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Rene Enriquez warns that La Eme is "spreading like an incurable cancer." While incarcerated at the U.S. Penitentiary in Marion [Illinois], La Eme's Ralph "Perico" Rocha in 2001 wrote to Rene Enriquez at Pelican Bay [California] — using code words — that he was "trying to get involved in the NAFTA
to expand negocios [business] overseas y [and] borders…the family [Eme] is looking to open a few more restaurants [legitimate businesses] in Colorado, Texas, Chicago, etc."
Chris Blatchford, The Black Hand: The Bloody Rise and Redemption of "Boxer" Enriquez, A Mexican Mob Killer (New York: William Morrow, 2008), p. 297.
So, just how scary is the Mexican Mafia?
Bloody scary.
With a core of only about 200 "made" members — but remorseless command over tens of thousands of Latino street gangster "soldiers" through a network of "associates" and "facilitators" — the Mexican Mafia ("Eme" or "La Eme," for "M," the 13th letter of the alphabet) is no longer the "California prison gang" many think. It has gone federal, national, and transnational.
One good place to start studying this phenomenon is Chris Blatchford's compelling biography of Rene "Boxer" Enriquez, a surrealistically bloody former killer for the Mexican Mafia prison. The book at once attracts and repels.
It attracts not only because its bona fides are well attested by people who know — experts Bruce Riordan and Al Valdez endorsed the book, for example and retired LASD Sgt. Richard "Super Val" Valdemar personally recommended it to me — but because it has what literate critics used to call "verisimilitude" ( a word from the Latin that is as out of fashion as that excellent language's study in today's world of tweeting and texting teeny tiny thoughts). There is nothing forced or sparse about the impasto of blood, gore, and paranoid treachery lathered onto Blatchford's canvas.
Yet the very density of The Black Hand's crimson carnage casts a sort of claustrophobia over the reader. The matter-of-fact recitation of so many bloody murders and assaults brings to mind the lyric from Jimi Hendrix's All Along the Watchtower: "There must be some kind of way out here, said the joker to the thief." For the reader, the way out is to close the book for a while and breathe free air. For the carnales of Eme, there is no exit — save for the few, like Enriquez, who in a life-changing moment of redemptive perception decide to drop out and cooperate with law enforcement. Such an act, of course, flies directly into the face of the powerful prison gang's (indeed, all Latino street gang's) most fervently held rules — "blood in, blood out," and no cooperating ever with law enforcement. Such drop-outs and cooperators are marked with death for life.
However chaotic the gory and seemingly endless scrum of murders, counter-murders, assaults, and gratuitous whack jobs recounted in The Black Hand may seem, the story of the rise and redemption of Rene Enriquez directly pinches the very sensitive nerve that worries U.S. federal law enforcement officials. After having slept through the years of the American Mafia's consolidation and growth to power in the early 20th Century, the Department of Justice is determined that no Latino "super mafia" be allowed to rise to power in the United States.
Some observers would argue that the race is a close thing.
"Tom Diaz has worn out some shoe leather—much like a good detective—in gathering facts, not myths or urban legend. "
—Chris Swecker, Former Assistant Director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division.
"Few people know more about the subject than Tom Diaz and no single book tells the whole story better than No Boundaries. If you really want to know what organized crime in America looks like today, then read this alarming book."
—Rocky Delgadillo, former City Attorney of Los Angeles
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In this three part series, Fairly Civil will post material about Eme from federal court documents. The first part, this post, includes a description of the prison gang's structure and operations. The second part (here) posts information about Eme's apparently growing links with Mexican cartels The final post will feature a case that illustrates Eme's reach across the United States to cities geographically far removed from California.
EME's Structure and Operations
There are, of course, other books and treatises about Eme, but the following material from a criminal complaint filed by an FBI agent in the pending case of United States V. Mauricio Mendez in San Diego is a compact and thorough primer. (U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, Docket No. 3:09-mj-00473-RBB, filed Feb. 13, 2009):
3. The Mexican Mafia is the largest and most established prison gang in the United States. The Mexican Mafia was initially formed in the California state penal system and has been in existence for over thirty years. As of the present date [February 2009], the Mexican Mafia operates both in the California state prison system (as well as in other states) and in the federal Bureau of Prisons. The Mexican Mafia operates under a hierarchical system with three basic levels – members, associates, and soldiers. The EME is further governed by a basic set of rules and operating procedures which are enforced through internal discipline, including acts of violence.
4. The Mexican Mafia conducts and controls illegal activities not only in penal facilities but also on the street. The Mexican Mafia's primary illegal activities are drug trafficking, extortion, internal prison discipline, and violent crimes. Although most Mexican Mafia members are incarcerated, members and their associates control large, violent criminal gangs that operate outside of the federal and state penal systems under the general authority of the Mexican Mafia. The Mexican Mafia exerts significant control over most Southern California Hispanic street gangs – also known as "Sureño" gangs.
5. Through a variety of means, incarcerated Mexican Mafia members and their associates communicate with their subordinates out of custody, who carry out various criminal activities on behalf of the respective Mexican Mafia member or associate.
6. A percentage of the profits of these illegal activities outside of the federal and state penal systems is then transferred to the respective Mexican Mafia member or associate, or to other designated individuals, such as family members – these monetary transfers are accomplished in a variety of ways, including the use of money orders. Money generated from illegal activities (primarily extortion and drug trafficking) taking place inside penal facilities is transferred in the same ways.
8. The highest level of authority in the Mexican Mafia is membership (members may also be known as "Brother" or "Carnal" or "Tío"). The Mexican Mafia does not have a single individual who runs the entire organization. Rather, under the rules of the gang, members are considered to have equal authority and power within the organization; there are approximately 200 members of the Mexican Mafia, according to intelligence gathered by state and federal investigators. New members are elected into the gang through a vote of existing members…
9. To carry out the illegal activities of the gang, Mexican Mafia members utilize high-level associates (also known within the gang as "camaradas"). Members invest these high-level associates with authority to oversee Mexican Mafia operations in specific areas, both in penal facilities and on the street.
10. The delegation of authority to control a specific area on behalf of the Mexican Mafia is known within the gang as giving "the keys" to the individual. Thus, a "key-holder," (also called a "llavero" or "shot-caller") is an individual who has been placed in charge of a gang, neighborhood, prison, or prison yard for the purpose of overseeing the Mexican Mafia's illegal operations. As an example, an associate can be given "the keys" to run a specific yard in a prison. These associates are able to order Sureño gang members to carry out illegal activities in the area over which the associates have authority.
11. The associates are responsible for ensuring that Mexican Mafia operations (including extortion and drug trafficking) run smoothly, that Mexican Mafia rules and authorities are enforced, and that the proceeds of illegal activities are properly distributed. For example, a "llavero" would be responsible for ensuring that part of the proceeds from the illegal activities in his area of control are sent to the Mexican Mafia member(s) for whom the associate works.
12. The Mexican Mafia also uses a command system known as the "mesa" – the table. A "mesa" is a group of "camaradas" and soldiers who are responsible for overseeing different areas under Mexican Mafia control – in essence, a governing council. For example, in a prison setting, a "mesa" would consist of individuals responsible for overseeing various neighborhoods in a city.
13. The largest subgroup of the Mexican Mafia are the soldiers – i.e., Sureño gang members. These soldiers are responsible for carrying out the orders of the Mexican Mafia and for enforcing the authority of the Mexican Mafia, both inside penal facilities and on the street. As a result, soldiers are tasked with helping collect "taxes" (extortion payments) with drug trafficking activities or with the commission of violence.


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Doris is a natural teacher, storyteller and design wiz. She worked at the Whitney for over 30 years in charge of all museum publications. As we toured her apartment she espoused upon plants, old movie stars, furniture and fashion design and we discovered that we both were born without defined ankles. My grandmother was a librarian and I always thought she knew everything. There wasn't a question she couldn't answer. She used to say, " I know a little bit about a lot of things", but truthfully she knew a lot about most things. Doris is the same way, an expert, ready and willing to share her treasures, her knowledge. I learned that she pretends not to love chocolate although she really does and that you can transform old bricks into ancient treasures by placing them upon a beautiful antique dresser. I could go on and on, but hopefully these photos will give you a little peek into her magical world!

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Join us for our 3rd annual Harvest Market at Skamania Lodge in the Scenic Columbia River Gorge in Stevenson, Washington.
Now in its third year, Skamania Lodge's Harvest Market, will offer products directly from the gorge. There will be a number of activities for all to enjoy, including; hay ride, caramel apple making, pumpkin painting, and NEW this year, a Pumpkin Pie making contest. Everyone is invited to participate in the pumpkin pie contest. Our expert judges will taste each pie at 4pm on October 27th and the winner's recipe will be featured in the Cascade Dining room during the month of November.
Event Schedule:
Friday, October 26
- Friday Night Gorge Harvest Buffet served from 5-9pm (Menu)
- Wine tasting in the Gorge Room from 4-6pm
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- 11am – 4pm Harvest Market: Vendors roll out their products for guests to peruse and buy.
- 1pm Cooking Demo: Our Chef will be demonstrating how to make a Seasonal Potato Gnocchi
- 4pm Cocktail Demo: Our bartender Debbie will be demonstrating how to make our signature Berry Cobbler drink.
- 5-9pm Harvest Dinner: A scrumptious dinner featuring seasonal produce will be served in the Cascade Dining Room, featuring Fall Roasted Butternut Squash Soup, Candy beet salad with baby greens and apple thyme vinaigrette, Mt. Hood mushroom risotto, bourbon brown sugar brined elk medallions, cherry gastric, and Pumpkin Spice Cheese Cake. Price: $48, plus tax and gratuity.
- 8-9pm Afterglow: Hot Toddies in the Gorge Room
Sunday, October 28
- Champagne Brunch in the Cascade Dining Room served from 9am until 2pm (Menu)
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- "Hey hey hey, it's OG Loc, homie, and I'm gonna kick it a little something like this... Hey yo, when I come through up in the place, You don't want me to call with a gun in your face... I feel it harder, Than anybody in the world could do, Just like a..."
- — OG Loc's rap.
- — Unnamed guy about OG Loc's rap.
Madd Dogg's Rhymes is a mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, given to protagonist Carl Johnson by aspiring rapper OG Loc from the Burger Shot he works at in the Marina area of Los Santos, San Andreas.
The mission introduces the player to stealth kills.
Carl recently stole a load of music equipment for OG Loc's album release party, but it seems that Loc can't rhyme if he doesn't have rhymes to go off of. Loc asks CJ to help him "borrow" rhymes from famous rapper Madd Dogg.
Carl heads for Madd Dogg's Crib in Mulholland. He then gets inside, finding out that the area is heavily guarded by Madd Dogg's security. Nonetheless, Carl infiltrates the mansion, and uses his stealth skills to go to the studio room and steal the rhyme book. He then exits the mansion in the safest way he could, and makes his way back to Burger Shot. Carl then meets Loc outside the restaurant and gives him the rhyme book.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Go to Madd Dogg's mansion
- The main door is around the back of the mansion
- Madd Dogg's personal security are patrolling the mansion. Do not use any guns on your way to the rhyme book - you will alert them. Use stealth to steal the rhyme book
- Exit the mansion and get the rhyme book back to OG Loc. It's safe to use your weapons now, although it may be less risky if you use stealth to get past any guards on patrol
Post mission phone call
Carl Johnson: What's happening?
Frank Tenpenny: Don't try and hit me up with that ghetto babble, boy!
Carl Johnson: Officer Tenpenny. How'd you get my number?
Frank Tenpenny: Ways and means, you piece of shit. You been trying to avoid me?
Carl Johnson: No Sir, I've just been busy that's all.
Frank Tenpenny: You're not busy unless you're doing something for us, you understand?
Carl Johnson: Yeah. Loud and clear.
Frank Tenpenny: Nice to hear it, Carl. Call in to the doughnut place in the middle of the Market, we need to talk.
The reward for completing this mission is an increase in respect. The player is also allowed to keep the knife and remaining ammo for the Silenced 9mm from the mission.
- The amplifiers in the studio have a Rockstar Games logo on them.
- One of the guards playing a video game remarks "How could Refractions mess up so bad?" and "Tanner, you suck ass!" These are references to DRIV3R, considered a GTA Clone, where the protagonist's name is Tanner, and is made by Reflections.
- The prominent use of shadows and stealth kills in this mission is similar to Rockstar's game Manhunt.
- The upstairs levels of Madd Dogg's mansion (beyond the point where you steal the rhyme book) can be explored safely as there are no guards. A silenced pistol can be found in a room with gold records on the walls (down the hall from the studio), and two playable videogames can also be found.
- This is one of numerous missions in which Carl loses whatever vehicle he takes to the site of the mission, because after he exits, his vehicle and all the cars parked in front of Madd Dogg's house, have disappeared, replaced by a bike. For this reason it's inadvisable to take a car the player wishes to retain to this mission.
- The male pedestrian in the beginning cutscene of this mission (who says "Yo! That shit sucks! Damn!") happens to share the same model as the Ballas member who was smoking in The Introduction. He can also be seen snorting coke with Jizzy along with his hoes and other associates in Ice Cold Killa.
- The BradyGames Official Strategy Guide appears to have been written based upon an early version of the mission, as it indicates that Carl needs to evade police who have been summoned by an alarm being triggered in the mansion. No such event occurs in the final version of the mission.


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Troopers followed more than 671 school buses across the state and issued 5,362 traffic and criminal violations. 18 citations were given to drivers who failed to stop for a school bus, 66 for child safety seat violations, 583 for seatbelt violations and 2,587 for speeding.
Since January of this year, five children have lost their lives in North Carolina as they approached or left the school bus stop.
Despite the end of the campaign, troopers say they will continue to monitor school buses and school zones.
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The Jefferson Motel is a motel located in Jefferson, Los Santos; and is the main setting of Reuniting the Families. The motel has a number of rooms and a Sprunk vending machine, allowing the player to replenish Carl Johnson's health (at any point of the game). The motel is the meeting place for the Grove Street Families, Seville Boulevard Families and Temple Drive Families in Reuniting the Families. The meeting, aimed at re-uniting the families, is ambushed by the police. The southern wall of the motel also has a gang tag that can be sprayed, there is also an MP5 on the roof of the hotel. Jefferson, the district the motel is in, is controlled by the Ballas in 1992, although not many Ballas patrol the Jefferson Motel, which makes it harder to take over.
- In The Lost and Damned, during the mission Shifting Weight, the character Malc makes reference to a Jefferson Motel, joking that they should go to the Jefferson Motel for some light bondage, although he is likely referring to a different motel in Liberty City.
- A save icon can be seen through a skylight in the 2nd lobby (the one with the knocked down table) of the hotel. It belongs to the Hashbury Safehouse. You can jump through the skylight and enter the Interiors Universe by activating the Super Jump Cheat, jumping onto a potted plant on one side of the lobby, and then jumping through the skylight. If aimed correctly, you will jump through the skylight and appear on top of the room and you will be able to see the whole interior of the hotel.
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The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (outlawing slavery and involuntary servitude except as punishment for a crime) was adopted on December 18, 1865 when Georgia's ratification brought the total of number of states so ratifying to 27 of the then 36 states, satisfying the three-quarter requirement of the Constitution. Eventually, all 36 states would ratify the Amendment, with Mississippi eventually ratifying on March 16, 1995, having earlier rejected the Amendment on December 5, 1865.
In order for the Amendment proposal to be submitted to the states for ratification, the proposal first had to secure either a two-third majority both in the Senate and in the House of Representatives or a two-third majority of all the states. The Constitution provides no formal role for the President in the amendment process, whether the proposal process proceeds first through the Congress or through the states.
With the Union in disarray during the Civil War, there could be no reliance on an initiative through the states. President Lincoln, in a cynical political maneuver designed to gain the moral high ground for the War of Northern Aggression, had exercised presidential war powers to make the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation that declared the freedom of slaves in ten Confederate states then in rebellion. The Proclamation did not free slaves in states that remained within the Union; nor did it make slavery itself illegal.
In any event, once the war ended, the Proclamation would have no standing in law. A presidential proclamation could have no impact on the Constitution of the United States. If the slaves were to be freed, it was crucial to move an amendment through Congress prior to the end of the war, when it would surely be blocked by politicians representing the defeated southern states.
The amendment process would be difficult, even with the southern states out of the picture. For the northern border states had their own slave-owning interests embedded in the Congress. Moreover, prior to the Thirteenth Amendment, no new amendment had been adopted in more than 60 years.
The process began in the Senate on January 11, 1864, when a War Democrat, Senator John B. Henderson first submitted an amendment proposal to abolish slavery. An adjusted amendment proposal passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, by a vote of 38 to 6. The House of Representatives, however, declined to pass the proposal at that time.
The proposal was resuscitated by the Republican Representative James M. Ashley of Ohio, the House floor manager, who persuaded a number of House Democrats to support it. The two-third majority, however, still looked to be well out of reach.
At this point two Republican politicians joined forces in a seriously disreputable process of bribery, corruption, and lies, in order to achieve the two-third House vote in favor of the Amendment. They proved to be equally important in achieving their joint objective.
President Abraham Lincoln, although formally excluded from the Amendment process, proved to be the arch-angel of bribery and corruption, paying off reluctant politicians both with offers of patronage and, more crudely, with envelopes stuffed with cash, in order to persuade them to sell their own constituents down the Potomac River. Thaddeus Stevens, a radical abolitionist who was secretly bedding a black woman, violated his own strong moral belief in the social equality between blacks and whites, speaking out forcefully against any such presumed equality on the floor of the House in order to persuade wavering colleagues to vote for the Amendment.
So working together, through heavy arm-twisting, bribery, corruption and a tissue of lies, Abraham Lincoln and Thaddeus Stevens carried the day. On January 31, 1865, by a vote of 119 to 56, the House squeaked its way to a two-third majority.
And that, folks, is politics. Never expect clean pairs of hands from those who practice that dirty business. Even this most moral of outcomes was achieved immorally by two cynical practitioners (and many willing accomplices) of the black arts.
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The Houston Regional Office administers a variety of services and benefits for approximately 876,000 honorably discharged/retired veterans of the US Military and their dependents residing in the Southern part of Texas, in the Republic of Mexico, and in Central and South America. These benefits include Compensation and Pension programs, Home Loan Guaranty, Vocational Rehabilitation and Counseling, and Death Benefits.
The Regional Office, collocated with the VA Medical Center, is housed in a VA-owned building specifically constructed for the regional office. It was VA's first federal/private partnership accomplished under its unique Enhanced-Use program designed to improve services and reduce government costs. By using this concept, VA entered into a 35-year development partnership with a local developer to obtain needed facilities and services at lower costs, generate revenues, and redevelop underused VA land using private funds and expertise. Results included an attractive, cost-effective, state of the art benefits office; improved services to area veterans by providing a single location for benefits and medical care; substantial savings over the term of the agreement, and making revenues available to support veteran programs. At the end of the 35-year partnership, ownership of all private development will revert to VA.


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A man has been arrested for allegedly stealing out of a fire truck during a medical call Friday afternoon.
Police say the suspect was seen climbing into the cab of a fire engine and grabbing items out of it. Firefighters were on a medical call at the Crossland Economy Studios on Afternoon Circle near Fountain and Chelton in Colorado Springs.
Responding officers briefly chased after the suspect, and were reportedly forced to tase him in order to detain him.
The suspect has been identified as Robert Monteil, 32. He was taken to the CJC after his arrest.
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Schumann: Piano Concerto; Beethoven: Eroica Variations; Sonata No. 30 / Annie Fischer
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(a) Contract Authority.— In an emergency caused by a flood, fire, or other disaster, the United States Postal Service may make a contract without advertising to transport mail by aircraft to or from a locality affected by the emergency when the available facilities of persons authorized to transport mail to or from the locality are inadequate to meet the requirements of the Postal Service during the emergency. The contract may be only for periods necessary to maintain mail service because of the inadequacy of the facilities. Payment for transportation provided under the contract shall be made at prices provided in the contract.
Source(Pub. L. 103–272, § 1(e),July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1155, § 41906; renumbered § 41905,Pub. L. 110–405, § 2(b)(7)(B),Oct. 13, 2008, 122 Stat. 4289.)
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In subsection (a), the word "disaster" is substituted for "calamitous visitation" for consistency in the revised title and with other titles of the United States Code. The words "any or all classes of" and "of compensation" are omitted as surplus. The words "from appropriations for the transportation of mail by the means normally used for transporting the mail transported under such contracts" are omitted as superseded by 39:chs. 20 and 24. The authority of the Postal Service under this section is in addition to the authority of the Postal Service under 39:5001.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
You Can Learn a lot From Fabulous Older Ladies
15 comments:
- sacramento said...
Amen to all of them.
- February 23, 2011 at 1:29 PM
- Prêt à Porter P said...
Lynn is so fabulous!! I really love the dress the woman in your header wears!
- February 23, 2011 at 1:55 PM
- Judy C said...
Have you noticed that Mimi is always looking up. Angels up there perhaps?
- February 23, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- TheHappyIntrovert said...
A fantastic mini-anthology, Ari. I will repeat these mantras!
- February 23, 2011 at 4:17 PM
Some great quotes from these fabulous ladies! They have such joie de vivre and style that we can all aspire to.
- February 23, 2011 at 4:40 PM
- Edwina@FASHION+ART said...
Miz Lynn Dell knocked me back with her black and white. Her bracelets are especially fierce! She is truly dressing for the theatre of one's life, isn't she? Love it!
- February 23, 2011 at 6:12 PM
- Memaw said...
These ladies know how to live! I only hope that I am that classy as I get closer and closer to 70.
I especially like the comment "A pair of sunglasses is better than a facelift." Priceless!
- February 23, 2011 at 6:47 PM
- Style Odyssey said...
great words of widsom!
these ladies all have one thing in common: they are radiant. the reason? Ilona says it best: "Feel beautiful inside and you will be beautiful outside."
- February 23, 2011 at 7:32 PM
- caroline said...
thank you for your blog!! it is so unique in the blogosphere...merci!!
- February 24, 2011 at 1:33 AM
- Sofia said...
Hello Ari!
I loved you blog and I made a post about it on mine. I hope you don´t mind and hope you like my blog too.
- February 24, 2011 at 8:06 AM
- Juste Ryma said...
Beautiful ! :)
Juste Ryma
- February 24, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- Henriette said...
Thank you so much for the wonderful blog which instantly made me smile and feel like wearing hats and big jewellery. Who says you can´t be glamourous every day?
- February 25, 2011 at 4:16 AM
- Silly Rabbit Vintage said...
I love the quotes, some of the best words to live by, thank you for passing them on!
- February 25, 2011 at 1:24 PM
- uglyrooms said...
Mimi, i want to paint your picture x
- February 28, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- EVA AGNES said...
I do love this blog since I think fashion is fantastic and it doesn't go away just because you are 70, as I am.
Sometimes I wish I lived in New York where you can dress wonderfully. Is not that possible in a small, small town in Sweden. :-))
I am having a fashion blog myself: http://venicedays.blogspot.com
Love Eva
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The Outsider: A Journey into My Father's Struggle with Madness
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Note: The Outsider was reviewed by Nicki Sahlin, Ph.D., executive director of NAMI Rhode Island, after she learned it was to be published and the author was to embark on a media blitz many NAMI members would encounter. If you've heard Nathaniel Lachenmeyer interviewed or materials about his book were sent to your local NAMI, this review provides a glimpse into the story the author tells. (This review is not one submitted by the NAMI Literature Committee.)
Nathaniel Lachenmeyer, estranged from his father Charles since early adolescence, engaged in detective work and countless personal interviews to trace his father's history, which included long hospitalizations and nearly a solid year of homelessness in Burlington, Vermont, part of it during a winter of record cold. The author's remarkable memoir has eleven sections with titles such as "The Sociologist," "The Father," and "The Patient," all roels of his father.
Charles Lachenmeyer had a Ph.D. in sociology, was for a time a professor at Hunter College, published two books, and, ironically, had specialized in analyses of the double-bind theory and schizophrenia. He was not just a competent sociologist; he was brilliant. His strength lay in the clarity and originality of his thinking, most of all in an unremitting application of logic to human behavior. A further irony is that when florid schizophrenia struck him, he exercised his intellect to perpetuate his denial, illustrating what a great leveler this illness can be. Nathaniel explains that Charles was convinced he did not suffer from schizophrenia, but was the victim of a huge conspiracy that used electronic technologies and thought control to shape his behavior. "My father believed that his persecutors had constructed the experiment specifically so that his protests would resemble the symptoms of schizophrenia."
While a college freshman, Nathaniel corresponded with his father, but then let his father know he could not keep in touch with him when his symptoms were acute. The son now sees that decision as "prejudice masquerading as logic," since we all willingly spend time with others whose beliefs are incompatible with our own. Learning of his son's decision, Charles replied with his own characteristic logic:
Dearest Nathaniel,
Just received your letter. Even if I was a paranoid schizophrenic, which I am not, where is your charity? Such a condition is brought on by medical/social factors over which one does not have control and it is incumbent not to blame the victim.
While many points in this history are heart wrenching, especially the great divide between a father and son who loved each other, Charles's sufferings while homeless are most unbearable. When Charles took off for Vermont, his treatment team in New Hampshire attempted to "make freedom a less attractive option." They used the representative payee mechanism and a legal guardian to withhold SSI benefits, effectively rendering him penniless at a time when he was also too ill to meet the "requirements" of the Way Station, a Burlington homeless shelter. In the sections called "The Stranger" and "The Thief," one learns how Charles, in a thin khaki jacket, survived the cold, frostbite, and near-starvation. Nathaniel was able to interview the very few willing to help his father during that time. They include Jason, a college student who regularly gave Charles cigarettes and conversed with him; Amy, a Subway restaurant manager who for a limited time was able to give him free coffee and a warm place to sit very late at night; and John Markey, a bank manager and former FBI agent who ignored Charles's threats, gave him coffee, and always shook his hand. Nathaniel knew his father was filthy enough to be barred from a shelter; why would a bank manager shake his hand? "He told me that he felt it was important to treat him with the same respect he would extend to anyone else." Nathaniel writes. "I knew what effect that simple gesture must have had on my father. The transient goes through his days and nights without ever feeling the touch of another human being."
Fittingly, one of Nathaniel's ideas for dealing with stigma is a sociological solution. He suggests that the public needs to be taught tolerance: "Greater tolerance of the person with schizophrenia's belief system would greatly reduce their stress level and allow them to live in our world as they struggle to make sense of their world instead of forcing them to experience ever-increasing marginalization as the outsider."
At his father's funeral, Nathaniel read from one of his father's letters to him: "No matter how adverse the circumstances—and mine have been adverse—there is never any reason to give up." Nathaniel uses this message as a theme, recognizing that it was a good father's deliberate avoidance of logic, in that Charles actually had many reasons to give up. He forges a last link with his father by nevertheless making the statement his inspiration for this extraordinary book, one of the best about schizophrenia to have come out in recent years.


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Let's go 'hoos!
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The Holland Play is the final mission given by Playboy X to Niko Bellic in Grand Theft Auto IV. He request that you kill Dwayne Forge, and Dwayne wants you to kill Playboy and you have a choice to either kill Playboy or Dwayne. The mission is played differently depending on who you kill. Also, the reward is different depending on whom you kill.
Mission objectives
In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Kill PLAYBOY X or DWAYNE
Choosing Playboy
- Take down Playboy
Choosing Dwayne
- Take out Dwayne
Killing Playboy X
Killing Dwayne
- Dwayne Forge
- Unknown Tramp
The Holland Play… (Part 1)
Niko Bellic speaks to Playboy at his apartment. Playboy asks him to kill Dwayne, and Niko says he will think about it.
Soon afterwards, Niko will receive a call from Dwayne (or you can call him to save the wait), asking him to kill Playboy. The player must choose whether to kill Playboy or Dwayne. Playboy will eventually call Niko (or again, you can call him yourself to save time), and a red 'X' and 'D' will appear over Playboy and Dwayne's locations; make your choice by going to the target's respective location.
…The Holland Play (Part 2)
- "It ain't that simple, Dwayne. This is nothing personal."
- ―Niko Bellic, before killing Dwayne Forge.
If your decision is to kill Dwayne Forge, head over to Dwayne's apartment in the projects of North Holland, Algonquin. Go up the stairs to the first apartment, and you will encounter Dwayne's friend, a tramp, wielding a baseball bat; shoot him or beat him up. Go around the corner and face Dwayne.
To kill Forge, there are two options, you can kill him with one of the special execution scenes, or do it the conventional way. Rather than resist, Dwayne simply turns his back on you, in the execution scene, Niko turns his head and closes his eyes and shoots him in the back of the head.
Playboy X
- "Argh. I was someone, you know. I made it. I changed the game."
- ―Playboy X
- "You didn't change the game, Playboy! The game changed you."
- ―Niko Bellic, before killing Playboy X.
If your decision is to kill Playboy X, head over to Playboy's penthouse in Northwood, Algonquin. A cutscene plays, and Playboy realizes Niko is after him; he retreats to the balcony, leaving his bodyguards to fight Niko. You will be behind some cover; shoot as many guards as you can from safety, then get out of cover and kill the rest. Go onto the balcony and chase Playboy down to street level. Some of his crew will get into a Patriot and try to gun you down. Take care of them, and corner Playboy X in an alleyway. He will drop his jammed Desert Eagle.
You can either kill Playboy in the normal way, or use a pistol to trigger an execution scene, in which Playboy looks to the sky, and Niko shoots him through the lower jaw, the bullet exiting through the top of his head.
There is a much more straight forward alternative — while you are in cover in Playboy's apartment, switch to your rocket launcher (if you've managed to get one — one can be found relatively nearby on the small rocky island north of Holland) and fire it at the bottom half of the open door through which Playboy escaped. Playboy will most likely be caught in the explosion and die while hiding behind the tree - re-aim and shoot again if that's not the case. The mission will pass as normal. If you still cannot manage to blow up Playboy, shoot his goons and go to the left of the big room. There you can shoot him, as you will have a clear view of his head.
Video Walkthrough
- Unknown tramp - Killed by Niko to get to Dwayne.
- Dwayne Forge - Killed by Niko on Playboy's orders.
Playboy X
- North Holland Hustlers members - Killed by Niko to get to Playboy.
- Playboy X - Killed by Niko on Dwayne's orders.
Dwayne Forge
Dwayne turns around, not facing Niko. Niko is hesitant at first, then looks at the floor and shoots Dwayne in the back of the head.
Playboy X
Playboy nervously looks up to the sky. Niko approaches Playboy, says "You didn't change the game, the game changed you.", and shoots Playboy in the throat.
Playboy will all of a sudden have a change of heart towards Niko killing Dwayne (possibly from realizing that he actually called a hit on his own mentor and regretting it) and will cut his ties towards Niko and never speaks to him again.
If Niko calls Roman, he will tell the story in a sad tone. That will be oblivious to his cousin because Playboy is rich.
- $25,000
Playboy X
If you kill Playboy X, you'll get his penthouse as a gift from Dwayne, and Claude's outfit from GTA III (only available using the wardrobe in the penthouse). You can also obtain Playboy's Desert Eagle after killing him. Dwayne will become a friend, if you respond positively to an e-mail he will send. Dwayne's special ability is to send two gangsters to help you in a gunfight.
Roman, if called, would have wanted the money from killing Dwayne even though Niko felt like he did the right thing.
- New safehouse: Northwood Safehouse (Playboy X's Penthouse)
- New weapon: Combat Pistol
- New friend: Dwayne Forge (ability: backup from two gangsters)
- New outfit: Claude's outfit
If Niko aims his pistol at Playboy through the window of his loft, his target reticule will show. If fired, the two characters will be transported to the execution area and the cutscene will play. The only difference is that the player can't pick up the Combat Pistol, even though X drops it.
- The $25,000 you get for killing Dwayne is the highest amount of money you can get in any GTA IV Era mission (excluding Three Leaf Clover, If the Price is Right and Out of Commission).
- This mission can be played even after completing the ending in GTA IV.
- During the first cutscene, Playboy mentions Dwayne thinking that the drug game is like 1992 again. This could be a reference to GTA San Andreas, as the set year of the game is 1992.
- The name of this mission is possibly a reference to "The Scottish Play", a common nickname used in the theatrical community to refer to William Shakespeare's Macbeth. The nickname is used because referring to the play by name inside a theater is considered bad luck.
- On rare occasions, Playboy X may not make the jump from his penthouse to the other building, and will simply fall to his death, simply passing the mission.
- Calling Roman after the mission will result in a unique phone call depending on the decision the player made - if the player killed Playboy X, Roman will ask Niko if he killed anyone lately, to which Niko will respond that he has, a drug dealer named Playboy X, and that he spared a friend of Playboy's who he liked better. He then mentions that he feels he did the right thing. If the player killed Dwayne, however, Niko will tell Roman in a sadder tone of voice what he did, and that Playboy X paid him off, but is treating him like an "asshole". Roman tells Niko he's a "rich asshole" and tells him to spend the money on a "clean hotel room and a dirty college girl" and to call him to hang out afterwards.
- There is one glitch where if the player aims a pistol at Playboy behind the window in his safehouse while he is hiding behind the wall, aim at his body and shoot, then it will cut to the cinematic execution.thumb|500px|right|The glitch happens after goons and Playboy are killed
- There is also another glitch, if you are underground in the subway and you're walking on the tracks, it will automatically send you to Playboy's apartment.
- An easy way to take out Playboy X is by throwing a grenade onto the balcony outside his apartment.
- When Playboy X dies, he drops a Combat Pistol/Desert Eagle, a gun that you cannot buy until Museum Piece (the second last gun you can buy in the game, the last being the RPG, available after the second mission for Derrick McReary).
- If you chose to kill Playboy X, when he is cornered, he will say these lines: "Even if you kill me, you're gonna have this whole town after your ass.", "Another motherf***er gone and let the money go to his head.", "I showed you the world, gangster. You don't control this sh*t.", "I thought you was money, you low rate b*tch.", "You coulda been someone, Niko.".
- If you chose to kill Playboy X, when he is cornered, Niko will say these lines: "You shouldn't have asked me to kill Dwayne, Playboy.", "You're a bad joke, Playboy.", "X marks the spot.", "Not such a big man now, are you?", "It was you or Dwayne, I chose Dwayne.", "Where are you going, Playboy?".
- If you chose to kill Dwayne, Niko will say nothing. However, Dwayne will say these lines: '"Shit, Niko, that weren't cool.", "Hell, Niko, no.", "Niko, you cold.", "Damn, son. I'm your friend.", "What you doing, son?", "Damn, you done f***ed me over in the end.", "I thought we was close, Niko.", "Don't play me like that, Niko.".
- After you killed Dwayne, Playboy X's phone message will change to: This is the X, giving everyone out there some advice. You don't know what you got 'til it's gone. Leave a message.


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My first visit to London was over the holidays, and it was nostalgic bliss. I could immediately feel the history amongst the cobbled streets, and ancient stone buildings (not to mention the grandeur of Buckingham Palace). On our last night we dined at Rules, a London institution that was established in 1798, and is the oldest restaurant in the city. From the food, to the décor, to the service, we felt like royalty. I could feel the history in each room… Edward, Prince of Wales being ruled by "cheese and chat" in the bar by Lily Langtry, while Charlie Chaplin and Charles Dickens entertain their guests with drinks, fine fare, and copious cups of tea. Despite the antiquity of it all, the drinks and food screamed fresh and flavorful, using only what was in season, as well as locally hunted and grown. Rules had an excitement to it with 200 years of history to back it up. Read More


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Hi, you've reached the User page of Tantek Çelik. Due to W3C account limitations/defaults, the "Ç" in my last name was dropped from the "official" login username and has propagated as such on w3.org.
Please use "Tantek Çelik" not "Tantekelik" in references. Thanks.
next actions
- add public domain template user page template to W3C wiki (based on the same at microformats wiki)
- add said template to my user page
- W3C HTML Working Group - representative, Mozilla
- W3C CSS Working Group - ""
- W3C Advisory Board - elected to serve 2 year term: 2013-07-01..2015-06-30
W3C AB projects:
- Increasing openness in how the AB works
- Advancing open licensing, e.g. the htmlwg HTML5 Extensions experiment
CSSWG projects, alphabetically listed (not priority)
HTMLWG projects (some of these have been completed. needs updating)
time element issues
1. Enhance and simplify the time element. A change proposal to enhance and simplify the time element based on use-cases and needs documented to date: http://www.w3.org/wiki/User:Tantekelik/time_element
2. Add a data element. A change proposal to introduce a simple data element for use with microformats, microdata, RDFa based on use-cases of the general class of human vs. machine data publishing: http://www.w3.org/wiki/User:Tantekelik/data_element
3. Drop the pubdate attribute. A change proposal to drop the pubdate attribute as part of completing the removal of the Atom conversion algorithm which itself hasn't been a part of the W3C HTML5 specification for over a year: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Jun/0000.html http://www.w3.org/wiki/User:Tantekelik/drop_pubdate
4. Enhance the time element to fully represent the date time types that the input element can capture. Most of these are also covered by issue 1, with the exception of year-week only dates and thus this is a delta issue from that issue with a corresponding delta change proposal: http://www.w3.org/wiki/User:Tantekelik/time_input_match
change proposals
- User:Tantekelik/time_element
- User:Tantekelik/data_element
- User:Tantekelik/drop_pubdate
HTMLWG reference
- HTMLWG Change Proposals
- Examples from Ted O'Connor: ZE CP 41, CP 133
completed 2011
other W3C wikis
By default each W3C group gets their own wiki. I find that having to log into each of these separately is a bit annoying. My preference is to put all W3C related wiki pages into the top level W3C wiki:
However, for reference, here are other W3C wikis that I am editing/contributing to while their respective groups still use them.
- http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/ (contributions)
- transferring to: http://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/wg/
- http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/wiki/ (contributions)
- transferring to: http://www.w3.org/wiki/Webapps/
- http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/ (contributions)
- transferring to: http://www.w3.org/wiki/federatedsocialweb/
- see also http://indiewebcamp.com/


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GREENVILLE, N.C. — For Marshall, the positive effects of its double-overtime victory over East Carolina last year went beyond the bowl bid it earned.
Rakeem Cato, the Thundering Herd quarterback approaching the 4,000-yard mark in passing this year, can testify to that.
Still running a relatively conventional offense, Cato threw for 341 yards on 23-of-29 passing, with no interceptions. He hit Aaron Dobson twice for touchdowns, on a first-play 77-yard bomb and late in the first half on that nationally acclaimed backhanded catch in the end zone.
Cato, who was the Herd's only healthy scholarship quarterback at the time, carried that shot of confidence into the bowl game and beyond.
"It was very fun but very tough," Cato said. "I had just gotten the starting job [back] and I was gaining confidence. That was one of the best games I've played."
Scanning the Pirates' defensive depth chart, two sizes jump out at you — 6-foot-1, 327-pound nose guard Terry Williams and 6-2, 261-pound outside linebacker Derrell Johnson. Williams has prototypical size for a 3-4 nose, but Johnson is larger than all MU linebackers and substantially larger than all Herd defensive ends, save for Jeremiah Taylor.
Upon closer examination, Johnson's size permits him to be the versatile outside defender needed in ECU's fluid 3-4 alignment. MU offensive coordinator Bill Legg explained how the Pirates can use Johnson, No. 56.
"The one outside linebacker's kind of a hybrid, more of a defensive end," Legg said. "So it's kind of a 4-3 personnel playing 3-4 concepts. And then they'll go a little lighter and a little lighter and a little lighter and the next thing you know, they've got that 56, who's playing that rush outside linebacker-slash-defensive end, all of a sudden he's a true defensive end, and they play a true three-down, and they've got three true defensive ends and they've got nickels and dimes, the whole nine yards."
In whatever formation, it will pay for Cato and his line to identify No. 56. Johnson leads the Pirates by a fair margin in sacks (41/2) and tackles for loss (nine).
On other note about the ECU defense: It is ranked higher in C-USA in all pertinent statistical categories in the seven conference games than overall: second in rush defense at 91.9 yards per game (vs. third, 139.5); third in scoring defense at 23.6 (vs. fourth, 28.1); total defense, fourth at 345.0 (vs. fifth, 397.7); and pass efficiency defense, third, 123.1 rating (vs. 131.9).
Combatting that ECU front could be Marshall's seventh different starting offensive line combination.
Beginning the last two weeks has been starting lineup No. 6, from left tackle across: Jordan Jeffries, Alex Schooler, Cam Dees, Chris Jasperse and Garrett Scott. No. 7 would be formed if Josh Lovell starts at left guard (very possible) and/or Gage Niemeyer starts for Scott at right tackle (possible).
Jeffries has been the only constant, starting all 11 games at left tackle.
By contrast, ECU's line has had four 11-game starters at the same positions, with the only change happening at center.
Here's a name from the past: Todd Christensen, who will serve as analyst today for the CBS Sports Network broadcast. The former NBC and ESPN commentator joined CBS Sports after the Mtn. network closed at the end of the 2011-12 scholastic season.
It is not readily known how many times the former Oakland Raiders tight end crossed paths with the Herd and ECU, but one occasion is most memorable — the 2001 GMAC Bowl on ESPN2. He was paired with Steve Levy, who remains in the ESPN empire, for the Herd's 64-61 double-overtime victory over the Pirates.
At the time, some Herd followers accused Christensen of holding out as long as he could on giving credit to one of the great rallies of college football history. Then again, that supposed gaffe was vastly overshadowed by studio host Terry Bowden's halftime comment that MU should bench its seniors and play for next year.
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- "There is a price for everything in this city. You just have to find out what it is."
- ― Ray Bulgarin
Ray Bulgarin[1] (Russian: Рэй Булгарин) was a character in Grand Theft Auto series that appears as the quaternary antagonist in Grand Theft Auto IV and as the main antagonist of The Ballad of Gay Tony.
Ray Bulgarin is an extremely wealthy, powerful Russian crime lord operating across the Adriatic Sea (either Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro or Albania) and Liberty City until he was deported.
Bulgarin was born in 1958 and had a sister named Galina Bulgarin. As a boy, he was in a wrestling academy, where his coach apparently made him take steroids.
He immigrated to Liberty City and began his life as an international criminal. In 1989, at age 31, he was arrested for receiving an entire ship full of Albanian sex slaves. Sometime after, he continued human trafficking across the Adriatic sea, where he also lived in a large mansion on the waterfront.
He employed Niko Bellic, who smuggled people into Italy from Eastern Europe, until one run in which the ship sank, and Niko was forced to abandon it and it's cargo, swimming for his life. Bulgarin blamed Niko for this loss, and sought to hunt him down. Niko joined the merchant navy to escape Bulgarin's influence within Europe, and spent seven months on the Platypus before escaping to Liberty City.
Events of Grand Theft Auto IV and The Ballad of Gay Tony
In 2008 or sometime before, Bulgarin returned to Liberty City to expand his business interests, and met up with his old friend Dimitri Rascalov. Dimitri offered Niko, who was working for him by chance, to Bulgarin without hesitation; Niko escaped the ambush and Bulgarin still insisted on tracking him down, with Dimitri's help.
Much more about Bulgarin is revealed in The Ballad of Gay Tony; he is interested in buying the Liberty City Rampage hockey team from Marki Ashvilli, as well as the Maisonette 9 nightclub from "Gay" Tony Prince. More about his personal lifestyle is also shown - he owns an Oracle, a blue Landstalker (which he sacrifices to kill a crooked NOOSE team on his case) and a black Marbelle. In his spare time he enjoys playing rock music with his bodyguard Timur. He also has very impressive collections of arcade machines, sports and rock memorabilia (some of it used by famous rock stars, including a $50,000 guitar) and even fine art (he talks on the phone about wanting to pay $20 million for a painting). Bulgarin believes "everything has a price, you just have to find out what it is", going so far as to try to hire a woman at Maisonette 9 as a prostitute for the night. Bulgarin hired Luis Lopez to assist him with the hockey team acquisition by first eliminating some crooked NOOSE members. Eventually, Bulgarin and Ashvilli have an argument, and Luis must kill the team owner in a hectic ambush.
Eventually, Bulgarin discovers that Tony and Luis had obtained the diamonds that were stolen from him by a cook, (after Luis and Tony originally failed to buy them from him), which made him turn against Luis. In the mission during which he betrays you (In The Crosshairs), he (after potentially killing his sister) clearly had an upset tone with Luis; he then sent him to a Little Italy roof top to "help Timur". When he got there, he lead Luis to a box on that rooftop that had The Cook's severed head on it. Suddenly, a massive ambush of snipers, shooters, rooftop gunmen, cars of gunman and even a helicopter presents itself to Luis; but, roughly, he escapes.
Later, after Giovanni Ancelotti's daughter is kidnapped (and later found then moved, Giovanni coerces Luis and Tony to exchange the Diamonds for her life. Bulgarin finds Niko and Luis representing opposing parties and orders his men to fire. Bulgarin failed again, as Niko and Luis both escaped and his diamonds were lost for good when one of his men threw the diamonds into a truck when confronted by Niko and Packie.
After cooperating with Giovanni Ancelotti (a mob boss and the hostage's father) about the diamond situation, they send Vince and Rocco to tell Luis that he must either kill Gay Tony and become partners with Vince and Rocco, or else he and Tony will be heavily ambushed. After killing Vince, Luis survives the almost-comically-large amount of hitmen sent after him. At this time, Bulgarin—after Dimitri Rascalov is killed by Niko Bellic—somehow claims the Heroin from him.
During the mission Departure Time, Luis destroys all the gunmen—including Timur—and the Heroin—at Funland. Later, after receiving help from Yusuf Amir, Luis is able to jump aboard the plane Bulgarin is taking to flee the country. Bulgarin demands Luis not kill him (as he is holding a grenade that will explode); but Luis kills him and Parachutes to the earth below, leaving Bulgarin, Timur and the Heroin all behind.
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Mission appearances
- The Ballad of Gay Tony
- Boulevard Baby
- ...Blog This! (Post-mission phone call)
- Going Deep (Boss)
- Dropping In... (Boss)
- In the Crosshairs (Boss/Betrayal)
- Ladies Half Price
- Departure Time (Killed)
Murders committed
Possible murders
- Galina Bulgarin - Possibly murdered by Ray for aggravating him recurringly.
- Ray is the only friend and partner of Dimitri Rascalov whom he did not betray.
- Ray is one of four major characters in GTA IV to have the initials "RB" (the others being Real Badman, Roman Bellic and Ray Boccino). It is unknown if this was intentional, as the four have little else in common.
- If the player looks him up on the LCPD database on libertycitypolicedatabase.com he will be marked as Deceased, even before he is encountered on "Russian Revolution" implying he may have faked his death in order to get past local authorities.
- Bulgarin's appearance was altered between GTA IV and TBoGT. In IV, he had blond hair and harsher facial features. In TBoGT, he has dark hair instead and his skin is noticeably pale. His face is also more textured.
- His name is often incorrectly stated to be "Rodislav". This fake name first appeared on Wikipedia's article List of Grand Theft Auto IV characters. This mistake has even spread to such external websites as IMDB.


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Slash piles may be burned by state foresters under certain conditions, but more study will be required before Gov. John Hickenlooper is convinced to lift the ban on burns to clear forest undergrowth issued after the Lower North Fork fire last spring.
The executive order lifting part of the ban was one of three signed by Hickenlooper Wednesday that aim to reducing risks and losses from fires in the wildland-urban interface, where more than a quarter of Colorado's population lives.
Last year the state recorded 4,167 wildland fires that killed six people, burned more than 385,000 acres and destroyed more than 600 structures, he said. Preliminary damage estimates total almost $538 million.
"It was a very hard year," Hickenlooper said. "Those affected by wildfires continue to rebuild their lives, to rebuild their communities".
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Hickenlooper quickly issued a ban on controlled burns statewide and appointed the Lower North Fork Wildfire Commission to investigate how a fire intended to improve forest health got away. Many of the commission's finding are reflected in the orders issued Wednesday.
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Hickenlooper said experts tell him that prescribed burns to eliminate dense forest undergrowth are crucial for mitigation, but said the science behind them must be considered before prescribed burns beyond burning slash piles is brought back.
A second executive order created the 12-member Wildland and Prescribed Fire Advisory Committee to work with the director of the Division of Fire Prevention and Control to improve wildfire preparedness, response, suppression and management of prescribed fires.
The group's tasks include "work to ensure continued safety and protection for residents on the wildland-urban interface, while promoting the health and longevity of our state's natural forests through properly regulated pile burnings."
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Let's get this out of the way: I don't read romance novels. I find the whole genre to be a plague upon all good and great things within the world. Before Twilight, for example, vampires and werewolves were fearsome creatures who stalked the night and tore bodies to pieces, not melodramatic teenagers who skipped math class to make out. (Don't worry, we still stock the hardcore vampire costumes.)
But Twilight is a singular occurrence, right? Vampires and werewolves are the only ones to have felt the soft, seductive hands of the romance genre, right? I mean, theres no way someone could write a financially successful romance novel about, say, a zombie, right?
This is where I introduce you to Warm Bodies, a zombie romance novel.
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R is a zombie. After a zombie apocalypse, he slowly moves through an America made up of collapsed buildings, rusted cars, shattered glass, and hollowed-out high-rises. He can speak only in grunts and simple syllables and craves human brains to get high on the memories they contain. After eating the brain of a suicidal teen, R is overcome with love for the teen's companion, Julie Grigio. R rescues Julie from certain death by his zombie pack and takes her back to his lair. She eventually leaves, and R follows her to back to Citi Stadium, the largest remaining human habitation.
Somehow, the book has earned enough attention to garnish a film adaptation, which is expected to hit theaters this year. While I applaud the concept of zombies eating human brains to get high off memories, I cannot express any joy toward this novel or film. Zombies are the over-milked fad of recent years, and now the genre comes face-to-face with romance.
If anything, lets hope this movie kills the zombie fad and we can move onto the next horror icon to become popular, whored out, and then mixed with romance.