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Greg Laden, as you may already know, recently postulated a hypothesis regarding the possibility of a "rape switch" — a set of circumstances in which soldiers are significantly more likely to rape members of the local population — that rang true with him. The idea originally came from one of his students' term paper written in 1993. Discussion of the topic has been heated, to say the least, and I've been throwing more than my fair share of wild punches in the fray. This is just an attempt to put together a number of them into something more cohesive (and coherent) now that a lot of the rage has subsided. I will attempt to avoid or ameliorate those sticking points that drew so much of everyone's off-topic ire, and I'll even try to make up for a number of misconceptions I myself had in coming into the argument to begin with.
Now, fair warning, I'm a computer geek, and I have a tendency to think in computer terms rather than organic squishy ones. Also, I am the furthest thing from a psychologist imaginable, so I am neither qualified nor trained to try to tie everything together. There's a lot of preamble to get out of the way before I can get to my actual postulate, so here goes.
To start off, the major point of contention throughout the argument was Greg's assertion that anyone for whom this potential "switch" is turned on is automatically a rapist, whether they've raped or not. Everyone who argued against this usage seem to be coming at it from the angle that the word itself already has a defined meaning – being, someone who has, or has attempted to rape. I'm still trying to fight off a linguistic prescriptivist image, but words mean what they mean because we all agree that's what they mean, and if the majority of your audience disagrees with your use of a word, then it's up to you to prove that the definition needs stretching, or use a different term. This may be ceding too much ground to people who want to derail the conversation off the useful ideas presented in the original hypothesis, but my goal here is to avoid such derailment. As such, I will only refer to such people for whom the act is capable, as "potential rapists". I say this knowing full well that every single human being on the planet is a potential everything, so when referring to a person as being a "potential rapist" I mean that most or all of the barriers present normally in any member of a "normal" society have been removed and thus the abhorrent act in question is much more possible for this person. The word "potential", because of that shared capacity for evil omnipresent in humankind, is useless without first qualifying the argument as such.
Another problem with the argument as originally presented is that there is necessarily only one switch, that it affects only the ability to rape someone, and that it only has two positions, off or on. This kind of binary thinking is something we humans are good at, but it abstracts the argument to the point of absurdity. The human mind is much more squishy than that — as with my belief that no one single gene is responsible for the genetic components of, say, autism, or homosexuality, I suspect that no one single aspect of your personality is responsible for your ability to commit a rape. There are a number of factors that change fluidly from situation to situation.
There was a side argument (and a really galling one at that) as to whether or not Stephanie Zvan was justified in, while evaluating any particular situation to determine whether or not a person was capable of rape, applying the term "rapist" to that person in her decision process and acting accordingly — whether she ever voiced that internal label or not. That conversation mostly came out of the comments, and frankly, the original post only argued that she was within her rights to act as though the worst case scenario was true no matter what. Now, you can be in a dark alley and run away from an otherwise harmless man, and mistake the person as a rapist in the process, but if you were to pass the person in the street in broad daylight the next day and identify him as being a rapist, frankly you're in the wrong in that situation. But that wasn't the argument at hand, nor was it that armed soldiers or cops trained to react with the same level of certainty and people end up dying as a result. A few people kept pulling the conversation in those directions, and I honestly feel it was both out of line and disgusting. No matter what, a person has every imperative to protect themselves whether the danger is real or imagined — because you can't tell for sure one way or the other unless you refuse to act, at which point you'll find out for certain and there's no going back from there. That Greg is voicing the idea that this is possible — that there is a subset of people capable of rape and might therefore actually rape when presented the opportunity — may be heavy-handed in saying "let's call these people who CAN rape, 'rapists'," but that heavy-handedness only comes from stretching a term already agreed-upon to apply only to people who have committed the act, regardless of whether the actual idea (e.g. that all men are "potential rapists") is justified. This should not be extended under any circumstances to the internal thought processes of someone who has every right to defend themselves against even the merest potential of harm.
This brings me to my argument proper. In order to counter a particular misconception I had regarding BDSM, Becca provided a verbal illustration that started tying it all together for me, which I will quote:
I need a visual model; let's try a quadrant.
Put "consent" on the X axis and "violence" on the Y axis.
(upper right = both violence and consent, e.g. some BDSM; lower right = no violence but with consent, e.g. positive stuff; upper left = violence without consent, e.g. war rape; lower left = no violence or consent, e.g. necrophilia? roofies?)
Any given person can be represented by both a single dot (representing some average or their primary proclivity), and a "bubble of probability" around that space (which need not be regular in shape but could be thought of a little like an electron cloud- where the probability of occupying a given space fades to practically nothing at some point). It is probably possible to have multiple noncontiguous bubbles.
For an average person, war zones tend to increase the sample size of that bubble of probability toward more violent and less consent. They can also move the primary-proclivity dot (which may be related to why it's difficult to "turn off the switch").
(I get that being a Dom doesn't necessarily mean you're willing to forego consent, and I get that Doms consider themselves to be subservient in the relationships, DuWayne kindly took me aside and gave me lots of reasons to open my mind a bit on the topic, most of them involving the fact that I was being really closed-minded about it in the first place, so let's drop that tangent for now.)
Out of context of whether it's possible for a Dom to rape someone who isn't consenting, let's apply that quadrant to the issue at large.
There is definitely some intangible difference between those that are capable of raping someone in a given situation and those that are not. What that intangible difference is, what Greg refers to as a switch, is whether this particular situation falls inside one of those proclivity bubbles or not. With regard to the original postulate, I'd contend that there are more axes than just this — some of which factor into whether or not you'd be willing to ignore a lack of consent. And not only that, but each person could have a different set of axes that factor into this diagram.
Let's say in the average person they include: a) social acclimation, b) your perception of the victim's humanity, c) general inhibition, d) stress factors (e.g. the more stressed you are, the more likely you'd act otherwise out of character).
So you take a group of people. Train them to be killing machines, and strip them of their inhibitions against killing. Teach them to impose their will on others with force, deadly force if necessary. Then let them congregate with and rely upon only one another, with very little contact with their pre-war home life. Let them get shot at, lose a number of friends senselessly. Repeat until they're just about totally crazy. If a culture emerges where rape doesn't seem as repugnant as all the death that's around you, then social acclimation is diminished — the morals imposed on you by "civilization" are reduced or depleted. Also, if you've been taught that the population you're at war with, is sub-human, then your perception of your victim's humanity is decreased, stretching the proclivity bubble further on that axis. Throw in a desire for revenge for your fallen bretheren and you might as well just double the size of the bubble on every axis.
Likewise, as we know rapists can spring up naturally in the populace without a war going on, whatever conditions that need to be met in the particular person might be met by other means (e.g. psychological or chemical problems in the person's brain, sexist upbringing, being taught some group of humans or even just women are not human, etc). So it's not like only soldiers are rapists — just that all the events in wartime are likely to drag your proclivity bubble larger and larger on a number of fronts until the likelihood of a situation coming up landing even at random on all those behavioural axes where you can potentially rape, and where you actually DO, approaches 1.
So after all these conditions are met, and the particular situation and confluence of all the proclivity bubbles on all the axes lands this particular situation on this multi-dimensional array within one of these bubbles, then this person is a potential rapist. Now, because the human mind is not a binary state, giving a man a shotgun does not make him a murderer until he points and shoots. Just because a potential victim is well off assuming the man with the shotgun could very well shoot him or her, does not mean that person is de facto a murderer ahead of time — but the victim is well advised to get the hell out of Dodge as though he was aiming right for his brainpan.
So, it could very well be a matter of young kids, hormones raging, getting their aggression sliders cranked up to 11 by basic training (if not by the training then at least by the aggressiveness of the other recruits), finding themselves expected to be "adults" and able to restrain this newfound "power" when this is the first time they've been out on their own, like, ever. Put them overseas, where the social inhibitions, and inhibition in general, are negated or culled, and they'll do some really sick things, like throwing puppies off cliffs, shooting up intersections, dehumanizing and torturing and killing otherwise innocent people they've been trained to see as non-humans, raping 12-year-old girls then killing the families and burning the houses down. In the case of these soldiers, it's honestly like they get that "no killing" part of their moral centres turned off in order to make them capable of killing, and that has a cascade effect through the rest of their psyche, only it's a whole bunch of different factors all adding up and, in aggregate, turns your sweet teenage boy into a slavering rapist.
So is Greg right that there's a "rape switch"? In my opinion, yes and no. Yes, there is a confluence of behaviours and conditions that have to be just right to do something that you would otherwise think repugnant. No because it's not a binary switch that you could, say, hard-wire off, or justifiably kill everyone with it set to on. It's, as Becca rightly pointed out, more like a fluid, organic set of proclivity bubbles on a number of axes that might correspond with each of the "factors" that one can identify as contributing to a rapist mindset.
Seems like a bit of a cop-out ultimately, doesn't it?
Oh, and while I was drafting this, Greg totally poked the hornets nest some more. Great read, and makes me look like a "me too".


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With the new purchase of our home on Fairmont Drive in Burley, Cassia, Idaho, I thought I would throw out a strange connection I have to the street. Fairmont Drive turns into Fairmont Avenue at a 90 degree turn just a block or two east of our home. Within a long stone-throw of our present house sits the home my grandparents, Norwood & Colleen Jonas, lived in when they moved to Burley in 1968 from Richmond, Cache, Utah. In all my photos, I happen to have some pictures of that home.
I am not clear if they had the home built or if it was newly built when they arrived and purchased it. It is my understanding the home was completed in 1969, which is supposedly the year after they moved to Burley.
Lastly, I will wrap up with a family portrait taken in the front room of the home. This one was in an album and the quality is low, hopefully some day I can find a higher quality photo.
The coincidental aspect of this whole post is that a Jonas relative now lives in the home, some 45 years later. Denise Andersen Olsen, niece to my Grandfather (my first cousin, once removed), now lives in the home. Maybe if she will give me permission, I can take a current photo or two of the home. Maybe I can do a then and now post of the photos I have. Maybe even one day, I can get the people in the photos for a then and now too…


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It has now been one year since the March 11th, 2011 earthquake and tsunami and just like STOP KONY 2012 or the Greece Economic Bailout , the 1 year anniversary is being remembered and quoted all over the internet and the world. CATDAT and Earthquake-Report.com have been reporting on this cruel earthquake and tsunami from moments after it happened until today and we have been working hard to present you with the latest correct information from Eastern Japan.
Here is a summary of the latest numbers, information, the effects of the earthquake vs. the tsunami, integrated from the CATDAT Situation Report #50.
Read also : Summary page of our earlier published articles
One Year Summary of Losses in the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami of March 11th 2011.
The earthquake hit a highly populated area in terms of world standards (around 100-500 people per sq. km.), but a lowly populated area of Japan with the exception of the Sendai area. The tsunami spread across the whole eastern coast and the Pacific ocean, causing damage up to 10km inland in a couple of places, but mostly along the direct 1km of coast removing already damaged earthquake debris and causing more housing collapses. From FDMA, NPA and work of CATDAT, Earthquake-report.com and Daniell et al. (2011), the following summary has been put together.
Most of the buildings are wooden in the affected area, with some concrete and steel buildings making up the mix. The area contributes to between 7-9% of Japan's GDP when including the 4 prefectures most affected.
Deaths and Injuries
The current FDMA and prefectural losses (CATDAT Report 50) gives 16273 dead, 3061 missing (a total of 19334). 27074 people were injured (with numbers still being counted).
This value still differs from the NPA giving a total of 15854 dead, 3167 missing (a total of 19021).
From this earthquake, the total shaking deaths are currently estimated at around 265.
The deaths from fire are at around 165 and the confirmed tsunami drownings at 14308 according to data released by the NPA out of 15308 confirmed bodies. 478 bodies are still yet to be identified.
It can be seen that many people missing have been found since the start of April 2011, meaning that we are now (March 2012) around 19000 dead and missing as a result of this earthquake and tsunami. Much lower than the 30000 expected in late March.
Ishinomaki City in Miyagi had the most fatalities with around 3735 currently expected (around 2.2% of the population). Otsuchi Town had the highest percentage of the population killed from any municipality (9.3%, 1286 deaths). The percentages on the right hand side show the killed population as a percentage of the total daytime population. The red shows the people confirmed dead, and the black shows the missing people (presumed dead).
It is interesting to see that Minamisanriku – where over 10000 people were reported to be killed as a result of the tsunami in the first 24 hours, has had less than 1000 dead and missing.
The highest proportion of dead and missing is of course in the coastal regions in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima. It would be useful to know what the cause of each death was and we expect this information will come at some point.
It will never be known how many died due to the earthquake, as separated from the tsunami; however the CATDAT analysis, the autopsies give us an indicator that we can expect that about 1.4% of the 4.2% crushed were probably in earthquake collapsed houses.
This value corresponds quite well to the 175 non-tsunami impacted deaths that have been recorded in the non-coastal areas. Some of the non-coastal municipality deaths, however, were due to heart attack, fire or landslide.
As of 10th March 2012, 16100 have been killed and 3000 are missing (19100 in total). Of the approximately 19100, around 600 are assumed to have died from earthquake-related stress and chronic disease. Around 265 should be earthquake-collapse related. Around 230 could be related to other causes such as fire, landslides etc. Around 94.2% of deaths are tsunami related.
Age played a major role in the survival chances of people therefore escaping the tsunami, as people become older, they lose the ability and drive to escape in many cases. They will also move to save their families before themselves to a greater extent (usually!). The final predicted death percentages are as follows based on data from NPA from March 2011 to March 2012. Over 90% of the stress and chronic disease deaths (of which around 600 are expected (570 were counted as of mid-2011)), have come from elderly people over the age of 65.
In addition around 56% of the dead were over 65 years old.
Around 27000 people have been reported to be injured as a result of this earthquake and tsunami, showing the large impact of the tsunami in killing people versus injuring people but this injury count is expected to rise to 50000 once finalised.
Building and Infrastructure Losses
As of March 10th, 2012, over 1.2 million buildings had been damaged by the tsunami and earthquake. When dividing these into coastal and non-coastal municipalities the following distribution results. It should be noted that coastal municipalities generally go much inland, and a much greater percentage was not impacted by the tsunami, than was.
Partially Destroyed
Partially Damaged
Coastal Municipalities
Non-Coastal Municipalities
In addition around 120000 additional buildings have been either flooded (with minimal damage) or are non-dwelling buildings damaged (with many still to count).
Over 1,200,000 buildings have been damaged in total from the earthquake, tsunami and associated aftershocks.
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As of March 10th, 2012, 3918 roads have been reported to be damaged, 78 bridges, 45 dikes and 29 railway locations. In addition around 200 landslides have been reported. The data seems to be incomplete however from many locations, as Chiba has reported 2343 damaged roads, with other prefectures where much shaking occurred reporting much less damage. Most of this damage was caused by liquefaction
Around 360 fires were extinguished by the fire department.
Using the intensity relationships created in the buildings from non-coastal municipalities (as nearly all damage in these municipalities inland must be earthquake related), then the following distribution results in tsunami and earthquake losses from Daniell et al. (2011).
Partially Destroyed
Partially Damaged
An additional 35466 buildings are in the towns and cities within the exclusion zone of the Fukushima I and II nuclear sites.
The best estimate of damage to buildings from Daniell et al. (2011) coming from each of the three events is the earthquake (42%), tsunami (39%) and nuclear disaster (19%).
The following diagram shows the relative impact of the earthquake vs. the tsunami in each location.
Economic Loss Estimates
The economic loss estimates from CATDAT were distributed on earthquake-report.com with the release of $100 billion to $500 billion estimate (total, with 70% coming from tsunami), created after 70 minutes.
In total, one year after the event, reasonable estimates for the earthquake and tsunami direct economic loss is between $237 billion and $303 billion with around $275 billion USD the median estimate. In addition, around $65 billion USD direct damage occurred as a result of the powerplant incident in Fukushima.
Indirect losses could be in the order of $185 to 345 billion across the earthquake, tsunami and powerplant.
Without the tsunami, the earthquake would still have caused 40-45% of the total damage seen. (Daniell et al., Khazai et al., 2011)
In Billion USD
Direct Loss Inland
Direct Loss Coastal
Total Direct Loss
125-158 (42%)
112-145 (39%)
58-71 (19%)
Indirect Economic Loss
Total Economic Loss
194-290 (41%)
176-258 (36%)
109-162 (23%)
The following is a comparison of estimates of casualties and economic losses from various estimation models and from government and company modelling. All results represent only shaking losses from USGS-PAGER. Economic Losses and casualties from EQLIPSE-Q and R are as indicated. For further information, the Australian Earthquake Engineering conference in the Barossa Valley in November 2011 presented a large range of data on not only Tohoku but Christchurch.
The uncertainties came about because of the great uncertainties in modelling losses given certain intensities and the uncertainties in damage ratios and industries affected. In later versions, the economic losses from the tsunami reduced to around 57% (including the tsunami effects on the powerplant) vs. the earthquake at 43%.
Socio-economic loss estimates for the Tohoku Earthquake from various sources for the 2011 Tohoku EQ (Daniell et al., 2011)
Historically in such events, 20-30% of direct economic loss was residential based, with ranging estimates from 25-55% in other forms of industry, infrastructure and commercial losses. Around 70% of the capital stock is inland as compared to around 30% of the capital stock on the coast in the provinces of Miyagi, Iwate, Fukushima and Ibaraki according to the Japanese Cabinet Office. Extrapolating the damage in other prefectures, the Japanese Cabinet Office estimate should be about $254 billion once adding $46 billion loss in other prefectures not counted in the initial estimate.
From historical quakes and looking at business interruption, for a $280 billion direct economic loss from this earthquake, around $110 billion (2-yr) to $220 billion (5-yr) in extra indirect losses could be expected. Further analysis will be needed over the coming years.
This is the highest economic loss from any earthquake historically, eclipsing the approximately $210-280 billion loss (2012-adjusted) from the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake.
Shelter and Homeless
The peak number of homeless and people living in shelters is hard to calculate given incomplete data in the first few days. It was likely that a total of around 700000 people were living outside of their homes on the 12th March, however data is lacking. In Miyagi for instance, the total in shelters was counted at 45979 at 5.00am JST on the 12th March, but was then counted at 320885 at 16.00 JST on the 14th March. In Ibaraki prefecture, a peak of 72000 people in shelters was seen at 12/03/2011 at 8.00am when the shelters opened, and then reduced after that.
Around 400,000 people are expected to be homeless as a result of this earthquake (due to destroyed buildings or forced evacuation).
Many official shelters were only built in the days after the earthquake rather than directly on the 11th March. In addition there was incomplete counting during this period. During the tsunami danger period, locations like Hokkaido, also had many people in tsunami shelters for a few hours after the event. A combination of these factors, mean that it will be impossible to know exactly what happened in the first 2-3 days.
When looking at the total impact in Fukushima with the forced evacuations due to the nuclear plant, once all people were found and those who evacuated were counted, the total of the population who went to shelters and other prefectures was around 134000 people of which around 90000-110000 were evacuees of the Fukushima plant disaster and between 24000 and 44000 were probably earthquake and tsunami impacted. Other influences may have included the gas, water and power outages, landslides and torrential rain that were also present.
As of 10th March 2012, around 56,000 people are living outside the prefecture from Fukushima, and around 50,000 internally (of which at least 42,000 are from the nuclear affected towns).
Before and After
Here are some pictures of different locations before and after. This shows the destruction.
Some key references (but see others in our other articles):
Daniell, J.E., Vervaeck, A., Wenzel, F. [2011] "A timeline of the Socio-economic effects of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake with emphasis on the development of a new worldwide rapid earthquake loss estimation procedure", Australian Earthquake Engineering Society 2011 Conference, Nov 18-20, Barossa Valley, South Australia.
Daniell, J.E. [2003-2011] "The CATDAT Damaging Earthquakes Database", searchable integrated historical global catastrophe database, Digital Database, updates v0.0 to latest update v5.022.
Daniell, J.E., Vervaeck, A. [2011-2012] "The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake – CATDAT Situation Reports 1-50", Earthquake-Report.com.
Daniell, J.E., Wenzel, F., Vervaeck, A. [2011] "The Socio-economic effects of the 2011 Tohoku earthquake", Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-14270.
Daniell, J.E., Khazai, B., Wenzel, F., Vervaeck, A. [2011] "The CATDAT damaging earthquakes database", Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 11, 2235-2251, doi:10.5194/nhess-11-2235-2011, 2011.
Vervaeck, A., Daniell, J.E. [2011-2012] "Tohoku Earthquake Articles on earthquake-report.com", many updates from 11/03/2011 to 10/03/2012.


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Forget white bread, croutons, and corn bread – a cupcake lover's Thanksgiving turkey should be stuffed with cupcakes.
I suggest cranberry cupcakes. We all know that turkey and cranberry are meant to go together. My cranberry cupcakes finished in the turkey's cavity and exposed to juices from the bird developed a stuffing-like texture and tasted like a Thanksgiving feast of stuffing, turkey, and cranberry sauce: warm, cozy, comfort food.
I hope you'll give cupcake stuffing a chance. Let me tell you how it's done.
How to Prepare In-Bird Cupcake Stuffing
1. Buy a turkey and defrost it in your refrigerator. If you've never made a turkey before (I hadn't), you should know that this can take several days.
2. Bake cupcakes to put inside the turkey. The turkey doesn't get hot enough to actually bake cupcake batter. The cupcakes start off baked and then are steamed and infused with flavor inside the bird. The cupcakes must be made in silicone liners (paper would get soggy). I recommend mini silicone liners so that you can fit more cupcakes inside. I fit a dozen mini cupcakes in a 13 pound turkey. I share my cranberry cupcake recipe at the end of this post.
3. While the cupcakes are in the oven, begin prepping the turkey. I used Alton Brown's method for preparing the turkey; although the turkey is not the focus of this post, I will say that his method yielded a moist turkey that I was proud to serve. Remove the turkey innards. Place the turkey on a roasting pan. Liberally coat the turkey on all sides with vegetable oil, salt, and pepper.
4. As soon as the cupcakes are out of the oven, begin stuffing them in the turkey. Shove as many in there as you can. Don't be shy. Also, raise the oven temperature to 400 F.
5. Close up the turkey as best you can using cooking twine or the metal tool that comes inserted into some turkeys.
6. Bake the turkey for 45 minutes. Then, lower the oven heat to 350 F and bake for another 60-75 minutes for a 13 pound turkey. This will be longer if your turkey is much bigger. To know when your turkey is done, use an instant read thermometer to check for an internal temperature of 170 F.
7. Remove cupcakes, carve turkey, and serve immediately.
8. Be sure to refrigerate any leftovers.
Cranberry Cupcake Recipe
Cranberry Cupcakes
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 1 cup whole-berry cranberry sauce
- 1/4 cup canola oil or vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup orange juice
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- In a medium-sized mixing bowl or bowl of a stand mixer, mix together sugar, flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
- Add butter and mix on medium-low for two minutes.
- Mix in eggs one at a time.
- Mix in cranberry sauce and oil.
- Mix in orange juice.
- Fill cupcake liners just over half full.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out without wet batter stuck to it.
Shout Outs
- The first shout out goes to my dad who gave me the idea for cupcake stuffing. This was not at all what he had in mind, though. Read my out-of-the-bird cupcake stuffing post to see his concept.
- Ray Pratt gets the second shout out. His creative mind helped me morph my dad's idea into what you see today. He also carved the turkey for us!
- Thanks to Huffington Post for picking these cupcakes up and writing about them.
A Few More Pictures
Here are just a few more pictures before we part because I know that you've never seen anything like this before:


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Liberty City
With regards to this edit, I think the Liberty City in GTA IV is totally diffent to the one in GTA III and GTA LCS. This is not just an upgrade (like GTA3>LCS, or VC>VCS), it is a totally new city. It is certainly based on the same thing (New York City) and undoubtedly contains a lot of references to the past, but I am struggling to justify saying it is merely "different". That makes me think of perhaps a new area to the city and new buildings etc. What we actually have is a totally different map, made from scratch, new district names (Algonquin etc) and what appears to be no physical connection to the old Liberty City. Xenon (?) 18:57, 8 June 2007 (BST)
- Yes, but i believe that Rockstar already confirmed that this is the same Liberty City. George 03:54, 9 June 2007 (BST)
"It's not the full city, it's an approximation thereof. We make a city that feels like the real thing, but is perfectly tuned for gameplay in the broadest sense. The world is not designed to be a video game. We are trying to make a video game that feels like the world, but still plays like a video game. The design of the city and the missions that unfold within it are designed hand-in-hand and complement each other perfectly. Everything in this world is here for a reason, where it is directly tied to gameplay or simply there to create atmosphere."
"[New York City] is an environment we felt had never been done to the level we were envisioning it in a video game. From looking at all of the locations, this was the one that really stood out to us, and really had that impact. It has all of these iconic things that you couldn't put into a game before."
Those two quotes from Dan Houser talk about making a new city from scratch. There is nothing to suggest that GTA IV is simply an upgraded Liberty City - all the areas of the city are totally new and different, there's the new layout, new buildings, different bridges, even a different scale of the city. If it were Portland Island, Staunton Island and Shoreside Vale, then yes it would be the same city. But Broker, Algonquin, Dukes, Bohan and Alderney is nothing to do with the GTA III Liberty City. Xenon (?) 08:13, 9 June 2007 (BST)
Post lapsarian
Ok, so i've just had an edit war with Chris who says that Post lapsarian means post period, which i know can also mean "The fall of man", and lapsarian sounds greek, but i'm not sure if it is, anyways first off, morgan did say IN Post lapsarian, Greece so there still is the possibility that a Post lapsarian, Greece exists in the GTA World, i don't care if you take out the mention of Mexico though. And for the record, i know that a Post lapsarian, Greece and a Scotland, England do not exist in real-life. George 13:18, 20 June 2007 (BST)
- OK, don't really wanna argue over this much longer so I'll just say what I've found. I just checked google maps for both places and it didn't find either. And yes I do unserstand what you're saying is that they could exist in the GTA world but no they don't, I'll explain why. And also it's been transcribed wrong as it should be post-lapsarian (the opposite of pre-lapsarian).
- "The term "pre-lapsarian" refers to the state of sinlessness of humanity prior to the lapse, or fall."
So... post-lapsarian refers to when humanity realised there was a difference between right and wrong. Or something like that, I didn't read too deep into it, but you get the idea.
- So the k-Chat dialogue is referring to a time when Greece started to become a civilised nation, so I'd would imagine he's talking about the sort of pictures you see of ancient Greece in history books and such.
- --Chris 13:59, 20 June 2007 (BST)
Whats the problem
I really don't see why this page has to be protected, me and Chris already got over this situation. George 01:40, 21 June 2007 (BST)
I'm not complaining, i was just wondering. Alright George 02:51, 21 June 2007 (BST)
What kind of example George 08:32, 21 June 2007 (BST)
Nevermind. George 12:19, 21 June 2007 (BST)
Featured Content
Having looked at this article, I do not believe it should be a featured article. There are better articles on here than this one. The descriptions for each of the cities are inadequate and for the Liberty City entry, for example, little is mentioned about the actual renditions of the city. It's just a broad description covering three renditions. The mentioned locations needs expanding also. I also believe that references should be added, at the very least for the mentioned locations section. A-Dust 11:51, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
In the Liberty City section, it says that Liberty City is shown in Vice City, it could very well be, as I played VC a LONG time ago, but I just wanted to be sure. Ess-Tee 10:01, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- I'd also like to question the relevance of plot references in the city descriptions. I can semi-understand the Caligula's casino heist being mentioned, as it's kind of relevant, I guess. But the part about a shootout under the Mulholland Intersection and whatnot included in the section, Los Santos, are more or less irrelevant. Also, I just wanted to know why the **** there were so many capitalized words, for no particular reason, and would like to remind people NOT to capitalize after a comma. Ess-Tee 10:11, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Liberty City is seen only once at the start of a new game in Vice City. You can check out videos on it. I'm surprised with the amount of revisions and no one caught those grammatical errors. It would be good if this article is cleaned up.--Spaceeinstein 18:27, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
- Ok thanks for that man. I believe somebody may have edited the capitals and grammatical errors in there by accident, believing they were proper, oh well. I cleaned it up a little bit, I'm really pressed for time lately though. Ess-Tee 08:07, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Cottonmouth should also be a location in the GTA world as it is the setting of Manhunt 2. Carlosvc92 03:23, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- Which makes it totally irrelevant?Ess-Tee 16:26, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
- It is a part of the GTA world, but this city wasn't mentioned so far in the GTA Series, however, San Fierro, San Andreas, Carcer City and Vice City were mentioned in Manhunt 2.--Mackomontana 21:26, December 27, 2009 (UTC)
It should be given a brief mention at the bottom of the page, as it does refrence the GTA games, even if the GTA games havn't yet mentioned it.--Tornmuscle 22:14, December 27, 2009 (UTC)
San Durango
So, what is YOUR take on why RockStar didn't include a city directly based on San Diego? If it is bigger than San Francisco, why didn't they deem San Diego important enough to model a GTA city after it? --ENG 20:27, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
- They considered San Francisco more culturally distinctive and internationally recognisable? Like it matters anyway. If population was so important, they could just as easily have relocated a Mexico City equivalent to Baja California and made it the southernmost location -- more people than New York, there. --Samadriel 02:59, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
- I would imagine Los Santos has enough of a Latino population to make a San Diego-based city redundant. Ghost Leader 02:03, March 14, 2010 (UTC)
Yankton/North Yankton?
Can someone add North Yankton, which appears in GTA V in 2 missions? Does it actually need to be in the list? RandomGTAGamer (talk) 09:41, October 15, 2013 (UTC)


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Kopasanda (Chromolaena odorata L.) R.M King and H. Rob were classified as blossoming bush species in the Asteraceae family. An empirical study showed that kopasanda (C. odorata L.) leaf had been used by the embankment farmers at South Sulawesi Province to eradicate Vibriosis which caused death for tiger prawn (P.monodon Fabr.). The objective of research was to understand the bioactive compound that was contained within kopasanda (C. odorata L.) leaf extract and its antibacterial activity against V. harveyi. Result of identification showed that the presence of phenolic, flavonoid, alkaloid, and steroid. Result of the extraction of 500 g kopasanda (C. odorata L) leaf powders with methanol solvent was producing 81.010 g methanol extracts. Its antibacterial test against V. harveyi indicated that there was an ability to prevent the growth of V. harveyi. The partition of 50 g methanol extract with ethyl acetate was resulting in 29,605 g ethyl acetate extract. The residue was partitioned with n-hexane which produced 9,575 g n-hexane. These three extracts were subjected to the test of antibacterial activity against V. harveyi. Result of antibacterial activity test showed that the methanol extract was producing the highest preventive zone, which was 19 mm. It was followed by 9 mm from the ethyl acetate extract, while n-hexane extract did not show a preventive zone at all. The test indicated minimum inhibitory levels (MIC), supporting the conclusion that the kopasanda (C.odorata L.) leaf extract inhibited the growth of V. harveyi active with a minimum inhibitory concentration of 0,625 mg / mL.
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Dr. Scott VanderStoep, a member of the Hope College psychology faculty, has been appointed the college's dean for the social sciences effective July 1, 2012.
He succeeds Dr. Caroline Simon, who has served as interim dean for the social sciences since July 2010. Simon assumed the interim position when the former dean, Dr. Richard Ray, was named the college's provost. Simon, a professor of philosophy, was recently appointed to lead the college's teaching and learning efforts, effective with the 2012-13 school year.
"I wish to extend a special word of gratitude to Carol Simon. She has served the Social Science Division most capably in her role as interim dean. That she will remain as a member of the college's Deans' Council in charge of our teaching and learning efforts bodes well for the quality of the academic program," Ray said.
Academic departments in the Social Science Division include Communication; Economics, Management and Accounting; Education; Kinesiology; Political Science; Psychology; and Sociology and Social Work.
"Scott VanderStoep is well prepared through a variety of leadership roles to be the next dean for social sciences. He is completely committed to the college's mission, and will work tirelessly to advance the reputation of the social sciences at Hope College. I feel blessed to have a person of his many God-given skills as a member of the academic leadership team," Ray said.
VanderStoep has been a member of the Hope faculty since 1999, and had also taught at Hope from 1992 to 1994. He presently serves as chair of the Department of Psychology. He has also led the college's campus-wide assessment program, and was director of the college's Carl Frost Center for Social Science Research from 1999 to 2004.
He is a previous president of the Board of Directors of Psi Chi, the International Honor Society in Psychology. In 2010 he was one of a select group chosen nationally to participate in a year-long Senior Leadership Academy by the Council for Independent Colleges and the American Academic Leadership Institute.
In 2010 Hope presented him with its Ruth and John Reed Faculty Achievement Award. His activities in the Holland community include serving as president of the West Ottawa Board of Education.
VanderStoep is a 1987 graduate of Hope College. He received the master's degree from the University of Illinois in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1992.


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Facebook Inc. shares, which fell to a record low after insiders could sell stakes for the first time since the initial public offering, will face more pressure when another 1.44 billion shares are freed up through November.
Facebook last week unlocked 271.1 million shares, the first of five insider sale restrictions scheduled during its first year as a public company.
Is this something impatient or nervous investors should be worried about?
While Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg operates the world's largest social-networking service, he's facing investor concerns about how it can generate more revenue from its growing user base. That, plus the end of the first lock-up, drove the shares to half the offering price of US$38, wiping out almost US$46-billion in market value.
"Is this something impatient or nervous investors should be worried about?" said Herman Leung, analyst at Susquehanna International Group. "Yes, but for the long-term investors, I view this as an opportunity to potentially get a stock at a pretty good price."
Regulatory filings as soon as this week will disclose how many major shareholders sold their stock. Insiders are seen selling about 55% of the 1.2 billion shares that are set to come unlocked on Nov. 14, according to an Aug. 9 research note by Brian Wieser at Pivotal Research in New York.
Hedge funds that are using so-called short sales to benefit from the stock's decline may be active ahead of mid-November, said Jay Ritter, professor of finance at the University of Florida. These investors will probably sell shares with the aim of buying them back at a discount at a later date, he said.
'Selling Pressure'
"There will be selling pressure before the Nov. 14 lockup expires," said Ritter, based in Gainesville, Florida.
Ashley Zandy, a spokeswoman for Menlo Park, California- based Facebook, declined to comment.
The shares were unchanged at US$19.05 at 9:50 a.m. in New York, and earlier slumped to an intraday record of US$18.75. More than 129 million shares were traded, after 157.6 million a day earlier when the lock-up expired, above the daily average volume of 48.7 million.
By May the number of shares on the market will increase by 1.91 billion, compared with 421.2 million shares at the IPO.
Facebook's first earnings report as a public company last month also fueled concerns over how quickly it can draw revenue from mobile devices. Second-quarter revenue grew 32% from a year earlier, down from 45% in the first quarter.
Facebook's mobile advertising services are a key concern for investors as more users turn to tablets and smartphones. The company should benefit in the coming months from new tools and services that help companies market their wares to users on the go, said Scott Kessler, an analyst at S&P Capital IQ.
Real Questions
"The fundamentals are better than people think," said Kessler. Two days before the lock-up ended, he had upgraded the shares to buy and said that while there are real questions about the company, annual revenue growth should be at least 25% for the next three years.
Early Facebook investors such as DST Global Ltd., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Elevation Partners and Accel Partners could start selling part of their holdings last week, Facebook has said in filings. Microsoft Corp., based in Redmond, Washington, was likely to hang on to its stake after the lock-up ban lifts, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Aug. 10. Microsoft views Facebook as a strategic partner against Google Inc., rather than as a near-term moneymaker, said the person, who requested anonymity because the plans are private.
Wild Card
Other investors have been preparing for potential sales. Director Peter Thiel, who sold in the IPO, gave himself more flexibility to unload holdings, according to a regulatory filing. One of Facebook's earliest investors, Thiel converted more than 9 million shares to Class A from Class B. Class A shares are easier to sell on the public markets.
The shares freed up last week represent 14% of the 1.91 billion that will become available for sale in the coming nine months. The next expiration date comes between Oct. 15 and Nov. 13, when restraints are removed on about 243 million shares. Lock-up expires on about 1.2 billion shares on Nov. 14, and for 149.4 million shares a month later. A final round comes May 18, 2013, with 47.3 million shares becoming available.
The stock being sold Nov. 14 would include shares from current and former employees, as well individuals who bought stock from them, Pivotal Research's Wieser said in his note.
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Rep. Walter Jones 1 D.C. Republican Establishment 0.
Somehow the Republican insider know-it-all crowd in Washington, D.C. (District of Corruption) became disenchanted with Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina, the state's most conservative Congressman and set up a primary battle against him. Rep. Jones won easily, showing his constituents were savvy voters. Dot Helms, widow of conservative legend Jesse Helms, even endorsed Congressman Jones. Congressman Jones, a twenty year veteran House member, routinely votes against foreign aid, and came to oppose the Iraq war, after initially voting for it, which apparently angered the in-crowd. Why don't they have enough sense to shut down foreign aid entirely instead of going along with the Demoleft? Walter shows a lot of backbone in standing up for truth instead of playing the games of many "get along by going along" Republicans. You can forgive Walter Jones if he now tells the Republican leadership where to go.
Columnist Pat Buchanan describes the Republican leadership as the "intolerant ideological monied elite of the party to which conservatives give allegiance," an excellent description.
"Our 'Big Tent' is not big enough to include Walter Jones. But if that is true of Walter Jones, what does that say to a nation that has come to agree with Walter Jones that America should mind her own business and stop fighting other countries' wars?
Who is out of touch with America here?"
Pat Buchanan on VDARE.com 5-8-14
You could say Congressman Jones is getting the same treatment the establishment gave Dr. Ron Paul. Pat Buchanan has an excellent column on the party's mistreatment of Mr. Jones.
Don't forget - the giant insurance companies supported Obamacare. Big business is often in bed with big government.
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Dear All,
Greetings and a very Happy Spring to you! We are in the first week of Nouruz, the Persian New Year. How can I not come out of sabbatical to open a new window, even the ground hog is out. I'll make this a pictorial essay as far as possible (Usually I attach one slide show only. Hope it wouldn't be too hard on your computers).
Nouruz (Nowrouz)
* Persian speakers call the Near Year Nouruz (literally A New Day) to highlight the refreshing and life-giving nature of the season. Linked below is a power point show on how Nouruz is celebrated in Iran and other Persian speaking parts of the world. If you are a teacher, I hope it will help in the classroom. Please click here: The Nouruz (Nowrouz) Celebration.
* Let me start with my favorite picture of the year taken by an Iranian youth last year (below). The picture won a photography contest in Japan. The young photographer called it "love."
Recommended Reference Source
* If you like to look up information about Iran or Persian traditions, one of the best reference sources available in major libraries is Encyclopedia Iranica edited by a prominent Iranian scholar Ehsan Yarshater. To read about him and the encyclopedia visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehsan_Yarshater.
Things are Looking Scary Again
* I had thought to leave any discussion of political conflict out of this particular window. After the NIE Report released in December, which demonstrated the Intelligence community's confidence about lack of nuclear weapons in Iran, the chances of an American military confrontation with Iran seemed very slim. In recent weeks, particularly since the resignation of Admiral Fallon from the Central Command, rumors of a possible confrontation have been revived. A number of developments contribute to these rumors:
1. Vice President Cheney's extended tour of the Middle East: here is an interesting essay by Micheal Klare, professor of peace and correspondent for The Nation: http://www.agenceglobal.com/article.asp?id=1515.
2. According to Japan Focus, an Asia Pacific Electronic Journal, a unit within the US Treasury Department, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), issued a March 20th advisory to the world's financial institutions about transactions with Iran. Apparently, this is an important economic move to further isolate Iran: http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2707.
3. So far President Bush had described Iran as a threat to its immediate neighbors. This seems rather unusual since four of Iran's neighbors have substantial U.S. military bases on their soil and two of them or are invaded by the U.S. It now appears that the French President Sarkozy has joined the heads of states who feel threatened by Iran. Speaking Friday in the northern French port of Cherbourg, President Sarkozy described Iran as a threat to Europe. In light of the fact that the U.S. army is sitting on three sides of Iran, not to mention the U.S. full presence in the Persian Gulf, most observers will find this claim exaggerated at best. However, the substance of this claim is less important than the hostile tone that the French president has adopted.
4. Finally, the most troubling recent development of all is the report by Egyptian sources that an American nuclear submarine has crossed the Suez Canal to join the US fleet stationed in the Persian Gulf: http://www.campaigniran.org/casmii/index.php?q=node/4439.
Could all of these be coincidences? One would disparately hope so…and no one can be sure. But – if you are among the people who feel you must work to prevent another disastrous war- this is the time.
Visual Delight
* If you are a regular reader of "Windows on Iran," you know that we have a tradition of following unpleasant political events with art work from Iran. So, traditionally I close each window with a power point slide show of a recent painting exhibit in Iran. I hope it washes off the bitter taste of political conflict but also demonstrates the creativity and vibrancy of the current Persian culture. For this reason, I pick most of the paintings from the works of young artists and mostly women.
* Today's artist is Sepideh Farzam, she was born in the city of Tabriz in north east of Iran. Unlike most artists featured in these windows, she is not a graduate of and an art program. Sepideh, is an electric engineer by profession, an engineer who has followed her interest in painting quite seriously. She has had many group exhibits in various galleries in Iran. To See Ms. Farzam's latest show, please click here: Sepideh Farzam Paintings. It is a fairly small exhibit. Enjoy.
Let us hope that the joy of this Nouruz will not be tarnished with the news of another war. Till our next window, have a great spring.
Fatemeh Keshavarz, Professor and Chair
Dept. of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Washington University in St. Louis
Tel: (314) 935-5156
Fax: (314) 935-4399


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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140730 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2014/07/140730.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD
#Israel calls up another 16,000 reserves - http://news.yahoo.com/israel-calls-another-16-000-reserves-053657775.html but why? does it need reinforcements to kill even more children in #Gaza?
#Gaza and the Loss of Civilization - http://davidbyrne.com/gaza-and-the-loss-of-civilization "What's clear is that no one has the moral high ground. " (v @Funzafunza)
Groser orders up protected Antarctic toothfish - http://www.nzherald.co.nz/isaac-davison/news/article.cfm?a_id=586&objectid=11302080 he should resign #NZ
Greek court acquits farmers who shot 28 Bangladeshi strawberry pickers who dared to ask for back pay - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/greek-court-acquits-farmers-shot-strawberry-pickers what a shame
Ombudsman asks Council and Commission to publish more #TTIP documents
- http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/press/release.faces/en/54636/html.bookmark @EUombudsman is proving a really ally here
- http://www.ombudsman.europa.eu/en/press/release.faces/en/54636/html.bookmark @EUombudsman is proving a really ally here
Using Spreadsheets In #Bioinformatics Can Corrupt Data, Changing Gene Names Into Dates - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140727/03133828025/using-spreadsheets-bioinformatics-can-corrupt-data-changing-gene-names-into-dates.shtml eeek
"wendet sich die Regierung gegen eine Einbeziehung des #ISDS in #TTIP" - http://www.bundestag.de/presse/hib/2014_07/-/293980 official: Germany against (v @Bwassertisch)
Ombudsman joins call to open up EU-US trade talks - http://www.foeeurope.org/ombudsman-call-open-EU-US-trade-talks-310714 pressure really building on @EU_Commission #TTIP #TAFTA
Gatwick brings in reinforcements after baggage delays - http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jul/31/gatwick-staff-baggage-delays-swissport "company is using staff on zero-hours contracts" #swissport
KAFTA enables Korean miners to sue over environmental regulation - http://www.smh.com.au/comment/kafta-enables-korean-miners-to-sue-states-over-environmental-regulation-20140711-zszuy.html the reality of #ISDS (v @JimboStanford)#AU
A Shattered Childhood: The War on #Gaza's Kids - http://mashable.com/2014/07/31/gaza-palestinian-children/ #israel
After CIA Angrily Denied Spying On Senate, CIA Admits It Did And Apologizes - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140731/10224528072/after-cia-angrily-denied-spying-senate-doj-decides-not-to-prosecute-cia-admits-to-apologizes-hacking-into-senate-network.shtml oh, look at that...
Oil refinery threatened by sea-level rise, asks government to fix problem - http://grist.org/climate-energy/oil-refinery-threatened-by-sea-level-rise-asks-government-to-fix-problem/ the ultimate hypocrisy (v @andrea_licata)
US says Israeli attack on UN school was 'totally unacceptable' - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/31/gaza-conflict-us-israeli-attack-un-school while continuing to supply yet more weapons #gaza
I agree #Israel should destroy Hamas' tunnels - but only on Israel's side of border; then there's no need to kill children in #Gaza....
Watch Sen. Whitehouse, a badass, totally own Sen. Inhofe, a climate change denier, on climate change http://boingboing.net/2014/07/31/watch-sen-whitehouse-a-badas.html impressive
big: India puts #GM crop trials on hold - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2014/jul/31/india-gm-crop-trials-bjp-rss "to not surrender country's food security to foreign companies" #monsanto
10 reasons to be hopeful that we will overcome climate change - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jul/30/reasons-hopeful-overcome-climate-change-solar let's accentuate the positive for a change...
Pay Different Prices To Access Different Sites: Virgin Mobile Leaps Through #NetNeutrality Exemption With Gusto - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140731/06530628066/pay-different-prices-to-access-different-sites-virgin-mobile-leaps-through-net-neutrality-exemption-with-gusto.shtml
NY judge, ruling against Microsoft, says US warrant can access email stored in Ireland - http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/269407171.html everybody take note of this
Resources for composers - http://ericwhitacre.com/blog/resources-for-composers as recommended by Eric...
Botageddon - http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2014/07/botageddon.html "when the number of #bots on the planet outnumber us 1,000 to one"; interesting
101 Geysers on Enceladus (and What They Imply) - http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=31216 ooh, exciting... #science
NY Port Authority Claims To Own The NYC Skyline: Tells Store To Destroy Skyline-Themed Plates - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140730/06563228056/ny-port-authority-claims-to-own-nyc-skyline-tells-store-to-destroy-skyline-themed-plates.shtml bonkers
#Gaza crisis: UN, US announce ceasefire to begin Friday morning - http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2014/jul/31/gaza-crisis-israel-calls-up-reservists-as-it-maintains-offensive-live-coverage let's hope it holds...


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Personal and campaign gifts to council Democrats a long tradition at GOP's Evans operation
Todd Gloria only the latest in a long line of pro-Evans council members to get campaign cash, tickets, food, and other blandishments from major city lessee.
Now that San Diego's GOP hotel moguls have reportedly decided to call off their lawsuit and cut a deal with Democratic mayor Bob Filner - in what the mayor's fellow Democrat, La Jolla city councilwoman Sherri Lightner called a "kumbaya" moment, according to UT San Diego's Roger Showley - will all be sweetness and light at city hall?
Unlikely, predict those who know the self-styled populist Filner and the long entitled Republican hotel titans, whose families' power lineage here goes back in some cases to the 1940s and before.
In particular, the mayor has long taken an interest in the political wheeling and dealing of the Evans family, which owns the Bahia and Catamaran hotels on Mission Bay and the Lodge at Torrey Pines. The Bahia and Torrey Pines properties sit on city owned land, and the Catamaran has a lease from the city for its waterfront dock complex.
Back in 1996, when then-city councilman Juan Vargas - backed by big hotel money, including that from the Evans family - challenged him in the Democratic primary, then-congressman Filner held a news conference in front of the Bahia to call for a state probe into Vargas's 1995 Coastal Commission vote for a Mission Bay master plan heavily lobbied by the Evans interests.
Reported the San Diego Daily Transcript:
Filner accused Vargas, a San Diego city councilman and California coastal commissioner, of breaking coastal law by accepting campaign donations from hotelier Bill Evans and family members, then voting for a master plan that would allow Evans to expand his Bahia Hotel into what is now Mission Bay parkland.
"It is clear that the values Mr. Vargas has do not include access to the waterfront," said Filner.
The Coastal Commission had subsequently rescinded the pro-Evans action, but only after being sued by a group calling itself Save Everyone's Access. The suit alleged that Bill Evans and those employed by him had made illegal ex parte contacts with Vargas and fellow commissioners Bill Rick and Timothy Staffel prior to the commission vote to approve the plan.
The lawsuit also criticized Vargas for accepting a ticket to the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce Insights program from Evans, contending the gift posed a conflict.
Filner focused on donations Evans and his family gave to Vargas, including $250 donations - the maximum allowed under the municipal ordinance - that Evans, his wife, and his mother, Anne Evans, each gave to Vargas in 1994.
He produced records showing Evans and his mother also donated $1000 each to Vargas' current congressional campaign.
Filner noted that coastal law specifically requires "commissioners to disqualify themselves from voting on any matter if they have received a campaign contribution of $250 or more from an interested party."
As Dorian Hargrove reported here last month, Evans and two other big hotel San Diego hotel moguls, C. Terry Brown and Richard Bartell, have given heavily to some members of the current city council, which will vote on any renegotiated deal with the hotel operators regarding the city's controversial tourism marketing money.
According to a 2012 personal financial disclosure statement, filed earlier this week with the city clerk's office, at least one council member has personally benefited from Evans-related largesse, though the disclosure doesn't go out of its way to show the relationship.
Democrat Todd Gloria - a vocal opponent of the mayor's efforts to renegotiate the city's tourism marketing deal with the hotel owners - reported getting a $100 admission to a "Victory Fund Brunch" from Robert Gleason in February of last year.
Gloria's statement lists Gleason's business activity as "individual." In fact, Gleason, a longtime friend and political backer of Gloria, is the chief financial officer of Evans Hotels.
As previously reported, both men signed the nominating petition of Timothy B. Taylor, the San Diego Superior Court judge handling the hotel mogul's lawsuit against Filner. Taylor has denied knowing either Gloria or Gleason.
It hasn't been the first time Gloria reported gifts from Gleason. In June 2011, the Evans executive gave him a $100 ticket to the Women's Pride Brunch, according to Gloria's disclosure statement. And in March 2010, Gloria reported getting a $75 ticket from Gleason to a "Victory Brunch."
According to city campaign finance disclosure records, Gleason has given Gloria a total of $1040 in campaign cash since 2007. In all, Evans employees gave Gloria's campaign fund $1750, according to a spreadsheet analysis of the city clerk's data.
Those numbers don't include donations from friends and family.
Gleason's spouse, Marc J. Matys, has contributed $1040 to Gloria, records show. His occupation is variously listed on disclosure forms as Interior Designer and "Stay at Home Dad."
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- Another unreported DeMaio contribution disclosed by Sheppard Mullin law firm — April 1, 2013
- Ex-firm of judge in moguls' anti-Filner case revises disclosure to show more campaign contributions — March 20, 2013
- Todd Gloria, staffer, hotelier and spouse signed nomination paper for judge who ruled against Filner — March 6, 2013
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's retail sales growth slowed during the Golden Week holiday, local media said on Sunday, providing a snapshot of increasingly important sources of demand in the world's second-largest economy.
Overall retail sales revenue grew 15 percent to hit 800.6 billion yuan ($127.4 billion) during the National Day holiday, which coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival to provide a rare eight-day break, China's state television China Central Television said.
That marked a cooldown from the 17.5 percent growth last year during a seven-day holiday. No further details were given,
The Golden Week holiday, when millions of people take time out to travel and spend more than usual, brings huge discounts and promotions as retailers battle for market share.
Economists are watching China's 1.3 billion consumers closely during the National Day Golden week holiday, running from Sept 30 to Oct 7, amid escalating worries about China's hard landing. ($1 = 6.2849 Chinese yuan)
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KINGSLAND, Ga. – Camden County Sheriff Tommy Gregory turned back a primary challenge from longtime Sheriff Bill Smith in July only to lose Tuesday night to Jim Proctor, an independent candidate who got into the race the week after the primary.
Proctor defeated Gregory by 1,307 votes -- or 54 to 46 percent.
READ: Q&A with Camden County Sheriff-elect Jim Proctor
RELATED: Record turnout in Camden Co.
Proctor had worked under both Smith and Gregory in the Sheriff's Office until he was let go by Gregory. Within a week of Smith's loss, Proctor gathered more than 1,200 signatures to get on the ballot by petition in the General Election.
Proctor told the Tribune-Georgian that he plans to reinstate the inmate labor program that helped fund the Sheriff's Office under Smith -- a program that Gregory dismantled.
Brantley County voters also defeated an incumbent sheriff on Tuesday. Twelve-year Sheriff Robert Thomas, a Democrat, lost to Republican Jack Whisenant.


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Detroit: The Guerra Legacy Lives on at Cloverleaf
Cloverleaf Bar & Restaurant
24443 Gratiot Avenue Eastpointe, MI 48021 (map); 586-777-5391; cloverleafrestaurant.com
Pizza Style: Detroit-style
The Skinny: One of the oldest pizzerias in Detroit, started by the man who introduced the world to Detroit-style pizza, Cloverleaf will scratch a pizza-loving itch but ultimately falls short of other local competition.
Price: Small (4 pieces) start at $6.65; Large (8 pieces) start at $12.05
I was faced with a bit of a pizzalemma on my recent trip to Detroit. I'd already been to Buddy's (reviewed here by Adam), Loui's (reviewed here by Maggie), and Niki's (reviewed here by me), which meant there was one Detroit-style pizza legend for me to visit: Cloverleaf Bar & Restaurant. Gus Guerra owned a bar called Buddy's Rendevous when he added pizza to the menu in 1946, purportedly relying on a recipe that came from his Sicilian mother-in-law's recipe. Just seven years later, Guerra sold Buddy's and set up shop across town with Cloverleaf. Today's Cloverleaf is still owned by the Guerra family and is going strong.
But, and here's where my pizzalemma came into play, until recently, there were two additional Cloverleaf locations, both owned by Shawn Randazzo. Randazzo actively promoted the Cloverleaf name for years and made pizzas per the mother ship's requirements. But Randozzo has been refining his own Detroit-style pizza recipe and seems to think he'd come up with a better product. And according to the judges in Las Vegas in March, Randozzo has done a remarkable job; he became the first American since Tony Gemignani in 2007 to be named World Champion Pizza Maker of the Year. At the time of my visit, I received word that the Randozzo/Guerra relationship was soon to end, so I decided to go the Guerra's Cloverleaf. Since my trip, Randozzo has gone out on his own and turned his Cloverleaf locations into the two outposts of his new pizzeria, Detroit Style Pizza Company, which has its official Grand Openings on June 24 and July 1.
As is the case with most, if not all Detroit-style pizzerias, Cloverleaf offers two sizes, a small, which has four pieces, and a large, which has eight. As is also the case with all Detroit-style pizzas, the pies at Cloverleaf feature a crisp and chewy outer edge that is as flavorful as it is a textural joy to eat. Because the outer edges are so good, and because every piece of a small pizza has two delightful edges, it simply makes no sense to order a large unless you're writing a review that demands you explore a broad swatch of the pizza offerings.
My small pizza came topped with pepperoni, onions, and garlic, and stood out in a couple of ways. First, unlike at other classic Detroit pizzerias, the default at Cloverleaf is to put the pepperoni on top of the pizza rather than under the cheese and sauce, which results in crisp and chewy pieces of salty pork that almost makes me like ordinary pepperoni. Unfortunately, in building my pizza, someone on the kitchen got a bit too aggressive with the garlic and that stuff ended up overwhelming the rest of the pizza.
The sausage pizza did not suffer from any overwhelming flavors, but it did suffer from problematic sausage. While Midwestern cities like Chicago and Milwaukee are rightfully known for remarkable sausage, that ground specialty is not as important in Detroit, where pepperoni gets top billings on most menus in old-school pizzerias. These round nuggets were too chewy and had insufficient seasoning. But the thick and rich sauce, though too sparingly applied, added wonderful bursts of herbed tomato flavor that helped made the pizza enjoyable despite the flaws.
Nobody is going to call the crust at Cloverleaf light, but the thick crust is not nearly as heavy as it might look before cutting it open. There's surely a fattening agent of some type mixed into the dough that gives it an extra boost of flavor and some added moisture. That, along with the crisp edges, makes this a piece of bread worth eating, even if it's not quite as good as the crusts at Buddy's and Loui's.
I certainly don't regret visiting Cloverleaf, and judging by the fact that the place was packed when I visited around 4:00 on a Sunday afternoon, it's clear that many Detroiters still hold the place in very high esteem. That said, it doesn't deliver the kind of soul-satisfying comfort that comes with eating at Buddy's and Loui's. As for whether the student, Shawn Randazzo, has actually passed his teachers, that's a question that's going to have to wait until my next trip to Detroit.
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El Hijo del Generico wrote:The Dan wrote:Maybe he's just trying to make good on those two TV bookings he pulled out of? Anyways, shit happens. If he's back, great, if not, then I wish him all the best.
He couldn't be doing that, because he was booked with DGUSA this weekend. This means he retired, pulled out of DGUSA, and then agreed to the two ROH dates.
He probably didn't plan on retiring at the point he took the DGUSA bookings. News going around is he did this weekend to make good for the missed shows and then it's back to retirement.


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A combination of steamboat and BBQ.
The favourite prawn BBQ.
The iodine provider...BBQ cocklesThe variety to choose .
After the meal, you will also smell like BBQ and I bet you will go straight for shower when you reach your home.
I guess such an eatery place should not be enclosed or air conditioned, if required be to be air conditioned, it should then be properly ventilated if not you will in a stinko state.
Business here is good despite lousy economic situation.
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MONTREAL – Cheating the system for awarding public contracts was harder at the provincial level, the head of a local engineering firm told the Charbonneau Commission on Tuesday, but that doesn't mean the biggest players in Quebec's construction industry didn't try.
Provincial construction contracts were generally tendered and awarded without too much outside interference, said Michel Lalonde, with the most qualified bidder coming out on top. Unlike in Montreal, he testified, it was also more difficult for an engineering firm to tweak a contract so that the construction company they were supervising could claim false "extras" on the work.
But once any company or engineering firm began doing business with the province, Lalonde explained, they would automatically become part of a system where contributions to major political parties were expected.
"Giving money, it's a bit like the continuity of provincial democracy," Lalonde told the commissioners. "It's been this way since (premier Maurice) Duplessis. You get projects, you donate."
For his part, Lalonde gave a combined $240,000 to Quebec's three biggest parties (the Quebec Liberal Party, the Parti Québécois and the now-defunct Action démocratique du Québec) between 1998 and 2009. At the time they were made, all of the donations appeared completely legal.
The witness explained that he got around the individual contribution limit of $3,000 (recently reduced to $100) by handing over cheques made out by members of his family and business associates. He would then pay those people back, he said, much in the same way that former construction boss Lino Zambito did during the same time period.
The donations were, Lalonde said, a way of actively participating in the "democratic" system, but not a way to get work. They were always made after the contracts were awarded, he said.
Lalonde's company, Génius Conseil, had another important edge at the provincial level, however; namely, an inside man linked to the selection committees that examined bids from engineering firms and chose the most competent company to plan and supervise work. Lalonde testified that he and a member of the Génuis board, Gilles Thibodeau, were in contact with a man who sat on several of those committees, identified as Claude Millaire.
Lalonde said Millaire was bribed to pass inside information to Lalonde's company, and that at least one other engineering firm had a similar agreement with him.
In addition to paying Millaire's cellphone bill between 2004 and 2010, Lalonde said he also purchased a $1,500 espresso machine and a camera for him and, following the awarding of a $3-million contract to a consortium including Génuis in 2007, personally handed Millaire a $25,000 cash kickback in a Laval restaurant.
"It helped to have a friend" within the provincial Transport Department, Lalonde explained, even if Millaire didn't have much influence over which contracts went to which engineering firm. Millaire was the only selection committee member that Genius reached out to, he added.
Earlier Tuesday, Lalonde testified that his company's largesse also extended to municipal officials in small towns on the North Shore and the South Shore. In his hometown of St-Eustache, he donated frequently and legally to local parties, but he said he also gave illegal cash to political parties in towns such as Mascouche. Lalonde also testified that he would pay for municipal officials, such as Mirabel mayor Hubert Meilleur, to attend provincial party fundraisers, bringing them as his guests so they could socialize with ministers and MNAs.
On Monday, Lalonde sent shock waves through Montreal's city hall when he told the commission that his company illegally donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to municipal parties and borough officials in the city between 2001 and 2009, with the biggest cash contributions coming in right before election campaigns.
Lalonde explained that his largesse was made possible by the construction companies that Génius Conseil monitored. Those companies would charge for false "extras" on work sites and then hand him 25 per cent of the profits from those extras, Lalonde said, thus providing him with a reliable cash pot from which to draw political donations. Asked which companies participated in the scheme, Lalonde listed off over a dozen names, including BP Asphalte, Simard-Beaudry Construction, Mivela Construction, DJL Construction, Garnier Construction, Sintra, TGA Montreal, Les Entreprises Catcan and Frank Catania & Associates.