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University Center, UTSA 1604 Campus
UTSA has protocol for campaign visits to campuses
By Lowa Mwilambwe
Director, UTSA University Center
(March 6, 2008)--To deal with the possibility of candidate visits, whether by national, local or state candidates, the UTSA Office of Events Management and Conference Services (EMCS) has an established protocol.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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The protocol is for registered student, faculty and staff organizations interested in planning major events involving high-profile individuals including presidential, local and state candidates and their supporters.
EMCS provides all of the necessary resources to guide prospective event sponsors through a successful planning process and ensure that the university abides by all applicable University of Texas System Rules and Regulations of the Board of Regents as well as the UTSA Handbook of Operating Procedures.
For information on sponsoring an event, contact Nikki Lee, EMCS assistant director, at (210) 458-4155 or visit Events Management and Conference Services in University Center Room 1.04.02, 1604 Campus. Office hours are 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday-Friday.


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Haha. don't you know what happened to you? Every team has teams that it
doesn't match up well with. Right now we don't like to play the Saints,
and before that Minny. Some players kill teams. Eli tried his best to
put Sharper in the HoF. Life is quirky like that. Anyway we're your
Daddy. Eli is a NE killer. You drew your only bad matchup. So get me a
beer from the fridge ***!
Peyton cursed Tom Brady, BB, and NE.
You will never win a SB while Eli is in the league. The best part is Eli
could never make it into the HoF without 2 SB wins over great
opponents. The greater the opponent the greater the victory. so thanks!
And next time you make it to the SB, you can expect to see us!!!

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text: Who are the biggest draft busts of all-time chosen in the top 3? Joe Smith #1, Darko #2, Shawn Bradley (#2?), and Kwame Brown (#1) come to mind. Smith and Bradley are players that still found a role in the league in spite of falling far short of their draft day expectations. Brown and Darko appear to be heading down the same road. Are there any that did not even make it in the league? Career threatening injuries aside, because that was not their fault.


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Cosy Studio Near Whitechapel (7XS) With Private Bathroom
Size20 m²
Floor No.3
- Family/child friendly
- Kitchen
- Lockable room
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Commercial Road, E1 2JY London, United Kingdom
|Property type
|Property ID
|Acceptance rate
|Response time
|A few hours
|Calendar updated
We have added a new high speed internet connection with the choice of 4 networks, so no more slow internet.
The cosy studio includes a double bed, a wall-mounted TV and plenty of storage space. Guests can enjoy home-cooked meals in the small dining area, and the kitchenette is well-equipped with modern appliances. A walk-in shower can be found in the tiled bathroom.
The nearest bus stop is located just outside your door, and provides excellent transport links to central London and the West End. Whitechapel Tube Station can be reached within an 8-minute walk, and provides access to the Circle, District and Hammersmith lines.
In the surrounding area, guests will find a broad selection of bars, restaurants and galleries. A number of traditional markets can also be found nearby, including Petticoat Lane Market.
House rulesNo smoking.
No parties.
No illegal activities.
Guests should clean up after themselves.
Be respectful of the neighbours and keep noise to a minimum.
The host cannot be held responsible for any lost or stolen belongings.
Guests should inform the host on the day of check-in if they are unhappy about anything.
|Weekly rate for up to 2 guests
|Monthly rate for up to 2 guests
|Check-in after
|Check-in before
|On arrangement
|Check-out before
|Cancellation Policy
Reviews of this property
We stayed two nights in the studio. It is rather small, but well organized and has everything you need for your stay. It is located close to some main attractions like the Tower of London and the Tower Bridge. Tara was a great host. Friendly, extremely helpful and always replied very fast to any of our questions and requests. As we had read in previous reviews, it indeed can be a little loud from the outside road, due to traffic and the plain windows. Nevertheless we had a pretty good sleep besides that. In all, we are satisfied with what we booked and got for the very reasonable price.
We spent 3 nights in the studio, and overall it was quite nice.
The room is just enough for a couple, quite clean despite a little bit noisy (though I'm quite sure Tarina cannot do anything about the police and medical vehicles honking and ringing their alarm!)
Her uncle Billy was really helpful too.
I would definitely book this studio again next time I come to London.
- Studio well located and well connected by bus and metro,
- Food shops nearby,
- Small kitchen practice,
- Studio, sheets and towels,
- No problem to arrive later (2230), no deposit to pay.
The Bad:
- Noisy street, provide earplugs for sleeping,
Les points positifs:
- studio bien situé et bien desservi par le bus et le métro,
- commerces alimentaires à proximite,
- petit coin cuisine pratique,
- studio, draps et serviettes propres,
- pas de problème pour arriver tard (22h30), pas de caution à verser.
Les points négatifs:
- rue bruyante, prévoir boules quies pour dormir,
A first, clean room and quiet.
Bus station and subway nearby. Punctuality!
I highly recommend.
Une première,chambre propre et au calme.
Station de bus et métro à proximité. Ponctualité!
Je recommande vivement.
For a weekend in London, the accommodation is adequate but very, very noisy! The apartment is clean, but smaller than indicated. Overall ok
Für ein Wochenende in London ist die Unterkunft ausreichend aber wirklich sehr, sehr laut! Die Wohnung ist sauber, aber kleiner als angegeben. Insgesamt ok
We really enjoyed the stay at Tarina's Apartment but it was also very loud and the area is not very attractive...otherwise the Apartment is very Big and has everything what you will Need at your stay in London also a Couch for guests.
- Quality assured accommodation
- Every host is verified by telephone
- Secure payment via SSL encryption


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1) Front: May the beauty of God's creation...
Inside: ...brighten your Easter season.
Scripture: And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us... PSALM 90:17
2) Front: A Gardenful of Easter Wishes
Inside: ...for a beautiful and special day.
Scripture: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever. HEBREWS 13:8
3) Front: There's so much to be thankful for in Spring
Inside: ...blue skies, flowers blooming and YOU! Happy Easter
Scripture: O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth. PSALM 96:1
4) Front: May the return of Spring...
Inside: ...fill your heart with joy. Happy Easter
Scripture: Behold, I make all things new. REVELATION 21:5
King James Version
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Well, what a rotten start to 2013. No, I am not talking about the weather, I am talking about the Golden Globes.
Just when you thought the "Hollywood foreign press" - a bunch of journos on the greatest, cushiest junket in history - couldn't get any thicker, they go and do it again.
Not content with last year's blunder of giving the first season of the ludicrous, illogical Homeland three Golden Gobs - for series, actor and actress - they've done the same this year and "honoured" the series' even more preposterous, stupid second season with the same three awards.
It does make you wonder: did any of these Hollywood Foreign Plonkers, between the free champagne, smoked salmon canapes and the schmoozing of starlets, actually watch even one mad, nonsensical episode of the thing? Or did they just read Metacritic.com?
Did the Hollywood Foreign Hacks watch Boss or The Walking Dead or Game of Thrones? Even the utterly laughable Downton Abbey seemed, well, less laughable by comparison.
Watching Homeland is enough to make you go all swivel-eyed - which is what I appear to have done - but winning awards? Well ...
Best to get on with 2013 then, which has begun on SoHo with a show which won't win next year's Golden Gob for best drama because I'd put money on it not getting enough great reviews on Metacritic.com.
Banshee (Tuesdays, 8.30pm) is the sort of drama that helps fill a schedule and fill an hour, but doesn't really fulfil.
It does, of course, star Antony Starr, once of this burg but now based in Australia (since the end of Outrageous Fortune).
I hope Banshee does his career in the United States some good, because on the basis of the first two episodes it adds nothing much to the cable-drama genus - though it does open with the most preposterous set-up I've seen in some time.
Starr's character is released from prison after 15 years, and within 20 minutes of screen-time manages to shag a waitress and hassle an old crony - a gay, hairdressing hacker, would you believe - into giving him his ex-girlfriend's address in a town called Banshee, in Pennsylvania's Amish country.
He gets into a bar fight in which Banshee's yet-to-start-work sheriff, Lucas Hood, is shot dead and helps bury the sheriff. Then, with only a moment's hesitation, he adopts Hood's identity.
By the premiere episode's end, he finds himself facing down the local crime boss, Proctor, an Amish fellow who's gone very bad indeed. And have I mentioned that the now-dead Sheriff Hood has no living relatives, no friends, no Facebook account and no one - not even the guy who hired him, the mayor of Banshee - knows what he looks like? Pretty lucky, wouldn't you say? Or pretty stupid.
The advance publicity on Banshee has made some play of Alan Ball - creator of Six Feet Under and True Blood - having a hand in it as executive producer, but if he has had an influence it hasn't been enough to lift Banshee above the ordinary so far.
The main trouble is that you can't help feeling you've seen it all before: from the old trope of a Town With Secrets (Twin Peaks, Blue Velvet, American Gothic, Stepford Wives) to Starr's brooding, violent man-with-a-secret (Homeland's Brody anyone?), to the over-the-top Proctor, who has a penchant for hacking up his meat like Bill "The Butcher" Cutting, the memorable monster played by Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York.
Even the town of Banshee, allegedly in Amish country in America's northeast, seems like it's one county over from True Blood's steamy bayou hamlet of Bon Temps.
Banshee's script occasionally throws up a memorable wisecrack, and there is fun being had with the thief-turned-gamekeeper nature of Starr's Hood, but I don't think there's enough going on in Banshee to keep me in town for long.
- TimeOut


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1 Bedroom. Manchester. Private Apartment, with Free Wi-Fi, for Business or Holiday rentals in Leafy, South M/C/R
Спальные места3
Ванные комнаты1
Площадь46 м²
Этаж №1
- Кухня
- Стиральная машина/сушилка
- Парковка
- Интернет
- Полотенца
- Посудомоечная машина
- Закрывающаяся на ключ комната
Краткое описание жилья
|Range Road, M16 8FS Manchester, Великобритания
|Тип жилья
|ID жилья
|Процент подтвержденных запросов брони
|Время ответа
|Несколько часов
|Календарь обновлен
|Месяц назад
Superb one bedroom spacious and comfortable; self-contained, studio apartment, 45m² conveniently located in sought after and desirable; leafy south Manchester.
There is a bus stop within a 2 minute walk of the building & excellent transport links to the Manchester University, the city centre, hospitals & Manchester International Airport.
Off-road parking. (Free car-park)
Suitable for both business and holiday rentals.
All bills & Wi-Fi internet access are inclusive.
The apartment benefits from a new kitchen, bathroom, furnishings and flooring.
The apartment comprises of a large comfortably furnished living-room/bedroom, a pleasant bathroom with shower over the bath and a well-appointed kitchen.
The kitchen has a built in oven, a microwave, a fridge-freezer plus a washing machine & tumble-dryer.
BT Vision TV is provided with a HD Television, a CD player, Radio alarm etc.
Bedding, towels, kitchen utensils & crockery are supplied.
The apartment has economy 7; night storage central heating and hot water is supplied by an immersion heater.
On the exterior you can enjoy a leafy environment with nearby parks and tree lined streets, along with a parking spot for your vehicles.
The apartment's location is 15 minutes by bus from Manchester City Centre and Piccadilly Railway station, 10 minutes by bus from the University district and 20 minutes by Taxi from Manchester International Airport.
There is a shopping area within a 3 minute walk of the apartment with convenience stores comprising of a Tesco Metro, Co-op Food and a Subway etc. There are larger Supermarkets within a 5 minute bus ride.
Fully furnished
Free Wireless internet ( WIFI )
British Telecom TV with Many Channels
Fully fitted new kitchen with all utensils and crockery
Towels and linen provided
Quality Bedding
Weekly linen change
Baby cot and hi-chair on request
Washer/dryer/iron and board and Hair-dryer
Utility bills and council tax included
The city of Manchester, which has a population in excess of 400,500, is the principal industrial, cultural and commercial centre of North-West England and is the UK's second financial centre. The city has 2.5 million people living within a 12 mile radius of the centre. Manchester benefits from excellent communications via the M60, M62, M56, M66 and M67 Motorways, Intercity rail links and an international airport.
Правила ПроживанияGuests should clean up after themselves.
Guests should leave the apartment in the same state as it was at check-in.
No smoking.
An extra bed can be added on request.
|Цена за неделю (вплоть до 3 гостей)
|28705 руб.
|Цена за месяц (вплоть до 3 гостей)
|103333 руб.
|Заезд после
|По договоренности
|Заселение до
|По договоренности
|Отъезд до
|По договоренности
|Политика Отмены Брони
la casa di Bruce non è grande, non è luminosa, non è lussuosa, non è vicina la centro. la casa di Bruce è però accogliente, calda, piena di tante piccole cose che la fanno sentire subito Casa tua. Siamo stati bene e torneremo volentieri ripassando da Manchester. Un consiglio, usate Uber per gli spostamenti, più economico dei bus e pratico.
Bruce fue muy agradable y atento, salvo la calefacción de la habitación, no funcionaba bien, y la potencia de la cocina, una hora para hacer un café, todo lo demás estaba bien. Un saludo
Bruce est très sympa et nous a parfaitement accueillis. Il est bilingue, cela facilite les discussions.
L'appartement est fonctionnel., situé dans un quartier populaire mais très tranquille, nous n'avons eu aucun problème, au contraire, les gens étaient très aimables dans la rue.
L'arrêt d'autobus est à côté et le bus anglais ne coûte pas cher
Prenez le 7 dayrider quand vous montez dans l'autobus .
Après, les voyages sont illimités sur les bus stagecoach et magicbus.
N'oubliez pas d'aller à Liverpool, la ville est beaucoup plus intéressante que Manchester .
Обзор других предложений от этого хозяина
We had a pleasant stay in the apartment. Very friendly owners and the flat is comfortable and well connected.
The flat is located in a very good position, near Alexandra Park and close to a bus stop from where you can easily reach the city centre. There is a car parking too.
The apartment is well furnished with new appliances.
The only annoying thing was the small sink in the bathroom with the hot water tap difficult to close.
The host John was very nice and accommodating with our check-in and check-out time.
We enjoyed our stay.
The apartment has good views to surrounding trees, it is clean and everything you need you have it. And most important, the host attended all our requests. He is really nice and helpful. Best regards Bruce!
A comfortable, cosy, family friendly flat, equipped with everything we needed during our stay.
Great location, near a park and the bus for the city centre.
Bruce is a very nice and attentive landlord, we'll definitely book again!
Bruce was an absolutely lovely host. He met us whenever it suited for us, check in and check out were as easy as possible and he made everything for us to feel comfortable. The apartment is as described, small but comfortable and one feels at home instantly.
We really appreciated it and I would definitely stay at Bruce's apartments again.
Bruce is a fantastic host, very helpful. the apartment was really great and cery confortable!
Very good. Bruce is a perfect host. The house is confortable and very nice.
- Гарантировать качество жилья
- Проверить каждого принимающиего Вас хозяина по телефону
- Обеспечить безопасную оплату через шифрование на базе SSL


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Full Year 2013 - Sports
Julia Chase-Brand's Story: Don't Rock the Boat
By: Julia Chase-Brand, Female Distance Runner and Doctor
I grew up on a small farm in Connecticut in the 1940's and 50's. I was an only girl with four brothers. If they were clearing the pond for hockey, I'd scrape snow off the ice and jump in the game. Once I was 12, I helped bail boats out during hurricanes. I got drafted into all sorts of things. I loved being a part of everything—as long as it was outdoors.
Celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day
By: Dominique Dawes, Co-Chair of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition
Today is National Girls and Women in Sports Day! Each year, this observance provides us with a tremendous opportunity to help get more girls in the game, and make a significant investment in the future of our Nation. I am proud to serve as co-chair of the President's Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition and sound the alarm about the importance of ensuring equitable physical activity opportunities for all Americans.
Sarah Egan's Story: More Than a Team
By: Sarah Egan, Teacher & Coach, Benjamin Franklin Middle School
Come to the blacktop at my middle school and hang out for a couple of hours. You'll get a sense of what 12-to-14-yearolds like and how they act. For them this is the center of the world.
- Childhood Obesity (6)
- Disability (3)
- Fitness (16)
- Fitness Tips (2)
- Let's Move! (10)
- MyPlate (1)
- National Physical Fitness and Sports Month (1)
- Nutrition (13)
- Obesity (1)
- Physical Activity (10)
- Physical Education (3)
- President's Council (1)
- School (9)
- Science Board (1)
- Sports (8)
- Title IX (3)
- Worldwide Day of Play (2)
- Youth (13)
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I am a tiny bit confused, I did not label my fabrics so I don't know what is what! I am going to back track and see if I can play Sherlock and figure it out!
then after I figure it out I am going to make a little cheat sheet for my self with a index card and a swatch of each fabric... I should have done that to begin with!!!!!


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ETSU closer to a new football stadium
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. - ETSU's new football program could get a new place to call home -- we've learned they are a few steps closer to getting a new stadium.
A new football program and a new stadium is the goal for ETSU, and their dream is one step closer to becoming a reality. "To say that it's moved along quickly is an understatement," Tennessee Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey told us Wednesday.
Ramsey tells News 5 Thursday is just another step in the process to build a new stadium. "We'll be approving the preliminary part of it, which will be selecting a designer and making sure funding is moving forward," adds Ramsey.
The project will cost around $18 million; ETSU's Vice President of Finance David Collins tells us the students will make up for around $7 million of that. "The Student Government Association [approved the student] fee of $125: $100 for the operations of football program and a $25 facility fee," says Collins.
We learned the state will fund around $11 million for the project.
Where would they build the stadium? Collins hopes the designer they choose will be able to help to find a location that's easy to build on and that wouldn't have flooding problems. "There is some space down by the [ETSU] soccer stadium that has some potential flooding issues. If you go back to the original athletic master plan, it was along Jack Vest Drive in the parking lot that we call 22A, somehow fitting it in that area," adds Collins.
There are other locations in the mix. Ramsey tells us he wants a stadium that fits in with the rest of the campus. "[We'd like] seating in the neighborhood of 10 to 12,000. It doesn't need to be huge. I'd rather fill up the stadium and have people waiting on tickets than have a stadium that never fills up," says Ramsey.
Ramsey wants to move the project as quick as possible, but if it isn't ready the team will play at another location, one option being Science Hill High School.
ETSU hopes to have some of the stadium opened for the team to use by fall of 2016.


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Grant Status: Active
Grant Title: Leadership Education in Adolescent Health (LEAH)
Web Site: University of Washington Project
Laura P. Richardson, MD MPH
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: (206) 987-2028
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Adolescence is a vital time to establish long-term health but missed opportunities have resulted in significant health disparities. Trained leaders are needed to develop innovative paradigms for improving adolescent health for all and to disseminate preventive interventions, improve health systems, and work with youth, families, and communities.
(1) To engage, develop, and support leaders in adolescent health across the 5 core MCH disciplines; (2) To develop and disseminate innovative approaches to leadership training and research to improve adolescent health; (3) To prepare and support MCH leaders to promote health equity, wellness, and reduce disparities in health and healthcare; (4) To increase the outreach, visibility, and utilization of expertise and products of the MCH community, and create innovative strategies to reach providers, parents and youth; (5) To and increase the capacity of the MCHB infrastructure to assure quality and accessible healthcare for adolescents.
UW LEAH will train future leaders through didactic instruction (including formal coursework), clinical training in hospital, institutional, community, and rural outreach settings, and leadership training including participation in technical assistance and research activities. Technical assistance and continuing education is offered locally, regionally, and nationally. As part of our outreach to the MCH community, we will network with and engage key stakeholders in the region and nationally to promote awareness of adolescent health issues. Innovations of our program include the creation of a number of training and educational resources related to diversity, cultural competency, and reducing health disparities. Funds are mainly used to support faculty effort, trainee stipends, trainee coursework, and hosting the annual meeting in Year 3.
Partners include 5 UW MCHB Leadership training programs for joint leadership training; hospital-based, institutional, community and rural outreach clinics as training sites to serve diverse underserved groups; Title V agencies in region to deliver continuing education and technical assistance; and national organizations and MCHB programs for joint initiatives.
Evaluation methods for trainees include online surveys and ePortfolio tracking activities and accomplishments during training and after matriculation; 360 degree evaluations from self, supervisors, patient and family ratings. Program evaluation includes seminar evaluations; quality, number, and reach of activities and products; faculty assessments; and client satisfaction surveys. We will utilize CPI methods to make ongoing program improvements.
Title V in Your State


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Audie Cole vs UCF

I noticed him when watching tape on Nate Irving. he is going to take over at MLB this season

No one liked this guys tape. i thought he looked pretty good
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Inconclusive. Looked solid in space and in coverage with fluid change of direction and quickness, but I didn't get chance to see him take on blockers and meet running backs in the hole. However it does look liek he has the size to do so (Looked noticeably bigger then Irving who stands 6'1 240)
NC State bio has him at 6-5, 239. He looks bigger than 240 in that vid (I would've guessed 250 or so)
Based just on that tape, I hope they decide to leave him outside. He does have great hips for a guy his size, very nice quickness (long speed looks a bit suspect though). He does looks good in coverage, and he can also get after the QB. At least from the outside, not so much between the tackles. I think that's mostly a result of his height (he can't seem to get low on the big guys).
[/quote]Yeah he isnt a MLB. I think he could be a 3-4 SOLB or 4-3SOLB


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| This article concerns a future game or content that is unreleased.
Some details may be speculative, and may not turn out to be correct.
Los Santos
|Grand Theft Auto V
|San Andreas
- This page is about Los Santos in Grand Theft Auto V. Did you mean Los Santos in GTA San Andreas?
Los Santos is a fictional city existing in the upcoming Grand Theft Auto V, based on the real-life city of Los Angeles, California. The city is portrayed in a contemporary time period, which is intended to be present-day around the date of the game's release, sometime in the spring of 2013.
Unusually, the entire map will be open to the player right from the start of the game, rather than being restricted to a small corner or island until reaching missions that open up access to other portions of the map. This is in keeping with GTA V's philosophy of letting the player do whatever he/she wants to do, rather than being forced to do certain things at a certain time in a certain way. Rockstar also felt the map was too large for the player to be restrained to a certain area.
Although sharing similar characteristics and landmarks as the city's appearance in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, the physical layout is completely remade, not being a like-for-like copy of the city's previous map.
Named Locations
These are the few known areas and major freeways to exist in Los Santos in GTA V.
- Urban area
- Downtown (Downtown Los Angeles)
- Vinewood (Hollywood)
- Vinewood Hills (Hollywood Hills)
- Rockford Hills (Beverly Hills)
- Vespucci Beach (Venice Beach)
- Little Seoul (Koreatown)
- East Los Santos (East Los Angeles)
- South Los Santos (South Los Angeles)
- Vespucci Canals (Venice Canal Historic District)
- Richman
- Strawberry
- Countryside and Geographical features
- Los Santos Bay (South Bay)
- Los Santos Golf Club - A full 18-hole golf course
- Tataviam Mountains surrounding Los Santos
- Roads and infrastructure
- Bay City Avenue (seen in second trailer)
- Del Perro Freeway (Interstate 2 & Route 23)
- Land Act Dam
- Los Puerta Freeway (possibly based on Interstate 405)
- Olympic Freeway (seen in this screenshot [1])
- Portola Drive (seen in official gameplay video on the Posonbys shop, 0:28 in the trailer)
- Del Perro "Pleasure" Pier (Santa Monica Pier)
- Sunset Boulevard (mentioned in Polish/Russian in-game previews)
- The real Interstate 5 will apparently run through a part of Los Santos as seen in the first trailer.
- Vespucci Boulevard (mentioned in CVG Grand Theft Auto Online preview) [2]
- Vinewood Boulevard (mentioned in in-game previews)
- W. Elipse Blvd. (seen in second trailer)
Many landmarks from the Greater Los Angeles Area appear in Los Santos in GTA V. See Landmarks in Los Santos in GTA V for a full list.
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A banner of Pleasure Pier with a drawing of a Pacific Park replica (0:09)
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Griffith Observatory replica (0:10)
Equitable Life Building replica, possibly located in Little Seoul (0:17)
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Vincent Thomas Bridge replica in the background (0:19)
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Directional road sign of Interstate 5 named Los Puerta Freeway, based on the Santa Ana/San Diego Freeways (0:32)
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Pacific Park replica (0:33)
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Directional road sign on disrict named Little Seoul (0:32)
Standard Hotel replica (0:35)
Two variants of the State of San Andreas license plates based on the State of California's (0:46/0:50)
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801 Tower replica (0:41)
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Capitol Records Building replica (0:48)
- WalkofFamereplica-GTAV-prerelease.jpg
A star on a Hollywood Walk of Fame replica (0:49)
- FigueroaTowerreplica-GTAV-prerelease.jpg
Figueroa Tower replica (0:58)
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U.S. Bank Tower replica (1:01)
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Los Angeles City Hall replica (1:11)
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Hollywood Sign replica, the Vinewood Sign (1:09)
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Los Santos as seen in Gameinformer
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Variant of "Shimano", top Japanese company which makes bicycle components (from groupsets to wheels to pedals to shoes). Akin to Microsoft in its pervasiveness and near-monopoly of the market (at least as far as groupsets (chainrings, cranks, bottom brackets, shifters, cassettes, etc)) and certain mediocrity, it is found on many bikes from the cheap low-end models to the nicer ones which actually aren't too bad (XT, XTR, Ultegra, Dura-Ace) but cost a grip. There are alternatives, at least for the groupsets - Campagnolo (go Campy) and SRAM (Sachs).
Look at that damn roadie's Bianchi - full Campagnolo gruppo! <drool> (looks down at lowly Shitmano Sora groupset).
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I tried an experiment recently involving sugar dusting on solid bottom boards. I have 8 frame hives, with a bee space between the bottom board and the hive body just under 1/2". I purchased elmer's poster foam board (for the science fair displays) to use as sticky boards. Unfortunately, these just barely fit in the bee space. Other materials I researched were far too expensive. Corrugated plastic was another option but my local sign company would've had to special order them with a 2 week wait time.
Anyway, I performed sugar dusting on about 10 hives using the method Randy Oliver describes in his recent articles in ABJ. (except for the screened bottom boards obviously). I sprayed the sticky boards with cooking oil. About 10 minutes after dusting, I removed the sticky boards from the hive to count the mites, then replaced it for 24 hours. When I counted the mites the first time, every board had over 40 mites when I stopped counting. 24 hours later when I removed the boards, they had 3 to 5 mites.
My question is: What happened to the dozens of mites present on the board the day before? Did they hitch rides back on bees due to my lack of a screen? That is my theory. It seems that a screened bottom with a space between the sticky board and the bees is essential.
I have read other threads on this board describing dusting without a screened bottom and having great success, so I'm wondering if I am not doing something right.
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"This exhibit is a window into what the homosexual movement thinks of you, your children, religion, and America," claims Brian Camenker's MassResistance of Waltham. "It involves sexual perversion, child pornography, and anti-Catholic bigotry. And it's what your 'safe schools' czar Kevin Jennings supports."
The exhibit in question: "ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993," a historical survey at Harvard's Carpenter Center of posters, stickers, and other graphics pushing for better AIDS treatment and advocating for gay rights. The Obama link: Jennings, assistant deputy secretary in the US Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, who made a gift to support the show — and whom conservative crackpots aim to hound out of the job because he's a gay activist.
The Catholic League calls the group ACT UP a "homosexual urban terrorist group" and the exhibit a "sick display. . . . Harvard, of course, would never feature a display of Klan paraphernalia and say it was being done for the purpose of 'dialogue.' " Says WorldNetDaily: "Obama's safe-schools boss sponsors radical porn." Gateway Pundit: "Figures. Pornographic Anti-Christian Harvard Art Show Funded by Obama's Safe Schools Czar." Fox News: "Safe Schools Czar Linked to Anti-Christian Porn Exhibit?"
Surprise, surprise, these bigots' claims are bogus. The show is filled with angry, graphic examples of gay protest art (a vagina and a few penises make appearances), but doesn't MassResistance really mean that anything homosexual is "sexual perversion"? Claims of child porn are lies and slander. The best "evidence" MassResistance can muster is one picture-less poster bearing the sentence "she had the girl bent over a table, knickers down."
And the show's criticisms of the Catholic Church are warranted — then and now. A 1989 poster in the exhibit by Richard Deagle and Victor Mendolia takes on the Catholic Church's stand against AIDS education, condom distribution, and abortion. It reads KNOW YOUR SCUMBAGS next to images of then–New York Catholic Archbishop John O'Connor and a condom. Below the condom it reads, THIS ONE PREVENTS AIDS.
Pope Benedict XVI disagrees. "You can't resolve [AIDS] with the distribution of condoms," he told reporters during a trip to Africa in March. "On the contrary, it increases the problem." Spreading that kind of ignorance gets people killed.
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Hello people !
Well here is my story.
I'm far away from home at the moment (at sea)
and the day after I left home one of my 2 hives swarmed and settled close to the hive. My wife (never been into a hive before !), after taking some advice from a local beekeeper coped very well and caught the bulk of the swarm (a big one). As I dont have the space or the equipment to make up a third hive for the swarm she then went through the origanal swarmed hive and cut out all the queen cells (there were a lot apperantly -maybe 20 !) and then shook the swarm into the brood box. A small cluster where the swarm had sttled still sits there though.
the question is - will they swarm again ? I will be home in 2 weeks and can try to sort this out. At the moment I'm thinking of reqeening as the queen was only a year old and was on brood and a half - I feel the strain is prone to swarming as its a regular occurence each year more or less.
I have 3 years experience in beekeeping.
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Wow beautiful stars again. I was working on South Carolina tonight. I will try to post pictures soon.
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Wow beautiful stars again. I was working on South Carolina tonight. I will try to post pictures soon.
Ok I am back. here is my Tennessee
Very pretty Patrice. A real winner for sure.
Today I finished my State Star Quilt. I've had my blocks finished for a while but couldn't decide how to put them all together. I used the Quilt As You Go Block Method & am very happy with the results. I SID in most of the blocks & around the sashing. It is a very heavy quilt so I know it will keep us warm this winter. Here are pictures of the front & back of it.
Patricia Faye
Patricia, your quilt is gorgeous! The white sashing is really pretty. I also love the way you did the back. Congratulations on a great finish. Did you tack down the sashing on the front or on the back? Did you do it by machine, straight or zigzag, or by hand?
I too will be doing quilt as you go but with FMQ. I may do larger sections a time, maybe four or six blocks together in each QAYG section. There will still be sashing in between all the blocks.
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Patricia, your quilt is beautiful. Are you glad it's done?
Poker Diva, Yes, I'm happy it's finished because I have several UFOs I can work on now. I was able to use up alot of my stash with these blocks too. I love paper piecing so will continue with other projects too.
Patricia Faye
stunning quilt patricia.
Patricia, A job well done! and beautiful too. It's funny, looking at someone else's quilt and not recognizing the stars because they look so different in other colors. Not to mention, it's been a while since we've done some of them.


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"What about Peace?" Art Contest Winner Announced Soon!
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The "What About Peace?" youth art contest deadline has passed and the thought provoking question has been answered by over 700 young people – using the medium of photography, painting, graphic, poetry, short story and essay. The answers came from all over the country – Virginia, Minnesota, Nebraska, Arizona, California and far off countries including the Philippines. The winner will be announced soon. Find out when.
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|Preview: Boston Celtics vs. Orlando Magic
|11.30.08 at 10:01 pm ET
On Monday night the Boston Celtics (16-2) will take on the Orlando Magic (13-4) at the TD BankNorth Garden. The presence of Dwight Howard makes the Magic an Eastern Conference contender but, despite successful regular season records, Superman hasn't been able to carry his team to the Eastern Conference Finals. After last season, the road to the championship goes through Boston and the Magic surely know it. Monday's game could be a preview of a future postseason battle.
In the Last Five Games '¦
The Celtics enter this game on an eight-game winning streak while the Magic have won their last four. Both teams have been running up the scoreboard in the last five games. The Celtics have averaged 104.6 points while winning by an average 13.8 points; the Magic have averaging 102.8 ppg while winning by a less impressive 6.6 ppg. They have been nearly identical on the glass. Even though Howard leads the league in blocks, the Celtics have the slight advantage as of late. The Cs have also held their opponents to less than 18 assists per game, a troubling stat for the Magic who have been playing without point guard Jameer Nelson.
Superman's Kryptonite
Dwight Howard looks to bring his show-stopping antics to Boston and dominate his way through the paint. Howard (21.8 ppg, 13.9 rpg, 3.9 bpg) will be a challenging match up for the foul-prone Kendrick Perkins. The only silver lining for the Celtics is Howard's inconsistency at the free throw line (57.3% FT). He shot 21-42 in three games against the Cs last season.
All Banged Up
While this game could be a playoff preview, it will be without a handful of key players. The Magic's Jameer Nelson (hip), Mickael Pietrus (thumb), and Keith Bogans (thumb) suffered early-season injuries. This leaves holes at the point guard spot, on the wing, and on the bench. The Celtics should expect to see more of shooting guards J.J. Redick and Courtney Lee. Veteran PG Anthony Johnson has been starting in place of Nelson and will try to contain the streaking Rajon Rondo. These injuries are depleting the Magic reserves and creating a daunting task to stop the Celtics deep bench.
Long-Range Game
In the past five games the Magic have held their opponents to a staggering 28% from three-point range. Their biggest challenge will be stopping Ray Allen, who is shooting 56% from downtown during that same stretch. On the contrary, Paul Pierce is shooting just 15.4%. Ironically Allen's former teammate, forward Rashard Lewis, has the hot hand for the Magic (47.2% 3PG last five games). There's also no telling if one time NCAA-phenom J.J. Redick will find his groove.
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Sheriff: Car chase started after suspect stole gas
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Deputies say a car chase that led to a crash shortly before midnight Thursday started after the suspect stole gas.
Two people were hospitalized in the crash, which forced Idaho Falls police to shut down the intersection at 17th Street and Holmes for a couple of hours. The intersection was reopened around 2 a.m. Friday.
The Bonneville County Sheriff's Office said the chase started when Brett Karinen, 19, drove a blue Dodge Intrepid from the Maverik on Ammon and Sunnyside roads at a high speed.
A clerk at Maverik later told police that Karinen had stolen $57.60 worth of gas.
As the car left the parking lot, it almost hit an unmarked sheriff's vehicle, according to a news release.
The detective tried to make a traffic stop as the Intrepid sped away south on Ammon Road. Karinen turned west on 49th South. The detective discontinued the attempt to stop.
A patrol car was near the Intrepid at 49th South and Holmes as it turned north onto Holmes. The police lights were activated in an attempt to stop the car, but the Intrepid continued north on Holmes.
An Idaho Falls police officer placed a set of spike stripes in the road at Cranbrook and Holmes. The Intrepid drove over the spikes. Three of the four tires were affected.
When Karinen reached the intersection with 17th Street, he hit the passenger side of a car that was taking a left turn onto 17th Street, hurting the two occupants.
The two victims in the car, Britny Rolston and her daughter, Kennedy, were taken to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in serious condition. Britny and 13-year-old Kennedy were listed in fair condition later Friday morning.
Kortny Rolston, Britny's sister, said Kennedy is out of surgery and has a pelvis fracture and cuts to her face. She also said Britny has a broken jaw, facial fractures and broken ribs.
Karinen and his passenger, Nathaniel Acosta, were also taken to the hospital, where they were treated and released.
Karinen is now at the Bonneville County Jail on a felony eluding charge.


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Whoa! It's fantastic!
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
What a great sewing room.
So neat and organized. Love the table, where did you get it ? I've been wanting to put some sort of corner desk or table in my room, but do not want it to be permanent.
very tidy and attractive
Very nice but I absolutely LOVE that window, looks like a quilt block!
that is a great space!
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New Software Notice alert!
The new Web Graphics Creator (version 4.0) will be out soon.
For now, version 3.0 is still active and works great on most Windows machines. It no longer runs on Macs using Lion or greater... (but the new version will fix this)
So hang in there! It's almost done!
Question about Button Creator
Discussion in 'The Web Graphics Creator Updates' started by Worlock, Apr 19, 2007.


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soupcan - I see one of my posts is missing. I said in it that one of the brokers for almond growers had said that only one guy (a buddy of mine) came in above estimates and he averaged 14 frames of brood. Lots of guys reporting around 50% losses all over the country, few had strong colonies, many under 8 frames of bees (not brood).
Also, lots of people saying there was not much honey made in 2012. The only guy I heard of making good honey poundage (tonnage actually) is up in North Dakota. I'm sure there are others, but lots of complaints.
I also said that one of the big operators out here suspects that the problem is likely a new pesticide. He is a second-generation beek', and migrates between Southern California and Idaho, where he cooperates with a company from ND. Rumor is that he combined a lot of weak colonies like package bees and re-queened and it seems to be working so far.
Stromness' post #9, Michael Bush's post #31, and benstung's post #34 all suspect pesticides and/or fungicides. The combination of stesses of poisons, mites, viruses, poor nectar/pollen flows, low honey stores, and beekeepers not adjusting to the situation appears deadly.
Interesting how your analysis went at Beltsville...I wonder how that came about. Did they check for pesticides? I wonder how your frozen bees compare to bees preserved in alcohol? That seems like a good idea, I'd have probably sent them both anyways. The significant thing seems to be many dead-outs with no bees in them - which doesn't rule out pesticides. Negative tests don't rule out pesticides nor fungicides - if the bees you sent in were ones that stayed in the hive.
I'll talk to him when he gets back, and try to get back to you. Best of luck in the meantime.


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As many a mom (geek or not) will tell you, after having kids it's hard to focus on putting on makeup when even just fitting a shower into your day feels like an accomplishment. And if you're a geek, chances are you were never sure what to do with all that stuff to begin with.
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If you're looking to get back into the swing of dressing up again, or have always been curious about just how it's all done, there's no better time to learn. Thanks to marvelous online resources and makeup products featured at the 2013 Emerald City Comicon, even seemingly hopeless cases like me can learn how to apply makeup and be "geek chic."
On the first evening of the convention, attendees filled the room for the "I Can Be a Geek and Feminine" panel. During the Q&A, one con-goer asked about tips on finding her femininity after years of trying so hard to fit in by being one of the geek guys. Panelist Tara Theoharis recommended checking out the YouTube channel OneUpMakeup, which features contributors with all levels of experience and interest in makeup. "Some are very feminine, some are not at all… some don't even really know how to put on makeup," Tara told the audience.
If you're looking just for basics, you can find everyday looks; I took notes from the tutorial showing you how to do eye makeup when you wear glasses. If wearing makeup daily isn't your thing, you can also find some tips at OneUpMakeup for your Effie Trinket cosplay or a how-to for turning yourself into a zombie. Each tutorial is accompanied by a list of the products and colors used, so you're not left wandering the aisles of Walgreens in despair.
Walgreens isn't the only place you can find makeup for your transformation into geek chic. This week Natania told you about the Oz collection from Urban Decay, and MAC Cosmetics has released lines based on Archie Comics and Wonder Woman. At Emerald City Comicon, I also had the chance to stop by the booth for Espionage Cosmetics, which featured eye shadow colors inspired by comic books, video games, and series like Game of Thrones.
My personal favorite is the Browncoats eye shadow collection, which includes shades with names like "Sudden but Inevitable" and "Mrs. Reynolds." If you pick up one of the eye-popping glitter hues from the Comic Book Collection, the Espionage representative showed me the trick for getting the glitter to stick: eyelash adhesive. You can use the glue to adhere cosmetic glitter for eye makeup, cosplay, or a custom temporary tattoo for your sparkle-loving kids.
Near the end of the "Geek and Feminine" panel, speaker Bonnie Burton encouraged attendees just to be themselves. "There are many ways you can bring your femininity [into your geekiness]," she said. "I don't consider myself feminine because I wear jeans everyday and Vans, and I'm not super girly-girly, but I wear a lot of makeup because that's like, that's my cosplay. I think everyone's version of what is feminine is different. Find what interests you."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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From the Left Hand Corner: Our corporate conscience, or lack thereof
Our August Supreme Court recently ruled that our corporations are persons.
If so, shouldn't they have a conscience and be considerate of other people, particularly their workers? It would be nice if they would make their decisions a little more people-oriented, and a little less almighty dollar-oriented, if they showed more conscience and maybe even a little compassion.
I'm thinking of a corporation — AGCO, which makes huge farm tractors — and another corporation closer to lake country minds, Wausau.
I don't pretend to have all the exact numbers and other details exactly correct as I'm writing this, but rather based on recall of several news articles from the Minneapolis Tribune a week or so ago and some back a few months in the Trib and Brainerd papers.
The AGKO operation manufactures tractors in the several hundred thousand dollars per unit category, and, apparently, they cannot build them fast enough to meet demand. The base company, centered in one of our eastern states, decided to close its French manufacturing facility and start one up in our Midwest, where there is greater demand.
It selected the tiny town of Jackson, in the very southwest corner of Minnesota. It did so, making the site selection based almost entirely on the availability of an already constructed, large, empty building in Jackson, a town of a few hundred people. The whole Jackson area is of low density population.
Now, just a short time later, the AGKO facility is starving for suitable workers or, apparently, just about any workers for its expanding manufacturing operations.
AGKO started out in Jackson, gathering together approximately 700 workers, which meant the employment of just about every available worker from Jackson and the close surrounding area. AGKO quickly grew in answer to the demand, doubling the need for workers, and now is planning further expansion, seeking to triple the original work force.
What was to be a panacea for a small population with an empty building has already become a mixed blessing, causing great strain on existing infrastructure, public services and the whole area, inhabitants and facilities.
Just think of what might have been if the movers and shakers at AGKO had taken more time in looking around and had given Brainerd serious consideration instead of the much smaller and more isolated Jackson.
How opportune it would seem, since another conglomerate was bailing out of Brainerd, for AGKO to look at what it had to offer in comparison. Wausau, with its drive for the immediate dollar, and forgetting about the impact on its own people and community, was locking its local doors and leaving town. Admittedly Northwest-Potlatch-Wausau was designed for wood products manufacture, but the Jackson building wasn't set up for huge AGKO tractor manufacture, either.
Brainerd had the ready made skilled work force of 700 at the start, most of whom could have been readily retrained and adapted to tractor manufacture for the original AGKO work force. The Brainerd area, with the highest statewide unemployment to begin with, could have handled any AGKO immediate need for other support staff, including maintenance, repair and transportation.
The immediate surrounding area could have easily provided personnel for the first AGKO expansion, not the 75- to 80-mile radius and two other states it had to draw its expansion force from.
Now, AGKO cannot find any more workers even from long travel distance or elsewhere in the state. It is searching nationwide and still cannot find additional workers, in large part because there simply isn't anyplace within travel distance for potential workers to live. There is no housing available for families, and next to nothing available for single workers, plus nothing to do for their non-working hours.
Jackson area schools are understaffed and overcrowded. The business community has a greatly increased customer base, but is becoming overwhelmed. Necessities and amenities for worker families simply do not exist.
None of the above would have been very problemsome in the Brainerd area. The schools could easily absorb the increase in school population. The combined community college and technical college would be a great employee source, and a huge asset to accommodate the specialized needs of AGKO in expanding and training its work force.
The Brainerd-Baxter business communities would have welcomed and would have been more than adequate to provide whatever supplies and equipment the company needed, and any consumer goods that would be sought by its total personnel complement. Area businesses could have provided every product or service the total AGKO operation could have asked for.
There is existing and available, or potential, housing of every sort within short driving distance of the former Wausau facility, all within a radius much smaller than they experienced in the Jackson area when they first opened.
There may be reasons unknown as to why it wouldn't have made more sense to relocate to Brainerd, but they aren't very readily apparent.
What might have been is an interesting thought. It would have been better for a lot more people and, in the long view, probably more profitable. It certainly appears to be better than what is.
I wish the first George Bush's expressed desire for a kinder, gentler nation would have come true. I also wish the more junior George's self-labeling as a compassionate conservative had caught on more with corporate America.


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Pine River-Backus band students participate in band festival
Pine River-Backus Band Director Nick Bunio took eight Pine River-Backus Elementary School students to a Beginning Band Festival at Horizon Middle School in Moorhead on Saturday, April 27.
Less than half of all students nominated are selected to participate.
Performing PRBE students included fifth-graders Jordan Cunningham, Keenan Dahl and Anna Felthous, and sixth-graders Camilla Blanchard, Gabrialla Heck, Shayna Moore, Jada Oliver and Suzanne Redding.
All students present performed in groups of 80-90 students from all across Minnesota. The festival brought in some of the top band directors from across the state.


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I always loved LT but I have to say over the years Strahan has become my all time favorite Giant.
Cut their paychecks that will motivate them. How can JPP even say he is not motivated? That's just ridiculous. He has only been in the league 3 years.
"Measure Twice......Cut Once"
You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
I wish Strahan were a couple years younger. Imagine him in his prime lined up across from JPP.
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite team in the NFL.


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Gas Pains
Tom grew up in Milwaukee, bartended in Wauwatosa in the '70s and moved here in 1984.
Commentary, observations and musings about the outdoors, life in general and maybe Tosa politics and personalities will be the order of the day. He savors a lively debate as much as terrific cooking.
The Blog and Blogging
Some of you may have noticed that Gas Pains has gotten a face-lift. Literally.
I have finally gotten around to changing that awful mug shot and replaced with something that better reflects my likeable nature. Since that photo was snapped at a festival you have my festival look. I will endeavor to change it periodically. Maybe even seasonally.
I read something last evening that I found interesting. Demographic data concerning bloggers published by the social media consulting firm Sysomos.
As it turns-out, the 21 to 35 year-old cohort constitutes the majority of all bloggers - 53.3 percent.
Only 7.1 percent of bloggers are older than 51. Since this is my cohort that makes me a rarer commodity.
Bloggers are about evenly distributed between males and and the fairer sex.
About one-third of all bloggers hail from the USA. This figure is quadruple that of Britain which ranks second.
In the Sysomos Twitter Report there is a huge amount of data on the Twittering hordes. If you want a summary without making your head hurt you should go to the Appendix for reference with complete list of graphs.
Alas, for me, Twitter is verboten. The lawyers at the day job have forbidden me from tweeting. But I'm OK with that since I readily admit to being delayed in developing my social media skills. I can barely maintain my LinkedIn account so I'm not even going to consider Facebook.
Lest you think I am a complete technological philistine I have a Blackberry device, a laptop and three additional PCs. I have successfully parlayed all of this techno-power to recruit sixty-three readers.
A couple of months ago I was at the Wauwatosa Distinguished Citizen recognition dinner featuring my pal Dick Bachman. I was there with Jill. Not the Mayor Jill - but my wife Jill. Although the Mayor was there too. Along with everyone else. Scott Walker, Jim Sullivan, Leah Vukmir and a veritable parade of other local personalities.
I had a nice chat with the County Executive, the State Senator the State Representative and the Mayor. Get this. Leah Vukmir reads this blog. Yes she does. She volunteered that to me. I told her that this revelation made her my official sixtieth reader. She and Jim Sullivan agreed to be interviewed sometime between now and the November election. So if anyone has any brilliant ideas for interview topics I'm all ears.
On the other hand the Mayor tells me she's still much too busy to be a reader. I only wish I could lure her over to the Dark Side.
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Pueblo Police ask for help finding suspected thief
PUEBLO, Colo. - Police are trying to track down a man who they say stole a cell phone from Best Buy.
The alleged burglary happened on December 14, 2013 at 11:50 a.m.
Police say the man pictured in this article walked into the store at 5890 N. Elizabeth Street and picked up a box containing an LG brand, Boost Cellular telephone. They say he concealed the box under his sweatshirt and walked away from the cellular phone section.
Investigators say the man later went back to the cell phone section, picked up two more boxes containing cell phones and then put them down before running out of the store with the original cell phone box still hidden under his shirt.
A witness told police that the suspect got away in a silver Honda sedan with Colorado license plates. Police say the car was parked at the end of the parking lot and a getaway driver was waiting for the suspected thief.
The suspect has a black swirl-type tattoo on his neck according to investigators.
If anyone has any information regarding this incident or the identity of the suspect, you are asked to please call detective Cantin at 553-2506.


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I've been writing an article for my website that sets out a plan for starting as a treatment-free beekeeper. I was wondering what other treatment-free beekeepers thought of my ideas. This is just the text, there will be pictures. Enjoy.
How to start Beekeeping
This is a sensitive subject for many reasons. Weve come to a time in beekeeping history when there are perhaps more people trying to start beekeeping and failing than ever before. This leads to a great number of disaffected former once upon a time newbee beekeepers. I dont want this. I dont know of any beekeeper or experienced beekeeper who doesnt think this is a terrible thing. Beekeeping as a career is diminishing. Beekeeping is becoming harder to do and make money. And while Im not terribly concerned about the maintenance of the commercial beekeeping profession, I am concerned about assuring that new beekeepers have a positive and fulfilling experience. So Ive given this a lot of thought and Ive come up with a plan and a philosophy that I havent heard from anyone else and I havent at the time of this writing told anyone else. I think it can help to make a difference and give the freshman treatment-free beekeeper a leg up on the status quo.
Before you get the bees
Guideline #1: Never purchase your bees in the same year as you decide to become a beekeeper.
What Ive seen happen is every spring, a whole new crop of beekeepers come in and plop down their $200 for their starter kit with a deep hive body and a medium super and a veil and a smoker and a hive tool and the other little accessories that come along with it. Then theyll plop down their $100 for their 3 lb. package of bees which due to some natural disaster will not be delivered on time. This throws the newbee into a nervous fit because everything is not working out exactly how they planned. Little do they know that this is the way of things and that they will subsequently receive a whole bunch more of the same. There are so many threads which start on Beesource.com which are something like the following: Help!!! Something about this is going totally different than I expected!!! It causes a whole lot of problems for queen and package producers.
So take the time. Take the time to study and prepare. This isnt like buying a hamster. Bees are sophisticated insects. They shouldnt need you to survive, and if they had the intellectual aptitude, they would most certainly reject you as their manager. Study. Never stop learning. Open your mind and if all else fails, simply do nothing. You cant make it much worse by doing nothing. You can certainly make it worse by jumping the gun and doing the wrong thing.
Buy some good beekeeping books and read them cover to cover. I recommend The Complete Idiots Guide to Beekeeping by Dean Stiglitz and Laurie Herboldsheimer and The Practical Beekeeper by Michael Bush. Michaels book is much thicker and more expensive, but at the same time, virtually all of it is available on his website Bush Farms. Spend a lot of time there. You wont regret it.
Guideline #2: Dont start with just one hive.
There is simply too much to go wrong to consider this as an option these days. There really is a serious chance that one hive will die in its first winter. If its not due to mites, it could be due to related viruses or infections or it could be starvation or it could be a failed late season supersedure or it could be by robbing from neighborhood colonies. There are just so many things that could go wrong that first year. Additionally, having more than one hive gives you many options for helping out your other hives. Call it socialism or Robin Hooding or whatever, but its really helpful to be able to pull a frame of open brood out of a neighboring hive and be able to give it to a queenless hive so they can make their own queen. Its also very helpful to be able to equalize stored honey in the fall when some hives may have more than they need and some may be a bit short.
When I started, I started with 20 packages. But that was back when packages cost $35 apiece whereas now, they may cost $100. That many would only be for the most serious of starting beekeepers as I was. I was intending to become a commercial beekeeper. I didnt end up doing that, but I did learn a vital lesson. My recommendation is to start with no fewer than five hives. As to how to start them, Ill deal with that in a minute.
Be serious. Starting with five hives is a serious investment and if you are wanting to be a treatment-free beekeeper, a serious investment is necessary, not only in bees and equipment but in study and planning. At this point in time treatment-free beekeeping WILL NOT WORK by buying bees and putting them in a hive and leaving them in the back yard. Do not be fooled. It is not as easy as that. Theres a reason most of the beekeeping community are still using treatments. Treatments help avoid big and immediate and hard to stomach losses. They are the easy way to do things and they do produce results, for a while. But as it has been shown over the years, eventually the effectiveness of the treatment wears off and then youre still stuck with the same problem. To succeed in treatment-free beekeeping, much attentiveness and study and work is necessary. But its worth it, for you and for the bees, in the long run. Take it seriously.
What bees to get
Guideline #3: Start with nucs. (This means two things.)
Before you can get bees, you need something to put them in. As I mentioned before, newbees commonly jump on the internet or run down to their local beekeeping supply store and grab a beginners kit. Dont do it. You dont need all this stuff yet, and as far as I can tell, its overpriced anyway.
The first problem is, they give you the most expensive equipment, the Select grade stuff. You dont need this. Its made specifically for people who dont know any better. You want commercial grade stuff. Its just as good, not as pretty, but it will be painted anyway. Second, you cant pick your frame size and often foundation is included so you cant pick cell size either. I will only ever recommend small cell or natural cell. You dont need gloves. You dont want an entrance feeder. Youre not going to want the tiny smoker theyll give you. You dont need inner and telescoping covers, you can use migratory or plywood or something simple. Theyre not going to give you the kind of veil you want or need. You dont need a screened bottom board. You dont need the book theyre gonna give you and you dont need their video, thats what YouTube is for in this generation.
Some thinking is required.
The main thing you should decide right at this point is what size frame youd like to deal with. Many Bee-ginners kits include two boxes with two different sizes of frames. However due to a lot of issues I discuss on the Size Considerations page, you should pick a single frame size, and generally speaking, Id recommend the medium. I have used a single frame size in my entire beekeeping career and have never regretted it. All those frames were deeps and at times I have been disappointed with that choice but never the choice to use one size.
The next decision is what to purchase to start beekeeping. Your choices are in most cases to buy established hives, buy nucleus hives, or buy packages. Theres also the option of catching swarms which I heartily recommend at all stages of beekeeping, but its not really reliable as a method on acquiring bees. If you have the opportunity to buy established treatment-free hives pay whatever it takes. However, since that is a near impossibility, my recommendation is to purchase treatment-free nucs. Those are also few and far between, so the next best option is to purchase treatment-free package bees. But those are also hardly available. There are small cell versions of both those and that would be the next best option. If you get in early enough, you should be able to get small cell nucs without too much hassle. I got some from Dixie Bee Supply without too many problems a few years back.
Now for the second part of Start with Nucs.
Thus far, the things I have recommended are pretty standard. But the next part, I have never heard anyone talk about. I think you should do a year or two keeping only nucleus hives. I think you should increase as much as possible, I think you should overwinter them, and I think you can use them to continue to develop your treatment free operation long after youve switched to full size hives.
Theres a number of reasons why I think you should do this. First of all is cost. The cost of five five-frame nucs is significantly less than five hives with lids and bottoms. It gives you an excellent opportunity to make your own nucs and pretty good quality ones for $5 each. Thats right, $5 each! Heres how you do it:
[Insert Nuc plan pic here]
This is what they look like when theyre done.
These ones are 5-frame deeps, but you can easily adjust the sizes of the sides and ends and tops to make them for any type or size of nuc you want.
This is a simple five frame nuc design that uses ½ nominal (15/32 actual) plywood and you can make four of them (5-frame deeps) from a single piece of plywood costing about $16. I do not yet know how many you can make in mediums. Im thinking about doing 6 frame medium nucs just because it gives a little more space for overwintering. Im not sure yet how successful it can be to overwinter medium nucs but I know that Michael Palmer and others overwinter 4-frame deep nucs in Vermont and 6 medium frames approximately equals 4 deep frames in deep so Im confident that it can be done.
This is a fantastic opportunity to get started with a minimum amount of investment and with the maximum chance of success due to the capability for rapid increase. With nucs, youll need to take a more active management direction because they fill up so fast and can swarm. As a new beekeeper, youre gonna want to do this anyway. So heres your opportunity. If your hives are bringing in a goodly amount of nectar and pollen, youll probably have to take a frame out of the hive every week to make sure they dont fill up and swarm too fast. If you have five five-frame nucs, that means every week, youll have five frames that youll need to do something with. Start a new nuc. Here it is your second or third week of beekeeping and youre already learning how to increase. Pay attention though, small nucs have a habit of absconding if weather is too hot in the summer and it may be profitable to build little supers to go on your nucs and give the bees some extra space. Or, this might be a good time to start to build or purchase full size boxes which can be used as 8-10 frame nucs themselves.
[10 frame nuc pic]
This is the kind of steep learning curve you can really sink your teeth into. And to keep ahead of the mites youll need rapid increase especially if you started with poorer stock. Theres no reason why you shouldnt be able to at least double your number of hives in your first year. If you do well and have favorable conditions, you might even get up to 20 nucs from five in your first year. If feeding is necessary, its a whole lot easier to feed 20 nucs to full than it is fewer bigger hives.
The first winter will be the first real challenge. Many if not all hives will be seeing increased mite loads, some to the point of crashing. This may be a good time to consolidate your five frame nucs into 10 frame nucs. Kill off the poorly performing queen and unite the nucs using one of several methods. You can do a newspaper combine, or you can place both into a neutral box. Bees know within seconds if you place a frame into a hive which is not their own. Youll know this by watching and listening to them. A neutral hive leaves everybody without the need to defend something. Use it. It may be useful to stack the nucs together in a sheltered spot to give them the best opportunity. Find out what works best.
Make sure you watch this video: http://vimeo.com/23178333 several times to glean the necessary information to succeed in this venture. Victory favors the prepared.
Guideline #4: Be Realistic.
If theres one thing you must know as a treatment-free beekeeper is that some hives will die. What Ive tried to do on this page is prepare you for that eventuality. You need to get used to it. You need to plan for it. You need to prepare for it. You need to be able to handle it emotionally. Its hard to watch a hive die, but thats how nature works. Thats how natural selection works. Thats how it NEEDS to work. Its that process that you must rely on to winnow your bees and leave you with the best ones. Having more to winnow gives more chances for success.
Secondly, dont expect any honey in the first year. Dont even try. You can scoop a little out with your finger to get a taste and maybe you could pull a frame early in the summer and crush and strain it to whet your appetite, but dont go buying an extractor. Dont get ahead of yourself. You need a little experience and to start to get good at it before you can reliably expect any honey. Keep that in mind and be okay with it. If you do the right things at the right time and learn the right things before making the wrong mistakes, youll get all the honey you could want. Have patience.
Guideline #5: Dont freak out.
Youre new at this. Things arent going to go well at all points in the process. On my first try, I didnt get the foundation installed correctly and it was all falling out and causing huge messes. I was reduced to tears. It was a really bad day. Of course, it wasnt just a handful of hives, it was twenty. But I learned from it. I didnt do that again. I learned how to put comb into frames like doing a cutout of a feral colony. This is the sort of thing youll do too. Its okay. Thats why I suggest you start with so many hives. It gives you a greater number of chances to succeed (or fail depending on how you look at things.)
If you do have problems, an online forum is a fantastic place to get them figured out. But dont scream and cry and foam at the mouth (textually speaking). Slow down and ask your question patiently and intelligently. If you follow my advice, hopefully it wont be all of your hives that are in dire straits. In fact, you might just for fun leave one completely alone for the first year, kind of like a control group in a scientific experiment.
And if things do go seriously south, hopefully youve expended a smaller amount of energy and money than you would have had you gone other directions. I really do want you to succeed as a beekeeper, whether it be as a backyard beekeeper, a hobbyist, a sideliner, or a commercial. We all do.
Guideline #1: Never purchase your bees in the same year as you decide to become a beekeeper.
Guideline #2: Dont start with just one hive.
Guideline #3: Start with nucs. (This means two things.)
Guideline #4: Be Realistic.
Guideline #5: Dont freak out.


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How dare you try to do something good for our kids?
Original post made by Nimby, Danville, on Apr 26, 2007
Everyone is so concerned about the youth of America, teenagers in particular, getting into trouble because of the prevalent deterioration of morals, more working parents and single-parent homes, violent video games and television shows.... the list goes on forever.
So, here we have a church that wants to open a center to youth, supervise activities and teach them God's word. How dare they?
Perhaps the neighbors would prefer a tavern or a pool hall.
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on Apr 27, 2007 at 7:22 am
Well, I should say!
Good people of Danville, as a town without a fool, do you know the potential disaster that lurks before you by the lack of a pool hall in your beloved community? Well, I say that Nimby, in a claymation point of view, fails to understand the consequences of youth passing precious time in youth centers in hopes that the Word will guide them. I say, aligning a shot for a three rail placement of a ball in a pocket helps to cultivate horse sense and a keen eye.
It is more than often too easy for a minority of people with selfish interests to promote placement of recreations facilities into neighborhoods where their existence is an abuse of neighbors. Good examples are available as a parking lot for Monte Vista High School and the SRV YMCA attempts to build commercial facilities in Alamo neighborhoods. Danville, beware, don't let some slick talking brass band salesman trying to abuse your neighborhoods with facilities and activities in the wrong place in your community.
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Last year I installed a good package of bees, but failed to feed them after a large storm destroyed most of the vegetation in the area. I did feed them good before winter, but they just were not strong enough to survive the winter. I have a new nuc coming in a few weeks, so I cleaned out the hive in preparation. While doing that I left the 5 good frames that had significant amounts of honey both capped and uncapped in the hive, I would estimate that those frames on average are half full. Further I placed them on the outsides so the nuc could drop into the middle.
This seems like the correct thing to do, but I am not 100% confident. I feel that I should still feed 1;1 when the nuc arrives and be read to drop a new deep on-top fairly early. I would love to hear some comment and thoughts.


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I am re-doing my entire kit, I have learned a lot since working on my first kit. These pics are where my kit stands as of now, critiques welcome.
I am going for the look in the last pic, where the guys look pretty much like boba, but not 100 % the same. I'll get more pics up as I progress with this, Thanks for looking!


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To see more clearly how plagiarism is a crime against statistics, we need to examine how it helps to decouple the story from the source. In Weick's case, this distancing allowed him to convey a message that was virtually the opposite of the story's original meaning. Weick first told the story in 1982 when, five years after the appearance of Holub's poem, Robert Swieringa and he published an article in the Journal of Accounting Research including a nearly word-for-word transcription of the poem text, but not using quotation marks or acknowledging Holub at all. In a 1987 essay, Weick added a "twist" to the story that had resulted from a conversation with Robert Engel, a Wall Street executive. Engel, he relates, suggested the possibility that the leader who was out with the troops might have known that the map was false and still used it effectively. Weick concurs with Engel and expounds on the implications as follows:
What is interesting about Engel's twist to the story is that he has described the basic situation that most leaders face. Followers are often lost and even the leader is not sure where to go. All the leader knows is that the plan or the map he has in front of him is not sufficient by itself to get them out. What he has to do, when faced with this situation, is instill some confidence in people, get them moving in some general direction, and be sure they look closely at what actually happens, so that they learn where they were and get some better idea of where they are and where they want to be.
He goes on to suggest that the key in this kind of situation is to "get people moving." But in Holub's poem—Weick's primary source material—the soldiers' recounting stands in direct opposition to this interpretation: They say that the map "calmed us down" and that they "pitched camp, lasted out the snowstorm."
Making speculations about what might have happened differently in a situation is not an invalid strategy in all settings; it's just a nonempirical one. In this case the line between fact and supposition was blurred so badly that no such distinction could be made. But facts exist that can be adduced to determine whether Engel's supposition was correct. Assuming that any such event actually occurred, then his notion about what happened is either right or wrong. As it turns out, versions of the story that predate Holub's poem appear in reports given by medical researchers Oscar Hechter and Bernard Pullman at scientific symposia in the early 1970s. These versions suggest that the anecdote as told by Szent-Gyorgyi had the troops' immediate leader thinking it was a map of the Alps, too. Those versions rule out Engel's interpretation.
That interpretation may, of course, be more appealing to Wall Street executives. Given the evolution of modern finance since the mid-1980s, the fact that they appear to have thought that "any old map will do" is somewhat disturbing. But Engel's idea was generated in a problematic context, one in which Weick had, in effect, taken ownership of the story and arrogated for himself the right to alter it at will. The act of plagiarism was the first step in a process that unmoored the story from its sources and removed its evidential value.
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With Christopher Nolan's hyper-realistic depiction of the Batman Universe, we can't help but remember that certain villains in the Batman mythos bear a surprising similarity to certain real-life criminals. Below are some examples and they're pretty good. After all, would you ever expect a real-life Mr. Freeze? Not likely. Other villians, like Catwoman, would be a bit more believable, but either way, you wouldn't expect normal, rational people to commit ridiculous crimes, nonetheless replicating a fictional character, right? Well, stranger things have happened.
This list takes a look at all the real-life Batman criminals, or at least the wannabes.
This list takes a look at all the real-life Batman criminals, or at least the wannabes.
Batman Villain: The Penguin
Modus Operandi: Though non-comic-fans may only know Penguin as the sewer-dwelling psychopath from Tim Burton's second film, the Penguin as originally conceived is a much classier brand of villain. Everything from the monocle to his weaponized umbrella scream I'm-so rich-I-laugh-in-the-face-of-practicality, meaning that Penguin is probably more similar to Batman than he is his fellow criminals. Whether holding up a bank or riding a dinosaur, Penguin is sure to find a way to use his umbrella for pretty much anything.
The Real Life Villain: An Unknown KGB Assassin
What Happened?
In 1978, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov was assassinated in London by an umbrella specially modified to fire a poisoned dart. Despite the fact that he attempted a similar assassination just a few days later, the assassin was never caught. Several years of speculation and controversy ended when the Iron Curtain fell, and similar devices were discovered in KGB compounds.
After a little bit of thought, it doesn't actually seem that weird of a weapon to choose. After all, it rains a lot in London, and who wants to carry around both an umbrella and a blowgun full of sarin? A poison-shooting umbrella is pretty much the Smart-Phone of international spy-work.
The biggest difference between the KGB assassin and Penguin is that the real-life version was never caught. After 30 years of investigation, police are still on the case – but since London is a little out of Batman's jurisdiction, we don't think it's likely they'll make much progress.
Batman Villain: Mr. Freeze
Modus Operandi: "Ice" you might have guessed, Mr. Freeze has a "cool" theme that's sure not to leave you "cold": his usual strategy is to "shoot people with a cryogenic freeze ray until they die." Presumably in utter agony. He also makes a lot cheesy puns.
Before becoming a villain, Mr. Freeze (real name "Victor Fries," whose last name also sounds similar to the word for "very cold," in case you didn't notice) was involved in an industrial accident that left him unable to survive outside of his cryo-suit, making him one of the few Batman villains to suffer from a crippling disability.
The Real Life Villain: Richard "Iceman" Kuklinski (Plus a couple of normal people)
What Happened?
As a contract killer working for the Decavalcante Crime family in the 1950's and 60's, "Iceman" practices murder by killing homeless people, eventually perfecting a strategy in which he would freeze the corpses of his victims for a length of time before thawing them out and disposing of the body – thereby misleading the authorities as to the time of death. Of course, this didn't work at all, – but we guess the idea is kinda cool.
Of course, Kuklinski didn't survive routinely at subzero temperatures like Freeze – but apparently that's something people do. This Canadian girl was frozen solid for 24 hours when she was 2 years old, pronounced legally dead, and came back fine; and another guy survived being frozen in his car in Sweden for two months. Who'da thunk it?
No word on whether either of them plan on becoming super-villains – which means we're forced to assume that they are.
Batman Villain: Harvey Two-Face Dent
Modus Operandi: As you can tell, Dent has a pretty noticeable defining trait – and it isn't his personality. After being scarred by an acid attack in the courtroom (or having his face set on fire in an explosion, or whatever), "Two-Face" earned the horrific scarring that separated his face and personality into two distinct halves: the reasonable Harvey Dent and the psychopathic Two-Face.
Real Life Villain: Juan "Two-Face" Rivera-Velez
What Happened?
This "Two-Face" (yes, that's his real nickname) was an enforcer for the Morales crime-family in Camden, New Jersey, and in 2009 was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for committing a whole bunch of murders.
Of course, Rivera Velez's scars came from a car-crash, not a court-room acid attack, and didn't play a role in his crimes (though it must've assisted in the all-important intimidation factor). And he was never a lawyer. So, basically, the guy is nothing like his namesake except for those scars.
But still! Look at those scars! And then remember that at one point he kicked down a door and said "I'm an enforcer!" That must've been awesome! Except then he murdered people, which probably wasn't awesome. Man, it's almost like the stuff that happens in comic books isn't cool if you make it too realistic.
Batman Villain: The Riddler (And Cluemaster*)
*Because We're Grown Up Now and Can Stop Pretending Those Are Two Different People
Modus Operandi: Crazy people who obsessively leave riddles (or clues) at the scenes of their crimes. No one can ever figure these clues out except Batman (and anyone reading the comic who's more than eight years old).
Real Life Villain: Rodney Alcala
What Happened?
Frankly, there've been a few serial killers who have adopted the Riddler and Cluemaster's brilliant strategy – the most famous of which are Jack the Ripper and the Zodiac Killer, who both sent multiple messages to the police daring them to catch them. Unlike their comic book counterparts, Jack and Zodiac were never caught, and they were more refined and brutal rather than silly and campy.
So instead of talking about them, let's talk about Rodney Alcala: the Dating Game Killer, so named because he won a televised game show in the middle of his murder-spree.
Yes, we're serious. Check out all the "riddles" and "clues" he leaves over the course of this video:
In case you can't watch that, the choice quotes are "The best time is at night... because that's the only time there is," and, "I'm called the banana, and I look really good. Peel me!"
And in case that wasn't enough, the guy actually won the competition, but Cheryl Bradshaw (the bachelorette) refused to go on a date with him because he was too "creepy" and "serial-killer-ish" (okay, we made that last one up). Still, you know she was thinking it – the other contestants reported that he freaked people out, and at this point he had already murdered at least one person.
Now, is it unfair for us to pull some quotes out of context from a TV Show that's basically a sexual innuendo contest? Yes, that's totally unfair. We're being unfair to a convicted child murderer. We'll do our best not to lose any sleep over it.
Batman Villain: The Mad Hatter
Modus Operandi: Jervis Tetch is probably one of the most reasonably crazy Batman villains out there, compared to "Ice to meet you!" and "I'm a murder clown!" thinking that Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland stories are real is pretty straightforward. He also uses a lot of mind-control stuff, since otherwise he'd pretty much just be a short dude in a hat.
Real Life Villain: Some Moldovan Dude!
What Happened?
Vladimir Kozak (fun fact: because comics got popular during the Cold War, every Eastern European name sounds like a comic book villain) was an alleged "hypnotist bank robber," who managed to rob several banks in Eastern Europe's poorest country using hypnosis techniques.
We should probably mention that none of his supposed "powers" were ever actually observed, and despite being a veritable God, he only managed to steal about $40,000 (enough for a pretty nice, but not too flashy, German car).
Also... like, really? And this has happened more than once? Well, you know what they say about Russia. (They say that they hypnotize bank tellers.)
Batman Villain: Catwoman
Modus Operandi: Springing from creator Bob Kane's hilariously sexist belief that "cats are as hard to understand as women are.... you have to keep them at arm's length," Catwoman is a cat burglar who dresses like a cat. She steals stuff, and she's sexy enough to where male writers get anxious if they don't mention how sexy she is every single goddamn time they bring her up.
Real Life Villain: Catwoman, seriously!
What Happened?
After a burglar made off with $86 from a high end shoe store in the East Village in New York City, this composite sketch made her something of an Internet celebrity.
And we don't want to condone crime here, but if is this is a composite sketch of you, then we're going to say, Bravo! Because you're Catwoman. And that's kinda awesome.