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The choice of Sergio Garcia, this Seamaster Aqua Terra "Golf Edition" is a superb tribute to OMEGA's ongoing connection to the global game. In this 41mm model, the symmetrical case has been crafted from stainless steel, with a wave-edged design featured on the back.
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This style of photograph was common with Indian Peace Delegations.
This Native American is photographed wearing a suit and tie, but he still reatains his long braided hair.
The clash of cultures drew me to this photograph.
The image was photographed about 1895- 1915.
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The previous entries showed the implementation of the model of a simple Ripple-Down Rules (RDR) system. This entry will show how to implement the rules for such a system from scratch as well as how to run and then to modify such a system. Again, we are using the computer game Animal as the basis of these examples.
Let's start off by implementing RDR system modelled in the first entry on this topic. But first, we need a couple of improvements. The
addRule I had originally implemented wasn't an example for ease of use as it was ...
... so I changed it so that it fit more neatly into building rules in sequence:] addRule :: BinDir
] → RuleTree a b c k v
] → Environment k v b c
] → Condition a (Knowledge k v)
] → Conclusion b c (Knowledge k v)
] → RuleTreeEnv a b c k v
] addRule dir (Zip hist branch) env cond concl
] = let rule = Branch (Rule cond concl) Leaf Leaf
] newbr = fromJust $ mutate dir rule branch
] newtree = return $ settle (Zip hist newbr)
] in RuleEnv newtree env
This new implementation has now replaced the previous one in the implementation entry. Also, constructing Rules themselves was a bit labour-intensive, so I've added the following function to simplify building simple rules:> addRule :: BinDir → Rule a b c (Knowledge k v)
> → RuleTree a b c k v → RuleTree a b c k v
> addRule dir rule (Zip hist branch)
> = let ruleB = Branch rule Leaf Leaf
> in Zip hist (mutate dir ruleB branch)
Also, recall that:> type SimpleRule = Rule String String String
> (Knowledge String String)
> mkRule :: String → String → SimpleRule
> mkRule key ans = Rule (present key) (assume ans)
This function simply reorders the arguments of
(>>|) :: Monad m ⇒ m a → (a → b) → m b
liftM, so why have it? I find it useful in the flow of building monadic systems, as demonstrated below.
And with that, let us build our Animal guessing game knowledge base:
The function> animalTree :: Zipper BinDir (BinaryTree SimpleRule)
> → Zipper BinDir (BinaryTree SimpleRule)
> animalTree tree = fromJust
> (return tree >>|
> addRule L (mkRule "has four legs" "pony") >>=
> advance L >>|
> addRule L (mkRule "barks" "dog") >>|
> addRule R (mkRule "swims" "fish") >>=
> advance L >>|
> addRule R (mkRule "purrs" "cat") >>=
> withdraw >>=
> advance R >>|
> addRule R (mkRule "spins web" "spider") >>|
> reset)
reset is from the
Data.Zipper module:
Looking at> reset :: (Mutable c dir c, Transitive c dir)
> ⇒ Zipper dir c → Zipper dir c
> reset z@(Zip [] _) = z
> reset (Zip ((dir, h):t) elt) = reset (Zip t $ mutate dir elt h)
animalTree above, I say with unmasked pride that I feel
(>>|) shows its hidden strength: I could not imagine puzzling out the proper way to write the above definition using
liftM and have it follow the natural flow that it does with its current implementation. Also note that it is vital that
reset be called after a set of changes to a knowledge base occur, to reset (obviously) the focus to the top-level (default) rule, and to correct the tree containing that knowledge.
Now that we have our
animalTree, we need one more function to extract the result (follow the Conclusion) of
Now, we could set up an interactive question-answer session to tease the animal we are guessing from our hidden thoughts, but, since interactive I/O is a sin in functional languages (see the fall from grace in Lazy K), let's "pretend" our way through an interactive session, recording the results of the questions into the Environment:> runConcl :: RuleTreeEnv a b c k v → c
> runConcl (RuleEnv _ (Env ks (Concl _ f))) = f ks
As expected,> rtests :: IO ()
> rtests = let RuleEnv tree env = initKB "default" (assume "none")
> newTree = animalTree tree
> spider = updateEnv "spins web" "true" env
> chat = updateEnv "has four legs" "true" $
> updateEnv "purrs" "true" env
> spy = runConcl (answer $ RuleEnv newTree spider)
> cat = runConcl (answer $ RuleEnv newTree chat)
> in do print newTree
> print spy
> print cat
spy is
"spider" (in answer to the question "Does it spin a web?"), and
cat is
"cat" (in answer to the questions "Does it have four legs?" followed by "Does it purr?").
All is well and good with the world, yes? Certainly, when we receive the expected answers from our knowledge base, but let's explore the world a bit beyond what we've captured. Not everything that swims is a fish:
We find that> fishey = let RuleEnv tree env = initKB "default" (assume "none")
> newTree = animalTree tree
> duck = updateEnv "swims" "true"
> $ updateEnv "flies" "true" env
> noDuck = runConcl (answer $ RuleEnv newTree duck)
> in print noDuck
noDuck is a
"fish". Perhaps it's a "flying fish", but it definitely wasn't the animal we were guessing, so we need to update our knowledge base to give us the desired answer. Fortunately, the system returns the Rule that rendered the Conclusion, so modifying the system proceeds directly:
With the modification in place, that is, the addition of the new> duckey = let RuleEnv tree env = initKB "default" (assume "none")
> newTree = animalTree tree
> duck = updateEnv "swims" "true"
> $ updateEnv "flies" "true" env
> re@(RuleEnv noDuckTree _) = answer $ RuleEnv newTree duck
> noDuck = runConcl re
> duckTree = addRule L (mkRule "flies" "duck") noDuckTree
> ducky = runConcl (answer $ RuleEnv duckTree duck)
> in print (noDuck, ducky)
EXCEPT Rule, we find that the animal that swims and flies is, indeed, a
"duck", as expected. That's Just
Knowledge in context
Of course, there is the flying fish conundrum, so a better ordering would be to have the Conclusion of that Rule actually be
"flying fish" and its
EXCEPT clause (with the Condition being something like
"webbed feet" or
"feathers") rendering the
"duck" Conclusion. While we're on the topic of structuring knowledge, not everything that purrs is a cat. The knowledge base could have had a very different structure if the Condition of the first Rule was
"purrs". Trekkers know the answer to that one:
"tribble", obviously! The follow-on
EXCEPT clause (with the Condition of
"four legs") would then clarify to the feline nature.
This demonstrates knowledge in context, where in one context, the context of "having four legs", the attribute of purring leads to
"cat", but in another context (the blank context, but that context could be elaborated with some Rules that put us in the context of the Star Trek, um, multiverse?), the very same attribute leads to
"tribble". Under this new context,
"four legs" leads back to our "chat chapeau" (that is Viennese) [I am really running rampant with my `pataphorisms, I do apologize and will work to check myself, but topic of επιστήμη λόγος does rather lend itself to such openings [which I have relentlessly pursued ... again!]] Furthermore, the quiddity of
"four legs" is, itself, context-based. In one sense it leads to every little girl's dream (a
"pony") and following (
EXCEPTing) that, several other species, and in another context, it leads to non-tribble purring creatures. This is a rather fundamental restructuring of our presumptions from the first article on this topic. I don't have a simple function that restructures knowledge assumptions in fundamental ways; I don't see the benefit of having one, so let's simply rewrite our knowledge base from scratch with our gained experience:
Not as painful as I thought! There are a couple of points to note, however:> startrek tree = fromJust
> (return tree >>|
> addRule L (mkRule "purrs" "tribble") >>=
> advance L >>|
> addRule L (mkRule "has four legs" "cat") >>|
> addTree R (firstRule (animalTree tree)) >>|
> reset)
> where addTree dir (Zip _ branch) (Zip hist tree)
> = Zip hist $ mutate dir branch tree
> firstRule = fromJust . advance L
- The path to discovering a
"cat"is duplicated, redundantly. This is fine, however: real knowledge is messy and contains redundancies, and this redundancy doesn't impact the (speed) efficiency of this knowledge base in any way; and,
- We are back to missing our
"duck". I leave that as an exercise to you to re-add.
This concludes the series of articles on the explanation, implementation and demonstration of a simple Ripple-Down Rules (RDR) system. In these articles we showed that such systems are easy to implement in Haskell and then to use. Knowledge management, in and of itself, is a rather deep and tricky topic (we have hinted at such trickiness in our "Trouble with Tribbles"), but RDR, using the concept of knowledge in context provides a method that allows modelling this knowledge more directly and allows manipulation of assumptions without adding too much difficulty to the task of knowledge engineering.


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Andrew Kudless proposed city is inspired by the Fremen sietches of Frank Herbert's Dune, and he believes that the principles for conserving and storing water on Arrakis can be applied to the American desert.
Kudless, an architect with Matsys Design, created the Sietch Nevada concept with Dune in mind, analogizing the arid planet with the American Southwest:
Although this science fiction novel sounded alien in 1965, the concept of a water-poor world is quickly becoming a reality, especially in the American Southwest. Lured by cheap land and the promise of endless water via the powerful Colorado River, millions have made this area their home. However, the Colorado River has been desiccated by both heavy agricultural use and global warming to the point that it now ends in an intermittent trickle in Baja California. Towns that once relied on the river for water have increasingly begun to create underground water banks for use in emergency drought conditions. However, as droughts are becoming more frequent and severe, these water banks will become more than simply emergency precautions.
To that end, Sietch Nevada is based on the Fremen sietches, a city consisting of man-made caverns beneath the desert. Openings in the desert floor allow water to drain into underground canals, creating a water reserve for the city. But Kudless also imagines other desert cities might be envious of the Sietch's superior water conservation:
However, the Sietch is also a bunker-like fortress preparing for the inevitable wars over water in the region.
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Now I know how Bacchus, the Roman god of wine (and intoxication), would throw a 21st century party.
It would be held over two days at the majestic waterfront Seaport Hotel and he'd call it the Boston Wine Expo 2013.
Bacchus — Dionysus to the Greeks — would entice 219 wineries from the world's best wine-producing regions to show up on a snowy day, pop the corks on nearly 2,000 different wines, and open the doors of a great hall to a flood of grape enthusiasts.
"Bere giu e vivere su, amici!" Bacchus would shout over the loud speakers (Translation: "Drink up and live it up, my friends!")
It's easy to be overwhelmed at a big event. For instance, why get bogged down in sampling wines you can buy off the shelf when there are so many new products to experience? That was the sound advice I received from the Wine Wizard, Dickie Rourke of Tutto Bene Wine & Cheese Cellar, and the wine connoisseur, Kevin Coughlin of Tyngsboro.
At Rourke's suggestion we honed in on the big Italian reds — the Super Tuscans, Barolo, Barbaresco, Chianti Classico, Montepulciano Riserva and some new and exciting Sangiovese blends. They were fantastico!
The highlight of the day, however, was a special invitation seminar — Two Gentlemen of Verona — presented by Empson USA. It featured wines from two of Italy's oldest wine-producing families, the Pieropan and the Speri.
While Shakespeare's tragic love story of Romeo and Juliet made Verona famous, Pieropan and Speri wines have been captivating Italian wine lovers for more than a century.
Luca Speri, 33, is Speri's sales manager and son of Carlo Speri whose family has owned and worked the Verona vineyard for five generations. Speri's passion for the family's signature product, Amarone della Valpolicella Classico, was infectious.
Equally passionate was the other gentleman of Verona, Dario Pieropan, a fourth generation winemaker for his family's highly acclaimed Soave Classico "Calvarino" and Soave Classico "La Rocca." The latter was judged Italy's "2001 Wine of the Year," a distinction that carries the weight of a Papal decree.
During the 90-minute seminar, we sampled wines from each family's "vault" of best vintages dating back nearly 30 years.
Pieropan's 1989 Soave Classico Calvarino was an extraordinary experience.
Soave Calvarino is a blend of Garganega (70 percent) and Trebbiano (30 percent) grapes produced from 60-year-old vines located high on the family's hilltop vineyard. The juice ferments in cement tanks. Now 24 years old, the straw-colored 1989 Calvarino was incredibly fresh and expressive in white fruit flavors and hints of almonds.
We also tasted the 1996 and 2010 La Rocca vintages made from 100 percent Garganega grapes. They were simply beautiful in the glass and on the palate.
Moving on to Speri's Amarone della Valpolicella, I thought this was a trick from Bacchus. How could anything taste so good and deliver layer upon pleasurable layer of bittersweet silkiness and dryness? My palate was spinning in complex textures and flavors. There was a wow encounter with greatness, and Luca Speri attributed it to the family tradition of doing everything by hand.
The Speri Amarone is produced from three grapes, Corvina Veronese, Rondinella and Corvinone, grown at the highest elevations in the Veneto region. The grapes are picked in October and dried on mats for at least 100 days. The process is called appesimento or rasinate (to dry or shrivel). The dried grapes are pressed by hand and the juice is aged in oak casks for three years. Once bottled, it ages for another year.
At 28 years old, the 1985 Speri Amarone exhibited remarkable balance for such a high alcohol wine (15 percent). The taste was a collection of bittersweet black currants and a mesmerizing blend of dried plums and black cherries and tobacco. It had a divine finish.
We also tasted the 1995, 2001 and 2007 Speri Amarones and the consistency of quality was incredibly delightful.
Bravo, Dario and Luca. Viva Verona!
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What am I eating lately? Weird combinations, that is what. I don't know what inspires me to combine certain foods, but my family often gives me strange looks. That's okay, I am a big girl, I can take it. My current obsession is wraps with Food for Life Brown Rice Tortillas. I try & pick these up when I am at Whole Foods once or twice a month and freeze the until I am ready to use them. Once I have opened the package, I store them in the refrigerator. While I have tried other gluten-free tortillas, I have come back to these. They behave nicely and consistently. For a while I had been using the La Tortilla Teff Tortillas, but they weren't consistent. Sometimes they wrapped well, other times they cracked. We can't have wraps that crack, right? The Food for Life tortillas are less expensive, to boot! Bonus!
This latest wrap pictured above has Applegate Farms turkey, mushrooms, avocado, dill pickle relish and mixed greens. I heated the wrap up for 30 seconds in the microwave and then filled with the ingredients that I mentioned, so the insides were not warm, but cold. I dipped the wrap in Trader Joe's spicy brown mustard. How do I know when a certain combination is a hit? When I wake up craving it. (No, I am not pregnant.)
I also love to make quesadillas with these tortillas – turkey, thinly sliced apple or pear and cheddar cheese makes a fabulous combination.
Have you all read the article circulating the web about celiac patients being able to eat products made with hydrolyzed wheat flour with no ill effects? I am not sure how I feel about this. If it is possible to eat a diet full of nutritious foods, why would I risk eating products that contain wheat flour, even if extensive research says they are safe? What about those who don't have Celiac disease, but non-celiac gluten intolerance? There are not many times in my life where I feel deprived these days. I feel that gluten-free food has come a long way with some of the products that have hit the market in the past 2 years.
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You have obviously been sitting around listening to Carly Rae Jepsen's ubiquitous smash hit "Call Me Maybe" on an endless loop, because what else would you possibly do with your time? But be honest: have you also quietly been thinking that what this song really needs is more abs? Like a shit-ton of naked abs? Well, then you are in so much luck because Abercrombie & Fitch, for reasons that defy explanation, decided to ask the paid hot guys from their stores "to have fun with the song—film it on their phones and to do whatever came naturally." Turns out what came naturally was a bunch of pretty bad lip-synching, a lot of hand phones, and so many bare torsos that the song might as well be renamed "Call Me Abbye."
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Summer Pest ControlAugust 12, 2020 9:03 am
The warm weather of summer, while great for fun and sun, has the undesirable tendency of bringing some unwanted pests indoors. The best and most effective way to ward off these insects is hiring a pest control professional to spray the interior and exterior of your home. If you would like to avoid using chemicals, several home remedies are available.
Follow these tips to prevent pests from invading your home this summer:
Mosquitoes – Mosquitoes need standing water to breed, so eliminating as many water sources as possible will serve as a repellant. Dispose of empty soda cans and water bottles, drain wading pools, and clear gutters. Make sure any screens on your windows and porches are in good condition so mosquitoes don't sneak through.
Flies – Summer is the high season for houseflies. Outside, they lay eggs in anything that is decomposing (garbage, soil, lawn clippings, sewage, water, animal waste, rotting food, etc.). Dispose of all your litter to keep breeding grounds at a minimum. Don't leave doors or windows open and be sure to seal all foods in your home.
Ants – Sprinkle borax powder or boric acid on your doorstep and around the edges of your home, porches and garages to discourage ants from entering. You can dust infested areas inside your home with a boric acid and flour mixture. Be sure to keep this mixture away from children and pets.
Bees and Wasps – Open food is the No. 1 attraction for these pests. Keep food closed and take out the garbage regularly. Nests are usually made around buildings, under eaves of homes or in bushes, and they can be dangerous to remove. It's best to have a pest control professional remove the nests, rather than trying to do so yourself.
Roaches – Roaches wander at night and are attracted to crumbs, paper, glue and pet food. Good sanitation is the best way to ward off roaches; they won't wander and nibble if there is nothing around to eat. For a home-remedy repellent, you can mix shortening and sugar until creamy. Stir boric acid and flour together and then add in the shortening mixture. Add enough water to form soft dough and then roll into small balls. Place the balls in the area you have seen roaches but be sure to keep them away from children and pets.
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Medora Balloon Rally: States of Enlightenment #47, in Medora, North Dakota (flight 9/10/2011; posted 10/20/2011)
Maryland Flight: States of Enlightenment #46, in Union Bridge, Maryland (flight 5/21/2011; posted 9/18/2011)
Canaan Connecticut Flight: States of Enlightenment #45, in Connecticut (flight 10/10/2010; posted 11/11/2010)
New Haven Balloon Race: States of Enlightenment #44, in Missouri (flight 9/25/2010; posted 10/20/2010)
Cumberlandfest: States of Enlightenment #43, in Rhode Island (flight 8/7/2010; posted 9/26/2010)
2011 Tour Dates
May 21: Flying H Farm Balloon Fly-in, Union Bridge, MD
August 13 - 21 (17): Interrnational de Montgolfieres de Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu
September 10 - 11: Medora Hot-air Balloon Rally, Badlands Appreciation Weekend, Medora,ND
Have you ever dreamed of being carried into the sky by a giant bouquet of colorful toy balloons?
That's the idea behind cluster ballooning. The pilot wears a harness, to which a cluster of large, helium-filled balloons are attached. Control is achieved by releasing ballast to ascend, or by bursting balloons to descend.
The most famous cluster balloon flight took place in 1982. Larry Walters, with no prior ballooning experience, attached 42 helium weather balloons to a lawnchair, intending to go up a few hundred feet, but instead soaring to 16,000. Surprisingly, Walters survived his flight. However, both before and since Walters' adventure, experienced balloonists have experimented with helium balloon clusters, some rising to even greater heights.
My Interest in Cluster Balloons
My name is John Ninomiya. I have been flying hot-air balloons for almost twenty years; over the last seven years, much of my flying has been in single-person hot-air balloons called Cloudhoppers. Eight years ago, I decided to fulfill a childhood dream by learning to fly with a cluster of large helium balloons. I have made forty helium cluster balloon flights since that time. All of them have been among my most magical flying experiences.
The State of the Art
|With half a dozen pilots worldwide, cluster ballooning remains something between an extreme sport and a personal eccentricity, for the moment. At present, I'm the only regularly active cluster balloonist in North America, and to my knowledge, have completed more cluster flights than anyone in the world. There are two cluster balloon pilots in the UK, and another three or four people who have made single flights.
|Cluster balloons, like all balloons, are aircraft that require skill and training to operate safely. Before I began flying cluster balloons, I was an FAA-licensed hot-air balloon pilot and had over four-hundred hours of pilot time in conventional hot-air balloons and Cloudhoppers. These skills are not rocket science, but they are NOT something you're going to figure out on your first flight while you're drifting toward the high tension lines and imminent crispy-critterhood! Fly safely!
Site Content
The following pages document my experiences flying helium balloon clusters. The principal content is pages devoted to flights I've done in various places, with photos and narrative; these can be accessed through the Logbook and States of Enlightenment pages. These pages contain a lot of images and may take a while to load if you're dialing up. However, the photographs are very cool and well worth the wait.
The main sections of the site are:
|Introduction to Cluster Ballooning : The basics of flight with helium-filled balloons, illustrated with photographs from various flights. Includes a QuickTime slide show and video.
Learning to Fly with Helium Balloons : How I set out to teach myself how to fly with helium-filled balloons, with pictures from my first four flights.
Logbook: A list of my helium balloon adventures, with links to the webpage(s) devoted to each flight. I've noted some of my favorites, from various perspectives. There's also a complete chronological list of flights.
|States of Enlightenment: An ongoing multi-year performance project involving helium cluster balloon flights in all fifty states of the U.S. There are links to the webpage(s) devoted to each flight in this series.
|Continental Drift: A series of helium cluster balloon flights in countries around the world.
Links and References: More about cluster ballooning, on the web, on TV and in print.
|Contact Us: Your feedback on the site is welcome. Also, please e-mail for information on sponsoring a helium cluster balloon flight at your balloon festival or other special event.
|Other than reference pages, the main content of the site is the collection of webpages devoted to each flight. These are accessible via the "Logbook" and "States of Enlightenment" pages; recently completed flights are also linked to this homepage (see above).
Ballooning into the Sky is continually updated for new flights, usually four to six times a year. New features are noted on the home page. There are currently two QuickTime slide shows on the site; several 2005 flights also feature video clips.
For another, slightly more conventional take on single-person ballooning (utilizing a single balloon, and hot-air), please visit cloudhopper.org.
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You might be used to the idea that game reviewers receive games free and ahead of time, but Ars opens up a darker side to the mystery box. Like a $200 check from Dante's Inferno, reading, 'by cashing this check you succumb to avarice by hoarding filthy lucre, but by not cashing it, you waste it, and thereby surrender to prodigality.' Or how about a huge-ass sword from Darksiders. Or brass knuckles (illegal in some states) from the makers of Mafia II. Or rancid, rotting meat mixed with spent shell casings, teeth, broken glasses and dog tags from Bulletstorm. NCSoft gave out flight suits and trips to weightlessness. Nintendo apparently likes to send all manner of food, including elaborate cakes shaped as their consoles and games. Squeeballs sent a crate of stuffed animals. iPods from Activision and Zunes from Microsoft seem to be pretty tame bait for reviewers ... but there's one reason why this continues to happen: more news-starved review sites and blogs report on the extras and the publisher's game gets spread around just a wee bit more. Even if it is as freakish as bracelets from an insane asylum spattered with blood."
I think we must be doing it wrong around here... we usually can't even get games before the release date, much less get free rotting meat.


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By absorbing the rain falling on your land, a rain garden can help reduce the storm-water runoff that pollutes our beaches, harbors, and estuaries. People sometimes confuse rain and water gardens. A rain garden is not a pond and won't breed mosquitoes, which require 10 to 14 days in standing water to develop from eggs into adults.
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For information on how to evaluate and amend your soil for a rain garden, do a percolation test to see how quickly water is absorbed, decide the dimensions of a rain garden, and prepare and plant the site, read the CCE Suffolk fact sheet on Creating a Rain Garden, and its companion Native Plants for Long Island Rain Gardens.
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Hey everyone! Welcome to the Graveyard Shift, the nightly hang-out hosted by Kotaku's reader-run blog, TAY. This is a place to talk about anything - your lives, your gaming habits, or whatever else you desire. Hop on in and join the discussion! When you're done here, you could always go check out the articles over at TAY or TAYClassic! Or, if this is your first time at TAY, please check out this TUTorial!
So I posted giving thanks to all yesterday and all of that, and now I take that and morph it into a GS in which we will be discussing what is the game or games you are most thankful that exists.
For me I would say. FFVI. This was the first JRPG that I was so engaged that I ended playing everything possible that was a jrpg in snes and ps1.
SO THANK YOU JAPANESE VIDEO GAME MAKER ACID ADDICTS, for your wonderful stories.
What is the game, genre or games you are the most thankful for? I mean you could be a bastard that isn't thankful about anything, and is about to nuke the whole planet...who knows.


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BOSTON (AP) Ryan Anderson had a pair of layups off Joe Rahon's passes in the closing 2 minutes and finished with 24 points to lift Boston College to a 71-68 win over Providence Saturday afternoon in the 107th meeting between the schools.
Olivier Hanlan added 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Eagles (6-5), who posted their fourth win in five games.
Bryce Cotton led the Friars (8-3) with 33 points and Kadeem Batts scored 14 with seven boards before fouling out with 5:01 to play.
With Boston College clinging to a 64-63 lead, Anderson sneaked inside all alone and Joe Rahon found him for a layup with 1:30 to play. Hanlan added a free throw 20 second later after Cotton missed a 3, giving the Eagles a 67-63 edge.
Cotton hit two free throws to cut it to 67-65, but Rahon drove the lane with the shot clock winding down and fed Anderson again with 23 seconds to play. Hanlan's two free throws sealed it.
The schools have played every season since 1953-54 - except in 2005-06.
After Anderson's two free throws cut the Friars' lead to 42-40 with 15:06 to play, neither team held a more than a one-possession lead over the next 10 minutes.
Patrick Heckmann's 3-pointer from the right corner broke a 56-all tie and Hanlan followed with a free throw, giving the Eagles a 60-56 lead with 5:01 left.
The Friars had kept it close because of Cotton, who scored 12 of their 14 points during a 7 1/2-minute stretch midway through the half.
After Cotton scored on a drive, Anderson answered for BC with a reverse layup, making it 62-58 with just fewer than 4 minutes left. But Ladontae Henton scored on a short jumper in the lane for Providence on the next possession.
Hanlan then hit two free throws for BC with 2:42 to go, pushing BC's lead back to four points before Cotton nailed a baseline 3 on the next trip down the floor.
The pace slowed down and so did the scoring early in the second half. Both teams relied on half-court offense, running the shot clock down low on most possessions that were fairly unsuccessful.
The Eagles missed eight of their first nine shots to start the second half, but trailed by only two with just under 15 minutes to play because the Friars were shooting nearly as poorly.
Neither team held more than a two-possession lead in the opening half. BC had opened a 25-19 edge on Anderson's free throw with 7:23 to play, but Providence scored 12 of the next 16 points to grab a 31-29 lead on Batts' two free throws with just fewer than 4 minutes left. Cotton nailed a pair of 3s in the spree.
It stayed close the rest of the way before Henton's two free throws with 38 seconds left sent the teams to intermission tied at 36.
In the opening minutes, Providence came out in a zone, but quickly changed to man-to-man defense after the Eagles got a couple of easy chances.
The Eagles wore black patches with the initials `LG' in honor of 26-year old Lisa Gallup, who died after a battle with cancer this week. She's the daughter of assistant athletic director Barry Gallup.


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|This page is about the Powders Gangers faction. For the Powder Ganger character, see Powder Ganger.
The Powder Gangers (sometimes referred to as Powder Gangsters by Johnson Nash) are a chain gang of escaped convicts operating in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281.
The NCR Correctional Facility is the dominant location of the central Mojave Wasteland. In the distant past, it was the Jean Conservancy, a low-security all-female prison. Under recent NCR control, it was used to house prisoners on work release. The prisoners worked the railroad parallel to the Long 15 under NCR trooper supervision, maintaining the vital land link between the Boneyard and New Vegas. Eventually, many NCR troopers guarding the prison were pulled away to run Colorado River border patrol. When the guard staff was low, the prisoners executed a daring and violent coup.
Because the rail crews often used explosives (typically dynamite) to blast through rock or get rid of train cars that were locked/fixed on the line, the prisoners inevitably acquired small amounts that they hid in their cells. When they made their break, they blasted their way out. The interior of the prison was clearly the scene of a large riot where the prisoners used explosives, improvised weapons, and stolen NCR trooper equipment to break through multiple walls and scatter through the desert. A lot of the prisoners weren't in on the escape plan formally; they just got caught up in the moment. Consequently, a lot of them didn't really know where to go when the dust settled. A large contingent of Powder Gangers can be found in Vault 19 though many squatted in the prison and have been informally raiding since then.[1]
There are several groups of loosely organized Powder Gangers, many remain in the prison and have been raiding surrounding areas under the leadership of Eddie. There are factions of Powder Gangers spread far along the south-west part of the Mojave Wasteland, as far down as Nipton.
The smaller groups of Powder Gangers are all lead by a strong or cunning underboss, like Joe Cobb. A large contingent of Powder Gangers can be found in Vault 19 under the leadership of Samuel Cooke, although there they are identified as escaped convicts.
Relations with the outside
Due to their hostility, the Powder Gangers have little to no friendly relations with outside groups. They are hated by both the NCR, whom they were former prisoners of, and Caesar's Legion, for harassing their raiding parties west of the Colorado River. The Brotherhood of Steel also seems to dislike them due to interfering with patrols near and in Hidden Valley.
Neutral relations are not completely unheard of, as seen in Nipton, although they are very rare. The willingness of Samuel Cooke's group in Vault 19 to join the Great Khans suggests at least some respect is held for the Khans, though no formal relations exist between the two groups without intervention from the Courier.
The favored and most common weapons among the Powder Gangers are explosives, primarily the powder charges and dynamite which they acquired during their time in prison and escape. However, they also have a large arsenal of guns; some stolen, others looted from dead NCRCF guards. Their guns tend to be weak; they carry single shotguns, 9mm pistols, varmint rifles, and .357 Magnum revolvers.
Interactions with the player character
- Run Goodsprings Run: Side with Joe Cobb against the town of Goodsprings and help kill Ringo.
- Eddie's Emissary: Earn the trust of the Powder Gangers in the NCRCF.
- I Fought the Law: Run errands for Eddie in the NCRCF.
- Why Can't We Be Friends?: Help Samuel Cooke or Philip Lem with a few tasks in Vault 19.
- Booted: Free the enslaved Powder Gangers from the Legion camp.
Effects of player's actions
- Completing Ghost Town Gunfight will earn negative reputation with the Powder Gangers.
- If the player character has negative reputation with the Powder Gangers, groups of one to three of them will occasionally ambush them south of Primm and west of the Prospector's Den.
- Eddie
- Samuel Cooke
- Escaped convict leader
- Boxcars
- Carter
- Chavez
- Dawes
- Hannigan
- Hawkins
- Joe Cobb
- Oliver Swanick
- Philip Lem
- Scrambler
- Various unnamed powder gangers
- Eddie's Bodyguards
- Escaped convicts
Notable quotes
- "Problem is, it turns out that giving convicts a bunch of dynamite and blasting powder isn't the best idea."Trudy
- "I have a present for you from the Powder Gangers. I hope you like dynamite."
- "You eyeballing me?"
- "You'll pay for what you did to the Powder Gangers!"
- "Never gets old when something blows up."
- "Any lawman that comes after me won't have it easy."
- "Damn. Running low on smokes again."
Narrated by Eddie
|Voice-over narration
|In-game condition
|After Hoover Dam, the leaderless Powder Gangers at the Correctional Facility vanished into the wastes, leaving the prison empty. The Correctional Facility became another abandoned ruin in the wasteland, its carcass occasionally picked over by enterprising prospectors.
|Eddie dies.
|With the Dam firmly in their grasp, the NCR turned its attention towards wresting the Correctional Facility from Powder Ganger hands. The Powder Gangers are no match for the battle-hardened troops of the NCR, and summary execution awaited the Powder Gangers who managed to survive.
|Do not kill Eddie and complete the endgame quest Eureka! for the NCR.
|Most Powder Gangers at the Correctional Facility fled into the wasteland rather than face the advancing forces of the Legion. Those brave or foolish to remain were killed or crucified by the merciless Legionaries.
|Do not kill Eddie and complete the endgame quest Veni, Vidi, Vici for Caesar's Legion.
|The NCR, battered by the loss of the Dam, were unable to devote any troops to retaking the Correctional Facility from the Powder Gangers. As a result, Powder Ganger raids on caravans became an unfortunate fact of life in the Mojave for years to come.
|Do not kill Eddie and complete either All or Nothing for Mr. House or No Gods, No Masters for an Independent New Vegas.
Narrated by Samuel Cooke
|Voice-over narration
|In-game condition
|With Cooke dead, the Powder Gangers at Vault 19 fell apart. Those who weren't destroyed by the Courier fled into the hills or attempted to work their way back through the Mojave Wasteland. Few survived.
|Kill Samuel Cooke.
|Armed with a wide array of improvised explosives and stolen weapons, the Vault 19 Powder Gang tormented the Mojave Wasteland for years. Citizens of the NCR were favorite targets, and they always suffered the worst fates.
|Do not complete Why Can't We Be Friends?; or complete it by blowing up the sulfur deposits AND Vault 19.
|After the Vault 19 Powder Gang surrendered to the NCR, they were re-incorporated into the correctional system. The NCR did increase their sentences, and they aren't about to take off time for good behavior.
|Destroy ONLY the sulfur deposits below Vault 19 and convince Philip Lem to surrender to the NCR.
|After the majority of the Vault 19 Powder Gangers joined the Great Khans, the weaker members scattered throughout the Mojave Wasteland. Though a few managed to erase their pasts, most never survived the journey.
|Convince Philip Lem or Samuel Cooke to ally with the Great Khans.
- Though Powder Gangers almost all have Evil karma, the larger Powder Ganger faction is not marked as Evil. Notably, this means that stealing items owned by the Powder Ganger faction will incur negative karma.
- There are several looted caravans along the Long 15 with Powder Gangers hovering around the area. One in particular, a Crimson Caravan Company's caravan slightly northeast of Jean Sky Diving, has a rather sinister scene with a couple of dead caravan guards, the female of which is stripped of her outfit (unlike the male guard, who is still wearing his leather armor). This was the caravan that Ringo was with until it was ambushed, leading to him fleeing to Goodsprings.
- If the player character happens to have Arcade Gannon as a companion when near some Powder Gangers, they will say "We used to buy and sell guys like four-eyes back in prison."
- Originally, the Powder Gangers along the Long 15 were immediately hostile to the Courier if the latter was not disguised as a Powder Ganger themselves. This was later changed in a patch, with the raiding camps only being hostile if the Courier has obtained enough negative reputation (Vilified) with the Powder Gangers.
Powder Gangers appear in Fallout: New Vegas and J.E. Sawyer's Fallout RPG. The 215 Rail Line Powder Gang were also due to appear in Black Isle's canceled Fallout 3.


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Lookingglass welcomes Kevin Douglas and Anthony Fleming III to ensemble
Jan 24, 2013
Lookingglass Theatre Company, now celebrating its 25th Anniversary, announces the addition of two new Ensemble Members: Kevin Douglas and Anthony Fleming III. They are both frequent performers on the Lookingglass stage and have been members of the company as Artistic Associates. "Both Anthony and Kevin have been "family" for a long time now, and we're equal parts ecstatic and proud to welcome them as members of the Ensemble," says Artistic Director Andy White. "Anthony first worked with us in 2003 on Studs Terkel's Race, and we knew immediately that this was a force to be reckoned with - his intensity, his commitment, his humor, and his ability and willingness to "bring it" to every performance make him thoroughly compelling for audiences and totally exciting for his fellow actors on stage. Kevin's astonishing versatility was first in evidence on a Lookingglass stage in 2007's Black Diamond, and the sheer speed with which he's able to wholly transform himself into an amazing range of characters has been on vivid display in so many of our shows since. In addition to their remarkable gifts as actors, though, both of these guys are full of integrity, totally hilarious, and just wonderful human beings. Both our theater and our conversations are richer when either one of them walks in the door. We're lucky to have them in our ranks, and look forward to the many years ahead with them as part of our Ensemble family."The Lookingglass Ensemble now includes 24 members: Eva Barr, Mara Blumenfeld, J. Nicole Brooks, David Catlin, Thomas J. Cox, Larry DiStasi, Kevin Douglas, Christine Mary Dunford, Laura Eason, Anthony Fleming III, Raymond Fox, Joy Gregory, Doug Hara, David Kersnar, John Musial, Daniel Ostling, David Schwimmer, Joey Slotnick, Philip R. Smith, Heidi Stillman, Tracy Walsh, Andy White, Temple Williams III and Mary Zimmerman. Kevin Douglas has been an Artistic Associate with Lookingglass since 2008. He was seen last season at Lookingglass in Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting and The Great Fire. Other Lookingglass credits include Lookingglass Alice, Our Town, Around the World in 80 Days and Black Diamond. Kevin's other Chicago credits include Orlando at Court Theatre and A Civil War Christmas at Northlight. He is also a member of MPAACT (MA'AT Production Association of African Centered Theatre). Regional credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, Baltimore Centerstage, Kansas City Rep and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. Anthony Fleming III has been an Artistic Associate with Lookingglass since 2003. He most recently appeared at Court Theatre in Jitney and at Lookingglass Theatre in Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting. Other Lookingglass credits include The Arabian Nights, Fedra, 1984, Icarus, Lookingglass Alice and Studs Terkel's Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession. A native Chicagoan, other local credits include Camino Real (Goodman Theatre), Division St: America and The Glass Menagerie (Steppenwolf Theatre), Fences (Court Theatre), Hambone, Free Man Of Color, and Denmark (Victory Gardens Theatre), Journal of Ordinary Thought and Cut Flowers (Chicago Theatre Company), Orlando (Piven Theatre), and The Cider House Rules (Famous Door Theatre.) Regional credits include Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Actor's Theatre of Louisville and Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), McCarter Theatre in NJ, New Victory Theatre in NY, Arden Theatre in Philadelphia, Syracuse Stage, and Alliance Theatre in Atlanta (Lookingglass Alice.) When not onstage Mr. Fleming works as a voiceover artist with Naked Voices. This fall he appeared in an independent film titled Mother of War. He is a proud member of Actors Equity.
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While all of the Bavarians played their part in the success story so far, every team has their stars, and their big names have duly risen to the occasion after suffering so much disappointment in all three competitions last season.
The goalkeeper has been as solid as ever, the new signings have slotted in seamlessly, the forwards scored when called upon and the midfielders have been a dominant presence.
Below, in alphabetical order, are Goal.com's three nominees for Bayern's player of the season, based on their club performances in all competitions.
The signing of Dante from Borussia Monchengladbach in the summer certainly raised a few eyebrows. It was said the Brazilian would struggle to get into the Bavarians' first team with the likes of Holger Badstuber and Jerome Boateng ahead of him.
However, it was not long before he was an essential cog in the back line, outperforming his rivals and proving himself to be a mainstay as David Alaba and Badstuber struggled with injuries. His importance to the team was there for all to see against Fortuna Dusseldorf when he was missing.
He has played a key part in their new-found defensive solidity and and has certainly been one of their standout performers.
It may feel like Thomas Muller has been around for an age, but the Germany forward is just 23. And this season, he has arguably enjoyed the finest campaign of his career. After being largely disappointing last term, he has proved his detractors wrong with some fine showings.
Muller has been one of Bayern's most consistent performers, scoring 18 goals in his 39 games thus far and setting up a further 14 as his permanent switch to the right wing in an attacking triumvirate with Franck Ribery and Toni Kroos has paid dividends.
His efforts this season were rewarded with a contract extension which will keep him at the club until 2017 and the future is bright for Bayern and Muller.
As impressive as Muller has been on the right, Franck Ribery has been on the left. The Frenchman, who recently turned 30, has kept up his fitness for the most part and the results have been devastating.
Though his goalscoring statistics could be better for a player in his position, there can be no doubting his influence, constantly running at opposition defenders and creating chances. And when he is unavailable, his absence is sorely noticeable, such as against Bayer Leverkusen or Arsenal.
Ribery has been absolutely critical in a brilliant campaign for Bayern and looks set to be rewarded with a season of silverware.
For the latest in its series looking at all of Europe's top clubs, however, Goal.com has narrowed down the candidates for Bayern's Player of the Season to just three names. Look them over and leave a comment if you disagree!


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Skip to comments.The U.S./Mexican Border Hash Become a Sieve of Death
Posted on 08/04/2004 7:22:40 AM PDT by joesnuffy
Illegals Face a Gauntlet of Doom: The Border Patrol Faces Dopers, Terrorists, and the Desperate Victims of Coyotes.
The 2,100 mile southern border of the U.S., with its treacherous mountain ranges, canyons, rivers and deserts, has become an uncontrollable stretch of violence, death, rape and exploitation.
Over a decade ago, SOF rode with Border Patrol Agents in Arizona when the situation already seemed out of hand. One of those agents, now retired, recently contacted SOF with a disturbing and frustrated update, reflecting the deterioration of the Mexico-United States border.
"In my career, spanning three decades, many of my friends and partners were killed on duty, enforcing immigration laws, and are listed on our honor rolls. Their deaths, and devotion to duty, are beyond politicians' ability to understand, it seems, and are without meaning. This past year the Patrol has arrested a million illegals, with twelve to fourteen million in country, home free. Mexican military incursions, escorting narcotics, are commonplace. Rival alien smuggling organizations thrive in Arizona, and politicians pander, and grovel to Mexico's demands, in a time of war."
Vulture-like smugglers, drug gangs, entrepreneurs, and corrupt officials cash in on human smuggling into the United States, which has become a multi-billion dollar business. Refugees from Mexico, and worldwide, come by foot, across blistering hot sand, and are then crammed into trucks and trailers. They wade through the New River, the most polluted river in the United States, to avoid immigration agents. They swim through raw sewage, slaughterhouse remains, and pesticide runoff. They are stuffed in suitcases. Hundreds have died in the Rio Grande.
The more fortunate ones take the faster route, buying their own tickets in Mexico for around $200. Others are flown in by coyotes, and trafficked throughout the United States. Mexicana, the Mexican stateowned airline, opened a direct flight several years ago from Oaxaca to Hermosillo, with a stop in Mexico City. With three flights a day, Mexicana station manager Jorge Carrillos estimates that half of 290 daily passengers are heading for the United States.
Three other airlines, originating in Vera Cruz and Chiapas, fly illegal immigrants (mojados) to the United States. Migrants tell of being assaulted, robbed or overcharged because they are thought to be carrying lots of money," says the Arizona Daily Star. CNN reports that in the year 2000, during one of many illegal immigration crackdowns at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, and at McCarran Airport in Las Vegas, within just a few hours, one hundred INS agents apprehended a hundred illegals being smuggled to Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas and the East Coast.
Unfortunate Pilgrims
The flood of humans includes many other than Mexican (OTM). Apprehensions of OTMs have increased 42 percent according to Border Patrol spokesperson Rene' Noriega. Migrants come from El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti, the former Soviet Union, Asia, and the Middle East. Most illegal aliens pay their trafficker, from $1,500, up to $50,000 for their journeys. A Border Patrol agent confirmed, to Warriors for the Truth, that nine Yemenis attempting to enter the United States after 9-11, "can't get a coyote to transport them, and they are offering $30,000 per person with no takers."
"The further the smuggling route, the higher the fee. Smugglers often guarantee success for the high prices they charge, promising to give passage back into the United States to those who are apprehended in route and sent back. Some keep that promise while other smugglers let the customers die in a box car or in the trunk or under the hood of a car," says veteran Border Patrol official J. William Carter.
Illegal immigration busts have doubled this year in Arizona. Two thousand and thirty-eight are being apprehended daily. Yuma agents have captured more than 43,000 this year, a one-third increase over last year.
Witnesses express their outrage and disgust at the destruction left behind by the endless parade of illegal migrants.
Take a border town in Arizona, Whetstone, near the "epicenter of an invasion of contraband and humanity that is unrivaled throughout the western world. Trails are worn into the earth by tens of thousands of human travelers. Landowner fences areeither cut by illegal migrants and their smugglers, or bent over and torn down completely. "So heavy is the illegal smuggling traffic in some parts of Whetstone, Arizona 'suburbs' that local residents have constructed roadblocks made of scrub brush and branches. The smell in many areas is overwhelming, especially in the heat of the summer. The amount of refuse is astounding," says wnd.com.
Elsewhere, in the backcountry, "the foot traffic is so heavy it has the ambience of a garbage dump and smells like an outdoor privy. In places, the land is littered a foot deep with bottles, cans, disposable diapers, sanitary napkins, panties, clothes, backpacks, human feces, used toilet paper, pharmacy bottles and syringes," reportsWarriors for the Truth.
Silent Invasion, Deadly Consequences
"This is a sad, continuing story, particularly in those states that border on Mexico, where we witness a steady, silent, pervasive invasion of the United States by an unarmed army carrying an assembly line of diseases into the heart of America," George Putnam reports in Newsmax.com. He cites "Immigration's Silent Invasion, Deadly Consequences", researched by a registered nurse and a former U.S. Army Medical Service Corps officer. The research presents a "frightening study of how the hordes" of illegals invading our nation have reintroduced tuberculosis, leprosy, smallpox and Chagas disease. Chagas, a parasite, kills 50,000 annually and has infected 18 million people in Latin America. It damages the heart and intestines and may infect through blood transfusions.
"The most serious is multi-drugresistant TB, spread through the air by an infected person. Each TB patient is said to infect ten to twenty others. More than 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the U.S. in the past three years. The Queens, NY Health Department diagnosed eightyone TB cases among illegals, and concluded that foreigners have an eightfold higher incidence of TB, and that two-thirds of imported cases come from Mexico, the Philippines and Vietnam," reports Newsmax.
"The Dying Season" began in the deserts in the spring of 2003, just as it does every spring, when eighteen Mexicans and Central Americans were found by Native Americans of the Tohono O'odham Nation on their reservation in Southern Arizona," their report concludes.
"The pilgrims begin their journeys, or return to the United States, after holidays in January, February and March, when the Border Patrol prepares for the biggest influx. "They drown, they die of the desert heat, they die of hypothermia" Miguel Reyes, a protection officer for Mexico's foreign ministry in south Texas told Reuters.
"There is a belief that if you cross in the desert that the snakes will not cross the railroad tracks" Reyes said. Six Mexican immigrants who believed that sleeping on railroad tracks would protect them from poisonous snakes were crushed by a freighttrain near Norias TX in 1998. Their mangled bodies, smashed with cans of beans and tortillas, were unidentifiable.
The tales are endless.
Thirteen immigrants nearly suffocated in a sweltering 140 degrees inside a boxcar in San Antonio TX before they could struggle out. The rotting bodies of seven of them were found under a tree a week later.
Smugglers hire truck drivers to smuggle their human cargos over the border, and from state to state. A passerby on U.S. Highway 77, outside of Victoria TX, called the police to report a hand, waving a bandana out of a hole in the back of a white 18-wheeler, in 2003. "A flood of human beings" spilled out, said U.S. Attorney Michael Shelby. Eighteen out of 100 Mexicans, El Salvadorans, Guatemalans and Hondurans were asphyxiated in a trailer abandoned by three traffickers. The trailer was registered to Tyron Williams of Schenectady, NY, who was later arrested.
Lone Coyotes and Syndicates
Felipe de Jesus Preciado Coronado, head of Mexico's National Immigration Institute told the Washington Post that the government has identified at least 57 organized smuggling bands. Jim Chaparro, head of the anti-smuggling office at U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, INS - abolished in March, 2003 and incorporated into the Department of Homeland Security - said that the small and informal smuggling business has evolved into a powerful web of "literally hundreds of syndicates, some at a low level and some at the kingpin level Gangs are ripping off aliens from other smugglers and holding aliens captive until they sell them to a buyer." Drug smugglers have turned to alien smuggling.
Prices for transport have increased dramatically, partially to pay for high-tech equipment. Encrypted radios, cell phones, and the internet, used for warning of patrolling U.S. agents have replaced the flashlights that were once used to cross the Rio Grande.
Those that charge the most offer computer generated fake documents, or stolen visas and passports. Migrants from Asia and Europe pay far more than Mexicans -- upwards of $50,000 to get in U.S.
"The flow of illegals has become much more organized, and that has opened the opportunity for these groups to market their services to non-Mexicans," Armand Peschard Sverdrup, director of the Mexico project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies told the Post.
Arrests of coyotes have been publicized for years. A cursory examination of the records of Office of the United States District of Arizona alone reveals numerous arrests monthly this year.
Four Smugglers were arrested after a four-month investigation of the Raul Green and Jose Humberto Marquez human trafficking organization in February 2004. Cesar Balderas-Grandos, a Mexican citizen was convicted of trafficking after a U.S. Border Patrol agent saw the knees and elbows of humans bouncing in the bed of his truck.
Grandos refused to stop. He was arrested after a multi- Border Patrol unit high-speed chase. Eleven undocumented aliens were in the bed of the truck and fourteen in the cab of the truck. The defendant had previously been deported from the United States. Jose Guadalupe Chairez-Jauragui was indicted in February for smuggling 65 illegal aliens. A canine, conducting a routine sniff around his trailer, made the alert. BorderPatrol agents had to remove pallets stacked in the back of the trailer and found the smothering aliens. Also in February Alonso Ruiz Avila was indicted in Arizona for transporting 50 aliens in a Freightliner tractor-trailer. The aliens were stowed behind crates of citrus.
Maria Christina Baez and Laura Gastelum were arrested for smuggling five children. The women were paid $50 for each child and were to turn the children over to a stranger. They did not even know who the children were.
In March, Breton Rodriguez, an illegal alien, attacked a Border Patrol agent, and grabbed the agent's Beretta from his holster. The gun discharged, striking the agent in the groin. Push Here, Pop There El Paso TX, and San Diego CA, were the two busiest gateways in illegal immigration crossings. The crackdown began. Operation Hold-the-Line was initiated in El Paso in 1992, Operation Gatekeeper in San Diego in 1994, and Operation Rio Grande was established in 1997 in the McAllen sector in South Texas. In that program, agents at the border were tripled.
Operation Hold-the-Line strategy included installing fences, and the use of sophisticated technology, including monitoring devices. The San Diego border had become violent, and Border Agents were struggling to control the "chaos" and anarchy" in the nightly riots. Mexicans across the border threw rocks at them and fired shots, then dash across en masse in "banzai runs."
"The Border Patrol has absolutely no jurisdiction over the Mexican side of the border. The Mexicans can stand there and taunt the Patrol, and there's nothing we can do, until they cross into the United States," Carter confirmed.
Operation Gatekeeper more than doubled Border Patrol Agents and vehicles at the fourteen-mile San Diego border, installed lighting, infrared scopes, underground sensors and Computer IDENT system to track illegal immigrants.
"Due to efforts in the nineties, entries into the United States decreased, The flow of illegal aliens at those fortified borders where additional agents were placed, such as San Diego CA and El Paso TX, apprehensions decreased significantly.
"During that time the Clinton Administration, and Attorney General Janet Reno, were very supportive of the Border Patrol. They went to Congress with the numbers, and asked to increase our resources. They had no choice but to approve. In 1972, there were 2,250 agents. When I left two years ago there were over 10,000 agents," Carter told us.
"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out they will go east or west of El Paso, and through the rougher routes and rugged terrain, knowing they were taking a greater risk. "Lots of things have to be considered to create an effective barrier. There are the natural barriers. You have the Rio Grande. In Del Rio, TX, you open up the dam and they can't get across. Rugged mountain terrain makes it impossible to cross. Big Ben country is very rugged country. Marfa, Alpine, Presidio, the Rio Grande, and the high canyons are desolate, hot and miserable. Natural barriers there slow down illegal immigrants," Carter said.
"Most Americans are opposed to any kind of fence. Remember, we knocked down the Berlin wall. The original barriers in San Diego consisted of landing mats (pierced-steel planking), metal that was welded together and buried a couple of feet in the ground, leaning towards Mexico. It was pretty successful.
"Then the Mexicans started to butt holes in it. You can drive down and see the three layers of fencing that were put up in San Diego for border control.
"When the fence was built in San Diego, the border patrol had to develop a strategy. Push the balloon here, it pops up there. From San Diego to Tucson, all the way down the bor- der, a strategy had to be developed in such a way that theflow could be controlled." Carter continued.
Migrants were diverted into dangerous territories, many getting lost. The Border Patrol was forced to shift its efforts from patrolling to rescuing victims," Patty Mancha, Border Patrol spokesperson told visalaw.com. "They are spending as much time searching for victims as they are doing their regular job."
For two days in May 2001, migrants were lost during Arizona's hellish heat season. Helicopters and four-wheel-drive vehicles, searching for survivors transported eleven injured to local hospitals. Two others were found after an all-night search, but footprints showed that three others were missing.
"We intend to work this until we've made sure there is no one left out there," Border Patrol spokesman Maurice More said. Coyotes who smuggled victims through the rugged terrain of the Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge promised to return with water, and told the migrants to walk for "a couple of hours" to a highway. The highway was fifty miles away. Five were able to walk far enough to find agents in the scorching 115-degree heat, reports the Washington Post.
The Border Patrol got lots of grief for their role in the crackdown.
"What's causing it (the deaths of illegal immigrants) is the deadly strategy of the Border Patrol that has forced people into the most hazardous area of the desert," said the Rev. John Fife, Tucson pastor who helped build a watering station for immigrants in Arizona, the Post continues.
U.S. Rep. Tancredo (R-CO), supportive of the crackdowns, reacted after an agent was shot at by Mexicans in a humvee, five miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in 2001. "I cannot in good conscience stand by and watch another incursion along our border take place. "Unless we open our eyes and recognize that what's happening along the U.S./ Mexico border is real, one of our guys is going to get killed. "As far as I am concerned, that (incursion) should be an act of war," reports the Sierra Times.
Dozens of Border Patrol Agents have died since the organization of the Agency in 1924. Twenty-one have been killed since 1992.
Dumping Ground
U.S. Border Control Chairman Edward Nelson, outraged by Mexican consuls-general and Foreign Ministry officials' criticism of Operation Rio Grande, responded angrily, "America has become a favorite dumping ground for Mexicans their own government cannot, or chooses not to, care for. These diplomats are total hypocrites. Illegal migration is not 'a natural phenomenon' as the Mexican government would have us believe. It is, instead, a serious crime and a clear violation of American sovereignty."
The Mexican government does nothing to stop illegal migration because it is in their economic interests to have millions of their citizens go to the United States, especially those with no job skills and no money, or those with serious long-term health care problems," reports Usbc.org.
"Mexico," Nelson said, "even refuses to take back Mexican criminals that have been caught and convicted in our country (see future parts of this series). These diplomats are well aware of the fact that their citizens are being exploited, robbed and even murdered by the coyotes. They are aware that many are carrying drugs into America that will wind up in the veins of American children.
"Our border patrol, which has suffered more than 200 cross border attacks recently, should worry less about being 'sensitive' and more about being bushwhacked by the drug cartels killers who now control our southern border and most immigrant traffic. "We've been called racists, imperialists, and most recently, murderers," the Usbc.org report continues.
Mexican Response
In 2001, the Mexican Government announced its plan to distribute 200,000 survival kits as part of a broader program to instruct illegals in what to expect "tips on maintaining self-esteem, and on Asian meditation techniques, to combat depression, stress and anxiety in a country they have entered illegally and without speaking the language," says the Orange County Register.
The survival kits include first aid kits, rehydration tablets, dried foods, and snake bite antidotes. U.S. officials criticized the plan as further risking the lives of the Mexicans and the Border patrol. "It gives the perception to our U.S. public that the Mexican government is encouraging people to break U.S. laws by entering the country illegally," said Hipolito Scosta, INS district director, to CNN.
America's Palestinians
Glenn Spencer, host of the popular talk show American Patrol, and immigration expert, produced a video "Conquest of Aztlan" in which he warns that a radical group, self-named "America's Palestinians" declare the goal of reclaiming the American Southwest, including California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and parts of Colorado and Texas. The area is named "Aztlan" by Hispanic activists, or the mythical place of origin of the Aztec people, says Shop Net Daily.
H. Millard, in the Sierra Times, cites a Zogby poll, which found that 58 percent of Mexicans in the Southwest believed that the U.S. rightfully belongs to Mexico, and that 57 percent of Mexicans believe they have the right to enter the U.S. without permissions.
He quotes Mario Obled, founder of the Mexican American Legal and Defense Fund (MALDEF), "California is going to be a Hispanic state, and anyone whodoesn't like it should leave. They should go back to Europe."
MALDEF, according to Frosty Wooldridge, teacher, author and overpopulation specialist, reporting in the Washington Dispatch, is one of the most anti-American advocacy groups in the United States and is bent on returning Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California to Mexico as part of their 'Aztlan Reconquista.'
Three hundred more Border Patrol agents were deployed by June 1.
In spite of all these efforts, and after a four-year decline, illegal immigration from Mexico has spiked this year as several thousand migrants a day rush the border. U.S. Border Patrol told AP that detentions rose 25 percent, to 535,000, in the six months prior to March 31 compared to the year previous. Seventy-five percent are Mexican. "And there's no way to determine 'got-aways,'" Carter told us. "I have no idea where anybody's getting those numbers, except in unsophisticated ways-border patrol agents in the desert, working a trail of aliens, don't report 'got-aways'. Then you have those areas and trails that are not worked and no-one to detect the immigrants."
No telling how many 'got-aways' are running loose in the United States, uncounted. Then there are the many bodies that are never found.
Dr. Martin Brass is an International Lawyer and longtime contributor to SOF.
"The most serious is multi-drugresistant TB, spread through the air by an infected person. Each TB patient is said to infect ten to twenty others. More than 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the U.S. in the past three years. The Queens, NY Health Department diagnosed eightyone TB cases among illegals, and concluded that foreigners have an eightfold higher incidence of TB, and that two-thirds of imported cases come from Mexico,
THE US Mexico Border HAS become not HASH become...
Thinking about breakfast ....sorry
Border hash . . . yummm.
All those Israelis are going to be in need of work after they finish their wall, we've got a perfectly good border going to waste here, it's longer too - so our unemployed can get productive employment, and I wouldn't mind my tax dollars going for THIS kind of gov't project!
That 58% of Mexicans in the Southwest believe the southern US belongs to Mexico and that they should be able to come and go as they please should scare the crap out of all citizens with more than 2 functioning synapses.
Meanwhile, our absentee Congress is again on vacation doing everything they can as individual pigs trying to remain abundantly slopped at the public trough.
At the risk of sounding repetitive...BUILD THE DAMNED WALL...NOW!
Mr. Moderizer,
You might wish to fix the title. "Has" for "Hash"...;-)
Build the wall. Arm the CITIZENS.
I say we force Illegaliens to work their term of incarceration of minimum six months on the wall for their illegal entry, then we deport them.
I'm afraid you are on the mark with that prediction.
Thanks for this article.
I agree with many of the sentiments posted herein.
Build the wall.
Station the Military, the National Guard, local militias, and whomever along the border, TODAY.
Begin the overwhelming task of deporting and expelling all non-citizens from our country, may not be popular, but extremely necessary.
Most importantly, let the current bunch of elected officials in Washington know that this is THEIR fault.
They have the responsibility and the authority to SOLVE this problem, yet they waste their time and our money on issues far less important.
Homeland Security my ass.
Dr. Brass is writing this as part of a series. There is much more 'good' news coming.
If you happen to remember, please ping me when/if the next installments are posted. Thanks!
Border? What border?
It's more than enough to convince me that a) many if not most of our first-generation Mexican immigrants need to be repatriated, and b) most of the people in our government need to be impeached.
"...a steady, silent, pervasive invasion of the United States by an unarmed army carrying an assembly line of diseases into the heart of America."
"Each TB patient is said to infect ten to twenty others...more than 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the U.S."
"They swim through raw sewage, slaughterhouse remains, and pesticide runoff. They are stuffed in suitcases. Hundreds have died in the Rio Grande."
"Smugglers let the customers die in a box car or in the trunk or under the hood of a car."
"The smell in many areas is overwhelming...in places, the land is littered a foot deep."
"There is a belief that if you cross in the desert that the snakes will not cross the railroad tracks...their mangled bodies, smashed with cans of beans and tortillas, were unidentifiable."
"Gangs are ripping off aliens from other smugglers and holding aliens captive until they sell them to a buyer."
"Border Agents were struggling to control the "chaos" and anarchy" in the nightly riots. Mexicans across the border threw rocks at them and fired shots, then dash across en masse in "banzai runs." (I don't remember this getting news coverage.- NRT)
"What's causing the deaths of illegal immigrants is the deadly strategy of the Border Patrol that has forced people into the most hazardous area of the desert," said the Rev. John Fife (The death of every person who has perished believing Fife and his ilk would save them is upon his own head.- NRT)
"Illegal migration is not 'a natural phenomenon' as the Mexican government would have us believe. It is, instead, a serious crime and a clear violation of American sovereignty. These diplomats are well aware of the fact that their citizens are being exploited, robbed and even murdered by the coyotes. They are aware that many are carrying drugs into America that will wind up in the veins of American children."- U.S. Border Control head Edward Nelson
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(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) - The United States went 0-5 in the men's and women's heavyweight divisions on Thursday at the World Judo Championships.
Although none of the four produced a win, two did go the distance of the full five minutes in their matches before losing on points.
Adler Volmar (Coral Springs, Fla. / USA Judo National Training Site at North Miami) entered the 100kg division in his first World Championships competing for Team USA after fighting for Haiti for much of the 1990s.
Volmar fought European Champion Daniel Hadfi (HUN), but lost by a penalty. The two felt each other out for the first minute with only one significant attack attempt committed when Hadfi tried a sacrifice throw. Volmar was penalized, but neither athlete made much of a move until Hadfi received a penalty of his own, tying the score with just over two minutes remaining. Hadfi made most of the subsequent attacks and Volmar was, in turn, penalized for stalling with 30 seconds remaining to lose by a penalty.
Hadfi, who later won bronze, pulled Volmar through to the repechage where Volmar was leading in his match against Fraz Birkfellner (AUT) by a yuko before being pinned for ippon.
Kirk Hoffmann (Colorado Springs, Colo. / USA Judo National Training Site at the Olympic Training Center / +100kg) picked up a shido on Sung Hyuen Hong (KOR) for grabbing the inside of Hoffmann's pant leg. When Hong went down with what appeared to be a shoulder injury shortly thereafter, the match was nearly done when Hong decided to continue fighting ultimately forcing Hoffmann into a penalty and scoring on him again at the end of the match.
Fifteen-year-old Marina Lambert (Chesapeake, Va. / Washington Judo / 78kg) fought Marylise Levesque (CAN) for the third time in just over three months. The two met first at the Pan Am Championships in May when Lambert double-legged Levesque across the mat and into a table, but was later thrown. Levesque won their last match at the Pan Am Games in July, but couldn't score on her this time, making it a defensive match of penalties with Levesque winning with three penalties to Lambert's four which ended the match with 90 seconds remaining.
Asma Sharif (Wakefield, Mass. / USA Judo National Team FORCE) was thrown for a waza-ari in the first minute of her +78kg match against Nihe Chikrouhou (TUN) who then rolled Sharif into a pin for a second waza-ari and the match.
Competition continues on Friday with the men's 81kg and 90kg and the women's 63kg and 70kg.