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Bernard Kilpatrick sits behind his son during Kwame's sentencing in 2008. Their love of power has them under scrutiny by a grand jury investigating the Kilpatrick era in City Hall, former colleagues say. (The Detroit News)
Bernard Kilpatrick showed the way.
He paved the path to power for his son, former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. Both were former college sports stars, taught school after graduation, gravitated to elected office and used political machines to rise in the ranks.
And both, former colleagues say, became intoxicated by power, a trait that has them under scrutiny by a grand jury investigating the Kilpatrick era in City Hall.
Their fates may be intertwined, but Bernard Kilpatrick's rise isn't as well known and contains a few surprises.
The man who vigorously defended his son -- even likening his critics to Nazis -- had paychecks garnished for child support by the courts. He's known by two nicknames: "Big Goofy" behind his back and "Killer" to his face. He embraced a black nationalist church that shunned materialism but became enamored of mob movies and referred to his son as "Michael Corleone" from "The Godfather."
"There's something deep down in him," said Larry Mongo, a businessman who has known Bernard Kilpatrick for nearly 30 years. "He wanted to be known as the top street guy.
"He wanted to be Don Corleone. It was the power. He was living vicariously through the mayor."
For more than a year, the FBI has been investigating whether contractors seeking city work while Kwame Kilpatrick was mayor were pressured to hire his father as a consultant. A grand jury meets weekly on the public corruption probe.
Mongo said the name of Bernard Kilpatrick's consulting firm, Maestro Associates, conjures images of a puppet master who capitalized on the office his son held from 2002-08. As soon as Kwame Kilpatrick was elected, his father's persona changed, and he began wearing furs, big hats and diamond Rolex watches, Mongo said.
"For the first time in his life, he was the boss," Mongo said. "Think about it. What is a maestro?"
And like his son, Bernard Kilpatrick, 69, has legions of supporters who say the media are trying to demonize him.
"I don't think Bernard is a criminal," said friend and businessman Harley Brown. "Maybe he didn't know how to go about it at that level with his son as mayor. In his mind he was doing the right thing."
Brown said Bernard Kilpatrick has a long history of supporting community causes, citing his support decades ago for a campaign to reopen Southwest Detroit Hospital, train minority doctors and give blacks better access to health care.
"We looked at Bernard as a big brother. He's always had our best interests at heart," Brown said. "He's always been at the front of the black community and creating jobs for African-Americans."
Bernard Kilpatrick has battled financial problems since his son left office, losing his East Jefferson riverfront condo to foreclosure this year and facing a suit over a $3,500 bill from a credit card.
He still lists the condo as his address, but has been living with his son in Southlake, Texas. He didn't return phone calls. Nor did his attorney Bobbie Edmonds or Mike Paul, a spokesman for his son, return calls.
College ball to black pride
At 6 feet 6 inches tall, Bernard Kilpatrick is looked up to by most. And he used that height to his advantage in college.
Born in Detroit, the son of a postal worker, he drew fame at Ferris State, where he was an All-American basketball player two years in a row in the mid 1960s. The Northern High graduate led the Bulldogs in scoring and rebounding for three straight seasons. (He was elected to the school's athletic hall of fame in 2001.)
After graduating in 1967 with a degree in business education, Bernard Kilpatrick played two years with the Muskegon Panthers of the Midwest Pro League.
Hardcourt skills earned him the nickname "Killer," his son testified in a 2008 police whistle-blower trial. But the officers' attorney in that case, Michael Stefani, suggested the nickname referred to the elder Kilpatrick's skill with women. "Big Goofy" refers to his stature and demeanor, his colleagues say.
Bernard Kilpatrick met Carolyn Cheeks at Ferris. A year after he graduated, they were married in Detroit in a ceremony performed by the Rev. Albert Cleage Jr., who founded the Shrine of the Black Madonna, a black nationalist church on the city's west side.
The church and its political arm, the Black Slate, would play a major role in the young couple's political careers.
Ernest Johnson, a community activist and executive assistant in Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano's office, completed a 10-week intensive "ministerial training" at the church with Bernard Kilpatrick in the 1970s. The goal was to open more branches of the church in Detroit and across the country focused on farming and canning food for the poor.
"We were trying to free the world," Johnson said. "The church tended to reject individualism and materialism. Watches, clothes and cars in the church aren't impressive."
'The best of both parents'
Cheeks Kilpatrick headed the Black Slate when the group urged her to run in 1978 for state representative, according to an alumni interview with Ferris in 2007. Bernard Kilpatrick worked as a field organizer for the group and counselor at Career Works in Highland Park, and then ran successfully for Wayne County Commission in 1983.
It's not clear when Bernard Kilpatrick left the church. Cheeks Kilpatrick cited irreconcilable differences when she filed for divorce in 1981, 15 years before her election to Congress.
Cheeks Kilpatrick got custody of the children. Kwame was 11 at the time and his sister, Ayanna, was 9.
"Kwame inherited a legacy -- the best of both parents," Bernard Kilpatrick said in 2001.
A year after the divorce, Cheeks Kilpatrick petitioned the court, alleging Bernard Kilpatrick owed $4,222.50 in back child support. A judge ordered his pay garnisheed, first from Career Works, and then in 1987 the court did the same -- withholding $140 a week -- from his commission paycheck.
Two years after the divorce, Bernard Kilpatrick had another child, Diarra Kilpatrick, from a brief relationship. He broke up with the mother a few months before the child was born, court records indicate.
"There's an image out there of my dad and brother (Kwame) that's so foreign to me," said Diarra Kilpatrick, an actress and playwright who grew up in Detroit and remains close to Kwame and Ayanna Kilpatrick.
'A way to help Detroit'
On the County Commission, Bernard Kilpatrick was a part of a majority, including fellow commissioner Arthur Blackwell II, that battled then-County Executive Edward McNamara over his budget and legislative agenda.
The relationship changed in 1989, when McNamara took Bernard Kilpatrick to lunch at Opus One. McNamara, who was known to hire rivals, offered Kilpatrick a $90,000-a-year job heading the county health and human services department.
Bernard Kilpatrick later told The Detroit News he took the job in part because of the pay increase, but he knew it would end his chances at higher office.
"A lot of people ... were mad about that," Blackwell said. "They saw McNamara as the enemy.
"(Bernard) thought that was a way to help Detroit."
Blackwell said he questioned the move, but in those days, switching sides in politics didn't end friendships.
"We got a lot more stuff done," said Blackwell, who went on to manage Kwame Kilpatrick's mayoral campaign and now faces felony corruption charges during his time as the former Highland Park emergency financial manager.
While working for McNamara, Kilpatrick became involved in the political campaigns of many powerbrokers, including Blackwell's 1993 mayoral bid, Michael Duggan's 2000 election as Wayne County prosecutor, Gov. Jennifer Granholm's 2002 campaign and his son's mayoral bid in 2001.
Bernard Kilpatrick was a prominent part of the African American Men's Organization, a club of influential black businessmen that was founded in part by casino mogul Don Barden. Kilpatrick took over for Barden as chairman in 2003, according to state records.
Son rises to Detroit mayor
Bernard Kilpatrick left McNamara's office shortly after Kwame Kilpatrick took office and formed the consulting group Maestro Associates LLC, which has included many city and county contractors as clients.
Mongo said he and others in the group later felt betrayed by the elder Kilpatrick once his son got elected. Bernard Kilpatrick won the group's support for his son's mayoral campaign in part by evoking his battle with former Mayor Dennis Archer over Mongo's plan to develop the riverfront Uniroyal site.
Bernard Kilpatrick promised his son would back developers like Mongo, he said. But Kwame Kilpatrick later gave the project to retired Pittsburgh Steeler Jerome Bettis. The project has stalled since.
Text messages released by prosecutors in 2008 showed Bernard Kilpatrick frequently discussed contracts with his son, finagled favors and gave advice about city business. Bernard used the handle "Ziz," his name at the Shrine of the Black Madonna.
"I am going to deal with this one time ... go 'head Michael Corleone," he texted to his son on May 16, 2003.
Some time later, FBI agents began investigating whether Bernard Kilpatrick leveraged his son's position for his benefit.
They tapped his home and cell phones for many months. In court documents, he's accused of receiving at least $25,000 from James Rosendall, a former vice president for Synagro Technologies Inc., for facilitating a $1.2 billion sludge-hauling contract in 2007. Rosendall pleaded guilty to bribery last year and was sentenced to 11 months in prison.
Allegations denied
Bernard Kilpatrick denied the Synagro allegations last year in an interview with WXYZ-TV (Channel 7).
"First they demonize my son, so by the time he got to trial, he was guilty," he said, referring to Kwame Kilpatrick's guilty pleas to obstruction of justice, jailing and resignation in 2008.
"They're trying to do the same thing to me now. ... How can they bribe me? I don't work for the city. I'm a private businessman, a consultant."
Bernard Kilpatrick's consulting firm had business with companies whose leaders recently pleaded guilty to federal felonies.
He vacationed with Cobo Center contractor Karl Kado, who cooperated with federal prosecutors, admitted paying bribes for contracts and was sentenced in March to three months' probation. Another client was Jon Rutherford, a Highland Park homeless shelter operator who pleaded guilty in December to felony tax evasion in a separate investigation. He has yet to be sentenced.
Ten people have pleaded guilty to felonies in connection with the probe and a spinoff investigation in Southfield, including two longtime friends and top aides to Kwame Kilpatrick -- Kandia Milton and his brother DeDan.Brown, his longtime friend, said he hopes the "truth will come out." He said Bernard Kilpatrick may have received bad legal advice from city attorneys on how to keep his consulting business separate from his son's job running the city.
"We haven't heard from Bernard," Brown said. "There's just been one side of the story and that's it.
"I love Bernard and his son. It's just unfortunate that things turned for the worse."
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I call it a transatlantic film not only because I watched it over the ocean but because of its (to me) curious choice of the Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, whom I first encountered when I was a teenager in the rather different film Kelly's Heroes, to play Mr. Bennett. But he acquits himself well.
I was tired, so, though I had some good materials with me, I didn't do any reading. Instead, I also watched The Adjustment Bureau, a very interesting film based on a story by the late Philip K. Dick. It counts as transatlantic because it co-stars Emily Blunt (of Young Victoria fame). And, because it was the first movie I could find as the flight neared completion that was short enough to fit it in before landing, I watched Safe Haven, too. Well, most of it. The flight landed early, and I missed the last few minutes. Which is, perhaps, appropriate: As far as I know, it's not a transatlantic movie.
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Negative - Fairfield, Victoria, circa 1920 Reg. No: MM 6313
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- Members of a girls gymnastic club. The girls are formally posed around their instructor. All are in uniform with white socks. Their batons are arranged on the floor in front of the group.
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Modeling a Game Ready Katana in Wings3D, Video Tutorial Series.
The tutorial focuses on my workflow (but not really a workflow) of making a lowish poly 3D weapon model for Mount&Blade: Warband, but can be modified as just a general tutorial on creating a historically-accurate katana in Wings3D.
I make a number of errors when I'm talking about specific parts of the sword, but it's mostly okay since you don't really need to know what a 'seppa' is or which side is called the 'hi' to model a katana. I correct myself in the annotations anyway, though. Hopefully it's informative, or at least entertaining.
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(meant to be a joke, it's not important enough to really be complaining.)
As we all fondly remember our hours playing HL2, we see no evidence of it being located in a remotely US city because the architecture, and never contested that it was outside Eastern Europe because VALVe says so, right? I think we all might be wrong, as most (West Coast) US residents know there is a decently dangerous gang known as SUR 13, or to those who are a bit behind, they also go by the Mexican Mafia, La eMe (which means "The M" in Spanish, chosen because "M" is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet) and is considered the oldest and most dangerous prison gang in America. (The 13 comes from it having only thirteen members when it started in the late 50's in Tracy, California by incarcerated Chicano gang members.)
After force feeding you all this information, you must think I've gone completely mad and obsessed with Latin American gangs, right? Not exactly. As seen in my screenshot below, there is a faded SUR 1(too faded to count as a 3, looks similar to a 7 also). Which I find extremely curious, since the SUR 13 is solely in California, New Mexico, Arizona, and finally Texas, not Eastern Europe. This leaves me asking, why.
Please, don't complain about how stupid this finding is, I discovered a way to topple VALVe's tyrannical hold over the gaming community with a factual error! (Just kidding, I love VALVe, they started with a modified Quake engine and turned it into the most influential game basically ever.)
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The selection panel of, among others, Anand Sinha, deputy governor, Reserve Bank of India and Rajiv Takru, secretary, financial services in the ministry of finance, interviewed 19 EDs last week.
Sources indicate Arun Srivastava, an ED in Bank of India has been identified to head IOB, S K Kalra of Andhra Bank might get the charge of Canara and B B Joshi of BoB might head for OBC. R K Goel of Central Bank of India might get Vijaya Bank and M K Jain of Punjab & Sind bank may get the top job in Kolkata-based United Bank.
Aswini Kumar, who is CMD of Dena Bank, might get a chance to lead BoB, as the finance ministry is contemplating a return to the process of lateral transfers. The system of appointing CMDs in small PSBs to larger ones had been stopped since last year. The vacancy at Dena Bank will then be filled by Arun Tiwari, an ED at Allahabad Bank.
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Pilot, nice pics, especially of Batopilas. It is amazing how differently people see the same place, or at least how different are the pics they choose to shoot.
Pantah, you can ride out of Bato and get back to Creel with a side trip to Urique with only one river crossing, the Urique river, about 30 mi. past Batopilas. If you want to do a bigger loop out to Alamos and El Fuerte, you have to cross the Chinipas River and, if you don't want to backtrack, cross lake Huites on the ferry. Or you can ride down to Los Mochis, almost on the Sea of Cortez, and ride north from there, all on pavement if you like.
I think if I were going to ride solo down there, I would get back in the gym. Maybe falling down has become so commonplace it no longer affords a rush of adrenalin. I used to be able to pick my bikes up without much trouble, but I find as sixty approaches that sheer muscle no longer avails me; I have to try to outsmart the bike or get some help.
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News & Features Discussion « General Discussion
Who care of Wow's player base is upset.
Plagiarism lawsuit incoming
General Discussion « Alganon
Originally posted by Aguitha
They wont be sued by Blizzard. Remember Blizzard copied a game it's self IE Everquest.
General Discussion « WAR (Warhammer Online)
3rd realm, is always good as long as there all enemies.
NCsoft profits soar 836%, Aion NA, Euro sales near 1M
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Originally posted by glofish
There are plenty of options to customize the look of you character. Height/girth/hairstyles etc. then you can dye your armor.
Some of my guildmates have amazing outfits. The other day when we met up I was amazed, one lady was in a full blue pantsuit, the other had this orange flowing robe... I was *extremely* impressed.
Not really. Customizing characters sucks, you can eather look like a 12yr boy or a 12yr old girl and thats about it.
New Empire Class Revealed: Imperial Agent
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Cant wait for this game.
Crab Norris: The Solution to Aion's bot problem.
General Discussion « Aion
Originally posted by Simiel
Cause bots can emulate a mouse click or a key stroke.
Crab Norris: The Solution to Aion's bot problem.
General Discussion « Aion
Originally posted by Korhindi
Aside from the "Digi-volving mob" idea I made in another post, I wonder if giving Crab Norris random Aliases would help?
That way, scanning the mobs' name would fail.
Likewise, Crab Norris could get a posse or some deputies where random elite mobs make random appearances to zones and then vanish only to reincarnate under a different name and guise?
Alittle packet sniffing to get the mobs entry id., would break that idea.
Ignorance shines thru in a youtube review of FE
Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
Originally posted by Mordrid
I wouldnt be surprised if they ended up deleting all my comments. Most people hate being called out as liars and frauds.
Ya I did, 2 post on the Vid both got deleted.
God thoes 2 guys sound like 2 idiots with not a clue or a brain to stand on.
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I like most of the new changes, but I hate that they removed Forts.
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Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
Originally posted by Joker2240
I beg to serously differ. A 8800 GTS is a dumbed down version of the GTX, and is also a lot weaker than the GT version. Moreover, they had a version with 328 MB of RAM instead of 512 as in GT and GTS.
I know, since I had the same GPU before my HD4890. That card was OK (not great) well over 2 years ago. FE would eat it for breakfast. Especially if it was the low GPU RAM version.
A hint: www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-cards-charts-2009-high-quality/Fallout-3,1509.html You can see how this is the slowest card, and mostly because of the low RAM only. FE is very memory-dependant, as all MMO's are.
The graphics card is not the problem at all. Please do not give anyone technical advice ever again, as a 8800 GTS is still good for every game out in the market. I think I know my graphic cards better than you can ever understand them.
I think it is actually my CPU. I just barely push over the recommended but that should not make a difference as I am above the min. So, really I think it just poor math on their part.
BTW their min specs are as followed,
Minimum Hardware Requirements
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or Athlon 64X2 2.4 GHz
So compared to the video card and the dedicated RAM I am well above it. Do your homework son!
Edit: it should not matter if I have the lower Dedicated RAM which I do not. As the min specs even for the shitter verison of the GTS is still above it. So, they either need to up their min specs or get better at math.
In game company talk, and this is pretty much 90-95% of companys. Min req is what is need to launch the executable without error. Meeting min req does not mean one can play the game. Just means they can launch it without error.
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Thats just way to cool, and so nice. In a world thats going to hell in a hand basket. Its good to see that there still are group, and people out there that do this stuff.
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Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
Originally posted by Joker2240
yeah no.. In-game I remember a bundle of people having problems with graphics lag. I am running a 8800 GTS OC, also I have a intel core duo at 2.50 GHZ. I am above what is min. I should be able to run this game at least medium or low. I am not, I am playing WELL below even low. The drawing distance is ridiculous. So, yeah... Please. You have a high end computer thus you can't say anything. Devs should make games that will play decently for mid range.
Well hate to see that your having issues. Its probley your 8800 gts, it is kind of out dated. But if you tried upgrading it with your core duo you would probley get bottlenecked. I could be wrong tho
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Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
Originally posted by Joker2240
FE doesnt have lag your eather running the game on a computer that doesnt meet min req, or your living outside the USA . If your outside the USA try using a proxy server or something to get a better ping. I myself do have somewhat of a high end PC's and i never drop under 40 FPS in major towns. So a mid range gaming pc should at least beable to keep in 20 range. Cant complain on personal failure. FE is a game thats not for everyone some will like and, somne will hate it.
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Originally posted by otter3370
Thats cause FE does have one of the best communities out there. It does have the best and most active GM's I mean what other game out there that is retail, where you can send a GM a pm and chat with them in open help chat.
Buyer Beware
Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
I think psymon15, rumbata1, and AcidWave are all the same person. Seems kinda od that all the accounts are made pretty much same day and all put out same rating and type of post.
You FAIL at trolling go somewhere else.
Fallen Earth is bad bad bad... Very bad.
Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
1. Graphics arent dated, there not eye poping eather but better then most mmo's.
2.LOTRO and WoW have crapy graphics. The only reasion they look ok is cause there masked with a cartoon feel.
3.Character customization is one thing I will say is not that great.
4. Yes you can level as a crafter only would just take alot longer and you have way more then enof ap to max crafting and still max a combat skill, so why do crafting only.
5.FE never said it was a sandbox game now did they. NO they didnt look at there newest interview with Lee Hammock, he says it himself.
6.Read my other post in this topic about wow.
7.Your just dumb.
8.Same as 7.
9. ATV having no physics does suck, but it doesnt kill the game.
10.False, can troll please play a game for more then one day.
11.Just like every other mmo that has a population lol. Another sad false statement by you.
12.Not being able to go in water does sucks, but they said they plain on adding that in soon.
13.Read my other post in this topic about wow.
14.Read my other post in this topic about wow.
15.Read my other post in this topic about wow.
You fail at almost all your points good try tho. Cant blame FE cause of your personal failure in the game.
Fallen Earth is bad bad bad... Very bad.
Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
Originally posted by AcidWave
I dont know why you people think I created this thread to start a debate or something. I mean I was quite clear in my first post "...is intended to destroy FE with facts and nothing more or less...". I will keep updating this thread with all the facts that prove FE sucks, period!
As for the genius I am quoting, I could easily counter his lame screenshots with the following youtube links. I do not have to describe them as they are quite easy to understand, even for you fan boys... LOL
Once again, I am not here to debate but rather to prove with facts how sorry FE is.
And WoW and other games dont have bugs most of what you say isnt even close to true lol. I remember back when I use to play WoW getting myself bugged out under Orgrimmar, on my druid and killing horde all day. I remember duping in WoW. I remember being out to bug out your states in WoW and 1 shot people. I remember people fly hacking in WoW. I remember my guild all creating trail accounts and downloading a custom patch, and going to gm island to kill a gm.
When 3.2 come out 10's of thousands of players couldnt patch there client.
There is a bug right now in WoW that allows you to disconnect people reading their mail.
As of now there are bugs to get into Acherus as a non DK.
There are still bugs that allow you to dupe.
There are still bugs that allow you to get under northrend and run around even kill people.
There are expolites that allow you to earn achievements while offline.
To the OP. You fail so bad at tring to make it sound like WoW and Lotro are bug and expolite free.
Fallen Earth is bad bad bad... Very bad.
Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
Trolls are just mad cause Fallen Earth is doing really well. Thats why they have to make new account and post all the false trash they do about this game and others. It's all cause they know games are comming out now that are giving WoW a run for it's money, IE Aion and Fallen Earth.
ugh...why even bother....
Fallen Earth « Fallen Earth
Originally posted by psymon15
We wont miss you. And this game is worth the $50 dollars.
Dont let your 1 post hit you on the way out.


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In addition, the so-called Coincident Indexes decreased in eight states and remained the same in nine states.
For the last three months, the indexes increased in Texas and 42 other states, declined in five states and was the same in two states (see map above). Texas was one of 16 states with a level of 0.6 percent and 1 percent over the last three months.
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Great Jenson!Where are people which said before the start of 2010 F1 season that Button will be destroyed or even murdered by Hamilton inside the team.It seems to me that is happening the opposite.Red Bull managed to save his face after the disaster of yesterday.Ferrari must change their name.Maybe is better to call them Scuderia Alonso because he is the only inside the team that works seriously.Dissapointed by Mercedes and impressed by Williams even they crashed in the final part of the race.I am very happy watching Williams-Renault making ground.


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Ive had my first car for almost a year now, it really stung me. £3000 for a Volkswagen Polo, £1200 to insure it, then £105 to tax it.
get a cheaper car to run
Take me for example
I have a Ford Mondeo 2.2 Turbo Diesel
i pay less insurance than i did for my 1.6 Mitsubishi
I pay the same road tax as my dad does for his 1.6 Focus
and i get better mileage than all of the petrol cars i have bought before
Take this into account when you buy a car
a Polo is classed as a Hot hatch so insurance is higher
Mondeo classed as a family car so cheaper insurance
A car is a privilege not a necessity if you cant afford one don't have one its simple


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Not that this is the norm. Admittedly, calling anything the "norm" in a subgenre with only three launched games to go by is a bit complicated, but that's not the point. Champions Online doesn't let you take a walk on the villain side, and Marvel Heroes will launch without the ability to play a villain now or (presumably) ever.
This seems a bit odd on some level. We like villains, we interact with villains as readers, we enjoy seeing what the villains will do. But does it diminish a game to lack the option, or does it diminish villains as a whole when you can play as one?
Proactive reactions
By and large, superheroes are reactive. Superman doesn't just burst into Lex Luthor's home and start punching the crap out of him whenever he feels like it; he waits until Luthor has done something that usually involves donning power armor, and then he smacks Luthor around for a while. The reason for this is obvious when you think about it, since Superman just assaulting a bald man in his home would make him less of a hero and more of a bully.
Supervillains, by contrast, are proactive. Doctor Doom doesn't sit around and wait for something to happen; he develops one scheme or another and then puts it into motion, which often means kidnapping several people as step one. It's kind of asymmetric and unfair, if you think about it; Doom spends weeks or months coming up with an elaborate plan, and then Richards shows up and dismantles the whole thing in a few hours.
Of course, this doesn't work terribly well with the usual structure for MMOs. Quest structures necessitate characters getting tasks from a central source, which means that most villain players wind up serving as gophers for more powerful villains and only rarely get to try to turn the tables. Instead of being Lex Luthor, you're one of the innumerable hangers-on that he's used over the years to try and get through to Superman. You're not the Joker; you're Harley Quinn.
The result is that you do appropriately villainous tasks, but you never quite feel up to the level of villain on a regular basis. You're a thug with initiative. There are exceptions here and there, but by and large you're not building an evil lair and plotting the demise of your arch-nemesis. You're one of the lower-string villains at best, forever in the thrall of someone bigger.
Is this a bad thing? Not exactly. In some ways, it actually provides the game with a bit more freedom, as villainous characters can head in a variety of directions rather than be an eternal foil. Let's note that Harley Quinn has been used in a wide variety of stories, ranging from Gotham City Sirens to Suicide Squad to her usual role as Joker's backup. In the animated series, she even paired up with Batman at one point. There's a certain degree of flexibility implied by not being the center of attention, a freedom to plot and scheme on occasion mixed with dealing with more powerful contemporaries.
Incidentally -- why haven't we seen a game that focused more on villains in a Suicide Squad/Secret Six role, boomeranging between doing at least decent deeds on occasion and being villainous? Seems like a better than usual chance to keep heroes and villains working in the same milieu.
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Of course, the question I posed this week wasn't whether or not it can be made to work, just whether or not games are made richer for having villainous options. Fundamentally, DC Universe Online is the same game on either side, and as a result, the villainous faction is mostly there to act as a PvP foil and provide a different set of ramp-up quests. Does that actually improve the game as a whole?
I'm going to go ahead and say that yes, it does because the two games that have used it have both done so to great effect.
City of Heroes started out using Villains as a way to explore different character powers and provide players with different methods for advancing in the game. A lot of those advancements eventually got ported over to heroes, but the game as a whole was enhanced when the design team had to make villains feel villainous while sticking with the game's basic structure. And the game's second expansion added a bunch more relevance to villains, with the morality system ensuring that characters could explore both sides of the faction divide.
DCUO takes advantage of the fact that the hero/villain split in DC continuities is generally more absolute, giving us a setting where even player characters take sides almost immediately. It also creates an interesting conflict for players in the form of villainous agendas. You know that your "mentors" see you as a tool to be discarded when it's convenient, but at the same time, you need their patronage to stand against the more powerful superheroes in the world. It's an interesting take on the world, and while it uses the same mechanics as hero side, the experience is rich.
And in both cases, the games make use of the fact that villains are just plain interesting. Even if game mechanics aren't up to the asymmetric relationship between heroes and villains, you still get to explore the nastier side of the equation, doing the legwork to make one horrible plot or another come together.
Heck, part of it is just mimicking the nature of superhero comics. In most comics the reader sees the villain's plan unfolding and gets to know both sides of the story. So even if we can't get that whole feeling perfectly replicated, the games with playable villains at least get the soul of it right.
As always, feedback is welcome in the comments below or via mail to email@example.com. Next week, after a month of DCUO, I've got some thoughts, just as in Champions Online before it. And the week after that I'm doing my usual "another year of the column" post, which is a bit late mostly so DCUO gets its fair due.
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Summer Solutions One Step Shampoo/Conditioner
from MA
on 1/5/2014
I like this product for its convience and how well it works. It leaves my hair fealing clean and smooth and I dont have to use any more than outher shampoos. Will buy again.
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Great for busy boys!
Dawn J.
from Derby, KS
on 4/5/2013
My ten year old boy loves this product, simply because he only has to wash his hair once (rather than twice) after swimming. It smells good and as he said, "not too girly!"
Maybe I'm Using it Wrong
from SAN JOSE, CA
on 1/17/2013
I swim daily for a team and I also work at an indoor aquatics facility as a lifeguard and swim teacher. Therefore, I have been experimenting with different kinds of shampoos and conditioners because I am constantly running out. This one seemed pretty cool in that it was both.My hair was a lot more brittle after using this product, but the chlorine smell seemed to be nonexistent after using this shampoo-conditioner.The consistency of the product is very viscous and jelly-like(silly putty meets shampoo) and it seems like it would be highly concentrated. After all, I have been using this shampoo for close to two weeks daily. I have used about a dime-sized amount and I wash and rinse twice and there is still more than 90% product still in the bottle.I like that it is concentrated and still gives off a lot of suds, but I may still use a conditioner after using this shampoo just to tame tangles.
Works as advertised
Joseph R.
from Palmyra, NY
on 9/27/2014
I try to use the smallest dollop possible, and it lathers up quite nicely. Hair smells good and looks nice.
need conditioner again
Sarah V.
from San Diego, CA
on 8/31/2014
it doesn't lather much but I don't smell the chlorine after I was my hair with it. I use extra conditioner because If I don't my hair get's sticky and dry.
Cassie S.
from Corsicana, TX
on 7/28/2014
This made my hair feel so soft
Nice shampoo, wish it came in a bulk size.
Toni B.
from Fairbanks, AK
on 7/4/2014
I have fairly thick, shoulder length hair. I use about a teaspoon full, two times with no other product. My hair is easy to manage, has a nice luster with good body, holds it's natural curl and feels great. I'm on my second bottle with no residue buildup issues as can happen with most hair products. This does a very nice job of cutting the chlorine smell and feel from ones hair. My only issue is the limited selection ( one) volume of product.
One less bottle to carry.
Silvia S.
from Glendale, CA
on 6/2/2014
When you have to wash your hair following a swim at the YMCA on a daily basis,your product is what I need.
need it every summer!
from HOuma, LA
on 5/11/2014
We have been buying this product for 5-7 years. It is the best we have found to help manage my daughters long hair during swim seasons. Even when she got to high school swimming it is clearly excellent at doing what it is supposed to do to help remove chlorine from her hair.
summer solutions shampoo and conditioner in one
from mb
on 2/2/2014
Terrible-after using it, my hair still feels like it does when I get out of the pool :( would return it if it wasn't so much trouble.
don't care for it.
from Lemoyne, Pa
on 11/23/2013
It does not get the chlorine out of my hair and it leaves my hair feeling sticky . It is also very hard to comb and brush my hair because of the tangles.
Love this shampoo,
Gary M.
from ARLINGTON, TX
on 8/2/2013
I enjoy being able to wash the chlorine out and get a conditioner into the hair at the same time saves time and money to have something that does both.
Works as advertised...
from Vestal, NY
on 4/6/2013
I use it after swimming. 4 or 5 times a week. Hair does come clean without chlorine smell. Seems conditioned and manageable.
Great Product!!!!
Waylon 63
from Louisville
on 3/25/2013
I love the fact that it's a shampoo and conditioner all in one application. Saves time in the shower.My hair was a lot more brittle after using this product, but the chlorine smell seemed to be nonexistent after using this shampoo-conditioner.
Great Product
Victoria R.
from Citrus County, FL
on 3/4/2013
Lathers up great and my hair looks wonderful. Does not leave any residue or weigh hair down.. I love that it shampoos and conditions in one application saves time in the shower.
from Fraser, Mi
on 1/19/2013
I bought it for my son, it's working well his hair is softer and not brittle like it was before.
Easy to use
from SF Bay Area, CA
on 12/11/2012
I've been swimming without a cap and my hair is damaged and snarly. This product helped get the tangles out and left my hair marginally softer than before. My haircutter gave me samples of a moisturizing shampoo and conditioner that weren't designed with chlorine in mind; however, they were better at removing tangles and leaving hair soft. It's too bad, because this product is less expensive and easier to use.
2 for 1
Mark C.
from Austin ,MN
on 12/4/2012
No need to carry two bottles. This product is like a 2 for 1.
good stuff
Linda C.
from St. Marys, GA
on 11/14/2012
Seems to remove all the chlorine from the hair. My swimmer has long hair and this product makes it look very shiny.
Summer Solutions One Step Shampoo and Conditioner 8oz
from sj, ca
on 9/7/2012
seems to work - no more chlorine smell!


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Avenue of the Giants
About an hour south of Eureka on Highway 101, you will see a sign for the 'Avenue of the Giants' . This is an alternate route that parallels the highway. Drive among the big Redwood trees, stop and have a picnic, jump in the river, or just observe the 51,222 acres of large trees & groves. When you approach a town named Weott, you will see signs where high water rose to in the 1964 flood. You will be amazed the river rose so high.
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LIfe's a Beach!
North of Eureka, near our little airport, is Clam Beach. Here you can find driftwood, sanddollars, shells, and even dig for clams! The water is cold, but the beach is very pretty for our area. Great place to stop and rest. If you are an athletic, around the end of January is the annual Clam Beach run. I think it is about 8-10 miles. You can run a smaller race if you would prefer. Lots of people enter it.
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- Beaches
Want to go back to school?
Just 10-15 miles north of Eureka is Arcata. College town for a University near us. It's called Humboldt State University.
Humboldt State University has consistently been cited among the top 10 percent of regional colleges and universities in the United States by a number of national publications, including U.S. News & World Report, Money, and Making A Difference College Guide.
Humboldt enrolls about 7,400 students in more than 100 degree and certificate programs. Founded as a school to train teachers in 1913, it was one of the first campuses of what would become the 23-campus California State University (CSU). Humboldt has become a vital, vibrant institution that fosters academic excellence and rich educational opportunities, innovative research, solutions to critical social problems, and a sense of community service among its students.
You can read more about it on their website.
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- Singles
- Study Abroad
Redwood National and State Parks
As Eureka is the harbor from where the Redwood were logged and shipped out, a visit to the Redwood National and State Parks is a must (page to come). It is north to Eureka and south to Crescent city. The Redwood Forest is a rain forest characterized by the California Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) that can reach a height of 100 meters and be 2,000 years old. It is different from the Giant Sequoia (Sequoiadendron giganteum) found for example in the Sequoia National Park on west-facing slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
- Road Trip
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- Eco-Tourism
Crater Lake
Crater Lake (page to come) is located in Southern Oregon in the Cascade Mountain range, 160 km inland from the Pacific Ocean. Crater lake was born 7,700 years ago when Mount Mazama had a blasting eruption that blow out the summit and left instead a volcanic basin named a caldera that further on filled with water. The surface of the water is at an elevation of 1,883 meters while Mount Mazema stood at 3,660 meters! It is 592 meters deep. The missing elevation has been blown out, which makes an enormous amount.
- Eco-Tourism
- National/State Park
- Road Trip
Lava Beds National monument
The Lava Beds National monument (page to come) lies in the far north east corner of California. It is a striking example of eruptions where the outer lava cools and gives a solid crust while the inner lava remains fluid enough to flow out, giving empty tubes that can be visited.
- Eco-Tourism
- National/State Park
Lassen Volcanic Park
Lassen Volcanic Park (page to come) is located in the southern part of the Cascade Mountain range. It is by far not as impressive as the Yellowstone but nevertheless has boiling mud pots, steaming ground, roaring fumaroles, and sulfurous gases. They are a testimony of intense volcanic activity. The last eruption at Lassen Peak occurred in May 1915.
- Road Trip
- National/State Park
- Eco-Tourism
Beach Combing at Agate Beach
Agate Beach is located Off Hwy 101, 30 miles north of Eureka at Patrick's Point State Park in Trinidad. Once you are in the park you can take the trail with stairs that go down to the Beach. Agate Beach, which is covered with small pebbles, agates and semi precious stones is known as the Best Novelty Beach in the Northwest. The best time to go beach combing is when the tide is low and the beach is widest.
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- Hiking and Walking
- Beaches
Stroll through Humboldt Bay
This area has a place for ships to dock and berth. There you will see the memorial to the fishermen of this area. This sculpture was done by Dick Crane. This is a very relaxing and pleasant place to spend part of a day.
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- Historical Travel
- Family Travel
An alternative to a university
There is a wonderful community college about 15 miles south of Eureka called College of the Redwoods. I attended this college right out of high school. Affordable, easy to find parking and a great variety of classes (courses, sorry). I enjoyed my time there.
Some history - The Redwoods Community College District was formed January 14, 1964, by an election of the people of Humboldt County. A bond issue of $3,600,000 was passed for the initial construction phase of the college.
Instruction began in 1965 and continued into 1967 at Eureka High School. Initially 45 majors were offered, 15 of which were technical-vocational. Over 1,800 students registered at the College in 1965-66.
The founding President/Superintendent, Dr. Eugene J. Portugal, supervised a full-time faculty and administrative staff of 31 with 85 part-time instructors.
In May 1975, the residents of coastal Mendocino County voted for annexation to the District. Del Norte County joined the Redwoods' District in July of 1978, completing the District's current service areas of Humboldt County, coastal Mendocino County, Del Norte County and a portion of Trinity County.
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Eureka has just recently...
Eureka has just recently finished refurbishing the marina area of old town and this seems to have added a much needed and long awaited additon to the area. Lots of boats and other recreational water activities will now invite area residents and tourists to the this part of the city. In the last couple of years, much work has gone into reclaiming the oldtown area from transient types with restaurants, hotels and great shopping.
This is a very interesting...
This is a very interesting old building sitting back from the main north to south routes through Eureka..if you blink you will miss it..most of the time I forget it is there..But from the design of the building I suspect it is quite old..I just like the idea of 'Blacksmith' being painted on the side of the structure. The palm tree at the front pretty much makes a statement that it is a 'California Blacksmith'.
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The 12th typhoon of this year, Ioke, formed in the West Pacific Ocean yesterday, according to the Central Weather Bureau. As of 2pm yesterday, the center of the typhoon was located approximately 1,130km southeast of the Wake Island. It was moving westward at a speed of 16kph. The bureau said that the typhoon is still very far away and is unlikely to affect Taiwan at this point, but added that it will closely monitor if there is any change in its movement. Cloudy to sunny skies are forecast for today in Taiwan, Kinmen, Matsu and Penghu. Thunderstorms are expected in central Taiwan, as well as the mountainous areas in the northern and southern regions.
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April general elections: Upsets, defining moments
Dear 2011 broke on the nation with politicking all over the land as different political parties in the country were neck deep in their party primaries in a bid to pick the right candidates for the April general elections that were just about four months away then.
The general elections can, therefore, be said to be the single most important thing that marked the first half of the year as elections and electoral related matters dominated the landscape.
The elections held in April and were adjudged both locally and internationally as 'relatively free and fair'. But that seemingly encouraging verdict was to be overshadowed by a bloody post-election violence that rocked parts of the north, leaving many dead and properties destroyed.
But by far the most painful was the death of youth corps members who had been deployed as ad-hoc staff of the electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Emergence of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
The elections surprisingly altered the political map of the country significantly. At the centre, the Peoples Democratic Party (PD) still won the presidency but with a remarkable change as the South-South for the first time produced the president in the person of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan. He had been president though since the untimely death of Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the man with whom he had moved into Aso Villa as vice president in 2007. But his victory was preceded by a viciously fought primary in the PDP between the forces of zoning and those who felt Jonathan had the right as guaranteed by the constitution to seek election irrespective of the internal arrangement by the PDP. Even thought the party won the presidency, that struggle left a deep-seated animosity fuelled by a big sense of betrayal in it. This is all the more so given the way Jonathan was able to roundly defeat the consensus machinery floated by some northern elements in the party.
And new governors, too
The April general elections produced eight new governors. They are: Umaru Tanko Al-Makura, Nasarawa State; Kano's Rabiu Kwakwanso, who was governor of the state between 1999 and 2003; Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State; AbdulFatah Ahmed, Kwara; Senator Ibikunle Amosun, Ogun State; Kashim Shettima, Borno; Ibrahim Dankwambo, Gombe and Yobe's Ibrahim Gaidam who was elected for the first time as governor but had assumed office two years ago on the death of the former governor of the state, Senator Ali Mamman, to whom he was deputy.
Tambuwal 'Peoples Speaker' emerged
On June 6, the leadership of the ruling party, the PDP suffered a crushing defeat and was disgraced as members of the 7th House of Representatives defied its directive on zoning and elected a Speaker and Deputy Speaker of their choice, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal (PDP, Sokoto) and Emeka Ihedioha (PDP, Imo) respectively.
The duo were elected in the presence of the party's Acting National Chairman, Alhaji Haliru Mohammed Bello, former Board of Trustees (BoT) chairman, Chief Tony Anenih, Secretary to Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim and some state governors. Their presence could not deter the lawmakers from going ahead with their decision to elect who they called the 'people's speaker', as they successfully jettisoned the party's directive and picked candidates of their choice.
Tambuwal defeated his only challenger, Hon. Mulikat Adeola-Akande, the PDP anointed candidate by 252 to 90 votes in an election that lasted for almost four hours. Ihedioha was elected unopposed. Incidentally, Tambuwal was deputy chief whip while Ihedioha was chief whip respectively in the 6th House of Representatives.
First female Majority Leader
Year 2011 also produced the first female Majority Leader in the House of Representatives in the person of Hon. Mulikat Adeola-Akande.
Adeola-Akande, who contested against Tambuwal on June 3, 2011 for the position of Speaker, was chosen through consensus following the insistence of the PDP leadership that she be compensated after she lost to Tambuwal.
Akande-Adeola, a lawyer by training, was born on November 11, 1960 and attended the famous Queen Amina College in Kaduna. In 1979, she enrolled at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria and graduated with a LL.B degree in 1982. The Majority Leader was at the Nigerian Law School, Lagos between 1982 and 1983 for her BL. She later obtained an LL.M in 1985 at the University of Lagos. She was first elected to the House in 2007. She was re-elected in 2011.
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'Dancing' Rules Tuesday for ABC
The final performances on "Dancing with the Stars" drew big ratings for
ABC averaged a 12.7 rating/20 share in primetime to take the night by a pretty wide margin.
The adults 18-49 demographic also went to ABC with a 5.7 rating. FOX, 4.1, took second in the demographic. NBC finished third at 3.6, just ahead of CBS, 3.5. The CW drew a 1.6.
"Dancing with the Stars," 16.6/25, dominated the 8 p.m. hour.
The final half-hour of "Dancing with the Stars," 18.0/26, and the debut of the
At 10 p.m., "Law & Order: SVU" moved NBC into the lead with a 9.8/16. "Show Me the Money" slid to 7.3/12 on ABC, but that was still good enough to beat the premiere of "3 Lbs.," 6.5/11, on CBS.