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Game of Thrones Ascent Beginner's Guide & Walkthrough
Game of Thrones Ascent is an RPG game brought by Disruptor Beam. The game mechanics is mainly based on decisions you have to make on each quest, which in turn end up shaping your character's aligment (see Character and Quest section for a detailed explanation). You won't see live action battles here, it's a pure RPG, and characters from the TV Show and Book are not directly involved in the game, but just heard.
Before you start, you must know that your progress in the game can be measured by your character level and the second one if Power (top right side of the screen to see points) which positions you in a ranking of Lords.
XP Points & Currencies
- Power: Power points place you in a certain position within the worldwide ranking of Lords.
- Level: Your character's level is your overall progress in the game. You don't obtain a specific amount of XP points per completed adventure or quest, but rather a percentaje of the level meter, position your mouse on the meter to see how much you need to reach the next level. Leveling up also unlock new buildings to construct, new Sworn Swords, new abilities.
- Silver: Earn Silver from taxes, quests and adventures. You can purchase extra silver with real money if you want to.
- Gold: Gold is used to purchase premium items and speed-ups. This is GoT Ascent hard currency and available only through in-game purchases.
You should be introduced to the Name and Portrait window before anything else where you can choose among several avatars. There's also the option to get a random name. Once you are finished, a brief intro will appear, you can skip it anytime if you already read the books or follow the TV show.
You can access the Character's main menu by clicking on your avatar at the bottom bar. The character menu consists of 5 tabs; Equipment, Character, Pacts and Power, Stats and Achievements.
The equipment slots are divided into Hand items, Armor items and companion items. Also, you can see your stats through this window.
The equipment tab also contains the talents tree and the storage window. The storage window contains all your basic resources like Iron, Wood, etc. Also, boons and food are included.
This is where you can see where are you exactly leaning towards in each of the three Character Alignments;
- Tradition: The tradition axis measures your commitment to the Old Ways or the new ways. The old ways embody the traditions of the first men, personal justice, and respect for the old Gods. The new ways embody chivalry, worship of the Faith of the Seven, and modern thinking.
- Duty: The Duty axis measures whether you hold greater allegiance to Family or to the Realm. A duty to family means placing the interests yourself and those close to you above anything else. A duty to realm means that you believe the good of Westeros and the Seven Kingdoms is paramount.
- Integrity: The integrity axis measures whether you are Truthful or Cunning. Being cunning means thingking pragmatically, avoiding revealing too much information to others, and taking advantage of opportunities. Being truthful means being Frank, avoiding lies, and building strong bonds of trust.
Pacts and Power
Besides the top right side of the screen, this is where you can check your current stats, consisting of three main ones, Battle, Intrigue and Trade, remember that these stats will combine with your Sworn Sword ones when doing some Sworn Sword quests. All main stats have sub-stats, all of them having an attack and defense column where you can assign points to.
- Battle: Consists of Fight, Harass and Aid
- Intrigue: Consists of Spy, Steal and Sabotage
- Trade: Consists of Barter, Bribe and Swindle
This RPG just couldn't miss a huge list of achievements. These are divided into; Great Deeds, Regional, Lineage, Loot, Story and Friends & Foes. Some achievements require of multiple actions to be completed.
As with most games on facebook, the current quests are shown on a sidebar positioned on the left side of the screen. Once you click on a quest, you will be shown a window where the quest giver appears with a brief description of the quest and below a list of tasks or paths. You don't have to complete all of them, but rather opt for one of them, sort of a choose your own adventure book-style.
Now, besides tasks and quests, there's a higher level called Chapters (or prologues at the very beginning). Each of these chapters also offer rewards once completed, you can access by clicking on the icon on top of your current quest log. As you progress through the chapter you will eventually be given a Sworn Sword quest, read the section below for more details about these special quests.
Rewards display at the end of a quest. Most quests offer XP points besides other items
Depending on which option you choose, you will end up on a certain three-axis configuration, better explained in the character section below, these are; Truthful or Cunning, New Ways vs Old Ways, Realm or Family (you can see which type of points you obtain on the right side of the option/task). At first, it seems easy, but as you keep completing chapters, you will have to meditate on your choosing quite a lot, even having to ask your advisors first.
Chapters also contain bonus goals which are mainly social tasks that require neighbors/friends interactions.
Sworn Sword Quests
Sworn Sword quests works similar to a card battle game. You must choose from one of your Sworn Swords (at first you will only have Ser Hugo Flint), after that, pick among the three main actions, battle, trade or intrigue. right next, choose one of the sub-actions and finally send them to battle/trade/deceive the oponent. The sworn sword's own stats mix with your own (you can see them on the top left side of the screen) and the Sword Sword specialization also comes into play. Not all the actions will be available at first.
If you succeed, you will get Silver and items, and if you lose, you will suffer wounds, get 5 wounds and your sworn-sword will die.
Adventuring and PvP Missions
Once you get to prologue part 3, you will start recruiting Sworn Swords. You can either choose to Adventure or Help or Harm other nobles, which can only be done once you reach level 5, these are basically Player vs Player missions/battles. Now, you will be able to increase your sworn swords ranks by doing any of these. Sworn Swords can be equipped just like your main character with Hand, Body and Companion items. The adventures will be listed in order of difficulty inside the Keep Building, each one of them is unlocked once you reach a certain level. Adventuring works the same way as the Sworn Sword quests, you first pick a sworn sword, an action and then send it Adventuring. Mind you, although you can speed it up, you cannot retrieve your SS from adventuring once you click on the "Go" button. Success or Failure are the two possible outcomes, the first one yields rewards and rank upgrades, the latter only wounds.
We've got some useful tips and good strategies for Adventures on a separate guide.
Choosing Your Fealties
By the end of Prologue, Part 3, you will be offered the chance of joining a House. Beware that depending on the background you previously chose, some Houses will work much better than others because of their particular benefits. For instance, if you went Merchant, Lannister is the obvious choice.
The Lorebook tracks your progress through the Game of Thrones Ascent story. The lorebook also contains information on Backgrounds, Fealties, your past actions.
Once you complete the first quests, you will unlock the Buildings feature. Buildings are needed in order to produce some items or resources. Also, you will need the production of certain buildings to be able to craft items in another building. The first building you will see is the Counting House, which allows you to collect Silver. Buildings take time to construct and the process can be speed-up by using different items, each one of them cost more Gold as they allow you to save more time.
So what is the Power feature exactly?. Power is your overall standing as a noble of Westeros. You obtain power points per in-game action completed, such as quests, building constructions and group events. Once you fill up the bar, you will reach the next level. You can see the worldwide or Friends-only Power ranking list, including your own position there.
Friends, Social Interactions
Eventually, some quests will required to get friends and take part to complete it. The game also includes group events, where all Sworn Swords from all people take part to finish it. Rewards are distributing considering how big your role was in its completion. Alliances is another distinctive feature of the game, which we will explain below in a few days. In a few words, the more active friends you have, the better, so start adding people, the official app page is a great place to start when looking to add contacts to Facebook.
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In the Power screen, what does the 1st list of numbers mean? For example, 2288 is the number before my name and character, but my Power is 12,899.
The first number is your rank in the world. The top player has a power (the second number) of over 600,000.
Can I change my name in this game? I went with Flowers thinking it would be fun to be a bastard… now that I am the lord of a house it does not seem appropriate and within the lore.
I may have chosen the wrong house to swear fealty to. Is there a way for me to restart the game?
i tried to restart the game but every time i click on "more" it doesn't do anything
In the top-left corner click on your character profile (or type 'C')
Then click on the tab 'Character'
Afterwards, click on the tree-thingy in the top-left corner of your character picture
Finally, click on 'restart now'
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The best way to change fealty is to do all of volume 1 (about 10 chapters)then you will be given a quest that lets you start again and pick a different fealty or continue with the story line. (But you can keep the special building you get with the fealty you were just assigned too)
I saw on the achievements page that you conquest without sworn swords. How do you do tha?
Im level 3 and upgrading the counting house.. But nothing seems to happen.. Is it in real tome and just have to wait… The only button i can click on is collect… Apart from tht im not sure wat else im supposed to do?
the way you upgrade is by clicking on the little icons below the sign of the of the scales in the courting house. e.g. "Stack of coins", you will have to put in silver and whatever resource they have asked for. Click on [[Add]] (i think the first upgrade here was 400 silver), and it will start a timer, which is the upgrade process (this will appear around the middle of the window). After it is complete – you get back to the main building panel (where all the buildings appear under the scenery), there should be a small number on the bottom right hand corner. it represents what level your building is at. Hope that helped
In the game my kid is sick and I need herbs to heal her I don't have any and it wont let me accept the quest. I would like to move forward in the game but its not letting me. what should I do?
I am having this same exact problem. Let me know if you find any answers!
same problem and my game freezes
I have the same problem, except a step earlier. Can't accept the challenge and send a sworn sword. When I click on it, the game freezes and I can't move on. Very frustrating!! Any fixes for this problem??
The only way I found to get past this was to download Google Chrome and play it through that rather than Internet Explorer. It works just fine and lets you go on to the next quest. Try that and see if it works.
It is an issue with Internet Explorer. Try using Google Chrome, Firefox or some other browser should fix the issue.
People use Internet Explorer?
Ok, so I have established my counting house, but am supposed to name my keep. Yet where the maester was pointing ( and he now no longer appears after my vigorous clicking everything to find it) there was nothing. How do I name my keep? I even tried resetting my game, but when i click more in character activity it does nothing. Please help! I Really want to play this darn game!
I'm having the exact same problem!
Me three! It's frustrating because it won't let me move forward until I name the Keep.
I had this exact same problem! I just switched to Google Chrome, though, and it fixed itself.
I lose the silver. What should I do…
Is there a limit on how many items you can have? I did one of those long multistage quests (the ones you get 24 hours to do and friends can help with) and after I was finished it said I had completed it and I was the sole participant so I got the big prize. The prize however never showed up. What gives?
hey i just reincarnate myu character and i hava a new one but i wnat to chek my old character how can i change it again?
I currently have a dire wolf equipped on my main character's inventory. Does that benefit the abilities of my sworn shields at all?
Does it help any way at all or is it simply not being used while in my main characters inventory?
It would appear to me that your main character's attribute points are added to your sworn swords when u send them out on an adventure. Notice ur sworn swords points before u select an action and then after u select the action… the two are not the same. I think because your main character's points are added to your sworn sword.
I tried adding my friends on the game and after sending the request i still have no friends on the game, but i know people excepted the requests and i can't send new requests to the people i sent requests to. How do i add my friends?
Yeah, same problem here
Under the Sworn Sword Quests what do the numbers mean next to crossed swords & the bar that is colored blue & orange?
I am trying to figure that out to. Have you gotten any info?
numbers and colors represent ur chances of success. The bluer the better.
I want to add a friend who is playing the Game. On the main menu when I go to the Friends tab and click 'add a friend' I see the list of people who are not playing the game, my friend is missing from the list. I see people leaving their profile links on forums, I want to know how to add a friend using his/her profile link.
I am on level 13 and my friend is on level 13
i am actually ongoing prologue level 4, but unexpectedly after i finish the quest i cant claim the designers banner..when i click on it, it does nothing please help ..
I have this exact problem, been stuck on it for ages, if anyone has a fix, please enlighten me.
had the same problem. just close quest book and click on white banner. It is located on the right side of your character portrait.
Do you ever use your main character in fights? like you do with your sell-swords?
cant do anything once i got to prologue 4. nothing works and nothing happens!
I am having problems getting a banner to go to level 4.
some building upgrades add +2 attack or +1 trade +1 intrigue and so on, but my main character has same stats as he had before I upgraded that building.
So, If I upgrade "sundries stall" which grants +2 trade, my main character trade stat will increase or not? what increases than?-
ur main character's stats go up when u level up. You will level up as the game progresses. Every time u level up, u will see a screen that allows u to choose what aspect of the main character u want to upgrade. Upgrading buildings has nothing to do with your main character's stats as far as I know. But I have noticed that upgrading buildings seems to help my main character level up quicker.
What happens exactly when I "rebirth" ? Do I lose all my power points ?
I am new to game as well, so am still learning. The question us ask can be found in google. From what I have learned thus far… is people choose to reincarnate to get all of the fealty buildings so they can one day be able to hatch a dragon egg. Each fealty, Greyjoy, Starks… etc has one fealty building they can build. And in order to hatch a dragon egg all six buildings are needed. Or at least this is what I have read about it so far. I know this explanation only generates more questions, but suggest u google for the answers.
How do I open buildings Feast, Mine, Shipyard, Hunting Lodge??
These are "fealty" buildings. You can only access one at a time, depending on which banner you are fighting for. For example, Reliquary is a Targaryen building, Feast is Baratheon, Mine is Lannister, Shipyard is Greyjoy, and Hunting Lodge is Stark. You need to get to level 13, and you need to use a Talent upgrade to unlock the building in the Fealty section of Talent point choices. You get a Talent point every time you level up. To unlock more than one building, you will need to reincarnate and choose a different banner. And during reincarnation, you need to choose your fealty building as your one permanent Talent before you choose your next banner.
I have just started the game via Facebook. I created a name for my Character, but only noticed afterwards, I'm really too blonde and can't spell lol.
I've deleted and uninstalled the app. Everytime, I try again, it's still where I left off.
Is there a way for me to change my character name?
Please help?-
Click on ur picture of your character and you will find all the things you wanna change to be done there
How do yopu get married on the game , jkust keeps saying pendiong ??
any who re incarnate knows if you lose your power points when you do it?
On my building icons, there is a circle with a number in it. Why? when I click to access my building I don't see anything different, and the number won't do away. What is the significance for those numbers?
That signifies the number of upgrades you've done to the building. I think of it as the level of the building.
When you use say a red or blue gem to add a bonus to any production, what does adding the items actually do?
Using a red or blue gem when producing vari9us items gives you a better chance of ending up with a superior version of th3 item. For instance, if you are producing aleather armor and use a red ge m you may end up with something like leather armor of greed or custom leather armor which have better stats than normal leather armor, etc…
I have two sets of scale armor but I can't find them to equip my sworn swords with them, nor can I equip myself with them. Any ideas?
When you reincarnate, you do not lose your power, gold or permanent items…but you do lose everything else. Basically, you are starting from scratch. I'm doing each fealty one by one (and choosing to keep your fealty building when you reincarnate)and then I will go back to the fealty that I want to keep forever and start the "real" game.
i cant get past the name your keep part
I am in volume 1 / chapter 2 and i can't do the Quests (Use past skills to end a present threat – and – Complete "A Crone in the Grove IV) cause it doesnt appear as quest. And it is Locked for me – Can anyone hlep me plz!!!!
I have the same trouble…..I can't do advance! and Furthermore, I have a mission were all my sworn swords are really at a disadvantage. For Example, one of them (the most qualified) is 14 to 30 (the score of the enemy). May I take a chance with that difference between us?
First off, thanks for the guide– it has been very, very useful when I started (well, a bit over 8 days ago).
Do you know if anyone did something similar to this for alliances? I've been in one for 3 days and I can't figure out what's going on for the life of me….
Thanks again for all the help!
Has anyone else been having trouble with "Rise in the North Part III?" I have played it 4 or 5 times, favored to win for each one, but I have lost every time.
ya well i have a problem with 1 of the quests,they dont appear to be ur normal type of quest, itll say whatever,then in ( ) itll say (1730) or something like,and it just freezes up,i have to x it off, and when i do, it completely goes away and i cant get it back! anyone else have the same problem?!
i cant find out what the #'s mean after a mission/adventure,or w/e, like the rolls, and win and lose #'s i dont understand what that means, or where i can find a better way to understand it!
can't get past prologue? help please?
I have been betrothed to someone who appeared to fall off the face of the earth.. Does this mean I'm stuck with him? Also I've betrothed by daughter to someone and never heard back..
When you join an alliance and you see a message from them that such and such buildings are fealty buildings, what does that mean?
I chose the wrong fealty. If I start over, will I lose my companions & everything?
I built my building and the guy says my people are idle and to instruct them to mine/gather stone. He keeps pointing telling me to click on stone (which is still shadowed) and I click on the gods forsaken stone, the arrow his face, anything on the page. I went back I went forward. Nothing. I should have an enormous pile of stone by now. What very obvious thing have I missed?
Thanks for your help!
I earned 2 cotton hoods (uncommon) during quests, but cant seem to equip them on my sworn swords? When i click the equip botton of body, my cotton hoods are not in between the options. Cant i find them somewhere else? Please help! Thank you very much
In the Market, I have done the Cloth Stall. Now what must I do to get the Fish Stall?
In the Market, I built the Cloth Stall. What must I do to make the Fish Stall and the Ore Stall?
Does anyone know if there is a particular adventure in II and III that is more likely to give you steel upon success (Same question for dyed textiles). I could be wrong in my assumption that some adventures favor a certain resources upon success.
Level II "Protect the Wine Harvest" has been my best bet for dyed textiles.
how do i recrute sworm blade?
How does the whole alliance part of the fame work? Really can't figure the camps, donations, world task stuff out?
When you go to do a quest, for a friend in the game, you get to choose which friend you're doing the quest for. In the icon of each friend, there is a circle with a number in it. What does that represent? Power ranking? Any info you could provide would be greatly appreciated!!!
Hi all, I am level 40 and in my PVP screen I can see two friends (above level 100) and one friend who is level 28, but another of my friends plays is also level 28 and they don't show up… How can I fix this to play with them in PVP?? Any help at all will be much appreciated!
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35 Then from the cloud came a voice that said, "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" | 35 A voice came from the cloud, saying, "This is my Son, whom I have chosen; listen to him." |
36 When the voice had spoken, Jesus was found alone. And they kept silent and in those days told no one any of the things they had seen. | 36 When the voice had spoken, they found that Jesus was alone. The disciples kept this to themselves, and told no one at that time what they had seen. |
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If a monster is stunned, it cannot be moved and it cannot attack investigators. But investigators still have to evade when moving out of the space? We had a hell of a time last night where we had stunned two monsters that were sharing spaces with everyone, but everyone got hit by both of them on the way out, which was devastating.
And evasion damage is different than combat defense damage in regards to the warding statue, which limits max damage to 1 while defending?
And if an investigator is stunned, they still get an action? I thought the wording was pretty unambiguous, but someone else asked that on here and got the response that stunned only reduces the number of movement actions you get from 2 to 1 rather than having a single movement be the only thing an investigator can do.


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Oscar Sunday was a big day for Jennifer Lawrence, but it was also a big day for her hairstylist, Mark Townsend. The hair guru has been styling the actress' locks for years — even before she worked the awards season red carpet for 2010's Winter's Bone — and just as Lawrence has evolved from a small screen supporting actress into an Oscar-winning leading lady, Townsend says her hair has come a long way in a short time.
At an event promoting Dove hair care products (Townsend works for the brand) in New York City last week, EW chatted up the celebrity stylist to get the inside scoop on how Lawrence has stayed true to her, ahem, roots, his own Hollywood big break, and how he manages the "hair politics" that come with having a bevy of star clients.
"The best thing with Jennifer is she's kind of grown into herself," Townsend said. "She's got so much hair, it's easy for me to go hyper-glam. But she [personally] favors a natural, softer look. She really shined through this whole awards season because she was comfortable and doing what she wants to do. She is such a dream collaborator."
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The Row designers Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen — formerly known as the actresses who played Michelle Tanner on Full House — are included on Forbes magazine's annual 30 Under 30 list. [Huffington Post]
This Thursday, Lifetime will air Project Runway Spotlight: Marchesa, a behind-the-scenes look at the fashion label. Interestingly, the brand, which is worn by many of Hollywood's leading ladies, was co-founded by All Stars judge Georgina Chapman, who is married to Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of The Weinstein Company, which co-produces Project Runway. [WWD]
In a new video for Gucci Premiere, perfume pitchwoman Blake Lively talks about the holidays, her family traditions and what she'll be giving the women on her list this year (we'll give you one guess). [Pursuitist]
A Louis Vuitton streamer trunk ($37, 500) and three leather driving caps ($15, 000) were among the items once owned by Greta Garbo that netted $1.6 million at auction. [Daily Mail]
Now that there's a Game of Thrones-inspired beer, what licensed product can we expect next? Condoms? Coffins? [Forbes]
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We've already posted today's Gift of the Day pick, but here's a bonus item for those holiday shoppers who have the means to drop five figures on a celebrity-made handbag.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen found themselves on Anderson Cooper's RidicuList when they created a $39,000 crocodile backpack for their fashion label, The Row, last year. That bag sold out — who's laughing now, Anderson? — which may explain why the twins thought they could have a famous artist glue prescription pills onto an identical crocodile backpack and sell it for almost double the price. READ FULL STORY
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen might've skipped out on the recent Full House reunion, but if you want to see photos of the twins in matching hair scrunchies and the rest of their TV family rocking early '90s styles, "You got it, dude!" [Huffington Post]
Who says pop stars don't eat? Lady Gaga is proudly showing off the extra pounds she gained after indulging her appetites at her father's new Italian restaurant. [Hollywood Reporter]
New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow covers Vogue and GQ this month. [WWD]
Anjelica Huston has reportedly accepted a $12 million offer to turn her Venice, California pad into a members-only social club, which will feature amenities like a farm-to-table restaurant, easy access to the beach and a private screening room. [NY Post]
Former Philippines first lady Imelda Marco's 1,000+ pair shoe collection has succumbed to decay, termites and water damage in the years since her exile in 1986. [Refinery 29]
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Iain Dale points the finger
Iain Dale -The Silence of "Propah Bloggah" Tom Watson
Tom Watson MP likes to call himself a "Propah Bloggah". Strange therefore that his blog hasn't been updated since Friday. All sorts of allegations are being made against him yet he declines to use the obvious medium open to him to refute them. Wonder why that would be, then.
For the record, here is the comment from me that Iain Dale has been repeatedly deleting under his claim that Tom Watson isn't much of a blogger and/or a coward:
Compare to the silence of "Propah Bloggah" Iain Dale who refuses to discuss his twice allowing opponents to be smeared as a paedophile.
But he does not use the obvious medium open to him to refute this.
Instead, he cries 'stalker', and implies that he is contacting police when he is in fact complicating a genuine police investigation by being a childish fool and refusing to discuss what he did or did not do when asked to contact Tory MP Patrick Mercer about the smears (he didn't, and then lied about it)
Now Iain Dale is making out that it is Tom Watson who is the coward, when Watson has issued statements (that Dale chooses to ignore) and talked to the press. Meanwhile, Iain Dale he has been avoiding questions about his own involvement in smears for weeks now.
He is dishonestly making out that he is not discussing it here because I am banned from his website, but the truth is he is not discussing it anywhere, and he banned me so he could continue taking comments here without discussing it.
Why did you not take the requested action to prevent to smears about me, Iain? Why did you stand by and allow me to be smeared as a convicted sex criminal?
Tim Ireland
When the time comes for Iain to whine "Tim Ireland has left X number of comments on this site", keep in mind that what he is really saying is; "X times now, Tim Ireland has asked me to account for my allowing him to be smeared as a paedophile, and X times I have refused to face it while making out that someone else is a blogging coward with something to hide from his readers."
I can't blog full details, but Iain is at the moment compelling me to pass his details to the police, simply because he will not answer a simple question. Iain not only knows this, he is even refusing to acknowledge receipt of an email that explains this to him. Again, I cannot give details, but it's not one of those weak "I'm going to report you to police" threats that Iain is so fond of, but a situation where the only correct moral and legal action I can take at this stage is ask them to ask him about X because he's not talking to me (because he refuses to speak about X).
This is the most childish stunt that Iain has pulled to date… and that's really saying something.
Is he really waiting for me to do this so the police can ask him what he told Mercer's staff and why he didn't contact Mercer directly as requested? Why? So he can help Jenvey by using the opportunity to tell police I'm a stalker? If so, why hasn't he done this already if he really thinks it's true?
If anybody has any better theories, I'd love to hear them, because I have no idea what's going on in that head of his.
(Psst! We talked recently, in a frank and friendly conversation, and he doesn't think what I'm doing today counts as stalking at all. Further, he has never truly believed that I have ever really stalked him, and the furthest he would go – before a change of subject – was saying that "sometimes it feels that way". In short, Iain is smearing me, too. While playing the victim. What a bastard.)
UPDATE – I've made it clear elsewhere and will say again here that Dale and Staines have been grouping the published emails with an as-yet-unseen email that they claim exists and proves a conspiracy to smear Iain Dale originating from Downing Street. Apart from condemning the content we've seen to date, I'm reserving wider comment on the McBride/Draper smears themselves until all of that evidence has been published, and so far it hasn't.
I'm sorry, but Paul Staines *is* homophobic
For the sake of brevity, I must leave to one side the dishonest/one-eyed way in which Iain Dale defended Carol Thatcher, and Iain (again) peddling his self-serving nonsense about political representation in the weblog community, and instead draw your attention to a misleading claim about Paul Staines (aka 'Guido Fawkes') that Iain has now seen published by two newspapers in two different opinion pieces on the 'Smeargate' story he's so desperate to be a part of.
I know how these people work because I have been a victim of their covert operations. McBride ordered his attack puppy bloggers, who include Derek Draper, to smear me as a racist after I tried to explain Carol Thatcher's use of the word 'golliwog' in a BBC green room. He did the same with Guido Fawkes, who found himself tainted as 'homophobic'. – Iain Dale in the Mail
He has accused me of racism and Guido Fawkes of homophobia. How low can you get? It now transpires that these accusations emanate directly from Downing Street. – Iain Dale in the Telegraph
Yes, and the 'accusation' that Paul Staines is homophobic "emanate(d) directly from Downing Street" in the same way that this 'accusation' now emanates from Bloggerheads.com:
Sometimes, the sky is blue.
Describing Paul Staines as homophobic is not an accusation, but a statement of fact.
How is it not homophobic to equate homosexuality with paedophilia?
Is it Paul's position that he was merely confused at the time… and the next morning, and every day up until now?
Or is it Paul's position that he was merely drunk at the time… and the next morning, and every day up until now?
To equate homosexuality with paedophilia in the way that Staines did is clearly a form of irrational discrimination against homosexual men.
Paul Staines can therefore be fairly described as 'homophobic'.
End of.
'Smeargate' and paedo-smears
"When is a smear not a smear? Alas, when it is true." – Paul Staines (aka 'Guido Fawkes')
Let me be blunt:
1. I do recall saying that Derek Draper was the wrong man for the job (or what he made his job out to be), and look at what his bullshit has led to.
2. Anyone – anyone – foolish enough to hand this gift to Staines on a platter with a rich creamy sauce of Downing Street goodness deserves to slapped around by this git… at least for a bit.
That said:
All of this 'Smeargate' stuff could be true and exactly as Paul Staines says it is and/or as he makes it out to be, but that would do nothing to dilute the hypocrisy of Paul Staines accusing a fellow spin-doctor of being a smear merchant.
Let me give you a quick example of his work from my own personal collection:
I have a popular article on my website that discourages people from starting their own porn websites in pursuit of a fast buck. Paul Staines, seeing this, tells his readers that I "exploit porn for traffic" while knowing the opposite of what this implies is true (and while refusing me a right of reply).
That's a smear worthy of the description, and Staines spews them out constantly, either through deliberate misinterpretation (see: spin), rumours dressed as humour (see; 'rocking horse'), or anonymous sock-puppet comments that he may or may not submit to his own website (as he has been caught doing on others).
Here's another; implying that Mark Oaten is a paedophile (on the basis that he is gay, because Paul 'not a homophobe' Staines would have you think that being gay makes you a paedophile).
Any outrage you hear from Paul Staines and his followers is bound to be fabricated, as they've quietly tolerated repeated smears on the order-order.com website and elsewhere for years.
(Speaking of paedophilia and people quietly tolerating smears, Iain Dale is right now accusing Tom Watson of doing to Tory MPs essentially the same thing that he himself did to me recently; Iain was in a unique position to take action when someone posed as a Daily Mail reporter and falsely accused me of being a convicted sex criminal. Despite my plea for help, Iain did not take that action, and then lied about it, and now refuses to talk about it. He claims it is because I am 'banned' from his website, but he knows damn well that he slapped the ban on because he did not want to discuss this issue and I dared to press the matter. On top of this, I now have someone claiming that Iain Dale is actively involved in Glen Jenvey's schemes. I have reason to distrust the claim, not because I think it's beneath Iain, who will happily stand by and let fellow Tories smear their opponents with false claims of paedophilia, but because they also claim that Iain is helping by "sharing information" when I know he's got nothing on me, and never has. I have tried to get some kind of response out of Iain Dale about any of this, but he is refusing to answer my emails or take my calls.)
I reserve further comment until I have read the email(s) that Paul Staines offered to publish immediately on television a few weeks back, then decided not to publish, before offering them for sale to newspapers giving them to the NOTW for free because… erm… I'm sure he'll make that clear later, and explain why he's not taking legal action against the newspapers making claims like this:
The emails were obtained by the Tory blogger Paul Staines, who runs an internet site called Guido Fawkes, and had been touted to newspapers including The Daily Telegraph, which declined to purchase them. However a number of other newspapers were preparing to publish them on Sunday. – (source)
Oh, and if I haven't made it clear, I say all of this without wishing to mitigate or excuse any action taken by anyone proven to be involved in what these pompous arseholes have already tagged 'Smeargate*'.
(*You know, like they're Woodward and Bernstein… because after years of slinging shit from the monkey cages, they've finally found someone stupid enough to sling some turds back. With nametags on them.)
UPDATE – Some related bloggage on a similar theme:
Hopi Sen – The Hypoocrisy… it Burns…
Francis Sedgemore – Why we hate politics (part 99)
PS – Keep an eye out for anonymous comments claiming that I say any/all of this because I'm a paid/unpaid agent of New Labour, Downing Street, Tom Watson, etc…. because that's a smear, too. Unlike Paul Staines and Iain Dale, I have never at any stage had any secret/undeclared funding/facility arrangements with any party, political player or pressure group. Not that this stops both of these clowns repeatedly publishing claims to the contrary on their respective websites while disallowing any response from the target of this persistent smear.
G20 event: ambulances arrive, only to be blocked by police
Apr 01 2009 19:37 Police block ambulance(s) going to aid Ian Tomlinson
As with the images purchased by the Daily Mail and Sun newspapers that some bloggers place so much faith in, we only have the cameraman's testimony and the footage to go on here, but it certainly appears to be in same time and location as the Tomlinson assault and aftermath, and at the very least it shows (as this earlier scene does) that initial reports of protestors impeding medical teams could not have been further from the truth.
The Daily Mail dissected in song
I like this so much I'm going to throw in some bonus linky-love for the creator's website.
While we're pausing for some entertainment, you've probably already seen the fear-mongering billboard generator by now, but you may have missed the best use of it so far.
OK, all done? Right, let's get back to it, then:
Guardian – G20 assault: how Metropolitan police tried to manage a death
Why aren't these people working to protect us?
I'm not anti-police, as some right-wing scribblers have been claiming or implying.
I'm anti-kettling, certainly, but not anti-police.
But if I'm to retain faith in the Met or any other British police force, then I need to see that the police officers who are responsible for all improper policing at the G20 event can and will be called to account… i.e. not just those who, like Bob Quick, cannot expect any slack from a certain party in opposition. For some reason.
I am genuinely concerned about statements fed to the media by the police that appear to be either prone to misinterpretation, somewhat embellished, lacking in certain key facts, or outright lies.
I am alarmed to think that political pressure is required to prompt even simple suspensions when video footage emerges of police attacking a man from behind and without provocation.
I'm merely disappointed that the officers involved didn't come forward until after the video came to light, but I am incensed that the reasons they could not be identified by their own superiors (including hidden faces and obscured badge numbers) are not being treated as major issues themselves.
(Psst! I asked a blogging G20 police offer in what circumstances he would regard it to be appropriate for an officer to obscure their badge number. The mix of evasion and implication in his response is less than comforting.)
It worries me that nothing would have been done about this without the video evidence that police appear to have tried to collect/delete or preemptively suppress, especially when – without it – we had media commentators like Iain Dale dismissing the allegations of police violence out of hand and even making a joke about it being such a non-story that the only person in for a battering that day would be Jacqui Smith (ha-ha, let's all laugh at the dead man get back to the £10 porn scandal and other news that matters).
Even with the video evidence, Tomlinson failed to rate anything but a passing mention in most newsapers yesterday. Blame the tight deadlines if you like, but the fact is that the Bob Quick story first appeared at almost exactly the same time yesterday (7pm) as the Tomlinson video did the night before (6pm), but Tomlinson only made the front page of the Guardian the next day.
Today, Quick's predicament makes the front pages on… well, pretty much every front page (including the Daily Mail, Express and Telegraph, The Times, the FT, the Mirror and The Sun).
Meanwhile, right-wing bloggers are still busy making out that Tomlinson was asking for this in some way (for being drunk, uncooperative, "very much part of the protest" etc.), and – in the same fucking breath – chiding 'lefties' for daring to draw any parallels to Jean Charles de Menezes.
(Let's leave aside for the moment those who scoff from their ivory towers and hold fast to the quite ridiculous notion that participation in pretty much any protest not involving the Countryside Alliance warrants a head-kicking.)
In short, we are being cheated by old media and the 'leading bloggers' who claim to be a viable alternative.
Further, now we have the IPCC marching into the offices of the Guardian calling for the removal of this vital evidence from their website:
The Guardian – Policing: Death and denials
In the course of this there must be an account of why, from the moment of Mr Tomlinson's death, the police misled the news media, and in some cases lied, about what happened. The Metropolitan police's duty of truthfulness failed on 1 April. Statements were issued on and off the record about the Tomlinson incident, omitting details that must have been known to the police and including false claims. Police representatives subsequently tried to stop reporters doing their jobs, misrepresenting the views of the Tomlinson family. The IPCC misled the media about the case too. And what kind of independent body is it whose first reaction to the Guardian's evidence on Tuesday night was to call at our offices (accompanied by a City of London policeman) and ask for it to be taken off the website? It is not hard to fear that the pressures encouraged the police to minimise and even deny the truth of what happened to Mr Tomlinson and then to resist, not promote, attempts to reveal it. Either way, the police lost sight of their priorities.
Three essential things should now follow. The first is that the upgraded investigation must provide an authoritative and comprehensive account of Mr Tomlinson's final minutes, drawing on all available evidence, including police CCTV evidence, and placing it in the context of the G20 policing strategy. The second is that anyone suspected of a crime arising from the investigation into Mr Tomlinson's death should have to answer for it in court. And the third is that the wider lessons about the policing of public order, the police's media strategy during emergencies, the working of the police complaints system, and the implications for police training must be learned and systematically applied. The best way to deal with these wider issues is for the home secretary to appoint a judicial inquiry. Remember Mr King's words. That was not correct policing.
JackP of The Pickards has a post along similar lines, with bolder objectives…
JackP – Ian Tomlinson: Metropolitan Police kill innocent man AGAIN
But more than anything else, the words of the Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, have proved to me that the Met Police aren't actually capable of policing.
"On a day like that, where there are some protesters who are quite clearly hell-bent on causing as much trouble as they can, there is inevitably going to be some physical confrontation. Sometimes it isn't clear, as a police officer, who is a protester and who is not. I know it's a generalisation but anybody in that part of the town at that time, the assumption would be that they are part of the protest." – Peter Smyth, quoted on BBC News
Peter here quite rightly identifies that some protesters were causing trouble. He then suggests that the police mis-identified Ian Tomlinson as a protester, and that's why they struck him. What? Peter Smyth's quote would lead me to believe that he thinks it is okay for the police to baton-strike any protester and hurl him to the ground, whether or not he is actually breaking the law. In the views of the Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, protester = criminal, and striking Ian, had he been protesting, would have been perfectly legitimate.
That flagrant disregard for the rights of peaceful protesters sums up the Met's actions.
Jean Charles de Menezes. Ian Tomlinson. That could have been you. That could have been your brother, your father, your friend. Next time it might very well be you or someone you care about, unless we take action to prevent a 'next time'. Justice must be done, as opposed to the usual response of 'covering up for police brutality'.
So I'd like to propose my solution.
1. Firstly, any member of any police force found to have lied about police action (or protester action) to be sacked. If this person can demonstrate that they were given incorrect information, then that will be a reasonable defence — provided they can identify who gave them that information, so they can be sacked.
2. Secondly, any member of any police force found to have used violence on an innocent (or violence otherwise inappropriate for the situation) to be charged with the appropriate criminal offense. Being a serving police officer is no defense; if anything this makes it worse as I think we have a right to expect higher standards from our police officers
3. Thirdly, kettling and similar tactics to be deemed illegal, and any police officer who recommends or allows such a tactic to be charged with "behaviour likely to incite a riot" (or whatever the nearest equivalent is) by the Crown Prosecution Service.
4. Fourth, the Metropolitan Police Service to be disbanded. They have proved, more than once, that we cannot trust what they say. They have proved, more than once, that they have caused the death of an innocent man. It's no good simply replacing the man at the top: the entire root and branch of the organisation needs to be replaced. That isn't to say every officer needs to automatically be replaced, but the existing command structure has proved not to work, and needs to be replaced. We need a police service in London, but we need a far better one than the Met.
You may think at first that #4 comes on a bit strong. I know I did. Then I read this:
Guardian – G20 death: Met police officer breaks cover
The police officer seen on a video by millions of people assaulting a man at the G20 protests minutes before he died will be questioned by investigators today after coming forward last night.
The territorial support group officer identified himself to his manager and the Independent Police Complaints Commission as fresh pictures suggested he had removed his shoulder number and covered his face with a balaclava before hitting Ian Tomlinson with a baton and pushing him to the ground last week.
But the officer has not been arrested on suspicion of assault or suspended from duty by the Metropolitan police.
If video evidence emerged of me decking some bloke, I'd expect the police to knock on my door eventually.
If that man had died minutes later, I'd expect the police to knock on my door immediately.
If the video also showed that I had taken measures to hide my identity before the assault, I would expect a rather short but awkward conversation about pre-meditation to precede a decision regarding the actual charge(s), but certainly nothing that would take hours to process.
But don't think for a moment that the system is corrupting itself in order to protect one man; what you see at work here is corruption working to protect corruption… and fuck me if it doesn't look like going all the way to the top.
As I blogged earlier, a full and independent criminal inquiry into the circumstances of Ian Tomlinson's death is likely to reveal more than a single bad apple.
And recent events have shown that the police can't even police their own police:
Independent – New evidence of police attacks on G20 victim
The Metropolitan Police faced fresh allegations of brutality last night after it emerged that a man who died at the G20 protests may have been attacked by riot police three times… Last night the IPCC revealed that a number of the officers caught up in the incident had yet to come forward…. "At the moment the investigation is focused on identifying the officers in the footage. Several have already come forward and all efforts are being made to trace those who haven't."
So there's no record of who was doing what and where, then? No one can work out who the senior officers in attendance might be and/or those officers can't identify the people operating under (or perhaps outside their orders)? Honestly?
And no immediate suspension of those who (eventually) came forward? Really?
The message the Met and the IPCC are sending the public at the moment is as follows:
A police officer can obscure their badge number, assault a member of a public, and expect to get away with it so long as they keep their mouth shut.
UPDATE (6pm) – BBC – G20 police officer is suspended: A statement from the IPCC said: "The IPCC called for the officer to be suspended. The MPS has now informed us that the officer has been suspended with immediate effect. Although decisions about suspension are a matter for the Chief Officer of the police, when there is an IPCC investigation, the police are obliged to consult with us over the suspension of officers. In this case, we have expressed the view that the officer in question should be suspended from duty, in the public interest."
This announcement comes to us very late on a Thursday afternoon before Good Friday and a long Easter weekend.
I feel like someone's just pissed in my mouth. You?
We're going to need a bigger army
The race to the bottom continues in Australasia…
Meet Stephanie Mills, who is a former Greenpeace campaign leader with some 20 years experience appearing in that link as a guest on the TVNZ 'Breakfast' show with hosts Alison Mau and Paul Henry (who also does his fair share of talk radio).
Stephanie had been invited on that show to discuss the French Government's decision to compensate people made ill by its nuclear testing in the Pacific.
Now take a look at the moment where Paul Henry, with the aid of some anonymous viewers, reduces his guest and her contribution to one single, irrelevant word:
Meanwhile, across the southern pond, the ABC reports on yet another "spectacular example of lousy journalism"; this time the publication of faked raunchy images of Pauline Hanson.
(Psst! I wish the BBC could be as good as the ABC about transcripts on programmes like this.)
How does this strike you?
"We turned to see the police hitting people. A whole line of them lashing out indiscriminately again and again. Two officers close to me who had "Police Medic" written on their back were walking up and down behind the line of their colleagues, protected from direct assault, reaching over and thrashing with the most gusto of all." – (source)
UPDATE – Oops. I thought I was linking to the original earlier, but the original by amjamjazz can in fact be found here.
Via comments in the original photo thread; video footage of more madcap medics in action (relevant clip at about 2.05 onwards).
Circumstances in which Ian Tomlinson may have been asking for it
"Not a lot in tomorrow's papers. Oh well, I suppose it'll be Jacqui Smith's turn for a battering again…" Iain Dale (at 11pm last night)
"I hadn't seen the video until I went to Sky last night to do the paper review." Iain Dale (this morning)
No, he'd just read the reports and made his initial judgement (and a 'funny' joke or a Freudian slip of epic proportions) based on his prejudices.
Well, the damning nature of the video evidence may have dragged Iain closer to centre ground, but the doubts still continue from three of his main comment contributors, who appear to cling to some dim hope that Ian Tomlinson might have been strangling kittens moments before that policeman gave him a playful shove:
"The video clearly shows someone not co-operating with police requests to move on. Whether due to his incipient heart attack, drink or anything else, we can't say." – JuliaM
"You say he was 'attempting to get home', but the facts (i.e. the circuitous path he was taking on his way home) don't seem to support that. You say he wasn't abusing the police but how do you know? If a policeman is getting suspended/prosecuted for that shove I'd better turn myself in for some of the tackles I made playing football yesterday." – PragueTory (Dominic Fisher) (more)
"The video said Ian Tomlinson was 'attempting to get home from work' – oh, really? So he just happened to be wearing plain clothes and accidentally found himself in front of a police cordon that was clearing the area of protestors during a mass gathering around the G20 summit? Please, don't insult our intelligence. This was nothing more than a deliberate attempt to portray Ian as an innocent bystander when in reality he was very much part of the protest." -
Letters from a Tory>
(See also: Quaequam Blog! – Does the right really value freedom? The acid test. For the record; I'd like the freedom to walk down the road and mind my own business or attend a protest without being attacked in this way.)
UPDATE (10.20) – No word from Iain about what may or may not have been meant as a joke. He deleted my first question about it, and has ignored the second.
UPDATE – (11.20) – Also, do read Mr Eugenides on the above Quaequam post.
Ian Tomlinson assaulted by police moments before collapse
Guardian – Video reveals G20 police assault on man who died: Exclusive footage obtained by the Guardian shows Ian Tomlinson, who died during G20 protests in London, was attacked from behind by baton-wielding police officer
Analysis of that same video here.
Kettling is wrong. Indiscriminate kettling now appears to have led to a man dying simply for being in the wrong place at the wrong time… not that it would have been right to kill a man just because he had a far better idea of why police might be rounding up people in the street and hemming them in.
Inquiry now, please.
(See also: Jean Charles de Menezes)
UPDATE – Hm. That was silly of me. I forgot the lessons of this exchange. There are unseen moments between this event and Tomlinson's collapse; he might've been hit by a bus or something.
While the paper that needs to do the most elegant reverse ferret has the most time between now and going to print, you should expect some odd noises from tabloids tomorrow, as they struggle to fit this clear turnaround of events into the tightest of schedules.
"This is exactly why it should never be illegal to photograph and film the police" – Stephen Mullen
Oh, and if you want to stage a demonstration about police conduct, you'll probably need to fill out form 3175 or 3175a, a mind-focusing short-term consequence that's only the chewy crust of this iceberg-sized shit sandwich:
Often at protest events in London, some police officers will have a number or letter missing from their lapels, and that's just the start of it. The Met have been getting away with the use of this tactic and others for quite some time now, and I'd readily wager that several unsavoury tactics and practices will now come to light and make a political nuisance of themselves.
UPDATE – Many eyewitness accounts here, and a renewed appeal from the family for witnesses.
UPDATE – Interactive map of Ian Tomlinson's last movements including accounts by eyewitnesses and Guardian video now available on YouTube. Share, share, share.
UPDATE – A photo of a police medic in action that is sure to impress you. Also, a couple of hours after the assault of Ian Tomlinson was captured on camera, this report went live on Indymedia; "We are current(ly) receiving reports from the Climate Camp in the city, that all people are going to be searched to be allowed out, as well as people are told to delete photos of officers from their cameras, under the threat of seizure."
UPDATE – The Met issues an apology for their use of Section 14 against press photographers, and some further reading on 'kettling'.
[MINI-UPDATE (10 Apr) – Headline altered for the sake of accuracy. Tomlinson was assaulted moments before his collapse, not his death. I would say 'heart attack', but let's wait for the second autopsy ordered by the IPCC, eh?]


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Nikki Catsouras "Porsche Girl" Died - Crash Photos Leaked by CHP
by Meg at . CommentsNikki Catsouras was just 18 years old last Halloween when she took her father's Porsche without permission and while driving 100 miles an hour clipped another car, lost control and slammed into a cement tollbooth. She was killed instantly. Her parent, Christos and Lesli Catsouras were devastated with grief and thought things could not get worse but that is where they were wrong.
Nikki's parents are suing California Highway Patrol for leaking accident scene photos that ended up all over the internet. The girls parents have been tormented by anonymous e-mail's that contain pictures of their daughter at the accident scene. One horrific photo shows the dead teen decapitated and still strapped in the front seat of her father's Porsche.
The pictures made their way to over 1,600 online websites. The family no longer uses the internet and has pulled their 16 year old daughter from school because they fear other students might confront her with the pictures. She is now being home schooled.
A judge in California ruled that the lawsuit against the California Highway Patrol could go forward. The CHP, in a letter to the Catsouras family, admitted that their dispatchers violated department policy but stated that they are not legally responsible for the pain and anguish that it caused the family. That won't be for the CHP to determine - but will be up to the courts to decide.
May 2, 2009 UPDATE: The case has gotten renewed interest while the family awaits a legal ruling from the 4th District Court of Appeals that is due by June 1, 2009. Their original case was dismissed in Orange County Superior Court. The judge ruled that Nikki's right to privacy did not extend to her grieving family. The court can uphold the findings or can send it back to trial. The charges stem from the CHP leaked photos of the dead girl's body that were distributed widely on the internet.
We've included additional photos below.
BE FOREWARNED: More 'horrendously graphic' Nikki crash photos available here.
I think there should be NO lawsuit. I mean, THEIR DAUGHTER WAS DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED!!!!!!!!!! Who should be responsible for that? A quick buck isn't going to bring her back.
You're an idiot, even if she was intoxicated it doesn't mean her parents should have to with her gruesome picture plastered all over the internet.
What if this girl was fat, poor, and ugly, would this case really matter as much as it has? What if she had killed the toll booth worker? What if she had made the other car driver die in that toll booth corner?
Honestly, these pictures are VERY educational, for the benefit of humanity and teaching young and dumb kids to think twice about stupid choices. The family should be happy how many young kids have been affected by these photos and have made them think twice!! Imagine how many lives these pictures have saved??? I thank the person for posting these photos! and I do feel empathy for the family.
Sorry? For what? An inconsiderate teen who made a series of poor judgements? Shame on the parents for raising a brat.
Live fast,die hard.
I'm sorry for her and her family, but travelling at 100 mph means 160 km/h and hitting a car must have decreased the speed a lot after crashing with the Toll Booth.
Sorry for the Catsouras family.
So why was this girl approaching a toll booth at 100 mph? Would her parents be so concerned about the toll booth workers if any were killed? Typical of wealthy people. It's all about them.
srry fur ur loss kids make stupid mistakes all the time and this was one of them. i cant talk shit on the picture takers cuz im looking at the photos maself cuz ppls told me about it during class. makes u think twice before doing something illegal. iv had two priors for reckless underage driving including crashing into local walmart trying to drift while stoned. just thankful i never killed anyone or got hurt myself. again srry fur ur loss but i agree with pandemonium
i dont think that it is too shocking to post these photos, when i was a kid i had to go to drivers ed and they showed us a movie called "red asphalt" to scare us into not bieng 18 year old retards on the road
Lifes tough and it gets tougher ,
to the family of this girl please let people use these photos for the benefit of huminaty for the use of letting young kids know that they are not immortal
That poor family. I just want you to know that my prayers are with you and hope that thngs get better. The sick people that put thoes pictures of that beautiful girl! Anyway that is so sad and my prayers are with you.


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Few politicians, certainly, but many epidemiologists offer a convincing argument against directing so much money toward a national defense targeting bioterrorism. If the government is going to commit this amount of funding, they argue, more of the money should go to local health agencies on the front line rather than to the Department of Defense, which is collecting the majority of the funds right now. Because while D.C. experts worry about fictitious foreign terrorists, local officials worry about very real dangers coming from within -- an influenza epidemic, for example, one similar to the 1918 flu that decimated this country as well as others around the world, killing at least ten million people.
"I think most people in our field think it's a matter of when, not if," says Richard Hoffman, state epidemiologist and Colorado's chief medical officer.
The hypothetical scenario employed for TOPOFF is unlikely to involve anything as mundane as the flu; Hoffman is expecting the culprit to be anthrax or the bubonic plague. "I don't know the exact agent that will be involved," he says, "but I anticipate it will be some agent that we might use antibiotics to offer as a preventive therapy."
Given the large number of casualties that could result from biowarfare, Hoffman adds, "it makes sense to prepare." Besides, the exercise will give area doctors and hospitals valuable experience should Colorado ever be hit by another flu pandemic. And 82 years ago, this state was hit hard.
In September 1918, a virulent type of influenza was first noticed among a handful of sailors in Boston. Within weeks, the disease -- a plague, really, 25 times more deadly than any type of influenza before or since -- had swept to the West Coast, infecting a quarter of the country's population. That fall, the flu cut a deadly swath across the country, killing a half-million Americans.
In her 1999 book, Flu, science reporter Gina Kolata describes the horrible deaths wrought by the 1918 flu:
"It may take a few days, it may take a few hours, but there is nothing that can stop the disease's progress. Doctors and nurses have learned to spot the signs. Your face turns a dark brownish purple. You start to cough up blood. You feet turn black. Finally, as the end nears, you frantically gasp for breath. A blood-tinged saliva bubbles out of your mouth. You die -- by drowning, actually -- as your lungs fill with a reddish fluid. And when a doctor does an autopsy, he will observe your lungs lying heavy and sodden in your chest, engorged with a thin bloody liquid, useless, like slabs of liver."
Virtually overnight, the flu turned Denver into a city of "noiseless houses with the shades pulled down," author Katherine Anne Porter, a Denver newspaper reporter in 1918, wrote in her book Pale Horse, Pale Rider. As the disease took hold, public gatherings of all kind were canceled in an attempt to stop the flu's spread. "It's as bad as anything can be," Porter wrote. "All the theaters and nearly all the shops and restaurants are closed, and the streets have been full of funerals all day and ambulances all night."
At the height of the epidemic, the hospitals had no empty rooms, not even any empty beds.
Today, there are 62 acute-care hospitals in Colorado, 13 in the metro area alone; the state has a total of 9,749 hospital beds, 5,151 of them in Denver. But that number wouldn't come close to accommodating the number of victims resulting from a 1918-type flu or a major bioterrorism incident.
Either of those events would "quickly overwhelm the resources of any city," says Stephen Cantrill, associate director of emergency medicine at Denver Heath Medical Center. "You have to get creative. You may have to set up auxiliary hospitals; that becomes a possibility. Obviously, the criteria of who gets hospitalized may change. Clearly, supplies would be overwhelmed.
"Two people to a bed is scary but realistic," he says of a pandemic. "Obviously, we've come a long way in the way we care for patients, but it's a good example of completely overwhelming the available resources. That's why prevention is so important. We've avoided that in a lot of ways through vaccinations for influenza."
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Visitors Service - located on the southern gallery level of the MAC (Munich Airport Center):
Its Staff can address your questions and suggestions. The information center uses films, posters and maps to present the reasons and objectives behind the airport expansion and explains the ongoing planning activities. Interactive communication technologies allow visitors to focus on the issues and questions that interest you. Open Mo-Sun, 10am-6pm
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Outdoor visitors can get a close-up look at historic aircraft, the Super Constellation, the Ju52 and a rescue helicopter. A big playground and our new mini golf course are a pleasant diversion. At the top of the viewing hill you can experience the ongoing activity on the airport apron. And to top it all you can browse in the Airport Shop for souvenirs to take home.
Within the Visitors Park is the Restaurant "Ikarus" which also has a special children's menu.
The Visitors Terrace - located on Level 07, provides a view of the eastern apron and both runways. Telescopes permit an even closer look at everything happening at the airport.
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Wheelchair users and visitors with baby carriages can access the terrace through a special entrance to the Skywalk. Open daily 8am-10pm.
Admission is 2 eur, children under 6 and wheelchair users are free. Insert a coin at Skywalk entrance. Change machines are on Level 05 next to elevator leading to Visitors Terrace, and on Level 06 at entrance. They provide change for 5, 10 and 20 euro bank notes.
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The city of Munich offers something for everyone's taste and pocketbook. Its Museums, Galleries, Opera and Concert Halls can satisfy even the most discriminating taste. Shopping and dining options are endless. And, if you are yearning for a rest outdoors, visit the "English Garden", a rather large and beautiful city park, where Munich citizens spend their free time. It also has an indoor and outdoor restaurant. And if you have time to stay overnight, and you have a yearning to see the Alps, hop on a bus or local train to either Tegernsee or Starnberg for a day in beautiful surroundings.
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