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Grand Theft Auto: The reckoning
By ROB WAUGH
Last updated at 16:17 24 August 2007
Outside LA's international videogame trade show in the heat
of a blazing California summer, a cluster of tour buses lay hidden behind
hundreds of feet of chainlinked barbed-wire fence.
All had blacked-out windows. Some were spray-painted with graffiti and menacing faces.
All were guarded by huge bouncers taking orders through Bluetooth headsets.
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Inside the conference centre, among the tens of thousands of people being lured towards various stands by bikini-clad rent-a-beauties, Korean
breakdancers and Conan The Barbarian lookalikes, the great mystery was how to get inside the buses – or, indeed, simply inside the fence surrounding
The answer was simple: you didn't.
Everyone knew who the convoy belonged to: Rockstar Games, creator of the fabulously best-selling but controversial Grand Theft Auto videogames, which have worldwide sales of £500 million, and the infamous Manhunt.
Adolescents' favourite Grand Theft Auto, with its premise of stealing cars, smuggling drugs and shooting policemen, conquered the global gaming industry; in Manhunt gamers entered a disturbing world of fetishism and murder.
There have been no more vilified, edgier or commercially successful mainstream games before or since: a trinity of positives in an industry that grows fat on outrage and headlines.
The mystique of the Rockstar caravan was even greater because the men in
charge were far from homegrown Californian hotshots.
The company's bosses are two brothers from England, products of the finest upbringing: Sam and Dan Houser, the sons of an establishment divorce lawyer and a cult Seventies actress, are former students of £15,000-a-year St Paul's public
school – academically one of the country's finest – and London and
Cambridge universities.
Now, a world away from that privileged background, specially selected
invitees were beckoned into the inner sanctum.
If you weren't considered cool enough, you couldn't get in – whether to see their games or otherwise.
But for those who did make it, champagne and spirits were on tap from
morning till night.
A selection of barely clothed women posed for the invitees, while midget actors wove through the crowd.
The theme seemed to be to take the company's name as literally as possible – to party like rock stars.
It was also nearly impossible to see their games – better, the
Rockstars hinted, just to drink in the atmosphere.
It was typical of them. The games industry had never seen anything
like the Houser brothers when they arrived in the late Nineties.
Dresse like hip-hop stars in gold chains and cutting-edge fashion labels, the brothers specialised in just this – making gaming cool.
Their defenders will tell you they have changed the face of the industry.
None, though, can deny that their outlook no longer appears so optimistic.
It is hard to know where to start when assessing their misfortunes so many
people appear to be gunning for them, all the way up to US presidential
hopeful Senator Hillary Clinton.
"The disturbing material in Grand Theft Auto and other games like it is stealing the innocence of our children," she said, announcing that she was pushing for a federal inquiry into ways of "keeping inappropriate video content out of the hands of young people".
In America, Rockstar Games and its owner Take 2 have been hit with civil
lawsuits linking the game to murders.
A multi-million-dollar case for damages was filed after an Alabama teenage Grand Theft Auto fan shot dead three people – including two policemen – in a motiveless attack in 2003.
He said as he was arrested, "Life is a videogame. You have to die sometime."
The hit Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas had to be recalled worldwide after a
Dutch hacker found a crass and explicit sex game, dubbed "Hot Coffee", on
the disc.
This let you make your hero simulate sex with his girlfriend by
tapping buttons on the joypad.
Subpoenaed by New York District attorneys, Rockstar initially denied
involvement; a press release said it was "the work of a determined group of
hackers who have gone to significant trouble to alter scenes in the
official version of the game".
But Rockstar accepted this summer that "Hot Coffee" had been left on the disc by its staff, even if you did have to hack into the game code to unveil it.
The crucial fact was that the company PRs had lied.
Shortly afterwards, in July this year, the ultra-violent Manhunt 2 became
only the second game in British history to be refused a classification by
the British Board of Film Classification.
Both the company's cash cows were suddenly under threat – and with them Rockstar itself.
This is a world away from the Housers' first run-ins with authority, where they responded to the British Police Federation's summary of Grand Theft Auto in 1998 as "sick, deluded and beneath contempt" with a glib statement: "We get into trouble every now and again – it's raw."
These days the Houser brothers no longer get into trouble "every now and
While both enjoy the New York life, Dan in a Manhattan apartment
and Sam in a £2.5-million Brooklyn brownstone – part of his property
portfolio– with his English wife and two-year-old child, trouble follows them from project to project.
It now threatens the financial stability of Take 2, Rockstar's US publisher.
Take 2 is also the subject of a US investigation for false accounting and backdated stock options stretching back to 2002: three former executives of Take 2 have been convicted this summer, the third receiving three years' probation for falsifying a letter to regulators.
After the "Hot Coffee" controversy Take 2 recorded six consecutive
quarterly losses, having previously generated huge profits in the year
following the release of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
The recent delay to signature game Grand Theft Auto IV – from this October to April 2008 – wiped a quarter of a billion dollars off Take 2's earnings forecasts.
And the controversy has found an echo inside Rockstar's New York office –
from ex-members of its own team.
Over the past eight years the company has had a high turnover of staff – often, it seems, with good reason.
Dan Houser's former assistant Gillian Telling described being called a "whore"
and a "c***" when she brought him the wrong type of bagel.
Many key members of the team have left, including Terry Donovan, son of the
late celebrity photographer Terence Donovan, who had been at school with
the Housers and had been the marketing brains behind Rockstar's image.
More even than this, though, Rockstar has been accused of placing a vast sector
of its industry at risk.
"I will be happy to preside over Rockstar's corporate funeral," says Jack
Thompson, a Florida attorney who is engaged on several of the lawsuits
against the company.
"Rockstar has painted a bullseye on the back of the whole industry."
"Sam always wanted to win. He will go on until he gets what he wants.
"I remember when he was a little boy we would take him to Brighton for the
"He would spend as long as possible on the machines playing computer
"He was competitive – he always wanted to be successful at whatever
he did…"
The Housers' mother Geraldine has every reason to be proud of her sons. Sam
and Dan (now 35 and 33) did well to get into St Paul's and, previously, its famous prep school, Colet Court.
Sam was in the same year as Tory Shadow Chancellor George Osborne.
School contemporary Patrick Neate, the Whitbread Prize-winning writer,
recalls, "Sam was a quirky kid – long, glossy black hair flowing down to
his chin, with big DM boots.
"He'd sit in class being ironic. He wasn't a great academic achiever – a nice kid, not a bad boy but definitely slightly subversive and popular with the other boys."
Another school friend remembers him being into skateboarding and hip-hop
Dan, according to Neate, "was more straightforward, played in the
football team – the nicest, most sensible guy you could wish to meet."
Both, friends recall, were occasionally collected from school in the
Rolls-Royce of their father, Wally, a jazz fan who was involved with Soho
club Ronnie Scott's virtually from its inception in 1959 until its sale in
Geraldine, meanwhile, found fame as actress Geraldine Moffat, playing
Glenda in the iconic 1971 British thriller Get Carter and co-starring in a
host of classic series including The Sweeney, The Persuaders, Jason King
and The New Avengers.
After school, Dan went up to Oxford to read geography.
"While Sam is very driven, Dan is possibly more relaxed," says Geraldine. "He is more of an intellectual and writes the scripts for the games whereas Sam is more the ideas man."
Sam followed his parents' creative lead, working with music Svengali Simon
Fuller at the inception of the Spice Girls phenomenon.
"He actually worked at BMG throughout his time at university," she says.
"He was involved with the Spice Girls. He went off to shoot their first
video on one of his first jobs.
"He has always been interested in films and thinks that computer games are quite like films and there is a kinship between the two.
"But he says more people play games than watch films so he knew where his future lay.
"He had a vision. Although computer games were in their infancy he could see that there was a developing market but BMG did not want to invest the millions needed."
In 1993, both Housers moved into BMG's newly launched games division. There
they were the polar opposite of the geeks that dominated the gaming
industry at the time.
As junior executives they were pitched the idea for a car-chase idea called Race Chase from an Edinburgh developer then known as DMA.
The brothers added their own brilliantly commercial twist: a feeling of criminality, of cool – of rock 'n' roll.
It evolved into Grand Theft Auto.
In 1998, BMG's games division was bought by Take 2 in New York. The Housers
took their team there, where they became Rockstar Games.
During their rapid rise to fame the Housers promoted their games with a
series of exclusive parties in New York.
Wannabe partygoers had to phone Rockstar and answer questions to convince them that they were hip enough to enter the Rockstar Loft – then just hope they would be posted two pink tickets to the parties.
Sam Houser boasted that his association with Grand Theft Auto had won him girlfriends.
New Rockstar studios opened all over the world – in Vancouver, Vienna, San
Diego, Tokyo.
For eight years, Rockstar flew journalists business-class to
its new base in New York and all over the world and plied them with
champagne, limousines and five-star hotels.
Every new game that Rockstar brought out meant more freebies – eight-CD boxed sets of soundtracks, free leather jackets, free holidays, free clothes, free televisions.
Less tastefully, reviewers of the gory Manhunt were sent loops of barbed wire.
But the Housers thrived on controversy. They promoted Grand Theft Auto 2
with stickers saying, "Steal this game".
Proud of their heritage in music videos, the brothers created a cinematic
advertisement on 16mm film that showed a young man stealing a car then
driving along eating amphetamine tablets with his jaw uncontrollably
chewing and eyes bulging, all set to the sounds of blaring dance music.
But slowly the Rockstars began to realise the rock-star dream to its full,
bitter extent.
Growing increasingly paranoid and slowly more estranged from the world, the brothers began to retreat behind a PR smokescreen and rarely showed their faces. Faced with increasing pressure over the violent content in their games, the Housers simply stopped dealing with the world in 2001.
It was as if they had disappeared.
While previously company spokesmen had actively courted controversy,
boasting of taking journalists on press trips to fire guns out of the
windows of moving cars, suddenly they became silent, unreachable.
Now they routinely refuse interviews – when Live approached them they declined on the grounds that they were "busy".
As they retreated, though, the critical noise that is now threatening to
engulf them increased.
Jeff Williams, the former Rockstar producer turned blogger, wrote on his website, "This was not a relaxing environment in which to work."
He described how "certain senior management" would keep juniors such as himself waiting outside the door of their offices while they played football on PSP2 until 10pm.
Employees were forbidden to interrupt the games even if it meant missing their own deadlines.
"Rockstar always saw itself as more of a style company than a games
company," he says today.
"How much fun a game was always came second to how cool you were for playing it. This year with "Hot Coffee" they were lashing out like a wounded animal. It was actually kind of sad and embarrassing to watch."
Within the company Williams wasn't alone in his views.
"There was such a culture of secrecy there that employees became conditioned to keep quiet.
"But I didn't work for the CIA – I worked for a games company. The response I've had has been 100 per cent positive. And half the traffic to my blog was former Take 2 employees."
For Williams there was an easily defined last straw: the first Manhunt,
which got past the British censor "narrowly" in 2004.
The whole of Williams' blog is a catalogue of how the Houser brothers milked the Grand Theft Auto cash cow to create new, misconceived franchises such as violent
western Red Dead Revolver and Manhunt.
The latter is set in a bizarre world in which the player is rewarded for gruesome, slow-motion kills.
In the Nintendo Wii version of Manhunt 2, players enact murders using the motion-sensitive controller, making a sawing motion to cut somebody in half at the groin or to slice somebody's skull in half.
The budgets for these new titles often topped the £50 million mark yet the
Housers remained convinced that they could rely on the games' sheer cool to
keep on selling.
This hubris was about to cost them dear.
"Manhunt just made us all feel icky," Williams says.
"It was all about the violence. We all knew there was no way we could explain away that game.
"We were crossing a line."
Sue Clark, head of communication at the British Board of Film
Classification, says, "Refusing to classify a game is a very extreme thing
for us to do.
"We always look at ways in which a film or videogame could be
altered to work. This couldn't be altered.
"There is nothing in this game but hunting down and killing people for kicks."
The Board's decision is currently under appeal with Rockstar filing an
11th-hour protest against the BBFC's decision.
But success seems unlikely.
Reviewers in the UK now have to visit Rockstar's studio in London where
they are overseen playing the games in two demo rooms with huge home-
cinema systems.
One recently described the London office as "eerie".
With Manhunt 2 under appeal and with uncertainty about its future, the place is
virtually a ghost town.
"It was controversial for Rockstar to make a sequel to Manhunt – it was
asking for trouble," says Neil Long, editor of British trade magazine MCV.
"Normally people in the industry leap to defend Rockstar. I would say that
the response has been more mixed this time."
"I am very pleased that the BBFC has realised it has power," says MP Keith
"I raised this issue on a number of occasions in the House of Commons.
Where I found resistance was in the Department of Trade and Industry.
"The perspective was always that if you regulated violent games too heavily it
would scare the industry away from London and into Europe."
In America the tide has turned even further. Jack Thompson says: "The
Alabama Supreme Court has cleared the way for a civil suit against Take 2
for damages.
"My point is that there is stuff that goes over the line. The
ban on Manhunt 2 was great for the games industry – it underscored the
point that there is a legitimate ratings system.
"They should be glad to see them gone."
From within the Rockstar camp, almost nothing – only this from spokesman
Rodney Walker: "We are making entertainment and it should be judged as
"The games we make are very popular with people who play videogames and they are well reviewed and admired in that community.
"Critics look at our games as political but we see them as entertainment and
we think they should be judged as such."
In the end, Rockstar Games has been hampered by the fact that while some of
its games funded by Grand Theft Auto enjoyed modest success – Rockstar
Table Tennis for example – most failed to capture the public imagination.
"They desperately need to release Grand Theft Auto IV," says Thompson.
"They are sinking like a stone." For him, though, there is a clear moral
"Just because you are a genius at programming doesn't make you a
wise person.
"Rockstar and Take 2 have confused their bad-boy thinking with
the idea that they could get away with this type of nonsense forever.
"They described Manhunt 2 as "fine art". Well that would make Jack The Ripper the Rembrandt of his generation."
Sam and Dan Houser have shifted from the script of their life so
dramatically that even their more innocent plans now come under fire.
In 2005, a group called Peaceaholics picketed Rockstar's New York offices with
banners to protest at the release of one of its new games – in America it
was called Bully.
Despite the controversy-baiting title the game was in reality fairly innocent, letting you gain kudos with different groups within a public school.
In Britain it was retitled under the name Canis Canem Edit. This, as any
Old Pauline will tell you, translates as 'dog eat dog'. Which as the
Housers now know, works both ways.


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Paedophile jailed after blackmailing teen into raping his own 12-month-old niece
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A sick paedophile has been jailed after he posed as children to encourage teenagers to send him nude pictures - so he could blackmail them into abusing children as young as TWELVE-MONTHS-OLD.
Last September Paul Leighton, 32, was working in Sunderland when his phone was flagged up to national authorities as holding a number of indecent images.
Northumbria Police took on the investigation and specialist trained detectives in the specialist Paedophile Online Investigation Team (POLIT) began to analyse and trace the user of those profiles.
Leighton was arrested and his phone was seized by officers - at which point the depths of his offences were uncovered.
Detectives found that Leighton had been befriending school children online and asking them to send him nude photos.
He would then use the nude photos to blackmail the children in to committing sexual offences against other children, often younger siblings, or on themselves.
Leighton threatened to reveal the nude pictures to their families and friends if they did not comply, leading to the children carrying out the horrific abuse on camera, which Leighton kept stored on his mobile phone.
On one occasion Leighton blackmailed a 14 year-old from Florida to commit a series of rapes against his 12-month-old niece.
Another time he forced a boy in his late teens to sexually abuse his 13-year-old sister at their home in the US.
Leighton also blackmailed a 14-year-old girl, again from America, to perform sexual acts on her 13-year-old brother on camera.
On other occasions he forced teenagers to masturbate on camera and perform sex acts on other younger siblings.
It was also found that Leighton asked one of his victims to go and find young children on the street when their young relative was not around.
He would then share the sick videos with other children he had befriended on social media to obtain more material. It later emerged that all of Leighton's offending was committed through his mobile phone.
Detectives at Northumbria Police have worked for a year to get to the bottom of the offences and have worked closely with authorities at the US Homeland Security Investigations based in London.
As a result they were able to charge Leighton with 21 offences - including three charges of rape relating to a child in the States.
Leighton, of Seaham, pleaded guilty to the charges against him and was jailed for 16 years at Newcastle Crown Court today (Mon).
He was told he would serve a further six years on licence and was handed a Sexual Offences Prevention Order with a string of conditions stopping him from contacting children.
The officer in charge of the case, PC Andrea Atkinson, was also commended for her work in bringing Leighton to justice.
Detective Sergeant Peter Morgan, part of the team who investigated Leighton, said the case was the worst they have ever come across in their career.
He said: "Paul Leighton is one of the most serious offenders I have ever come across and his actions have had devastating impacts across the world.
"He has victims in this country, America, Canada, and Australia and there may be dozens more who have not yet reported abuse to the authorities.
"His offending has had a lasting impact on all the officers on the investigative team but from the minute Leighton was arrested he has shown no remorse for his actions.
"He was calculated and sophisticated in his approach to this abuse and his lack of thought for his victims is spine-chilling.
"Hundreds of families will never recover from the trauma of these offences and will have to live with what he has done to them for the rest of their lives.
"As for Leighton, he will spend a substantial part of his life behind bars where he cannot hurt anyone else - that is thanks to the hard work of our detectives.
"This case proves that we will work with law enforcement from across the globe to pursue abusers like Paul Leighton wherever they are and whoever they offend against."
Superintendent Mick Barton, digital forensics lead at Northumbria Police, said the case was a "chilling reminder" of the dangers posed by children talking to strangers online.
He said: "We all know that the internet can be a dangerous environment for young people but this case shows just how dangerous it can be.
"Young people do not understand just what can happen when they speak to strangers online or send indecent images of themselves over the internet.
"We regularly go into schools to try to educate children about cyber-crime, online grooming and the pitfalls of sexting. This case shows why that is so important.
"Parents need to be challenging their children about what they are doing online and warning them about what exactly can happen when they speak to strangers or share indecent images.
"Unfortunately we will live in a world where sick, vile creatures like Paul Leighton take advantage of young children using the internet.
"He committed these offences on a mobile phone and used the cover of fake social media profiles to carry out abuse that many of us could not even comprehend.
"If you find yourself in trouble then speak to police straight away and let us help you. Nobody should feel pressured into doing something they feel uncomfortable with online.
"Our detectives will continue to dedicate their lives to taking these kind of people off the street. Call us and we will believe you."
James R. Mancuso, attaché for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in London said: "Protecting children from exploitation is one of the most important missions we have, and as this case demonstrates, it takes the collaboration of law enforcement agencies around the world to tackle this crime.
"HSI is committed to working with partners like the Northumbria Police to arrest individuals who commit such heinous acts and ensure that they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law"
As part of the sentencing hearing, the court also heard statements from the mothers of two young girls abused by individuals blackmailed by Leighton.
A mother of a 16-year-old victim said: "She is very angry and anxious, she is terrified that he is going to come and get her. It breaks my heart that she feels that way, and I am at a loss how to cope with this."
"It angers me that she and our family have had to go through this and never ever thought that something like this would happen to us. The stress and anguish is never ending."
Another mother of a 14-year-old girl said: "She has lost a lot of confidence. It is very rare that you get a laugh or smile out of her. It is hard to watch."
Leighton pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to three counts of rape, two sexual assaults on girls under 13, four counts of causing or inciting grooming, three counts of making and two counts of distributing indecent photographs, three counts of blackmail, one count of assault on a girl under 13, and one count of possessing a class B drug.
Anyone who feels like they have been a victim of a cyber-crime, or feels that they may have been groomed online, can contact police on 101 or Victims First Northumbria on 0800 011 3116.
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i can not count anymore the times that i dream of being with the Hollywood and local actors and actresses. Even those that are in the music industry. it started, as far as i can remember, when i am in grade 5. what are these dreams trying to tell me? are these telling me to be in entertainment industry and hopefully become famous too? how i wish its true..
anyway, i would like to share some of my unforgettable dreams about it.
Backstreet Boys: they went to our house in surigao del sur and fetch me. they said they were having a concert and they want me to be part of it. i did not hesitate, of course. then we flew. literally, we flew together in the sky and arrive in the venue of their concert abroad.
Romeo and Juliet movie: i am with claire danes as she was looking at the big sort of aquarium thing when she spotted leonardo, a.k.a romeo. claire then call me "jomarie, lets go!". we went up the giant stairway while romeo was staring at us.
michael jackson: i am watching his concert and was at the front seat. the crowd are crying out his name. as he finished his last song, i was standing near the stage where i can see him clearly and he can see me too. i said, "goodbye michael". he replied "good bye".
aga mulach: i was roaming around a village, when i suddenly lost my consciousness in front of a house. i was awakened when i felt that someone carried me. when i opened my eyes, it was him, aga mulach.
romnick sarmienta: we kissed
john lloyd cruz and albert martinez: i forgot the story about it but the three of us were together and we know each other.
i was not thinking about them when i am about to sleep that night. i just wish that, if if in my dreams i am able to be with the stars, i hope i can dream about brad pitt and me.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led NDA government's first budget saw chunks of copy-pasted schemes from the Gujarat budgets under him as chief minister, like the round-the-clock power supply, riverfront project, Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana for tribals, smart cities, solar power generation along canals, "rurbanisation" and even launching of theme-based tourist circuits.
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's maiden budget clearly drew inspiration from Gujarat, the state he represents as Rajya Sabha MP. Jaitley said in his speech, "Gujarat has demonstrated successfully the Rurban development model of urbanisation of the rural areas, through which people living in the rural areas can get efficient civic infrastructure and associate services. Shyama Prasad Mukherji Rurban Mission will be launched to deliver integrated project based infrastructure in the rural areas, which will also include development of economic activities and skill development." Through the Rurban model, Gujarat has identified over 200-odd villages where it is already giving "urban facilities" in rural areas.
So Jyotigram project launched by Modi in Gujarat in 2003 became Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti yojana in the Union budget 2014-15 and the "beti bachao, beti vadhavo (save the girl child, welcome the girl child)" introduced in Gujarat after the 2001 census showed a sex ratio skewed against girls merged with the Kanya Kelavni campaign, got bigger and is called, "Beti bachao, beti padhao" in its India version. And the Statue of Unity project to build the world's tallest statue as a memorial to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, is now a national project with Rs 200 crore Central allocation.
"Most of the successful projects in Gujarat have found a reflection in the Union budget. Be it Beti Bachao, Jyotigram Yojana, Vanbandhu Kalyan Yojana, etc. Most of these projects were part of the Gujarat model that has been widely popularised," said Arun Kumar Jagatramka, CMD of Gujarat NRE Coke Ltd on the sidelines of a budget viewing session organised by the CII (Confederation of Indian Industry) here.
Another popular scheme for providing 24×7 uninterrupted power supply – Jyotigram Yojana – gets a national platform through the Union budget. Christened as Deendayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana, with an allocation of Rs 500 crore, the programme calls "for feeder separation" to augment power supply to the rural areas and for strengthening sub-transmission and distribution systems. "This yojana at a national scale will turn out to be a power saver for the NDA government," said Vimal Ambani, Managing Director, Tower Overseas Ltd.
Similar is the "Van Bandhu Kalyan Yojana" where Rs 100 crore has been allocated for welfare of tribals. The NDA government also launched the Rs 100-crore Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao Yojana for generating awareness and also help in improving the efficiency of delivery of welfare services meant for women.
The soil-health cards and soil-testing laboratories popularised by the Gujarat government through annual Krishi Mahotsav also finds a mention in Jaitley's budget who set aside Rs 100 crore for the card and an additional Rs 56 crore to set up 100 mobile soil-testing laboratories across the country. R Mukundan, Managing Director, Tata Chemicals Ltd, welcomed the move to replicate the soil-health card, in his reaction to the budget.
Another concept that has links with Gujarat, is the smart city project. The Union budget has allocated a sum of Rs 7,070 crore for development of smart cities in India. The GIFT City project in Gandhinagar and the Dholera project in Ahmedabad district are likely to benefit, say industrialists in the state. "We can see the effect of Gujarat Model in this budget wherein in the lines of Gujarat certain schemes have been announced…these are all highly welcome," said Piruz Khambatta, Chairman, Rasna Pvt Ltd.
The NDA government has also taken the Gujarat's Sabarmati Riverfront project to Delhi and chosen Kedarnath, Haridwar, Kanpur, Varanasi, Allahabad, Patna and Delhi for "Ghat development and beautification of river front".
"A number of incentives in the Union budget has been directed at Gujarat. Be it the Rs 25-crore investment allowance for new plant and machinery or the provision for start-up entrepreneurs, Gujaratis stand to benefit. The budget also provides incentives for a number of sectors in Gujarat including textiles, infrastructure, chemicals, solar power and the Alang ship-breaking yard," said Yogesh Shah, Partner, Deloitte Haskins & Sells.
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Citation: At approximately 0445 hours, I was performing pre-operational sanitation verification in the Packing Department. There are pipes permanently installed in the ceiling, between the Evisceration Department on the second floor and the Packing Department on the first floor, to permit giblets harvested on the second floor to be piped into their chillers on the first floor. On inspecting these pipes, I observed product residue buildup in the pipes for livers and hearts, and product grease in the pipe for necks. I rejected these pipes and informed , sanitation lead, of my findings. I also observed black mold covering an area approximately one inch by twelve inches on a ceiling tile above a light fixture at the south end of the giblet chillers. At approximately 0503 hours, I reinspected the pipes and ceiling, determined them acceptable and released the area to production. I informed , QA tech, that I would be issuing an NR. Plant management has received oral and written notification of this noncompliance.
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Social media has become an essential part of people. Governments, businesses and consultants depend entirely on social media for enhancing the customer experience. They interact with the consumers to promote their policies and products as well as facilitate different business transactions. These interactions leave traces of data, which can be analyzed to provide better services to customers as well as get preferences for particular products and services.
Latin America social media market is growing at a phenomenal pace. The number of internet users is close to 160 million. The number of users of Facebook in Latin America is around 179 million and around 41 million users of twitter in Brazil making it the second largest market. This huge social media market is being used by the advertisers to get their products more popularity and increase the sales online. Social media analytics will help the companies earn a significant share of the advertising market on the social media sites.
In the earlier days, brands participated or interacted with their customers online actively but totally ignored the information that resulted from the same. Now, most of the brands are capitalizing on the benefits of the social media data received by tracking the user behavior and interaction online.
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Several of you have contacted me over the past few days in response to a letter obviously mailed to many San Francisco Bay Area households asking you to send money to an animal shelter on New York's Long Island: North Shore Animal League. The letter from North Shore talks about a dog they reportedly rescued from a Maryland shelter, transported to Long Island, made well and then adopted.
Assuming the story is true it is a sweet tale. Assuming it's true and that the text of the letter is accurate, this dog Molly is one of 20,000 animals they will rescue and adopt this year. I think that is great, and like you I applaud the effort.
My issue with this — and the question asked by those of you who contacted me because of the letter — is about asking for financial support from communities with their own community needs, with animals in communities being rescued by local community-based animal welfare organizations which need local community support to continue to save lives.
I spent a few days trying to call someone at North Shore using the phone number on their website (516-767-3519). I wanted to ask how many animals they had helped from here in the Bay Area, from the community they are now asking to support them. Oddly, the phone was either busy or just rang (20, 30 rings, no response). Unable to talk with someone I went onto their website and found my way to spot that asked for my zip code and promised to help me find the animals needing rescue near me. I typed in my shelter's zip (94401) and was somewhat surprised to see page after page of animals actually housed here at Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA. As far as I know, as far as anyone here knows, North Shore has never helped or made the offer to help any animals from our community.
I've talked about this sort of thing before in other posts, most notably with the ASPCA. The "A" is very fond of sending mail which can easily make a reader believe that their work is helping animals in the reader's community, when that is most certainly not the case.
Personally, I can't see anything wrong with someone from San Francisco sending money to a group in New York to help an animal in Maryland if that is what you want to do. I just think you need to know what it is you want to support.
If you want to support the work of animal rescue in your own community and you don't know who is doing that work, please feel free to contact me. I'll be more than happy to do the research for you, no matter where you live, and help connect you with your local animal rescue groups. They, and most importantly the animals in your community, will be most appreciative.


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On April 12, 2008, I started writing My Baking Adventures. My very first post, and very first picture, was of this cake:
To this day, some 4 years later, this remains our favorite chocolate cake. In fact, it's been awhile since I've made it – I think today is a perfect day to bake it again 🙂
Beatty's Chocolate Cake – Ina Garten
Butter, for greasing the pans
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pans
2 cups sugar
3/4 cups good cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup buttermilk, shaken
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 cup freshly brewed hot coffee
Chocolate Buttercream, recipe follows
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter 2 (8-inch) round cake pans. Line with parchment paper, then butter and flour the pans.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder into the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment and mix on low speed until combined. In another bowl, combine the buttermilk, oil, eggs, and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, slowly add the wet ingredients to the dry. With mixer still on low, add the coffee and stir just to combine, scraping the bottom of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a cake tester comes out clean. Cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then turn them out onto a cooling rack and cool completely. Place 1 layer, flat side up, on a flat plate or cake pedestal. With a knife or offset spatula, spread the top with frosting. Place the second layer on top, rounded side up, and spread the frosting evenly on the top and sides of the cake.
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6 ounces good semisweet chocolate (recommended: Callebaut)
1/2 pound (2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 large egg yolk, at room temperature
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon instant coffee powder
Chop the chocolate and place it in a heat-proof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir until just melted and set aside until cooled to room temperature.
In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter on medium-high speed until light yellow and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg yolk and vanilla and continue beating for 3 minutes. Turn the mixer to low, gradually add the confectioners' sugar, then beat at medium speed, scraping down the bowl as necessary, until smooth and creamy. Dissolve the coffee powder in 2 teaspoons of the hottest tap water. On low speed, add the chocolate and coffee to the butter mixture and mix until blended. Don't whip! Spread immediately on the cooled cake.


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The Death and Life of Great American Cities was written in 1961 and is now one of the most influential book in city planning. In it, Jane Jacobs proposed four conditions that promote life in a city. However, these conditions have not been empirically tested until recently. We operationalized these conditions extracting information from Open Data, Foursquare and mobile phone data and testing them in six Italian cities.
The Mobile Territorial Lab: A multilayered and dynamic view on parents' daily lives
Description of the Mobile Territorial Lab (MTL) project, a longitudinal living lab which has been sensing by means of technology (mobile phones) the lives of more than 100 parents in different areas of the Trentino region in Northern Italy. We present the preliminary results after two years of experimentation of, to the best of our knowledge, the most complete picture of parents' daily lives.
A multi-source dataset of urban life in the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino
Description of the richest open multi-source dataset ever released on two geographical areas. The dataset is composed of telecommunications, weather, news, social networks and electricity data from the city of Milan and the Province of Trentino.
Investigating the relationships between spatial structures and urban characteristics (NETMOB2015 at MIT)
Analysis of the communication networks of 12 Italian cities with more than 150'000 inhabitants in order to investigate the impact of cities' spatial structures and dynamics on different socioeconomic outcomes such as economic growth, innovation, contagious disease rates and crime.
Short-term anomaly detection in gas consumption through ARIMA and Artificial Neural Network forecast
Personal projects
A new massive data analytics approach to the football
Small framework of tools which permits the coaches to base their new strategies not only on their intuitions and judgments but also on comprehensive (and maybe not human-eye visible) statistics. These tools were developed using Massive-data analytics techniques.
Formal verification OAuth 2.0 protocol
Formal verification of the protocol OAuth 2.0 (draft 22) using the automatic cryptographic protocol verifier Proverif.
Best Master's student
The University of Trento granted me this honour.
Finalist Data Journalism Awards 2014
The Westgate attack project was nominated in the Data Journalism Awards 2014, organized by the Global Editors Network.
Best application
Ulook was recognized as the best application in the "Community and Social" category by the "Smau Mob App Awards" that took place during the Smau 2014.
Special creativity price
Special creativity award from IED at StartupWeekEnd 2012 - Turin. The award was assigned to "Linked Green" project, that permits to scan a product's barcorde and see all the informations about its package and it's eco sustainability.
Other projects I've done in the past
postcards iOS application
Westgate attack
Information visualization project
fashion iOS application
green/eco heating
personal project for an italian referendum
website for the european heating leader
website for the european barbecue leader
Anime and manga community
customers' service website


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EMILY's List has been courting Judd for months; last fall EMILY's List president Stephanie Schriock said, "We've had some initial conversations with Ashley Judd. She was on our panel in Charlotte. She did a fantastic job, a fantastic job. She wowed the crowd. The crowd literally started saying, 'run Ashley, run!"
How extreme is EMILY's List? In 1998, the organization withdrew their support for Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas, whom they had supported for the Senate only a year before, because she voted in favor of Rick Santorum's bill outlawing partial-birth abortion.
For EMILY's List, all abortion must be legal, including partial birth abortion, which has been described by the American Family Association thus:
A partial birth abortion typically involves an abortionist reaching into the uterus, grabbing the unborn baby's leg with forceps, and pulling the still-living baby into the birth canal, except for the head, which is deliberately kept just inside the womb. The abortionist then sticks scissors into the back of the baby's skull and spreads the tips of the scissors apart to enlarge the wound. He then removes the scissors, inserts a suction catheter, and sucks the baby's brains out. The collapsed head is then removed from the uterus.
Judd should fit right in with EMILY's List. She's not big on kiddies in any respect; as she said, "It's unconscionable to breed, with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries."
Judd may fit right in with the insanity of EMILY's List, but the sane, sober, moral people of Kentucky may have a different opinion.


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Nigeria's foreign minister says his Nigeria will not turn over exiled Liberian president Charles Taylor to a third country, but would consider sending him back to Liberia. Speaking in New York Wednesday, Oluyemi Adenji said his country had no intention of turning over Mr. Taylor to the special court in Sierra Leone. He's been indicted by the court for crimes against humanity relating to Sierra Leone's civil war.
Allison Cooper is a spokesperson for the UN backed Sierra Leone Special Court. From Freetown, she spoke to English to Africa Joe De Capua about the Nigerian position on Charles Taylor, WHO is currently living in exile in Calabar, Nigeria.
She says, "This is not a new position for the government of Nigeria. They have said this before...The reaction to that at the special court is we really believe that it's time for justice to take its course, rather than having different politicians regardless of where they are, whether they're Nigeria or Liberian, stating what the course of action should be for a lawfully indicted international war criminal."
Ms. Cooper believes there is growing international pressure on Nigeria to turnover Mr. Taylor. She says, "Certainly, I believe that events of this year show that Nigeria is coming under increasing international pressure to hand Charles Taylor over. There was a unanimous resolution passed by the European Parliament earlier this year that was followed by resolutions through the US Congress in May. There's been very, very serious and very, very loud calls towards Nigeria to consider handing him over to the Special Court for Sierra Leone."
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ok so i was looking around at all the irelia builds, i tried nearly all of them and damn did i do really well. i felt confident in my own abilities to create my own build, and here it is.
first off i wanna talk to you about masteries. as irelia is pretty squishy i put 21 points into defense, 3 points into utility so i respawn faster, and i threw a couple points into offense, making sure to take a point in smite as we will need that. also take a point in revive.
as you mighta heard on masteries, the summoner spells we take are revive and smite. smite helps us with our jungling while revive cuts down our dead time.
runes are kinda tricky, i went with flat mana marks as irelia has low mana, she has a serious mana problem..
anyway for yellows i took attack speed, which will let me hit them more with my ****ing awesome true damage. seriously just look at how awesome that sounds.
blues are magic resist, as the enemy team can easily gank up and stunlock irelia with their spells, so you're gonna need some magic resist.
lastly lets talk about quints. now you're gonna tell me that, i can't have more than 3 quints. but thats where i tell you that your stupid because i have 3 runepages, so i can have 9 quints. but i could only afford 5. i took 4 quints of movespeed so i can
run away catch enemies that are trying to run in fear. i also took a quint of magic penetration because that increases the damage of hiten style, now thats an important skill i want you to learn it.
ok so as for spells, what few people fail to realize is how awesome hiten style is. passive lifesteal with true damage holy **** true damage i bet your enemies just **** their pants upon realizing that all their armor and magic resist is useless.
but ****ing don't stop at 5 levels, you can actually learn hiten style 13 times, something i just recently found out. the game doesn't tell you what that is, but with some calculations, 13 levels is 200% lifesteal with 5000 true damage each hit. holy **** why is irelia so op i could just ****ing 1 hit everything, even a full warmog full feasted cho.
you'll also need your ultimate for some reason, it heals you i dont know it sounded good.
now lets focus on gameplay.
right off the start purchase a meki pendant and run into the bushes next to the golem. once golem spawns, use smite on it but do not kill it. instead let it kill you, then use revive, run down to bottom lane and gank. no one ever sees that coming, and you'll usually walk out of there with 2 free kills.
using that money i prefer to buy an archangels staff because ******** does irelia have the biggest mana problem i've ever seen. and hiten style does even more damage with ability power.
but now its time to get serious. go back to that golem and die again, and be sure to use revive, that spell is so awesome. continue to gank bot in this fashion until you are 30/0/0, dieing to the golem after every gank.
ok now by mid game you should have the archangels staff, along with the will of the ancients, chalice of harmony, and frozen heart. push a tower, any one, but most importantly, make sure the tower kills you. seriously everytime you die you get to use revive, and you gain a bonus 400 hit points! irelia is so damn squishy..
now this is the part when your allies, amazed at how awesome you are, will try to surrender so the enemy team doesn't feel bad for feeding you so much and loosing because they actually win. but no don't surrender. you want to rub it in the enemies face how much you've kil.. damnit they stunlocked me to death again. ok no big worries, i'll just buy boots of swiftness so i can escape.
now, here comes the final assault on their base. theres a little known glitch that if you die to their pool tower (the one in the back corner) and then revive, the enemy team looses. i know its crazy but the pool tower starts shooting the nexus. but shhh don't tell anyone i told you that, or riot will fix it.
all in all, i ended game with a new record of 88/0/1, because that ******** karthus stole my kill, seriously i woulda killed that ***** on the enemy team who flashed across a wall and into the enem.. damn stunlocks!


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I had always hoped and dreamed to have a daughter (or two) from the time I was very small. Before you were born my thoughts were consumed with how life was going to be when you arrived. As we got the news we were going to have a baby girl I celebrated both in my head and out loud. I dreamed of all of the fun things we would experience together as mother and daughter. I could feel your tiny body growing inside of me and was so anxious to see what you would look like when you arrived.
As the time of your projected birth date grew closer I became more and more excited! You decided to arrive just two weeks early due to some minor complications at the end of my very uneventful pregnancy. As you were drawn out of me into this cold and noisy world you let out a huge cry to let us know you were okay - yet upset to be pulled from such a nice warm womb. You and your dad left the operating room to get cleaned up and ready for us to meet again and for you to meet all of the family and friends who had already arrived at the hospital.
What felt like an eternity later was just over 30 minutes, but we were reunited once again. After you were passed around for a while I got you back safely in my arms. You slept in the bassinet next to my bed and never made a peep. I thought then that you were the most perfect baby in the world. That thought has never changed.
Within hours I was alarmed that you could not nurse and they talked about supplementing you with formula. By the 12 hour mark you had your first suspected seizure. I really didn't even know what that meant. Five days later you were transported by ambulance and a team of people to the closest NICU where you spent 23 more days. This was only the beginning and a small taste of what was yet to come.
Countless tests, MRIs, CT scans, x-rays, blood and urine tests, spinal taps, PICU, medically induced comas, pneumatosis of the colon, countless runs at more than 24 seizure medications, surgeries, sleepless nights, EEGs and so much more and still no answers as to why? Doctors scrutinized every little thing about you trying to pin it to a syndrome, metabolic or mitochondrial disorder. Doctors would look at you and say I think she may have _____, but stay off the Internet and don't Google it. Yeah, right! We were told so many horrible possibilities most of which you would not live past age 3.
We learned just five short months ago the root cause for all of your medical challenges is a gene mutation called SCN2A. A prognosis that does not have a great outcome, yet today you turn 10! This is a milestone worth celebrating!! I wasn't sure we would ever see you turn double digits and here you are with so much life in you and so much more to give!
Emily, you amazing us everyday. No matter how many seizures you have you still have an infectious smile and laughter that lights up a room. You have taught us that life is not always how you planned it, but that the different paths still brings with it so many great things: amazing people, new friendships, a new outlook on life, and an appreciation for each moment of every day. Because of you, we live with no regrets. Because of you, we see the beauty that many people are blind to. Because of you, we live each day as if it was our last together. Because of you, we see life with a whole other light. Because of you, we don't sweat the small stuff. You are our light, our love, our peace and our strength!
On your 10th birthday, we honor you and how perfect you are. We do not live in a world of "what if's", we live in a world of appreciation for the time we have together and the hear and now.
Emily Grace, we are honored to be with you along on this journey and look forward to celebrating so many more milestones (big or small) along the way.
We love you with all our hearts,
Mom and Dad
A poem I wrote to Emily a few years ago on her birthday...
On the day you were born I looked to the sky,
with a joyful tear in my eye.
I thanked the Lord for entrusting me with your life.
I said "welcome to the world, this is your new life!"
I promised to protect you through the challenges you'd face,
But I had no idea just what was in place.
Your body would shake from the seizures in your brain,
I would call out to God to help ease your pain.
I wanted so badly to get rid of the seizures,
So you could have life someday as a "typical" teenager.
Although it was rough for many years,
I always had hope and very few fears.
We almost lost you more than one time,
But you held on to life and showed us you're fine.
You have taught us so much that I never expected
And showed there's a lot to learn from the unexpected.
Your beauty shines through both inside and out,
Your love is unconditional and that's what it is all about.
I wake each morning and still thank the Lord
For my beautiful girl who doesn't speak a word.
May you continue to shine as bright as the sun,
And I promise to help you have as much fun
As a "typical child" would each day of their life
That is my promise to you each day of your life!
I thank you for all that you have given to me
And want the whole world to know and to see
A beautiful girl who does not walk, talk or move
Is a blessing to all with all that you do!
Today is a day to we celebrate you
And all the gifts you have given with the things that you do!
Until next time....


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A sheet of paper may be nothing more than a medium upon which you scribble notes and doodle the occasional design, but to a paper artist it represents something that can be folded, twisted and turned into anything. Check out the work of ten talented paper artists, each with their own unique style.
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I like the one where the guy cuts himself out. Neat stuff
Cool, but was disappointed that there was no mention of quilling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quilling
Its amazing what they can do with paper. But the male bust seems more paper mache than folded paper.


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