Zoya and Sparitual! They both last an extremely long time, depending on the color. Zoya probably lasts longer. And I believe both companies are entirely vegan.
A bunch of the products mentioned here I haven't tried yet. Some of them I won't try because if there are companies that don't use animals at all and it's specifically in their mission statement (so I fear less to give them support as they're less likely to sell out to violent parent companies later) – then why would I even give the other companies a second look? There is more than enough selection nowadays in polish and makeup and shoes etc that there's no reason to compromise our values for getting shiny 🙂
If you're on the cheap, go for ELF! Their polishes are only a dollar. Probably not as high quality as the others but at least now we can't say that vegans have to buy expensive stuff 🙂
When I was getting a pedicure at an Aveda salon last year they told me that they had switched to Zoya polishes (from OPI), because OPI was not vegan. They said that OPI uses fish scales in its glittery polishes and that this practice was not in line with the Aveda'a 'nature/natural' policy so they stopped using their products.
Yeah OPI's ingredients aren't even vegan anymore. I use Zoya as well, it's an amazing polish and lasts 5-7 days on me which blows my mind.
If you contact OPI directly they will tell you that they have stopped using fish scales in their polishes and all nail lacquers are a vegan formula. So all new colors are vegan, but be aware that old circulating shades may contain guanine (fish scales). And apparently it was only used in 19 shades…ever.
OPI is however not vegan as their mother company (Coty) does animal testing. If you purchase OPI then you are giving money to Coty.
That's hypocritical for a company that now sells in China (aveda)
If you happen to have a Five Below (sort of an odd dollar store) around you, check out Funky Fingers nail polish. It is obscenely inexpensive (3 for $5), vegan (Formaldehyde, Toluene, DBP and paraben-free), owned by Forsythe Cosmetic Group (leaping bunny certified) which also makes Color Club (retail up there with OPI and Essie) and has a suprisingly wide array of awesome colors that are at times identical to it's more expensive sister.
Funky Fingers.
Five Below.
Check it out! Just discovered they were vegan today, after a fair bit of round about searching (my sisters own a TON of their stuff) and was so deeply pleased I felt the need to share the joy with my fellow vegan nail varnish fans!
Both OPI and Essie are not cruelty free. I don't care what anyone says, when a company is bought by a mother company that does massive cruel animal testing on their other products, that means there is blood on ALL their products. Why on earth would a vegan put money in the pockets of people who are going to use it to hurt animals.
Zoya is pretty good but Nubar is my go-to vegan nail polish brand. Not only are their colors AMAZING (I'm currently rocking indigo illusion) but their quality is great and they proudly display "Cruelty Free & Vegan" top and center of their website. Oh yeah, and they're also 4 free.
So, they're all cruelty-free. Which ones are also vegan friendly??? I'm not a vegan myself, only vegtarian. I still eat eggs and dairy. But I'm just not comfortable using products that have bits of (possibly abused) animals in them. It feels like torturing the animal myself. I want to be 100% certain before I buy!!!
OPI is owned by Coty which is NOT cruelty free. And Essie was bought by L'Oreal which is definitely NOT cruelty free.
any ideas on suncoat? heard that it is natural too
no concern about OPI ingredients just its parent company Coty.
OPI in NOT vegan but you might check out Zoya and Color Club…both fabulous polish brands. And as a previous reader suggested vampyvarnish.com has a great list of cruelty-free (not necessarily vegan) companies.
OPI isn't actually cruelty-free… check out one of VampyVarnish.com's last few posts, she talked about it.
Isn't Essie cruelty free? Please don't say it isn't! Love Essie and would hate to drop them.
Nope. They were until Loreal bought them. 🙁
Love love love Scotch, especially because they are Phoenix locals but Priti is great, too as far as free of toxins plus being vegan. Great list!
I like Zoya but it's kind of pricey for me. But I love ELF polishes and also Wet N Wild.
I love Zoya. They've got such a wide range of colors! And I think it's fun to wear the color named after me. 🙂
Love this post, there are some brands new to me, thanks!
FYI, OPI was bought by a company that DOES test, so depending on how you feel about things like that, it's no longer 100% cruelty-free.
I like Sinful Colors, you can find them in Walgreens. Most vegans I know use Zoya.
Also, there is a HUGE nail polish thread on the PPK with lots of pictures!
Opi has always been used at the salons I go to, but I never knew it was cruelty free! I've never tried any of those other brands, but no I'll have to!


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Given the –well, the shitstorm that's erupted over the attempt to saddle health care reform with the cynical, sabotaging, decidedly anti-choice Stupak-Pitts amendment, it's fitting to revisit an issue that simply will not go away. Us versus Them.
But first. There's some awesome, mandatory reading currently waiting for you over at the New Yorker's website, in the form of a piece entitled "Lift and Separate: Why is feminism still so divisive?" written by Ariel Levy. In it, you'll get a crash course in feminism's second wave, beginning with the bra burning that never happened at a 1968 protest against the Miss America pageant that did, and continuing clean through last year's presidential race, Gail Collins' recent book "When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present," and Republican political analyst Leslie Sanchez's new book, "You've Come a Long Way, Maybe: Sarah, Michelle, Hillary and the Shaping of the New American Woman."
The Cliff's Notes version: Levy is no fan of Sanchez, and her piece frames a compelling argument. She writes:
There are political consequences to remembering things that never happened and forgetting things that did. If what you mainly know about modern feminism is that its proponents immolated their underwear, you might well arrive at the conclusion that feminists are 'obnoxious,' as Leslie Sanchez does in her new book… 'I don't agree with the feminist agenda,' Sanchez writes. 'To me, the word feminist epitomizes the zealots of an earlier and more disruptive time.' Here's what Sanchez would prefer: 'No bra burning. No belting out Helen Reddy. Just calm concern for how women are faring in the world.'
Call me crazy, but it seems to me that the time Sanchez dubs 'disruptive' was the time when some serious things got done. Calm, after all, is a close relative of passive.
Levy continues, accusing Sanchez of measuring progress "solely by the percentage of people with government jobs who wear bras." And what, you might ask, is the problem with measuring our equality by the numbers? Well, in becoming what she calls "identity politics, a version of the old spoils system"–i.e., picking a group to identify with, and joining together to claim your rightful piece of the pie–we have become too focused on getting women into positions of power, but not focused enough on what they should do when they get there. In other words, Sarah Palin.
Consider Sanchez' dismissal of Gloria Steinem's criticism of the former Alaska governor, in which she complains that when Steinem wrote in the L.A. Times that "Palin shares nothing but a chromosome with Clinton," to Sanchez' mind, she was really saying: "You can run, Sarah Palin, but you won't get my support because you don't believe in all the same things I believe in."
And that's a problem? So, only men get to vote according to their ideals, and women have to vote according to chromosome? Come on.
Yes, it's important that we've gained representation. But consider, as Levy reminds us:
In 1971, a bipartisan group of senators, led by Walter Mondale, came up with legislation that would have established both early-education programs and after-school care across the country. Tuition would be on a sliding scale based on a family's income bracket, and the program would be available to everyone but participation was required of no one. Both houses of Congress passed the bill.
Nobody remembers this, because, later that year, President Nixon vetoed the Comprehensive Child Development Act, declaring that it 'would commit the vast moral authority of the National Government to the side of 'communal approaches to child rearing' and undermine 'the family-centered approach.' He meant 'the traditional-family-centered approach,' which requires women to foresake every ambition apart from motherhood.
And so, here we are. The demise of that bill wasn't due to in-bickering, but it's nearly 40 years later. The women are there, but is the woman-friendly work getting done?
As Levy says:
So close. And now so far. The amazing journey of American women is easier to take pride in if you banish thoughts about the roads not taken. When you consider all those women struggling to earn a paycheck while rearing their children, and start to imagine what might have been, it's enough to make you want to burn something.
Insofar as it relates to the current abortion amendment on the Health Care Reform bill, well, I hate to see lawmakers hedging their bets, pussy-footing around, and doing their best to take a critical right away from women who need it now–or might some day. And I loathe those who are telling those who care passionately about the issue to "Simmer down, honey; that's not the way politics works." (Check Kate Harding's post at Broadsheet for a take that'll make you scream.) Let me be clear: Fuck the Stupak Amendment. Reproductive rights are critical. But health care reform is critical for women in particular, for a ton of reasons: we're overcharged, underinsured, more likely to be reliant on our spouse for insurance, more likely to go bankrupt due to medical reasons–and we can be denied coverage on the basis of "preexisting conditions" that include pregnancy, C-sections, and domestic violence. So, while I'd like to reiterate–Fuck the Stupak Amendment–at the same time, considering Levy's words above, I have to wonder: what would women's lives look like today if that Comprehensive Child Development Act was part of our world? We were so close, it would have seemed absurd in 1971 to say: Guess what? Come 2009, that'll be so far from reality, it will seem ridiculous. In 40 years, do we want to be stuck with the same dismal health care system we've got now, wondering how reform slipped away?


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Hands-on activities immerse young Ag Progress Days visitors in science
Hands-on activities immerse young Ag Progress Days visitors in science
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Science and interactive fun are at the heart of planned educational displays and activities for youth at Penn State's Ag Progress Days, Aug. 13-15.
Young visitors will be engaged in engineering, entomology, animal science and other topics, according to event organizers.
At the 4-H Youth Building, the focus will be insects and robotics, said building coordinator Mya Rushton, Penn State Extension 4-H teen program manager.
"An insect exhibit with live displays will be a big part of the 4-H Youth Building," she said. "Kids can learn about insects -- hold them in their hands -- and discover the subject of entomology."
The building also will showcase several robots built by 4-H members from across Pennsylvania, Rushton noted. Penn State Extension 4-H programs in most counties offer a robotics project, and many of the members have competed in national competitions.
Several other exhibits in the 4-H Youth Building will include live animals. The Pennsylvania Rabbit Association will feature Angora rabbits and teach young people how to utilize wool from the animals by weaving and using a loom.
The Penn State poultry science program will showcase baby chicks and the incubation process, while dairy princesses -- young ambassadors for the dairy industry -- engage youth in activities related to healthy diets include dairy products.
Youth also can look at fungi, such as mushrooms, through microscopes.
Rushton said the best aspect of the 4-H Youth Building is the chance it affords to educate youth about the world around them. "It's total excitement for children," she added.
The 4-H Youth Building is located just off of Main Street at the Ag Progress Days site, behind the Family Room building.
Several other exhibits aimed at children and their families can be found throughout the grounds:
-- Kids' Climb, where children can don safety equipment and harnesses and climb a tree like a professional arborist, Main Street, near the Equine Exhibits Building.
-- Shaver's Creek Environmental Center exhibits showcasing turtles, snakes, birds of prey and amphibians, Main Street between West Eighth and West Ninth streets.
-- Grain-threshing demonstrations powered by oxen and interactive exhibits at the Pasto Agricultural Museum, Main Street, across from the red barn.
-- Play mini-golf while learning how to "Protect Yourself from Insect Pests," at the Family Room on Main Street. Also at the Family Room, young visitors can participate in the "MyPlate" Scavenger Hunt and discover the dangers of texting and driving while navigating a simulated electronic course.
-- A-Maze-N Corn, outside the Crops, Soils, and Conservation Building, at the end of East Fifth Street. This corn maze is accessible for wheelchairs and baby strollers.
-- Miniature horses and other demonstrations at the Equine Experience, at the top of Main Street.
-- Pedal Go Kart Derby -- Kids supply the power for these go karts at the serpentine track on West Eighth Street, behind the Family Room building.
Sponsored by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, Ag Progress Days is held at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs, nine miles southwest of State College, Pa., on Route 45. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 13; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on Aug. 14; and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Aug. 15. Admission and parking are free.
For more information, visit the Ag Progress Days website. Twitter users can find and share information about the event by using the hashtag #agprogress, and Facebook users can find the event here.


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Another restless sunday. We almost stayed in all day.
We would have, if we hadn't got an invite to join the gf's friend and her daughter at Nanjya Kanjya, the okonomiyaki restaurant that her friend worked at.
I'm REALLY glad we did. The food was fantastic. I wish I'd have brought my camera. Along with the okonomiyaki we had monja and ankomaki, an azuki paste roll delight.
I played a Nintendo DS linked wirelessly with her daughter's other DS. She seriously kicked my ass at Mario Kart, snickering at my bad play.
This is not a good thing. I may be inclined to get one of these little time wasters one day.
She lent me one of the machines to take home. Probably so next time she has a worthy opponent.
I gave them one pair of my stainless steel mugs I won at the catchers. The Mickey and Minnie one. I think they liked it.
I couldn't help but notice outside Meidaimae station there was a Peace Makers Box.
From what I understand it's pretty much an ordinary police box to help those in need.
Why they don't just call it and make it another Koban is beyond me.
Sunday, 9 March 2008
Meidaimae Okonomiyaki
Another restless sunday. We almost stayed in all day.
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I seem to have developed a bit of a taste for warehouse and factory conversions recently. There's just something about those huge windows, concrete floors and bare brick walls that speaks to my inner hipster who (very occasionally) tries to get out. This Australian coat hanger factory is particularly lovely – it's owned by painter Adriane Strampp who has given it a warm atmosphere without it feeling pretentious or losing the building's rough and ready character.
Two sashes just weren't enough for this building – has anyone seen triple sash windows in the UK? I can even forgive the ubiquitous Union Jack cushion in amongst this jumble of soft crumpled linen.
The house I grew up in had a cream Aga exactly like this and I'll always be under their spell. On chilly mornings my brother and I would sit in front of it with our feet on oven door warming our toes!
Perhaps the bare plaster and exposed lightbulb is too minimal for some, but I actually think there's something quite cosy about this bedroom. Perhaps its those layered linens again..?
Adriane's painting studio is a short walk from the house. I love the creative chaos of artists' studios, especially when they also have their own work at home. This ghostly landscape would look perfect above my sofa too.
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Citizens who see something suspicious in creeks and rivers have a new way to discharge their concerns. They can visit a new website, http://www.rivanna-stormwater.org, or dial 434-975-0224, the new hotline created by a consortium of local governments.
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Great to know was wondering who I should contact about the metal road sign thrown into Moore's Creek below the bridge at Sunset Ave.
A while back, I found a pile of trash that had been dumped the night before. It had documents that would have positively identified the person who dumped them. I called the Charlottesville police and an officer came out, picked up what was lying there and left.
I called to follow up and learned that nothing would happen at all because the officer claimed that the documents were illegible and he had thrown them away. There were in fact quite readable, which I knew because I had read them. I didn't want to touch anything at all, since it was evidence and that seemed inappropriate, but what I could see was clearly readable and would have positively identified a specific person. The officer had mentioned on his arrival that he would be retiring shortly. He didn't want to bother with going to court, so he dumped the evidence. I called his superiors to protest and got the brush off.
By all means call if you want to report something, but you are in dream land if you expect something to come of it in Charlottesville. Environmentalism is saved for slogans and PR here, not actual policy.
and call the mayor and city councilors to complain or the supervisors if you're in the county
unlikely, I see what you mean and I can relate, as I have also called to report illegal dumping where nothing was done.
I guess we have learned a valuable lesson. Document and photograph the evidence ourselves BEFORE calling the authorities.
Just wondering? Do the local governments have a problem with residents throwing small deposits of yard clippings or clods of weeds,dirt directly into the city/county streets, as they manicure their own yards? Don't these particles clog the storm drains?
The cigarette butts left in the streets are an embarrassment. I think this organization should become serious about educating the public in this area. I count 10 new cigarette butts a day deposited along my property line. PIGS PIGS PIGS I must wonder of the quality of parenting the slobs had! And what about enforcement for littering? It is obvious who the offenders are as one looks to the messes deposited directly in front of certain homes.
Yep, some residents cast yard trash over the curb and into the streets on a regular basis. No one in charge challenges the inappropriate behavior. Parents are setting a very poor example of citizenship for their children.


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Long a bothersome subject of the baseball world, RSBS and our talented staff of interns have finally decided to delve into this curiously confounding query: Why is Clint Hurdle orange? While the definitive answer may elude us still, we continue to take great pride in narrowing it down to the following reasons:
Finally realized Matt Holliday wasn't safe
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Wished the Cash for Clunkers program existed when looking to trade in Danny Ardoin and J.D. Closser for the $145.64 they were worth
Just read Ann Coulter's blog
Being shown up by Jim Tracy caused him to overcompensate by excessive tanning
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The GAO also says regulators from eight states report the natural gas process called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, doesn't cause groundwater pollution. The GAO is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress.
The study says that in some cases a scarcity of scientific data and differing regulations make it difficult to draw firm conclusions about shale oil and gas impacts.
GAO also notes that while federal agencies have given different estimates of the amount of recoverable shale gas in the nation, all the estimates have increased dramatically over the last few years.
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