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For more on the NFL, follow Reggie Hayes via Twitter at www.twitter.com/reggiehayes1 and listen to Reggie discuss the Super Bowl matchup at 5:15 p.m. today on The BS Sports Show (1380-AM, 106.7-FM).
I have a hunch Richard Sherman isn't as popular as Peyton Manning in Omaha. Or anywhere else, outside of Seattle. I doubt he cares.
But anyone who suggests Sherman is a loose cannon who doesn't know what he's doing isn't nearly as smart as Sherman.
Sherman and the Seattle Seahawks beat the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday night to clinch the right to play Manning's Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2 in East Rutherford, N.J. Minutes after the win, Sherman remained in cocky, wild-man mode, ranting about 49ers receiver Michael Crabtree during an interview with FOX's impressively calm Erin Andrews.
This came after Sherman received a taunting penalty for getting in Crabtree's face and giving him the "choke" sign. That incident came on the heels of Sherman, in his day job as cornerback, deflecting a Colin Kaepernick pass to force an interception in the end zone and clinch the Seahawks' 23-17 win in the final seconds.
Sherman went to Stanford, which is not a college for dummies. He has built his NFL persona around brashness, bravado, and in-everyone's-face trash talking. He's decided that's his brand. I suspect ESPN, FOX and others will be more than happy to continue to give Sherman a platform in which to sell himself and his brand.
Sherman's personality spills over onto the Seahawks, who strut around and talk smack and generally seem unlovable to those who aren't Seattle fans. The exception would be the Seahawks' personable quarterback Russell Wilson.
But I'm glad Sherman's here, and I'm glad he's bringing his brand of brashness to center stage. I don't see how we'd invent a better foil for Manning as he attempts to become the first quarterback in NFL history to lead two teams to Super Bowl wins.
If there were a penalty for toying with an opponent, Manning would have been flagged repeatedly in his near-perfect performance in the Broncos' 26-16 dismantling of the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship game in Denver. Manning completed 32 of 43 passes for 400 yards (a nice, round number that no Patriots teams coached by Bill Belichick had surrendered before) and two touchdowns.
He yelled "Omaha!" 31 times while calling plays. That raised $24,800 in donations from Omaha businesses who pledged $800 to Manning's Peyback Foundatoin charity for each utterance. I think I speak for many who would love to hear him yell "Sherman! Sherman!" during the Super Bowl in two weeks. Most of us would also like to see him burn Sherman a few times. We might even donate a couple bucks to charity to see it.
It's a potentially great Super Bowl, epitomized by Manning and Sherman.
Manning brings the Broncos formidable offense. Sherman the Seahawks physical defense. Manning brings the old-school, act-like-you've-been-here-before attitude. Sherman brings the new-age, brag and back it up style of the Madden video game set.
Who will cause, and who will feel, the inevitable frustration?
Given two weeks' worth of buildup, we'll eventually get to all the angles of the game, from the coaching matchup between Denver's John Fox and Seattle's Pete Carroll, to the hysteria of the Skittles craze surrounding Seattle running back Marshawn Lynch. We'll talk about Russell, and his place as the first of the great 2012 quarterback class (which includes Andrew Luck, Robert Griffin III and Ryan Tannehill) to reach the Super Bowl.
Ultimately, this game's essence will boil down to Manning vs. Sherman.
It's Manning's ability to read defenses, process them and dissect them vs. Sherman's ability to anticipate passes and disrupt them. Manning will pass to try to win. That's what he does. Sherman and the Seahawks will seek to derail that passing game, through a pass rush (something the Patriots failed to generate at all) and a pass defense that believes in intimidating receivers into hearing steps along with the trash talk.
Some might not see the similarities between Manning and Sherman, but that's as important as their differences.
Both are leaders. Both mold their team's personalities. Both hate to lose. Both will do whatever it takes to gain an edge. Manning's edges are built behind the scenes, in the film room. He wants to use his superior knowledge to surprise and out-smart the defense. Sherman's edge is built in the film room, too, as he studies receivers and quarterbacks and looks for weaknesses. The difference is his approach is to announce what he's going to do in order to make opponents think too much and react too emotionally.
Everyone knows Manning and his style. Sherman's will come into view even more now that he's headed for the Super Bowl stage.
The fact is, Manning and Sherman both have their brands, both with the unqualified belief that theirs is the way to victory. Who's the hero and who's the villain is in the eye of the beholder.
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Nokia and Microsoft have just confirmed they're entering a "strategic partnership," essentially a fancy way of saying the Finnish phone maker is going to start using Windows Phone 7 as its main smartphone OS.
In a joint statement, Nokia and Microsoft said that under the deal, "Nokia would adopt Windows Phone as its principal smartphone strategy." Ultimately, this means Windows Phone 7 will become Nokia's main focus. Bing is set to power search on Nokia's phones, while Xbox Live will also make the move. In return Microsoft will be able to integrate Nokia's ace Ovi Maps into Bing search.
So what about Symbian? Nokia says it will become, "…a franchise platform," saying it wants to, "…retain and transition," existing users. That sounds very much like the OS is finally on its way out to us.
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My Duffy is called baby sometimes 'cause he is my most recent stuffed critter. But he does not act like a baby, he acts like a three or four year old child. He is very curious, likes checking things out. Does not have any interest in food, except for when I have ice cream he ask's where's his. He keeps asking me for more clothes, I think I have created a monster by showing him all cute photos from this forum and from Facebook. Every few weeks he asks me when I am going to BAB 'cause he needs new t-shirts. His fav outfit is his cars pj's from BAB. He likes being ready at all times for a nap, and the little guy sure likes to sleep. His favorite thing to do is watch a few minutes of live webcam of Siku the hand reared Danish polar bear, I think he loves watching the polar bear cub because he would want to play with him.
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The state of South Carolina announced on May 2 that it is dismissing its lawsuit filed against the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration in support of the Savannah River Sites MOX program.
In an official statement, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson wrote that he is disappointed the issue went to court, but hopeful about the future of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility.
Although I am disappointed that, once again, the state was forced to seek redress from the courts to protect the citizens of South Carolina from a federal government ignoring the rule of law, we are pleased with the outcome in this case, Wilson said.
The dismissal follows an announcement made on April 29 by the DOE and NNSA that construction will continue on the MOX facility through the end of the fiscal year.
Wilson added that he considers that decision by DOE and NNSA a victory.
While this is undoubtedly a victory for South Carolina, its citizens and all Americans, the battle is not over. We must remain ever vigilant in continuing the fight to uphold the rule of law and ensure that this important program continues, he said.
The state filed suit against DOE on April 18, just two weeks after the federal budget proposal was released containing plans to place the MOX project in a cold stand-by. Both Wilson and Gov. Nikki Haley have said a cold stand-by would break agreements the federal government has with the state of South Carolina.
Its a facility that (Washington) D.C. started, and with plutonium sitting there ... and now youre going to stop MOX? Haley questioned at the time. Theyre hurting the people of South Carolina, and were not going to sit back and take it.
Currently, MOX advocates are working to secure the program for fiscal year 2015, although NNSA has already reported it is working with the MOX contractor to begin the cold stand-by at the beginning of the new year.
The MOX program is part of an agreement with Russia to dispose of 34 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium. The federal government is concerned that the program could cost $31 billion, according to a recent DOE study.
AREVA a partner of the contractor said the true cost is closer to $17 billion, a cost that they said is on par with estimates from the Government Accountability Office.
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EBN: What prompted you to write this
Heymann: We set out to answer the question of whether it was possible for companies
to do better by the workers at the bottom of
their corporate ladder and still economically
succeed. What really changed over the eight
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Heymann: Great Little Box is a companyin Canada that makes cardboard boxes andpackaging supplies. They came up with asystem where they provided financial incen-tives if employees came up with ways thecompany could save money. The employeemight just get $50, but that $50 was still a re-ward and recognition. They could get a re-ward as high as $2,500. But employees cameup with savings suggestions that led to thecompany saving up to $25,000. So, the payoffwas even greater.
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Today my garage is less chaotic than yesterday because of some "ghetto shelves" I made.
Step 1: Before
Therefore, as the years pass, my garage goes becoming a small hell where does not remain place for the car neither for the people.
Step 2: What to do?
I bought a piece of steel iron for the construction, 8 mm diameter. I chosed that measure because already had a corresponding widia bit, but equal would be able to have chosed 10 mm.
The iron is not expensive.
The pictures are self explained. Click on the inner notes.
Step 3: Holes in the wall
The holes must be all at the same height. I guided myself for the distance to the ceiling. The distance among holes depends on the length of the objects to keep.
Step 4: Doing a tilt guide
I did it with three pieces of wood. You can use what you prefer.
Step 5: Inserting the rods in the wall
Step 6: Finally, putting the stuff in the "shelves"
You can also to hang things of they.
Be care the stuff not fall after easily.
You must know that this arrangement is more efficient in the use of the space, but the accessibility of the things saved in this form is now minor that when they were simply supported against the wall: each time that you need some tube, wand, etc, you will have to look for a stair and (with care of not killing to somebody down) search in your treasure and go down it.


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ESA Science News
The 7th Huygens in-flight checkout (F7) was successfully executed on 22-23 March. It started at 21:00 UTC on March 22, 2001 and ended at 00:49 UTC on March 23, 2001.
Cassini was at a distance of 880 million km and the one-way-light-time delay was approximately 49 minutes. The telemetry was received in quasi-real-time at the Huygens Probe Operation Centre in ESOC, Darmstadt, during a Deep Space Network Goldstone station pass.
The Huygens Flight Control Team at ESOC performed a preliminary analysis of the received data. The results of this analysis confirmed that the Probe and the on-board Instruments performed well during F7 and that the Huygens system is in good health in checkout configuration.
Soon after completion of the check-out, the data was distributed to the Huygens instrument teams and to the Huygens Prime Contractor for detailed analysis.
[Image 1: http://sci.esa.int/content/searchimage/searchresult.cfm?aid=12&cid=12&oid=26589&ooid=12005]
Courtesy NASA.
[Image 2: http://sci.esa.int/content/searchimage/searchresult.cfm?aid=12&cid=12&oid=26589&ooid=18540]
Cross-sectional view of the Huygens Probe, showing the scientific instrument and upper platforms nested in the Descent Module, itself protected by the Front Shield and Back Cover.
[Image 3: http://sci.esa.int/content/searchimage/searchresult.cfm?aid=12&cid=12&oid=26589&ooid=18510]
Top and bottom computer-generated views of the Huygens platform that carries the six scientific instruments: Huygens Atmospheric Structure Instrument (HASI, the atmosphere's physical profile); Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer (GCMS, the atmosphere's chemical profile); Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR, atmospheric structure and surface imaging); Doppler Wind Experiment (DWE, wind measurements); Aerosol Collector and Pyrolyser (ACP, aerosol sampling); Surface Science Package (SSP, state and composition of Titan's surface).


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Thursday, March 6, 2014
The Georgetown County Sheriffs Office will be conducting drivers license checkpoints in Georgetown County throughout the month of March.
The sheriffs office plans to have enough deputies at these checkpoints to minimize the inconvenience of motorists traveling the roads of Georgetown County.
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"The speed of the leader is the speed of the gang" (Mary Kay Ash)
A gang is usually identified as a group with some sense of identity and permanence and some involvement in illegal activities (Esbensen 2000). Other defining characteristics include being a group of three or more people, perception of distinctness, structural organization, and a common name. Gangs tend to share colors, signs, signals, jargon, and graffiti. Gang activity, by itself, is not a crime, but gang-related criminal activity is. However, since most of the time what gangs do is commit crime, gang activity and criminal activity are usually synonymous. Gangs become a social problem when their status and/or reputational systems tend to become predominantly based on some type of criminal activity. By definition, this means that all gang members must come to think that at least some crime is honorable and/or for the benefit of the gang. This is the motivational factor that distinguishes gang crime (from solitary or partnership crime) -- they come to associate the growing power of their gang with an increasing level of involvement in crime. Sure, it's possible that a gang exists somewhere which doesn't seek power thru crime, but this is their inevitable organizational dynamic. At one time, back in Thrasher's (1927) day, gangs were looked upon by sociologists are relatively harmless play groups, but the contemporary criminological viewpoint is that gangs represent the incubators for more serious behaviors, like organized crime (Hagan 1998) or terrorism (Orvis & Rush 2006). This is not to say that less harmful "starter" or "embryo" gangs do not exist, which are also called "wannabes," "juniors," or "pee-wees" (Vigil 1993), with their dynamic being more a desire to glorify roughness, obscenity, craziness, and insanity.
There are at least three generally accepted points of criminological wisdom about gangs. One, there is a significant likelihood that gangs will be associated with gun violence, or violence involving firearms; two, much of this violence will be intra-ethnic with rival gangs of the same ethnic group fighting each other in a escalatory cycle of retaliation; and three, gang members are more likely than non-gang criminals to be involved in more serious and violent crimes (Howell & Decker 1999; Decker 1996; Thornberry 1998). There are many reasons for why people join a gang, but the main ones are protection, enjoyment, respect, money, and because a friend is in a gang. Researchers do not agree on the most predictive risk factors, and the main driver of gang activity may very well be population migration. Seeking friendship or romantic adventure may also play a part, especially with the growing phenomenon of girls in gangs. There are an estimated 80,000 female gang members in the United States, according to the National Crime Prevention Council, and that comprises about 10% of the overall gang population. In male gangs who allow females to join, girls can comprise as much as 25% of the membership. Some female gang members are spies for other gangs. The vast majority of girl membership, however, is as a prostitute or the "sexual property" of another member. Co-ed street gangs and all-girl gangs even prostitute their own female members to make a profit. Getting "sexed-in" is also a common way girls join gangs, although "fighting-in" exists as an alternative way to join. Getting pregnant usually allows a girl to leave the gang, at least for some time. Drug use as well as drug selling is somewhat common among girls in gangs, and this activity is enhanced by their proclivity to be attracted to "straight" guys, or non-gang guys. Yet, their devotion and loyalty to the gang is largely unquestionable because their reasons for joining and staying in are usually very personal, such as revenge for another gang killing a family member.
Let's focus on the gangs-terrorism connection, as Orvis & Rush (2006) do, in pointing out a past, present, and future connection. In 1986, some members of El Rukn, a Chicago street gang, were arrested and convicted of terrorism. They offered to commit bombings and assassinations on U.S. soil for Libyan payment. El Rukns have also met with terrorist groups in Middle Eastern countries. In 2002, Jose Padilla, a member of the Latin Kings, another Chicago street gang, was arrested for attempting to detonate a "dirty bomb" in the U.S. on behalf of al-Qaeda. Knox (2002) surmises that gangs see terrorist groups as more organized, more powerful, and more legitimate. In other words, gangs want to emulate terrorists because by attaching themselves to the political cause that presumably motivates terrorists, they can appear more legitimate and become more powerful at the same time. "Playing at terrorism" is the new gang blueprint. Gangs see terrorism as good "cover" for their criminal activities. Few are likely to become true believers in the terrorist ideology because, after all, their first loyalty is to the gang. The primary trajectory of their criminological evolution is more like Hagan (1998) projects -- toward organized crime -- Chicago-style -- "Ya bought protection, ya gots protection."
There are four basic groups in the general gang model: (1) potentials, or "could be's," who are usually the youngest of possible members; (2) claimers, associates, or "wanna be's," who dress, act, and walk like members, and participate in gang activities; (3) regular members, who comprise the biggest portion of a gang; and (4) hard core members, who are often protected by regular members, and may or may not have an authority position in the gang, but usually constitute around 5-10% of the gang. Other member classifications include the threefold typology by Sanders (1994), consisting of (1) hardcore; (2) affiliate; and (3) fringe; and the fourfold typology by Hagedorn (1994) which includes (1) legits, who hope to mature out of gang activity one day; (2) homeboys, who alternate between criminal and conventional lifestyles; (3) dope fiends, who are into gang activity to feed their habit; and (4) new jacks, who see gang activity as a career. Gang types are usually classified according to one of three leading typologies, as follows:
Three Leading Typologies of Gangs
|First, there is Taylor's (1990) typology of (1) scavenger gangs, who lack goals, purpose, consistent leadership, and tend to prey upon the weak; (2) territorial gangs, who define an exclusive turf and defend it; and (3) corporate gangs, who are the most organized for purposes of illegal money-making ventures.
|Second, there is Huff's (1996) typology of (1) hedonistic gangs, who like to get high and have good times; (2) instrumental gangs, who are primarily involved in property crime and economic gain; and (3) predatory gangs, who are likely to have sophisticated weapons and be involved in robbery, mugging, and other crimes of opportunity.
|Third, there is Fagan's (1989) typology of: Type 1 gangs, involved only in alcohol and marijuana use; Type 2 gangs, heavily involved in vandalism and drug sales to support their habit; Type 3 gangs, extensively involved in both serious and nonserious crime as well as hard drugs; and Type 4 gangs, extensively involved in both serious and nonserious drug use and crime, with the highest rate of drug sales.
It should be added that the kind of gang most typically found in communities which had no established gang problem in the 1980s or 1990s is the "hybrid gang." This particular type of modern gang often defies attempts to classify it because it seems to be constantly changing in composition and tactics. As an OJJDP Report on Hybrid/Modern Gangs makes clear, some characteristics of a hybrid gang are as follows:
rapid emergence and multiple name changes
less structured, racially mixed, and older members
locally based with little or no national affiliation
may or may not have allegiance to a certain color
may or may not have an identified leader
members may associate with more than one gang
extreme profit motive, almost to the exclusion of everything else
mergers between gangs can occur
Nobody knows the exact number of gangs and gang members in the United States. In 1999, OJJDP estimated that there were 31,000 gangs with 816,000 members, but other estimates can be found running as high as one and a half million. The majority of gangs are small, "street" gangs, with membership ranging in size from 6 to 50 members. So-called girl gangs typically are offshoots of their male counterparts, and constitute no more than 4% of all gangs, although Campbell's (1984) research estimated that females make up about 10% of all gangs according to a sample of four hundred gangs. Mixed-gender gangs are common, in which some females relish the combat, but most females act as lookouts, weapons carriers, set up rivals for attack, or procure nonmember girls for gang rapes. According to Thornberry (1998), the typical gang member is an ethnic male between the ages of 12 and 25 years of age, comes from a disorganized social environment, comes from a family which practiced poor family management, has a history of poor school performance accompanied by low educational expectations generally, and is likely to have been recruited into the gang at an early age, also having been long indoctrinated about the attractiveness, comradeship, fun, safety, and protection that gang membership presumably supplies.
Since gang crime is mostly street crime, gang crime intelligence analysis can have immediate impact on a police department's daily activities because any patterns uncovered can be used for special operations or to modify patrol deployment. It has also become customary for crime analysts to be involved in the construction, implementation, and interpretation of citizen surveys in this regard, with such surveys measuring "incivilities" (noncriminal or misdemeanor acts which are perceived as threatening to citizens) and fear of crime (media-driven and irrational, often involving vicarious victimization). When these survey data are mapped geographically and overlaid with "hot spot" analysis (the traditional police pin mapping of where gang-related calls for service occur), police departments have a tool for tracking shifts in gang crime activity from location to location, LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS being the most common police product. Most gangs are territorial and adversity-oriented, so an important part of police work is knowing the turfs. Of course, in some cities like Atlanta, gangs are not all that turf-oriented, but there may still be geographic patterns. The following is a list of the top cities and counties (in descending order) with the most gang members, and a gang map (discussed below) of the city of Compton, California, which is provided with permission of StreetGangs.com. It should be noted, as Goldstein (1991) advises, that any focus on Los Angeles gangs does not mean to imply that all gangs are part of the blood-crip "set" or that Los Angeles gangs control all drug distribution in the country.
Los Angeles county
2. Los Angeles (city)
3. Chicago
4. New York City
5. Santa Ana (California)
6. Cleveland
7. San Antonio (Texas)
8. Gary (Indiana)
9. Oakland (California)
10. Atlanta (Georgia)
11. Miami-Dade county
12. Little Rock (Arkansas)
From a larger intelligence viewpoint, there is no substitute for deep background information on the gang members themselves, and no in-depth information is too in-depth. Some gang members are as young as 10 years of age, and some researchers put the upper range into the 30's. Most gangs consist of members who belong to the same ethnic group, the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMGs) being all-white (see table below). Gangs organize along family, ethnic, and neighborhood lines, and research has shown the best predictor of criminal activity among gangs is the background of individual gang members and their leaders. Mapping gang crime on a locational basis is the oldest and most traditional way to do gang intelligence work, and StreetGangs.com has some illustrations of gang maps.
|Hell's Angels
|Formed in San Bernardino during 1947 when a group calling itself the Pissed Off Bastards of Bloomington changed it's name to Hell's Angels, which was a name used by fighter pilots during WWII. Active in California, and the East Coast, with international connections.
|Formed in Chicago during 1959 with chapters throughout the midwest, western New York, western Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, with international connections.
|Founded in Prince George county, Maryland during 1959 with chapters in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and New Orleans, with little or no international connections.
|Founded in Houston, Texas during 1966 with chapters throughout the south and parts of the northwest, with international connections.
Leadership analysis is another common intelligence activity, and the profiling of gang leaders and members has a history going back to debates in criminology over the terms "sociopath" and "psychopath" (Yablonsky 1959). Perhaps the most useful academic analysis of gang leadership was provided by Jankowski (1991) who studied thirty-seven gangs, and suggested the important features were structure, leadership, recruitment, initiation rites, role expectations, sanctions, and migration patterns. The three types of structure Jankowski observed were as follows:
vertical/hierarchical structure, which divides leadership hierarchically into different levels, and where power and authority are related to one's position in the chain of command.
horizontal/commission structure, which consists of several officeholders all at about the same rank with relatively equal authority over other members, the leaders sharing duties as well as power and authority.
influential structure, which assigns no written duties or titles to any leadership position in the organization, but instead usually has from two to four members who are recognized informally as leaders because of their charisma.
Fortunately, there is a surplus of Internet information about gangs, their leaders, and rosters available, since many gangs use Internet websites as a kind of "electronic turf" and e-mailing as a form of "electronic graffiti." Validating, or at least verifying the existence of a gang, can easily be done from harvesting the information on these websites or using computer forensics, which will frequently document the gang's history, colors, symbols, monikers, roster, and more. Unfortunately, many well-wishing law enforcement types have bought up and are holding the domain names that some gangs would like to use. Other website domains, such as the one the Crips have been trying to get up and running, are regularly hacked by cybervigilantes.
The most common supplement to locational analysis is an effort to ENUMERATE or list gang membership and affiliation. Getting a handle on the size of gang activity is important for validation or predictive purposes. Gang membership tends to increase and grow in size after wars or riots (the three distinct growth periods of the 20th Century being the 1920s, 1960s, and 1990s). There are different ways to count the number of "gang-related" people from your incident reports -- by counting the number of people involved in each incident, or by estimating the number of people through an analysis of aggressive graffiti, identifiers, and other "signs of crime." GangsOrUs.com has guides to interpretation of gang graffiti, which can have some warning intelligence value. Many of the approaches to gang crime intelligence are similar to the techniques of analysis used in narcotics crime investigation. In fact, a computer program called NARC was developed in 1993 for processing narcotics intelligence, but it soon became apparent that it was ideal for analysis of gang membership (Whitworth 1993). Perhaps the most well-known computerized database on gangs is GREAT (Gang Reporting, Evaluation, and Tracking), first developed by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in 1989. Modern police crime reporting programs have overcome most of the problems of how to count "gang-related" incidents. The types of criminal activity in which gangs are most involved is as follows:
|1. Assault on rivals (94%)
|8. Motor vehicle theft (67%)
|2. Carrying concealed weapons (88%)
|9. Assault on students (66%)
|3. Larceny-Theft (80%)
|10. Burglary (64%)
|4. Illegal drug use (76%)
|11. Shoplifting (62%)
|5. Illegal drug sales (75%)
|12. Mugging or simple assault (56%)
|6. Selling stolen goods (70%)
|13. Credit card theft (46%)
|7. Drive-by shootings (68%)
|14. Witness intimidation (46%)
|Adapted from: Huff, R. (1998). "Comparing the Criminal Behavior of Gangs." NIJ Research in Brief, Oct. 2. USDOJ: BJS.
Another common way to present gang information is by comparing it to the overall violent crime rate, as the following chart illustrates, taken from Harrell, E. (2005) Violence by Gang Members: 1993-2003 BJS Crime Data Brief, June. USDOJ: BJS, where the effort appears to be an attempt to map the fluctuations or figure out the carrying capacity.
Police chiefs are in a catch-22 position with documenting gang crime in their community. If they deny its existence (and political leaders almost always want to deny its existence), despite evidence to the contrary, the gang problem grows. This has been the case in some cities, like Washington D.C. which has long officially denied it has a gang problem. If they publicly acknowledge the gang problem, this validates the gang leadership and gives them notoriety. Some communities receive federal funds based on the volume of their gang activity, and this creates an incentive to over-emphasize the gang problem, but communities also have tourism and investment interests, which create an incentive to keep the gang problem under-emphasized. To be sure, many jurisdictions prefer not to even recognize gang activity or pass ordinances about it. Gangs often thrive on a renegade status bestowed upon them by the adverse publicity of law enforcement crackdowns. Therefore, many jurisdictions prefer to subtly incorporate gang activity indicators into civil abatement statutes. This involves using court-ordered injunctions to command a responsible party to stop doing something or start doing something, or be held in contempt, similar to nuisance abatement which has the following characteristics:
Closing down bars, bathhouses, and theaters where high-risk sexual activities have been observed (AIDS-virus breeding ground laws)
Quarantine of places and persons associated with unsafe sex practices, such as "per hour" hotels and prostitutes (mandatory testing laws)
Regulation and rezoning of adult bookstores (urban blight laws)
Bulldozing crack houses (condemned property laws)
Redesigning intersections and places where pedestrians and vehicles come in contact (CPTED)
Civil abatement measures also include gang injunctions, and rely upon a judge issuing restraining orders against specific members of a gang, effectively suing them. The identification of gang members can be accomplished from police intelligence or via input by members of the general public, ideally both. Each gang injunction must define a geographic area where gang activity is prohibited (safe zones). These measures are very controversial, and the ACLU and Nation of Islam have both taken strong positions that gang injunctions violate civil rights. Some courts have struck down all or part of these measures as void and vague laws. Some typical characteristics of gang injunctions include the following:
Forbidden to sell drugs, vandalize property, or possess weapons (engage in already illegal behavior)
Restricted from congregating in groups (loitering)
Restricted from being out after a certain time (curfew)
Forbidden to carry a cell phone or pager (presumably for drug dealing)
Prohibited from riding bicycles (since most gang members have their driver's licenses revoked anyway)
Prohibited from approaching or signaling as a pedestrian any moving vehicle
Often, what passes for intelligence analysis, in this area, is really intelligence gathering. It has been estimated that gang crime intelligence specialists spend about 83% of their time gathering and sharing intelligence rather than having any chance to analyze it (Webb & Katz 2003). Police gang crime units are often pressed into service for timely information, and detectives commonly credit that information with helping them go about their investigations. The kind of information (not really intelligence) that detectives want out of a gang unit are monikers (gang names), legal names (and aliases), addresses, known associates, photographs, affiliations, and a guide to hand signals, symbols, and alphabet. Police departments, by tradition and custom, are rarely equipped for any gang crime intelligence products beyond simple investigative aids.
The typical police response to a gang problem in most metropolitan areas is surveillance and suppression. Suppression is a reactive strategy that zeroes in on hard-core offenders to incapacitate them with the most severe criminal sanctions. Suppression has the effect of keeping a crime problem down to manageable proportions, which isn't exactly the goal of deterrence. Suppression by omission involves downplaying the problem by manipulating the media. Repression is a tougher version of suppression that aims to eradicate the problem out of existence, usually through aggressive raids, jump-out units, and crackdowns of various sorts that infringe on civil liberties. Total repression never works, and frequently backfires. Prevention is a softer version of suppression accompanied by strong rehabilitation programs, and it is a proactive strategy that attempts to get to the problem before it happens. Most experts agree that to be effective, suppression must always be accompanied by prevention (Klein 1995).
Through adequate forecasting and threat assessment, the intelligence analyst has a role to play in deciding which strategy (suppression, repression, prevention, or a mix of all three) should be followed by the agency. It is important that such analytic products do NOT sensationalize the gang problem (e.g., "the world as we know it will be overrun by gangs in six years") just as it is important to NOT announce victory (e.g., "the war on gangs has ended; we have won; we no longer have gangs in our community"). The most likely scenario is one in which the agency is trying everything, all strategies at once, in an all-out effort they call zero tolerance which combines a whole host of things such as curfews, saturation patrol, gun buy-backs, street sweeps, surveillance, outreach, and ride-along. Under such circumstances, a gang intelligence unit would be expected to provide operational support and not be that much involved in strategy or policy like it ought to be.
With the exception of places like the Chicago Police Department (where about 400 officers are assigned to the city's gang crime intelligence unit), most urban police department gang intelligence units (GIU) are quite small, consisting of a dozen or so close-knit officers, commanded by a lieutenant or sergeant. By day, they give talks in public forums about the evils of gang life; by night, they engage in surveillance. Other duties include the review of warrants and itemization/analysis of confiscated property. Fighting gang crime tends to produce a lot of confiscated items, especially drugs and guns, but sometimes large sums of cash. Sometimes, useful intelligence work can be accomplished by analysis of confiscated items, and a supply-side strategy can be followed to dry up the gang's material resources.
One area where a gang intelligence unit (GIU) ought to part company with its operational counterparts is with the identification of less-serious offenders, also called "gang-involved", "at-risk", or "wanabe" youth. Identifying the serious, hard-core offenders for intensive police action is one thing, and perfectly legal. Aggressively targeting youth who are only in the early stages of gang membership for anything other than prevention services is quite possibly illegal. A gang crime intelligence unit (GIU) should never let itself get in the position of becoming a provider of secondary names (targets) after the primary targets have been eliminated. Secondly, the lessons of LAPD's CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) unit in the Rampart District should warn against letting your gang unit turn into a narcotics unit. Furthermore, the lesson of NYPD's CAGE (Citywide Anti-Gang Enforcement) unit is that simply arresting gang members does not always lead to a successful prosecution because witness intimidation and obstruction of justice should be expected.
Finally, any well thought-out suppression strategy should include some way of tracking or monitoring the hard-core gang members who have been sent away to prison. New York City's GIU has done this with some success, as have states like Illinois with a working relationship between law enforcement and corrections. It is entirely possible, and quite likely, that gang leaders will attempt to control the gang's activities from behind penitentiary walls. For this reason, it is important for police and correctional agencies to work together and establish intelligence sharing. Many correctional facilities, however, are prohibited from admitting they have a gang problem, and many state prison systems don't allow gang research. The kind of intelligence analysis that is most useful when making use of prison data is called gang profile analysis, and the National Gang Crime Research Center has some examples at their website.
The problem-solving approach requires centralization of police functions, as opposed to community-based policing which requires decentralization. Research is inconclusive on whether centralization or decentralization is better for the police, but almost everyone agrees that the intelligence analysis function works best with centralization. With a centralized command structure, there is more problem sharing, and with more problem sharing comes problem solving. At least that's the thinking behind problem-oriented policing, a movement that originated about the same time as community policing (Goldstein 1990) and has commonalities with the broken windows thesis that no disorder or decay, no matter how small, should be overlooked. Anti-gang initiatives that are driven by the problem-solving model are referred to as using the COPPS (Community Oriented Policing and Problem Solving) model since the more comprehensive COPPS program developed from the Problem Oriented Policing (POP) concept.
Not all gangs are profit-making enterprises, intent on franchising themselves across the country. Despite different criminological ways to classify gangs, Skolnick et. al (1990) have made a basic distinction between entrepreneurial gangs and cultural gangs. Cultural gangs, which originate out of local neighborhoods, are far more common than entrepreneurial gangs, despite concerted efforts to make all gangs look entrepreneurial and expansionistic. At the local level, the fundamental causes of gang formation are racism, unemployment, and a lack of social capital. Police have limited resources to do anything about these causes, but it is possible to mobilize a community through problem-solving so that the fundamentals are addressed. Community mobilization typically involves citizens, youth, community groups, and agencies as advisors who help orient police in their gang-control efforts. Irving Spergel's highly regarded model (Spergel & Curry 1993) recommends community mobilization as well a number of other strategies, including suppression, in what might be called a blended approach. Problem-solving tries to get at the root causes of crime. Some typical programs one might see with these strategies include:
storefront offices (combined social centers and police mini-stations in buildings made vacant by businesses who moved out)
outreach workers (similar to detached social workers, or volunteers who monitor youth on a daily basis)
community meetings (in which various groups get together and have the police just listen to their concerns)
literacy labs (programs that help gang members to learn to read and write, and develop other skills)
parenting classes (programs that help gang members learn parenting skills)
cognitive restructuring (meetings and sessions that help de-program people from gang life)
tattoo removal (services that remove gang-related tattoos, on the promise of no new tattoos for 2 years)
The above are all obviously in need of further research and evaluation before any conclusions can be made about their effectiveness. However, the general thrust behind such programs is the notion of information sharing. Police departments often underestimate the value of intelligence based on community sources, such as information gathered from community meetings and "gripe sessions." A simple content analysis of recorded meetings could yield valuable intelligence. Non-criminal justice agency personnel often have valuable insights on the gang problem, as do probation, parole, and correctional officials. All should be involved in the problem-solving strategy, and police departments should do a better job of networking the social service agencies in their community, as the following chart illustrates:
Coordinating (or interorganizing) an effective social services network in the community creates constant pressure on gangs, and it is this constant pressure which offers the best hope for dealing with youth gangs (Sanders 1994). The constant pressure hypothesis makes use of research indicating that most gangs have fluid, unstable, and erratic leadership, as well as membership. Gang leadership tends to come and go, as rivals from inside and outside the gang target them for assassination or revenge. Members also tend to come and go, as commitment levels rise and fall. Intra- and inter-gang violence is precipitated by turf and disrespect. When gang members wear their colors, give their own gang signs, or paint their gang graffiti in another gang's area, this invites a violent response from the home gang. Some police departments in the 1970's and 80's experimented with "gang summits" where police chiefs acted as diplomats attempting to arrange peace treaties, and the results of such efforts ranged from disastrous to promising. There is a small segment of the police community who still believe in gang summits, but there are neither handbooks nor guidelines for doing it effectively, other than the promising tactic of creating "neutral zones" for when gang wars erupt.
Another name for constant pressure is known as the "pulling levers" focused-deterrence strategy. Pulling levers is a phrase concocted by Operation Ceasefire in Boston during 1995 which produced the "Boston miracle" of dramatically reduced gang violence. It involves talking directly to gangs, saying explicitly that violence will no longer be tolerated, and that every legally available lever, or option, would be pulled whenever violence occurred (Kennedy 1998). Gang intelligence came into play, not by producing ready-made "hit lists" of gang members for police to crack down on indiscriminately whenever violence occurred, but by identifying those small number of gang members most responsible for acts of violence, and making their lives miserable through a variety of criminal and civil sanctions. The strategy requires cooperation from prosecutors and judges, and in the case of some hard-core, chronically violent offenders, the intervention of federal authorities.
A final note on problem-solving might mention the possibility of using former gang members as staff or consultants in programs. This approach is sometimes called a gang deactivation program, and is quite controversial. Law enforcement tends to have some disdain for those without a squeaky-clean background who want to work in law enforcement, but it is indeed possible that valuable contributions could be made by rehabilitated criminals, and that sometimes the redeeming qualities of a gang makes them ideal for doing beneficial community work. The idea of making police programs more genuine by including ex-clients goes back to Hagedorn (1988) and is a theme reiterated by others (Bursik and Grasmick 1993). In some inner-city schools, for example, prosocial gang members are used as hall monitors, and in such places, drug sales have reportedly gone down. In other cities, ex-gang members are employed as outreach workers. These ideas, and many others, place the intelligence analyst in the role of at least doing organizational development for the police department or rethinking the relationship with stakeholders, clientele, and customers. It should be evident, in summary, that the role of intelligence in gang crime analysis has always been quite diverse, complex, and ever-changing. A full understanding of the gang phenomena remains elusive.
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Street Gang Dynamics
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I'm so hungry today. I feel like I want to eat everything I can get my hands on. Pilates this morning was harder than expected. They changed the class format to be tougher. It was class five of the week and my muscles are tired. I got in a 30 minute walk going to class. The farmers market was bustling. Came home with arugula, persimmons and pomegranate to add to a goat cheese salad. I foundc18 year aged balsamic vinegar up in Healdsburg. I haven't tried it yet as I'm squeezing the last bits out of my stash from Spain. So think it barely will drip and golly it's good on greens. I hope the new stuff is great or else I'm taking an empty suitcase back to Spain.
I need to get off my ass and clean up around here. Guy is back from LA in time for dinner tonight. Cooking for him.mprefer he cooks because he's great in the kitchen and I'm not. I'll try not to kill him. A lowcut shirt should distract him sufficiently to not care what's on the plate.
After cleaning up im going to get out for a 5k walk around the lake. It's cold and gorgeous out this afternoon. Love it!


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Grove Scholars Program
The Grove Scholarship Application
for Spring 2015 is open!
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of the application.
The application is due to SparkPoint at Skyline College,
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Through funding from The Grove Foundation, SparkPoint at Skyline College is proud to offer a needs-based educational scholarship to students pursuing certificates in Career and Technical Education programs at Skyline College. The list of programs can be found by downloading the Grove Scholars brochure below.
Students may be awarded up to $2,000 for the semester. To date, one hundred thirty-eight $2000 scholarships have been awarded to Skyline College students. Scholars participate in financial education workshops and individual financial coaching, career counseling, and additional services to support academic success and goals.
To apply for the scholarship, students must:
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On an incredibly cold and frostbitten afternoon in Februrary of 2009, an acoustic black metal band was formed from the depths of hell itself, and immediately put on indefinite hiatus after the first single was recorded and released. Shortly afterward, the band was interviewed by a Necrowizard's fan club publicity agent, and it went as follows:
Agent: "Hello good sir, may i ask why this fantastic band was put on hiatus?"
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The 26-year-old is expected to sign a two-year extension to his current contract, which expires in 2016.
The new deal will see the former Bayer Leverkusen star earn around €5million a year.
"Vidal arrived in Turin and the move was met with some scepticism, but he has done very well and now he should be rewarded," Juventus director general Giuseppe Marotta told Tuttosport.
"There have been big clubs in Europe interested in him but in the coming weeks, his contract will be prolonged and economically adequate."


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News Section: Opinion
Guest Op/Ed: Voters Have Spoken for Bipartisanship and Cooperation
Now that the campaign season has ended, it is with a great sense of hopefulness that I, along with other members of the Florida House Democratic Caucus, prepare for the start of a new legislative session in which a new era of bipartisanship and cooperation will be on display.
I am extremely proud of the work of our political party, our candidates and the many voters who indicated they share our point of view about how to address Florida's needs and priorities. By the voters' actions, the Florida House Democratic Caucus grows to 44 members strong. And while our caucus is not large enough to be in the majority or be able to control all that happens in Tallahassee, I trust that we have the influence to have our concerns heard and addressed.
As Democrats, we are the party of diversity and I am pleased that the membership of the Florida House Democratic Caucus truly reflects Florida's great diversity and strengths. I am also comforted by the fact that our relationships with other members in the Legislature are strong. I enjoy a close friendship with my Democratic counterpart in the Florida Senate, State Senator Chris Smith, and I know that he'll be a fantastic leader. And like other members of our Democratic Caucus, I have warm regards and much confidence in Representative Will Weatherford, the Republican Caucus speaker-designate. He and I have already had many conversations about the future of Florida, and I enjoy a close working relationship with my Republican counterpart.
The election is over, and we have enormous challenges ahead of us. Now, it is incumbent on each of us who serves in the Legislature to get to work, and not to wait. This, I believe, is a message sent to us by the voters. They have said they are tired of bitterness in politics and they don't like partisan gridlock.
Important business awaits us. Job creation, education, health care, elections and ethics reform are only a few of the many important subjects that will be addressed in the next legislative session. I believe that we want a positive agenda that takes Florida forward, and I can assure you that Florida House Democratic Caucus members will support legislation that does more than just advocate for conservatives and liberals. Rather, we aim to promote good for all Floridians for a long time to come.
Rep. Perry Thurston
Florida House Democratic Leader-designate
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A dysphagia diet is for people who have problems with chewing or swallowing. The diet limits foods to certain textures that make it easier and safer to swallow. This dysphagia advanced diet is restricted to:
Foods that are moist, with "bite-size" pieces.
Foods that are not hard, sticky, or crunchy.
Well-moistened breads with extra margarine, jelly, and syrup. No dry bread such as toast or crackers.
Foods that do not include nuts, seeds, dry fruit, coconut, or pineapple.
Vegetables that are less than 1 inch in size. No cooked corn or non-tender, rubbery cooked vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, asparagus, or cauliflower.
Recommended: Any beverages, depending on recommendations for liquid consistency.
You are currently limited to one of the following liquid consistency levels:
Recommended: Any well-moistened breads, biscuits, muffins, pancakes, and waffles. Need to add adequate syrup, jelly, margarine, or butter to moisten well.
Avoid: Dry bread, toast, and crackers. Tough, crusty breads such as French bread or baguettes.
Recommended: Cooked cereals with little texture, including oatmeal. Unprocessed wheat bran stirred into cereals for bulk. If thin liquids are restricted, it is important that all of the liquid is absorbed into the cereal.
Avoid: All dry cereals and any cooked cereals that may contain flax seeds or other seeds or nuts. Whole-grain, dry, or coarse cereals. Cereals with nuts, seeds, dried fruit, or coconut.
Recommended: All except those listed to avoid.
Avoid: Dry cakes or cookies that are chewy or very dry. Anything with nuts, seeds, coconut, pineapple, or dried fruit.
These foods are considered thin liquids and should be avoided if thin liquids are restricted:
Frozen malts, milk shakes, frozen yogurt, eggnog, nutritional supplements, ice cream, sherbet, regular or sugar-free gelatin, or any foods that become thin liquid at either room temperature, 70°F (21.1°C) or body temperature, 98°F (36.7°C).
Recommended: All except those listed to avoid.
Avoid: All fats with coarse, difficult-to-chew, or chunky additives such as cream cheese spread with nuts or pineapple.
Recommended: All canned and cooked fruits. Soft, peeled fresh fruits such as peaches, nectarines, kiwi, mangoes, cantaloupe, and honeydew. Soft berries with small seeds such as strawberries.
Avoid: Difficult-to-chew fresh fruits such as apples or pears. Stringy, high-pulp fruits such as papaya, pineapple, or mango. Fresh fruits with difficult-to-chew peels, such as grapes. Uncooked dried fruits such as prunes and apricots. Fruit leather, fruit snacks, and dried fruits.
Meats and Meat Substitutes
Meat should be chopped into ¼-inch to ½-inch pieces.
Recommended: Thin-sliced, tender, or ground meats and poultry. Well-moistened fish. Eggs prepared any way. Yogurt without nuts or coconut. Casseroles with small chunks of meat, ground meats, or tender meats.
Avoid: Tough, dry meats and poultry. Dry fish or fish with bones. Chunky peanut butter. Yogurt with nuts or coconut.
Potatoes and Starches
Recommended: All, including rice, wild rice, moist bread dressing, and tender, fried potatoes.
Avoid: Tough, crisp fried potatoes. Potato skins. Dry bread dressing.
Recommended: All soups except those listed to avoid. Strained corn or clam chowder. Soups will need to be thickened to appropriate consistency if soup is thinner than prescribed liquid consistency.
Avoid: Soups with tough meats. Corn or clam chowders. Soups with large chunks of meat and vegetables that are bigger than 1 inch.
Recommended: All cooked, tender vegetables. Shredded lettuce.
Avoid: All raw vegetables except shredded lettuce. Cooked corn. Non-tender or rubbery cooked vegetables.
Recommended: All seasonings and sweeteners. All sauces. Non-chewy candies without nuts, seeds, or coconut. Jams, jellies, honey, and preserves.
Avoid: Seeds, nuts, and coconut. Chewy caramel or taffy candies. Candies with nuts, seeds, or coconut.


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W.Va. PEIA rates capped for 2013
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — More than 100,000 West Virginia households covered through the Public Employees Insurance Agency won't see premiums rise or benefits shrink next year.
The agency's Finance Board set that course Thursday after board members cited the $4 million in additional funds pledged by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.
The funding allows PEIA to avoid increasing the maximum amount that families pay out-of-pocket.
Executive Director Ted Cheatham said premiums will go down for some alternative benefit plans. PEIA is also shifting the plan year for retirees so it starts on Jan. 1 instead of July 1. That will begin in 2014.
Cheatham said enrollees will have avoided premiums increases for at least two years.
PEIA covers around 76,000 state and local public employees and their families as well as round 31,000 retiree households.


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Below is the poem entitled Daffy Definitions by PoetrySoup(Cowritten by DANE ANN) which was written by poet
HGarvey Daniel
Esquire. Please feel free to comment on this poem. However, please remember, PoetrySoup is a place of encouragement and growth.
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HGarvey Daniel
Hgarvey Daniel Esquire
To all my Poetic Family, I would like to start a new word game It's very easy You pick a word
Define it and sign your name ( see examples below ) I will then with each author's permission
compile a PoetrySoup dictionary Anybody up to it ALWAYS...HG
Paperboy --- Origami --- HG
Armrest --- Sling --- HG
Poetry --- Word Songs --- Karen O'leary
Cackle Fruit --- Hen Egg ---John Moses Freeman * see his Comment Below
Brazier --- Boob Gear --- DAS-J( Dane Ann )
Broken leg --- Putting down three and carrying one --- Also equals new math--Sara Kedrick
Poetess Extraordinaire --- Extraordinary Creative Lady --- Linda-Marie Bariana
Poetic --- A little bug on a writer --- Sue Mason
Life Class --- Dress down, no gown --- Brian Strand
Senoir Moment --- No sap, need nap --- Brian Strand
Cool --- Kool now Koolio --- Lovely --- James Fraser
Satin Doll --- "Candy Sweet --- Alias linda Marie --- Linda Maria Bariana
Beatnik --- Long Locks, no Socks --- Brian Strand
Consultant --- Freelance Faience --- Brian Strand
Old Age --- Same Chat, Off Pat --- Brian Strand
Teenage --- Back Chat Off Pat --- Brian Strand
Autobiography --- Timeline, All Mine --- Brian Strand
Google ---Quick Look, Word Book ---Brian Strand
Errant ---Deniably Naughty --- Dane Ann
Ferocious --- Fierce Folly ---Dane Ann Continue to PART 2


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James Bond Tour of London plus Studio lunch
A dream come true for any Bond fan. Even casual fans of the cinema not obsessed with the franchise will enjoy this one.
Tyler Boyd, Tennessee (Trip Advisor review)
This guided James Bond Tour is designed for true fans of 007, the most famous spy in the world. On this tour you will have your own driver plus a knowledgeable James Bond expert.
Get behind the scenes information on how the films were made, see movie clips as we pass the actual locations, discuss the books and your favourite moments from the films. Along the way you will be given plenty of opportunities to stretch your legs and see the film locations up close.
Part 1: Tour of James Bond Locations and inspirations in central London
You'll start the day with a tour of James Bond locations in central London from Skyfall, Die Another Day, The World is Not Enough, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tomorrow Never Dies and much more. We'll also look at some of the inspirations that helped Ian Fleming create the worlds most famous spy. As an optional extra you can take a 30 minute tour by Kayak with a professional instructor and enter the tunnel that stands in for the waterside entrance to Mi6 in the forthcoming Bond film SPECTRE.
Part 2: Lunch at Pinewood
Following the London location tour you will be driven west of London to where the Bond films have been made and you will have the chance to lunch at Heatherden Hall inside the world famous studios where the Bond films have been made since Dr No in 1962. Following lunch you will be able to see the gardens used as the location for SPECTRE Island from the 1963 film From Russia With Love, as well as The World is Not Enough*
Part 3: Outer London Location Tour
The afternoon section of the tour will be rounded off with a visit to locations from Thunderball, Octopussy, Goldfinger and For Your Eyes Only and an exclusive afternoon tea and private tour of the location used as Goldfingers' golf club.
Tours can be arranged for groups of up to 10 persons. Customer Reviews
- See over 10 James Bond film locations in central London including sites from Goldeneye, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Die Another Day, The World is Not Enough and Skyfall
- Lunch at the world famous Studios where the Bond films have been made and visit SPECTRE island (subject to availability)
- See where James Bond has his first encounter with Auric Goldfinger and Oddjob at the golf club
- Pay your respects at the site of Tracy Di Vicenzo's grave
- Check in at the Shrublands Health Clinic from Thunderball
- OPTIONAL EXTRA: Take a kayak trip into the tunnel used in filming for the forthcoming Bond film SPECTRE that is featured as the waterside entrance to Mi6 (additional £150 for a group of 1-10 persons)
Departs at 9am (Monday-Fridays) except Bank Holidays. By arrangement only.
How Long?
8-9 hours
How Much?
For this tour group sizes are limited to a maximum of 10 persons
1 persons (People Carrier with driver and guide): £690
2 persons (People Carrier with driver and guide): £770
3 persons (People Carrier with driver and guide): £850
4 persons (People Carrier with driver and guide): £930
5 persons (People Carrier with driver and guide): £990
6 – 10+ persons contact us for a quote
Meet where?
Central London hotel pick up or Temple tube station (outside Temple Bar Restaurant next to the station exit) How to get there or See map
Finish where
Central London
Professional guide, driver and transportation, Traditional English Afternoon Tea, Lunch (Main course and Drink), Pinewood Studios gift.
Gratuities (optional). Car / Booster seats for children under 3 years.


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Ako Poti is looking forward to the 2009 season and an opportunity to compete for time in the offensive tackle rotation. He redshirted the 2008 season to continue his transition and development, having enrolled at Penn State in January 2007 after spending three semesters at San Francisco Community College, near his hometown. Poti has good size, skills and strength and has made considerable strides in his bid to win a more prominent role on the O-Line this season. He is battling Dennis Landolt at right tackle, but Landolt spent some time at left tackle during spring practice, which potentially could open the door for Poti to move up. He was an All-America tackle at SFCC and saw time at guard and tackle in his first season as a Nittany Lion. He was on schedule to graduate in August.
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|GenLit (for 20-30 somethings)
Event Type: Book Discussions
Age Group(s): 20-30 Somethings
Date: 9/17/2012
Start Time: 6:30 PM
A new generation of book club, GenLit will "tap" into the spirit and interest of those of a certain generation (20-30 somethings). Meets for dinner and discussion on the third Monday of the month (January-October) at 6:30 p.m. at a new restaurant each month
Other Information:
Meets for dinner and discussion at TBA at 6:30 p.m. Register in person, by calling 630/887-8760 ext. 239, or on Facebook at facebook.com/genlit.Presenter: Jennifer A.
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Tom Soehn on World Soccer Daily
March 16, 2009
Tune in to today's edition of World Soccer Daily to hear an interview with United Head Coach Tom Soehn. Tommy will be on live with hosts Steven Cohen and Kenny Hassan at about 2:15 p.m. ET.
To call the studio and ask Tommy a question, dial 866-925-8255 or send an email here.
The program runs Monday-Friday from 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. You can listen live on Sirius Radio channel 125.