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March 10th, 2012
[Editor's note: This profile of Paula Deen originally ran in March, 2012.]
The cockroaches came swarming from under the bed, and Paula Deen decided she'd had enough.
At 44, the newly minted restaurateur had been through a lot: She'd grown up without a real bathroom, living in the back of her family's souvenir shop and gas station, lost her father when he was only 40 and her mother just four years after that, weathered a difficult marriage to her hard-drinking high school sweetheart and begun to wrest herself from the grip of a crippling panic disorder.
But a roiling mass of bugs in her increasingly unkempt home - that, she recounted in her 2007 memoir "It Ain't All About the Cookin'," was her lowest moment yet.
With nowhere else to go that night, Deen crawled back under the covers, sobbed herself to sleep and upon waking, threw the mattress outside in the garbage. As a team of men hauled the rest of her furniture to a Ryder truck so the house could be fumigated, the newly divorced Deen vowed to herself and to God that she would never allow herself to live like that again.
Now 65, Paula Deen is one of the best-known, highest paid, and arguably most beloved food personalities in the world. She is also one of the most polarizing. While legions of fans cheer on her homey, hammy, butter-glutted spin on Southern comfort food, an increasingly vocal number are eager to see Deen twist in the wind for what they see as her crimes against health, animal welfare, the environment and possibly even her own employees.
She was skewered recently after announcing she was diagnosed with diabetes three years ago and is a paid spokesperson for Novo Nordisk, the company that makes the diabetes drug Victoza. But on air and in her cookbooks, her recipes have never varied from their sugar, salt and fat-laden norm.
This week, she and her brother, Earl "Bubba" Hiers, were targets of a lawsuit by a former employee of a restaurant they co-own. Lisa T. Jackson alleges that during the five years she worked there, she witnessed numerous acts of violence, discrimination and racism. The siblings' lawyers issued a statement denying the claims: "We will hold Ms. Jackson [the plaintiff] and her lawyer accountable for these false allegations. We look forward to our day in court."
So how did a sweet, spunky, salty little cheerleader from Albany, Georgia, become one of the most controversial figures in the food world?
Rags to riches to controversy
Deen declined to be interviewed this week, but much of her life story has been laid out in her memoir, co-written by Sherry Suib Cohen, in on-camera conversations with Larry King and Oprah Winfrey, and in earlier interviews with other journalists, including this writer.
Paula Hiers grew up pretty, popular and poor, coming of age in a town at the center of the civil rights movement, according to her memoir. While her parents, Earl and Corrie, didn't always have much in the way of material goods, young Paula got three square meals a day and some artful cooking instruction from her maternal grandmother.
At Grandmother Paul's side, she learned the fundamentals of cooking that would come to define her: fatback seasoned greens, crunchy fried chicken, peach pies, country steaks, creamed potatoes and, yes, all the butter and sugar she could possibly get her hands on. Good food, young Paula learned, was conducive to love and being loved.
As a teenager, she began to explore other appetites. She smoked her first cigarette at 15, she said in a recent interview, and sneaked out of the house with her girlfriends to dance, flirt and otherwise canoodle with boys. At 17, she caught her first glimpse of Jimmy Deen, the most beautiful boy she'd ever seen. At 18, she went out on her first date with him, and by 19, much to her parents' chagrin (they had wanted her to go to school for dental hygiene to ensure herself some financial stability), she became Mrs. Paula Deen.
The marriage was tumultuous from the get-go, churned by their mutual immaturity and Jimmy's drinking, but the worst was yet to come. Just a few months after the wedding, Paula's father had a car wreck and died a couple of days later. Paula's world cracked apart. When her mother died from bone cancer just a few years later, Paula, then just 23, crumbled. She wouldn't recover for nearly two decades.
This was in the days before Internet message boards and online support groups. So Paula had no idea there was a name for the condition that kept her imprisoned in her own home, afraid of public places: agoraphobia. She just knew that every moment of every day she believed from the bottom of her heart that she or someone she loved would draw their last breath. The world outside was terrifying, so she stopped participating in it and stopped going outside.
Broke, panicked, ashamed and shuffled from house to house to house (nearly 20 in 20 years) by a husband who lacked a steady job, Deen sought refuge in the one place she felt safe and in control: the kitchen. With two boys to feed by then, cooking offered some sort of normalcy and nostalgia, nurturing and purpose – that is, if the family could afford groceries.
By her own account in her memoir, she also got awfully good at faking perky. For many who suffer with extreme emotional ailments, feelings of depression and anxiety are compounded by fear of someone finding out they're not quite normal. If there was one thing (other than cooking) that the ex-cheerleader could manage, it was a toothy grin and a peppy "Hey, y'all!" Bundle that with tasty casseroles and irresistible sweets, and not a soul on Earth would suspect that anything was amiss, or turn down the top-notch hostess.
That is, unless they had been through it themselves. At long last, a neighbor who also suffered from panic attacks caught on to Deen's patterns. Her burden wasn't lifted, but suddenly it was shared, and she began to find it all a little less shameful to talk about.
Then one day the neighbor called and crowed: "Turn on Phil Donahue!" The talk show host devoted the hour to people who couldn't face the fears lurking just outside their front doors. Finally, Deen had a name for her darkness.
Recalling that moment when she learned she was agoraphobic, Deen said she sat on the bed and cried with relief. "I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy..."
Bolstered by a reasonable if unofficial diagnosis (in her only previous attempt at counseling, she says, a minister told her she was being a spoiled brat and that her husband's daily beer drinking did not constitute a problem), she began to push her boundaries in an attempt to become a "functioning agoraphobic."
Her self-administered therapy included trekking to the Albany mall and, depending who she was with, venturing farther and farther inside. The effort continued apace, bolstering her to the point that she was able to hold down a job as a bank teller. Then misfortune struck again. The bank was robbed by a masked man with a gun, and she relapsed.
Jimmy eventually moved the family to Savannah and at 40, Paula realized: She wasn't dead yet. And when you're not dead, you might as well try to make a living.
She was working in billing at a hospital when a friend suggested she sell her delicious sandwiches door to door at local businesses. Armed with a scheme and a cute name, "The Bag Lady," she asked Jimmy for $200 from her tax return. A career was born.
Her son Jamie was a reluctant recruit to the business. Deen pressed him into service as a delivery boy. She was driven by the fear that she might not be able to provide for her family, a worry that remains to this day. On a recent "Oprah's Next Chapter," she described a recurring dream of not being able to find two nickels in her pocket.
"When you've been on the other side," Deen said, "you never forget."
The business thrived, and Deen brought on staff, eventually turning the business into a full-fledged restaurant called "The Lady." After 27 years, she asked her husband for a divorce, she wrote in the memoir, after learning he'd lied about making their son's truck payments. Paula paid off the debt and got the truck back. Though she and Jimmy remain on good terms and she frequently asserts in interviews that he is an excellent father, he'd lost her heart forever.
Alone for the first time since age 19, Deen threw herself into her work and the care of new pet birds, neglecting her own well-being and housekeeping until that fateful night when the cockroaches emerged from under the bed. It was time to exterminate the past.
Larger than life – and a target
In public, Deen is unmistakably a celebrity and larger than life. Her physical presence is almost shocking; the hue of her hair and teeth and those Disney blue eyes seem cranked up just a notch or two beyond the normal human range.
She is also bawdy as all get-out, never missing an opportunity to make a side-splitting sexual innuendo. Her fans - the millions who tune in to her Food Network series, line up at her in-person events, use her cookbooks and branded edibles and kitchenware, read her magazines, eat at her restaurants and buy her line of home furnishings - love her for it. Deen reminds them of their sassy Southern aunt, or at least the one they wish they'd had.
She's got an entourage that flanks and protects her, perhaps a vestige of the coping strategies she once employed to overcome her agoraphobia. The people surrounding her are often kin by blood or marriage, or have been on Team Paula for a very long time.
There's one notable absence now: She and her longtime spokesperson and marketer Nancy Assuncao parted ways earlier this year, telling the New York Daily News she just couldn't support her client's decision to align herself with the diabetes drug Victoza.
Criticism of that decision was swift and pointed. Author and "No Reservations" host Anthony Bourdain, who in a previous TV Guide interview referred to Deen as the "worst, most dangerous person in America" for her unhealthy food, tweeted: "Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business so I can profitably sell crutches later."
Southern chef John Currence tweeted: "Dear Paula Deen – A big thank you for making us look dumber again. Please shut the [expletive] up. Love, those of us trying to make a difference."
Publications like The Atlantic gleefully tallied up the nutritional damage of some of Deen's most notorious dishes, like the Fat Darrell sandwich, deep-fried lasagna and the Krispy Kreme doughnut-swaddled The Lady's Brunch Burger. SF Gate columnist Paolo Lucchesi bemoaned that, "There was not one modicum of regret or culpability for her entire persona and recipe encyclopedia, which is pretty much a butter-lubed bobsled ride to Diabetesville."
The overwhelming sentiment: Take responsibility for your actions, Paula, and don't profit off unhealthy fare.
Except for a reported pledge to share some of her Novo Nordisk money with the American Diabetes Association, Deen didn't blink, and for the most part, neither did many of her deeply devoted fans.
This is not the first time Deen has been perceived as using an act of charity to balance out a controversial deal. She has been taken to task by critics like New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman who see her as profiting off unethical treatment of animals with her endorsement of Smithfield ham, and Deen has countered with highly publicized public distribution of pork products to food banks.
"I have been a fan of Paula Deen for a long time but I never really thought twice about the dangers of her cooking, because I have a choice to cook those recipes or not," said Tamira Williams, a criminal justice student who, like Paula, grew up in the south. "I am a little tired of hearing people blame Paula Deen because they are obese. She didn't make you eat anything, she didn't make you fry it, she didn't make you drown it in gravy and/or butter and she didn't bring a single bag of sugar to your home."
Williams continued, "She didn't really have to tell anyone about her personal health condition and, as far as the money she is making, I can assure you that she is not the only one getting kickbacks. She is just the only one who actually spoke out about it."
Jennifer Turner, a 36-year-old freelance writer from Manheim, Pennsylvania, remains firm in her fandom as well.
"She admits that she's a cook and not a doctor, yet she is a highly visible public figure and a role model for many people. I am glad she agreed to confess her medical condition, but I also think we judge celebrities harshly. I don't harass my family members or friends because they overeat or cook with butter and sugar while being obese. So why should I discontinue being her fan?"
Turner and her family also find inspiration in Deen's rags-to-riches story. "Just yesterday, I reminded my children of how Paula sent her sons to peddle sandwiches around town in the beginning of her career. My kids sometimes complain about their household chore assignments or sacrifices. I remind them that families stick together, just like Paula Deen and her boys."
The lawsuit Deen faces is a family affair. Named alongside her brother, who came to live with Paula and Jimmy when he was orphaned at 16, Deen was slapped with allegations from a former general manager of Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House, including one saying she had used racial epithets when referring to African-Americans who worked for Paula Deen Enterprises. Her brother has also been accused of openly watching pornography in the restaurant's kitchen.
The statement by the siblings' lawyer says all charges were investigated and found to be false. It goes on to cast aspersions on the plaintiff's true motives. "She has made baseless, inflammatory allegations, threatening to go to the press and ruin Paula Deen's reputation and the reputation of her businesses unless we paid her a large sum of money. We refused to bow to that kind of pressure and refused to pay money to address false claims."
On Friday, CNN's sister network, HLN, obtained a letter to Deen written by Jackson, the plaintiff, three months before she quit her job at the restaurant. It read, in part, "When I came to work for this company, I felt hopeless. I needed something, some opportunity that could provide me hope as an individual, as a woman, to make it on my own. At 15, homeless, without parents and with a young child, my life was headed in a direction no one could ever assume positive. ... Since then I have become the independent woman I have always wanted to be. I have been given opportunities that I never thought possible, all because of you and Bubba."
And as Jackson herself pointed out in the letter, Deen's fan base remains strong, no matter what. "People appreciate you and respect you as a person and the personal struggles and stories you have to tell. People want to KNOW you and what you have had to go through to get where you are."
Even if it's a bed full of cockroaches.
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Cool map. I like the layout with the two city levels and also the visual difference with the roof colors.
A commission I made for the avalanche project http://www.cycles-rpg.com/ . The city of Caennyas.
Cool map. I like the layout with the two city levels and also the visual difference with the roof colors.
Really cool map! I like the hand drawn style, reminds me of 16c. maps. However is it just me, but how do you get from the lower city to the Higher city? WOuld they have to go out and around?
Very nice style, and colors. I really like the cliff and the separation between the two areas. How do the folks get back and forth between the two? Rope and grappling hooks? Baskets on a pulley system! Also, I wonder why the wall doesn't go all around the upper city?
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Did you draw it in Inkscape or in Photoshop? I often have difficulty getting nice clean lines like that in photoshop.
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I used an existing map as base for this new one. There is indeed only one road leading from the lower city to the higher city. As well as the 'cut off' town walls.
@Larb: The map is hand drawn with a black fine liner (0,1) on DIN A4 paper, scanned, cleaned up in PS, traced in Illustrator and then coloured in PS again. For the trees I used the clone stamp tool.
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Another wonderful work by Sapiento--could anyone be surprised? The map has a really nice, rough, 'authentic' vibe to it. Well worthy of rep, which I shall provide immediately.
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Very, very nice map. As stated before I love this isometric look for city maps.
I am left wondering though why there's a large refugee camp behind stone walls. That would almost indicate the camp has been there for ages and needed protection.
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Gandwarf has fallen into shadow...
Low city was the original location of the entirity of Caennyas. Several years(decades?) ago, a virulent plague swept the city, many of the homes were burnt to the ground in an effort both stave off the plague as well as dispose of the bodies. In the mean time, nobles and rich merchants resettled on the cliff above the city( which as once the purvue of a local lord who died without an heir(thus the castle ruins)).
Work has continued on the walls surrounding the upper city slowly due to limited labor. Recently, a disaster struck and people retreated to Caennyas and are now part of the refugee encampments.
umm hows that?
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May 6, 2016
A man accused of killing the student body president at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill more than three years ago is scheduled to go on trial.
Twenty-one-year-old Laurence Alvin Lovette of Durham was set to appear in court Monday in Hillsborough for the hearing of motions, with jury selection slated to begin Tuesday.
Twenty-two-year-old Eve Carson of Athens, Ga., was shot to death on March 5, 2008, after she was abducted and robbed.
Lovette's co-defendant, DeMario Atwater, pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced to life in prison.
Lovette has pleaded not guilty.
Investigators say the men abducted Carson and forced her to withdraw $1,400 from automated teller machines before they shot her five times. Her body was found on a Chapel Hill street.
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Looting and pillaging with The Dread Crew of Oddwood
The Dread Crew of Oddwood, with The Renfields
WHERE: The Empty Glass, 410 Elizabeth St.
WHEN: 10 p.m. Tuesday
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Getting a straight answer out of Renaissance Fair act-turned-bar band, The Dread Crew of Oddwood, isn't always easy.
With the eight of them crammed into a '98 Ford Club Wagon, the group is liable to spontaneously decide everyone should take a shot of whiskey or begin a MadLib in the middle of a phone interview.
"We need a noun," said mandolin player Ruba Jouba. "And don't say car, or we'll hang up. Everybody always says car."
It's hard to imagine what a show with a pirate-themed band that "blends heavy metal, Celtic folk and progressive rock with a unique acoustic instrumentation" in something it calls "heavy mahogany" might be like, but West Virginia finds out Tuesday night when the California-based crew comes to The Empty Glass.
To hear the band members (all of who go by pseudonyms) tell it, there is no particular reason for The Dread Crew of Oddwood to exist.
Vocalist and Irish Bouzouki player Stark Cordwain said, "No one had this idea. It just happened for no good reason."
The timing, however, was right. Most of the band played at different renaissance fairs in southern California. They met, made connections and decided to take some of the silliness of playing pirate and apply it to a band that plays bars.
"We already had the costumes," Jouba said. "It was very convenient."
The band's music is like something inspired by a Captain Morgan's rum commercial or pirated from an indie version of a Hobbit movie. The crew frequently sings about zombies, sea monsters, revenge and piracy, among other things. The Dread Crew is loud, spectacularly weird and doesn't take itself seriously -- at all.
"Anything can happen at a show," Cordwain said. "We can do anything from backflipping off the stage to loincloth shows to lighting the drums on fire and smashing instruments."
"It depends on what the venue allows," Jouba said. "Whatever the most thing they allow, we try do something more extreme."
Audience participation is welcome, though entirely optional.
"A lot of people show up in full pirate garb," Cordwain said. "We've had crowd surfing and moshing and audience members on stage performing songs with us."
The Dread Crew doesn't get to the East Coast much.
"It's hard to get over there," Cordwain said. "We have to make a lot of money for it to be worth the plane tickets."
The Dread Crew is playing east of the Mississippi over the next week because of some convenient scheduling. The band is booked to play the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Kenosha, Wis., this weekend and Labor Day weekend.
"So, we have this week in between where we're just sitting around," Cordwain said.
It made sense to try to pick up a few shows in the neighborhood, which apparently includes Chicago, Charleston and Silver Springs, Md.
After that fair, the band will make its way back to California where it will play some of its usual clubs and festivals.
"We stay pretty busy," Cordwain said. "We're playing the Vista Viking Festival next month."
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Gamakichi (ガマ吉, Gamakichi) is a toad from Mount Myōboku.
He is rather funny, and has the mannerisms of a smart aleck. He is also often very condescending as well as light-hearted in most situations, preferring the levity of talk to the seriousness of battle. He has formed a bond with Naruto because he saved him from Gaara in his miniature Shukaku form. After he is summoned he tends to greet people by saying, "Yo" (in English dub, "Hey").
In Part II, Gamakichi has not just grown in size but in maturity as well. Gamakichi seems to have a considerably large amount of knowledge when it comes to human-toad combination techniques and natural energy. Also, he seems to be on better terms with his younger brother, Gamatatsu, as shown by him no longer calling him an idiot.
Gamakichi début as a young orange toad with purple markings around his eyes, mouth and stomach. In Part I, he was small enough to fit on top of Naruto's head like Akamaru could fit on top of Kiba's head and wore a blue jacket. After the time-skip, Gamakichi has grown much bigger in size, though not nearly as big as his father, Gamabunta, but now Naruto can ride on his head and he can carry an adult human in the palm of his hands. He still sports a blue jacket.
Though his abilities have not been expounded on much in the manga, in the anime, Gamakichi has shown a variety of techniques. He has been shown to be able to shrink his body size for infiltration purposes. He's shown the ability to use the Reverse Summoning Technique and summon Naruto to Mount Myōboku.[3]
Nature Transformation
In the anime, Gamakichi has shown the ability to use Fire Release techniques, which includes the Fire Release: Flame Bullet and the collaboration technique with his brother and Naruto called the Wind Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet.[4]
Part I
Invasion of Konoha Arc
During the fight with the transformed Gaara, Sakura Haruno was slowly being crushed, and Naruto decided it was time to summon Gamabunta. However, due to poor chakra control, he could only muster enough chakra to summon Gamakichi. Despite being irritated, Naruto kept Gamakichi safe from Gaara's attacks. When Naruto finally managed to summon Gamabunta, Gamakichi convinced his father to help in the fight, telling his father that Naruto had saved him from Gaara and that he in turn, needed help saving his "girlfriend".
Search for Tsunade Arc
During the fight against Orochimaru, Gamakichi was inadvertently summoned by Jiraiya due to the crippling effects of Tsunade's drug which were still in his system, rendering him unable to properly control his chakra. He would later tell his brother Gamatatsu, who was summoned by Naruto, to run away when their father, Katsuyu, and Manda with their respective summoners were about to fight. Gamakichi later watched from the sidelines along with Tonton and his brother as the battle between the three waged on.
Land of the Rice Fields Arc
In the anime, Jiraiya summoned him once again to check for traps at the entrance of Orochimaru's hideout.
Land of the Birds Arc
Gamakichi made a short appearance in the Land of Birds when he and Naruto needed Gamatatsu. Despite Naruto thinking he would be useless, Gamatatsu, using his curiosity, found a kite that was a clue to how the Cursed Warrior flew. Later, he went down a dark tunnel with Naruto and Gamatatsu, and was caught by the daimyō and his guards.
Land of the Sea Arc
He was summoned again with Gamatatsu by Naruto in the Land of the Sea, although it was another attempt by Naruto to summon Gamabunta. Upon learning this he warned Naruto that it would be a big mistake to summon his father to the middle of the ocean, since toads are freshwater creatures.
Part II
Three-Tails Arc
Although he did not have his Part II début until much later in the manga, Gamakichi appeared sooner in the anime adaptation. Noticeably, Gamakichi was not yet as big as he would be in his manga debut, by which time he would be big enough for Naruto to stand on his head. In his anime debut, Gamakichi was easily big enough for Naruto to stand on his back.
When Naruto proved incapable of synchronising with Gamariki to learn collaboration techniques, Naruto decided to summon Gamakichi and Gamatatsu, as he had worked well with them before. After successfully synchronising with them, Naruto learned that neither of them had any skill in Water Release technique. With Naruto's help and lessons from their father, Gamakichi teaches the basics of Water Release to Gamatatsu.
Later, when Team Yamato found it impossible to break through Guren's crystal barrier via conventional means, Naruto summoned Gamakichi and Gamatatsu to help. Gamakichi kept Gamatatsu focused by warning him that he wouldn't get any snacks if he didn't focus on the task at hand. This enables Gamatatsu to break through the barrier, after which they return to Mount Myōboku. To their annoyance, however, Naruto keeps summoning them again, both to combat Team Guren and the Three-Tails. While fighting the latter, Gamakichi pointed out that their Water Release technique would be ineffective against its own water-based abilities. Naruto lamented the fact that they had no Fire Release technique at their disposal to evaporate the beast's water, but Gamakichi pointed out that he could use fire release and together with him using the Fire Release: Flame Bullet technique, they were able to perform the Wind Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet.
After sending Gamatatsu back briefly to Mount Myōboku to bring back a stomachful of toad oil, Naruto, Gamatatsu, and Gamakichi combined their techniques to create the Wind Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet. The resulting inferno drove through the Three-Tails' water attack and had the turtle demon fleeing under the lake's surface. Once the Three-Tails had been overcome, Gamakichi and Gamatatsu went back home.
Invasion of Pain Arc
Gamakichi made his Part II début in the manga when Naruto was informed of Jiraiya's death. He was later present during Naruto's senjutsu training having summoned Naruto to Mount Myōboku and later watched as he trained under Fukasaku. He was summoned again during Pain's attack on Konoha, where Naruto instructed him to get Tsunade to safety. He stayed with Sakura whom he had brought Tsunade to, laughing when the Deva Path starts running away to use Chibaku Tensei, thinking Naruto has scared him off. Sakura reprimanded him however, reminding him of the danger with Naruto and that they needed to use this opportunity to save Hinata Hyūga who had been badly injured. He is later seen with the other villagers congratulating Naruto on defeating Nagato.
- Gamakichi's name means "Propitious Toad".
- In the English version, Gamakichi spoke in a New York accent. This could be a similar allusion to Gamabunta speaking in a Hiroshima dialect in the Japanese version, as both dialects associated with gangsters.
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- "Uh-oh, more cops! BACK UP, HOLMES, BACK UP! BACK UP!"
- — Cesar Vialpando about the cops.
Test Drive is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas given to protagonist Carl Johnson by Varrios Los Aztecas leader Cesar Vialpando from Carl's garage at the Doherty district of San Fierro, San Andreas.
Cesar has found two more cars on the wishlist. He suggests that he and Carl go to an automobile showroom across town.
Carl takes himself and Cesar to drive to Otto's Autos in Downtown. On the way, Cesar tells him that he, along with Kendl, enjoy the ambience of San Fierro. He also asks him stuff about The Truth, with Carl responding that though he may be weird, his sayings may be somehow true.
They eventually arrive at Otto's Autos. They go to the second floor, and is greeted by a dealer. He does them a favor of leaving them alone, while the two steal a Sultan and an Elegy. Carl follows Cesar throughout the city, all while being chased by the cops. After a lengthy ride, they make it back to the garage in Doherty.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Go and get the cars from the car showroom
- Drive to the automobile showroom
- Stay close to Cesar as you return to the garage
- Follow Cesar into the alleyway
- Drive back to the garage
The rewards for completing this mission are an increase in respect and $5000. The mission Customs Fast Track is unlocked. The Elegy and the Sultan will now spawn in the Wang Cars showroom.
- One of the biggest obstacles in this level is the tram, especially on the corner where Cesar attracts the police attention - the tram will almost always be right there, and very difficult to avoid. If CJ's car hits the tram, it will most likely flip over, causing his car to explode.
- The name of the mission is a possible reference to the videogame Test Drive by Atari.
- At the closing cutscene, if you enter the blow up all cars cheat when CJ is out of the vehicle, the mission will be failed and CJ will be on the interior of the garage (that actually isn't part of the Interior Universe).


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A legend in a city of legends, moments from Piazza di Spagna and the Villa Borghese gardens, The Westin Excelsior, Rome, the "magnificent white palace on Via Veneto", is one of the world's great classic hotels. Unique and unforgettable, it is located on the most well-known street of the capital, the famous Via Veneto, one of the most celebrated meeting places of Europe. The Excelsior establishes a link between a sparkling past and a dynamic present, facing the street that was the cradle of the shining "Dolce Vita" and, thanks to the captivating style of Fellini, reached the collective imagination and became immortal.
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Do people have the right to stand in medians to panhandle, or is it a public safety hazard? That's the issue the Portland City Council will take up tonight, when it votes on a proposed ordinance to ban any activity in medians. Just a year ago the council voted down a similar proposal, but Portland Police said there's been a surge in panhandlers perched in the middle of busy streets, and that the city needs to be proactive to prevent a tragedy.
There are many in Portland who aren't thrilled about the amount of panhandling in median strips, including 41 year old Dave. Dave won't give his last name. He's a panhandler.
"This is Plan B. This is not plan A, this is plan B," Dave said. "I go to the temp agency at 4:30 and I sit there for a couple of hours, and if they have work, I don't come out and do this, but if they don't, then I come out and do this."
Ever since Dave lost his apartment in Auburn a couple years ago, he's been chasing work wherever he hears he can find it. First it was New Hampshire. Then Bangor. Now Portland. Dave's a machine operator, and he said since he arrived in the city a little over a month ago, he hasn't found any work, not even temp jobs. So instead he works this grassy median strip on the corner of Franklin Arterial and Marginal Way to make money. By 9:00 am, it's already searingly hot.
"So far I've made three dollars," he said. "I've been out here for a couple of hours, and I've made three dollars, so. It's slow. I'll probably be out here for a little while, but not for too long, because I'm getting kind of red."
Dave tries to get at least ten to $15 so he can buy necessities like soap, food, and a beer. He said that's his ticket into the homeless shelter he lives in, which takes in substance abusers. Dave walks down the line of cars, holding a sign made from a pizza box that said, "Homeless Please Help." He'll repeat this same routine at least a couple more times today. And Dave has a lot of company...which makes the city's police chief take notice.
"People can be driving through the city and go, what has happened?" said Chief Mike Sauschuck. "There's just so much more of this activity, specifically on median strips."
Sitting in Portland Police headquarters, Sauschuck motions to a stack of paperwork, the records of citizen calls concerned about their own safety and that of panhandlers on medians. Sauschuck said from January through May, panhandling has increased over 100 percent compared to the same period a year ago, and he wants the practice banned from median strips.
"If you're standing on a sidewalk somewhere downtown, holding a sign and minding your own business, that's absolutely protected by the first Amendment," Sauschuck said. "If you're standing on an eight inch piece of concrete in the middle of rush hour traffic on some of our busier streets, that's problematic. And to me, I look at that as an immediate public safety concern."
The ban would actually prohibit any activity on medians, including businesses or political campaigns from waving signs. Chief Sauschuck believes he's on solid legal footing if the ban passes, but Zachary Heiden from the ACLU of Maine disagrees.
"The ACLU of Maine is very much opposed to the proposed ordinance, and if the City Council goes forward with it, we're going to very seriously consider litigation," Heiden warned.
Heiden said the First Amendment protects certain spaces for public use, including parks, squares, sidewalks and medians. But nationwide, there has been an uptick in cities that have prohibited panhandling in certain public spaces. Jeremy Rosen is Policy Director at The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.
"What we've seen in many cases is that these types of ordinances have been portrayed as simply responding to safety issues, when in fact they were really motivated by a desire to remove homeless people from a particular location," Rosen said.
Rosen said the law center has successfully challenged ordinances that criminalize homeless behavior, but it all depends on the language of the ordinance.
Back on the median of this busy portland intersection, Dave said he doesn't know where he'll go if the Portland ordinance passes.
"There's aggressive panhandling, and then there's what I'm doing," Dave said. "If you're not running up to cars, and if you're not knocking on windows, and if you're not being aggressive, I think they should just leave you alone."
After a half hour without getting any money, Dave crosses the street to a different intersection to try his luck there.
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May 6, 2016
A tractor-trailer caught fire after it hit a van in the emergency lane, causing authorities to close the southbound lanes of Interstate 95 in Wilson County.
The state Transportation Department says I-95 South was closed at Exit 116, which is the exit for N.C. 42 in Wilson County after the wreck Saturday morning. Highway Patrol Trooper Kevin Woods said the tractor-trailer struck the van in the rear.
One person was critically injured, and two others also were injured.
Officials established a detour route until the southbound lanes reopened Saturday afternoon.
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Masashi Kishimoto (岸本斉史, Kishimoto Masashi) born November 8, 1974 in Okayama Prefecture Japan, is the creator and author of the popular manga and anime Naruto. He debuted as a mangaka (Japanese cartoonist) with his work Karakuri, which was submitted to Shueisha in 1996. Beginning in 1999, his next work Naruto was serialised in the Weekly Shōnen Jump manga magazine. Kishimoto had received the Hop Step Award, which is given to new artists once a month by Shonen Jump. He also says that he was heavily influenced by the Dragon Ball series and its creator, Akira Toriyama.
His twin brother Seishi Kishimoto is also a mangaka and the creator of 666 Satan and Blazer Drive. Their art has been remarked on as being very similar and accusations of plagiarism were made, either that Seishi had copied his brother or vice versa. However, Seishi notes in one of his manga volumes that the similarities are not intentional and that the occurrence would have been likely because both he and Masashi have been influenced by many of the same things. Masashi Kishimoto has publicly dismissed these accusations in his own manga.
In his interviews and exclusively in the Naruto manga, he commonly mentions his deceased plant, Ukki-kun.[1] According to Kishimoto, the first time he had an office plant, due to missing the country atmosphere, he fed it undiluted plant food. He continued purchasing several other plants afterwards, but many of them perished.[2]
- Kazuhiro Takahashi (高橋一浩, Takahashi Kazuhiro)[3]
- Osamu Kajisa (加治佐修, Kajisa Osamu)[4]
- Mikio Ikemoto (池本幹雄, Ikemoto Mikio)[5]
- Takemi Kawahara (河原武実, Kawahara Takemi)[6]
- Kōichi Nishiya (西屋浩一, Nishiya Kōichi)[7]
- Ryō Tasaka (田坂亮, Tasaka Ryō)[8]
- Akira Ōkubo (大久保彰, Ōkubo Akira)
- Yūichi Itakura (板倉雄一, Itakura Yūichi)[9]
- Masaki Murakami (村上正樹, Murakami Masaki)[10]
- Atsuhiro Satō (佐藤敦弘, Satō Atsuhiro)
- Akio Shirasaka (白坂彰男, Shirasaka Akio)
- Kenji Taira (平建史, Taira Kenji)[11]
- ↑ Naruto manga volume 1, page 148 — ISBN 1-56931-900-6
- ↑ Naruto manga volume 1, page 148
- ↑ Naruto volume 6, page 26
- ↑ Naruto volume 6, page 66
- ↑ Naruto volume 6, page 106
- ↑ Naruto volume 6, page 146
- ↑ Naruto volume 13, page 126
- ↑ Naruto volume 13, page 165
- ↑ Naruto volume 24, page 168
- ↑ Naruto volume 28, page 28
- ↑ Naruto volume 43, page 60


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The Gulf of Mexico is an essential habitat for many shark and ray species, including the whale shark (Rhincodon typus). The oil spill that resulted from the explosion of BP's Deepwater Horizon platform in the northern Gulf of Mexico is currently located in whale shark essential habitat and is posing a critical threat to this species in the region.
From 2003 to 2009, over 300 whale shark sightings were reported to the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory's northern Gulf of Mexico whale shark sightings survey, and over a third of the sightings were within the ever expanding area of the spill. Given the amount of time whale sharks spend at or near the surface of the water, there is considerable potential for harm or death to individuals from direct exposure to and contamination from the spill (via oiling or clogging of their gills), as well as from depletion of prey or consumption of oil-contaminated prey. In addition to oil observed at the surface of the water, dispersants currently being used to "breakup" the oil will significantly increase its areal extent via proliferation throughout the water column, resulting in additional exposure to whale sharks.
NGS/Waitt grantee Dr. Eric Hoffmayer will be tagging whale sharks with satellite transmitters—which will report real-time location estimates—to determine if they are being directly impacted by the oil spill.
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In 2010 the Garmont Men's Prophet NTN Thermo Boot won so many awards that we've lost count. It's basically a free-heelers wet dream thanks to its sweet forward flex, alpine-like torsional rigidity and support, rounded toe for easy walking and scrambling, easy binding entry, and free-pivot touring mode. The Prophet also delivers the responsiveness that you desire when you arc down the mountain, and its Rabid Thermo liners custom mold to your feet.
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Tons of awards, blah, blah, blah... Yes these are without a doubt one of the if not the best boots out there, just as the Voodoos log as many accolades for a 75mm (I have both) Long of the short - for the vast majority of us these things rock.
But what I never see anyone talk about are the liners! These lines are soooooo much more technologically advanced than everyone else's. The foam that is used, the cover material, the lacing system, ... if you compare them side by side there is no comparison. The rest of the industries liners are crap. Now I just learned Garmont was bought by Scott... lets hope they don't screw up a good thing.
They don't "pack"out... everyones else's do because they use a compressible foam that feels great when new but compresses over time. Garmont uses a closed cell foam that holds .... this means less adjusting your boots as the day progresses and from my experience after 2 years they fit the same.
Sure there are a lot of shells out there... but there is just ONE liner... compare that and there is no comparison.
If you have an average volume foot your gonna love these.
Prophets on my Rapid Transits. NT Bulldog binding
Three Seasons in...
This is my third year on the Prophets. I have the older model with the softer flex. The boots themselves are well built and work well. I sized for comfort after years of race fits. That may be the issue.
I wear a size 9-9.5 in street shoes, and went on the high end of the sizing spectrum to a 27.5. They feel right, lengthwise, but I have major heel lift issues. A full length shim helped, but it took up too much room in the toebox and cramped my feet. I ended up cutting up a shim and putting a double layer in the heel while leaving the toes alone. With one day on the new arrangement, I think things may have finally settled in.
Beyond sizing - Walking mode works well when the buckles are undone. I can skin for hours with absolutely no discomfort. I really like Garmont's mechanism that holds the buckles, even when they're undone, until you press on the release button. It makes for much quicker transitions from touring to skiing. The cant adjustment doesn't go far enough to account for my needs. I haven't experienced anything like the other reviewer, where the bales press into the boot toe.
Given the chance to do it again, I'd probably go with a different boot.
As an update: I swapped out for a 26.5 shell. Heel lift is gone, even with no shims. I'm still playing with the fit, but the smaller size is a substantially better experience. Rating upped to 5 stars and my apologies to Garmont for downrating them. It wasn't you, it was me!
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This was my second NTN boot and it didn't last too long for me. The boot definitely isn't as torsionally stiff as any of the Crispi boots or the Scarp Tx-Comp. Granted the boot has a smooth forward flex, but this is to an extent. If you ever get in a deep turn, you can feel the toe box deform over the toe bail of the binding. Garmont designed this boot with such a tight fit into the binding, that the boot will start to fold over the bail and put pressure on your big toe if you have a performance fit. This also cause the whole toe box to deform. This doesn't happen in my Shivers or Comps, both of which I also have a performance fit. Even though Garmont "stiffened" up the bellows, the bellows aren't as stiff as stated. I would compare them to a Scarpa T2 or Garmont Synergy, but nothing like the Voodoo or Energy as in bellows flex. For all these reason I lable it the "False" Prophet.
I totally agree. I wear a 27.5, tight/race fit, and the big toe on my biggest foot gets major pressure on deep turns. My other foot (smaller) is fine, though. The toe bail on the binding really deforms the toe box of the boot. This is a real problem. I considered swapping for a 28, but Scarpa calls me. Should I go for a 27 on a TX Pro?
Skiing with the Garmont Prophet
Skiing with the Garmont Prophet in an early season pow session. Good forward flex, but too soft laterally for my taste.
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are you guys going to be getting more...
are you guys going to be getting more Garmont Prophets in stock?
Unfortunately it looks like we do not have any more Garmont Prophet NTN Thermo Boots on order at the moment so we don't have a good timeline for when they will be back in stock, if at all this year. Please check back with us in a couple of weeks if you haven't found an alternate source by then.
Where can I get a replacement "second...
Where can I get a replacement "second heel"? The piece held on by three screws, where the back of the binding holds onto.
We do not sell replacement pieces unfortunately, but I would hit up Garmont directly at email@example.com or use their store locator to find a retailer near you!
Can you heat up the liner a second time...
Can you heat up the liner a second time once the boot has packed out and remold the liner to your feet? If so how?
You should be able to reheat the liners up to five times without trouble.
You'll want to use a convection oven to make sure the liners heat evenly. Preheat to 250º. Place the liners in the oven - I've heard on a foil-lined cookie sheet, but I've used the bare rack without issue - for 10-15 minutes. You want them to look puffed up like a marshmallow.
While they're heating, prep your feet. I like to use the thinnest sock possible. Put a toe cap on under the sock. If you don't have toe caps, you can make them out of whatever you have around the house. The point is to spread your toes a little bit to give them room once the boot cools. I've used cotton balls and packaging tape.
Also, grab a 2x4 out of the garage and put it on the floor.
When the liners are heated up, pull them out and shove them into your boots, being careful to get the tongue placed properly. Toss your footbeds in there and put the boots on. Strap them one step looser than you normally wear them, kick your heels to get them set into the boots, and stand with the toes of the boots on the 2x4 for about 10 minutes. At the end of the 10 minutes, pull your feet out, strap the boots back up, and let them sit until they cool entirely.
You're done!
How does the sizing of these compare against...
How does the sizing of these compare against Scarpa 75mn offerings both in terms of length and width? I'm a 29.5 in T1s.
Thanks a lot.
I raced T-races in a 26. I downsized when I switched to the prophet to a 25.5. It worked very well for me after the oh so painful break in period and learning how to arc with the different flexpoint. Very much worth it though, got a top 10 and a few top 15s on the world cup in 2010.
Scarpa's Mondo sizing is wierd. A Scarpa 27 is bigger than a Garmont 27.5. You'd need to size down for proper length. I think they're about the same width as the Scarpas I've tried, maybe slightly wider.
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Any difference between this year Prophet and last years? Also - is there a shell size difference between the 29.5 and a 30.0? Thanks.
Changes for 2010-2011 model are: bellows increase stiffness about 15% and will be similar in stiffness to the 75 mm Voodoo, forward lean increases to 25+ degrees, and the L-pads in the liner increase in thickness by 1.5 mm for a more snug heel hold. New model can be recognized by gold forward lean mechanism, 09-10 model was silver. The shell breaks at even sizes so 29 and 29.5 are the same shell, 30 jumps up one shell size. Finally, don't forget about the Rottefella rebate offer, between Oct 1, 2010 and Jan 31, 2011, buy an NTN boot and NTN binding, submit the rebate form to Rottefella and receive a $100 gift card. Info at: www.garmontusa.com
I am planning on buying these for the...
I am planning on buying these for the upcoming 2010-2011 season,and wanted to know what people thought? I know they won several awards... and Garmont makes great gear.... I had a pair of Garmont Gara Telemark Ski boots for years, and they broke in very nicely....were great boots for 90+ day seasons on trails and in the trees.
cJ, i too looked at these boots but ultimately couldn't justify the cost. i compared them to the equivalent Scarpa and Black Diamond and found very little difference. i ended up going with the Black Diamond becuase the boots were virtually the same but the pricing was much different. if money was no issue for me, i'd probably go for the Garmont, as their gear is great, but like most people i suspect, i'm watching my pennies. the money i saved actually went towards my season pass. Hope this helps.


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"With the help of the programme, we see our farm as a model to be followed: more quality, cleanliness and organisation." So speaks Colombian cafetero Diego Lopez. These words could be spoken by any one of tens of thousands of men and women. Farmers with a strong connection to their land, who are happy to know that their coffee will be enjoyed the world over. They are at the centre of the Nespresso AAA Sustainable QualityTM Programme.
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