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Mayor Bill de Blasio's first preliminary budget gives little indication of how he plans to deal with the city's expired labor contracts. The $73.7 billion plan includes no money earmarked specifically for union raises. Meanwhile, the mayor is lashing out at his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg, saying he is to blame for leaving the city with all its labor contracts expired. Grace Rauh filed the following report.
The biggest budget question looming over City Hall is how Mayor Bill de Blasio is going to tackle negotiations with the city's labor unions. All 152 municipal unions are working with expired contracts and union leaders want retroactive pay raises for their nearly 300,000 members. The mayor says he is open to giving the unions back pay.
"I've said we won't take anything off the table," said de Blasio.
But his first preliminary budget sets aside no money for that purpose. He is suggesting cost savings will make up the difference.
"If you find cost savings there's lots of creative, interesting things you can do in this world," he said.
The preliminary budget, though, does have money the mayor could wind up using to settle contracts, about $3 billion in surplus money. Some will go into a trust fund to pay for health benefits for retired city workers. Some will be used to boost spending in a variety of areas.
The mayor is pumping more money into homeless services and he is proposing to use $59 million to keep 20 fire companies open. He is also giving the NYPD an extra $52 million since it will stop charging the city's public housing agency for police services. His budget assumes the city will get the pre-K tax hike the mayor is lobbying for in Albany.
"There are no new broad based cuts," said City Budget Director Dean Fuleihan.
De Blasio, though, is hardly thanking Mayor Michael Bloomberg for laying the groundwork for a budget that includes no cutbacks. Instead, he took aim at his predecessor for leaving him with with so many expired labor contracts.
"The previous administration was given an artificially high level of credit for management," de Blasio said. "But the way they budgeted was not appropriate. You cannot ignore open labor contracts for years on end."
Budget negotiations with the City Council will now get underway. A budget deal is due by the end of June.
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Reminiscent of the amazing deals on economy tickets from New York and Miami to South America on TAM that cropped up back in November with fares as low as $339 roundtrip, it looks like there are currently some fares between New York JFK and Montevideo in Uruguay for as low as $374 roundtrip including all taxes on Copa, which is a member of Star Alliance and partners with United and US Airways.
A quick search on ITA Software shows this fare available for dates starting in May and good on a few departure days sprinkled here and there until December 8, including June 17 returning June 25:
September 10-11 returning on September 19 and October 1 returning on October 7:
Remember, you can't actually buy airline tickets using ITA Software, so once you find your fare, go to Orbitz or another site and book it from there, which is easy to do once you've found your dates. For example, I just plugged in the June dates into Orbitz and found the fare immediately:
One thing to note is that on both directions you will be transiting via Panama City, so you're looking at a 5-hour flight then a 7-hour flight each aboard a 737, and in some cases, you might have an overnight layover in Panama City, so be sure to check the flight details and travel time before booking.
In terms of mileage, you're looking at 11,170 miles roundtrip, giving you a cost per mile of 3.35 cents each. Not bad! The fare books into W code class, which earns mileage and EQM's at 100% with both United and US Airways.
Now, you might be thinking – Montevideo, meh! But The city itself, although sleepy, is pretty cool and there are things to see that make it interesting for a day or two's stop, and then you can also catch a ferry or a very short flight to Buenos Aires or head down the coast to Colonia del Sacramento or Carmelo, or up the coast to the playground of South America's glitterati, Punta del Este, where I spent a fantastic New Year's a few years ago, so don't let the destination deter you, especially when you can rack up this many miles at that price!
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He then goes on to argue a $37 price target on the stock on the basis of sub-$1,000 product becoming more common in 2013 and OS upgrades by enterprise customers because they need Microsoft Office.
Get a load of these numbers from Digitimes: Q3 2012 PC notebook shipments dropped 11.6% year-over-year and 4.5% sequentially. Apple saw shipments increase by 30% between Q2 and Q3 2012.
Right. I'll buy MSFT on hopes the PC market crash will reverse because of software Microsoft, in a bonehead move, makes available to anybody willing to pay to license it. If Microsoft had any faith in Windows 8 and the hardware that will run it, it would keep a tight lid on Office.
But it has no faith because it does not have an original way forward. It's using somebody else's existing way forward.Though not to such a pathetic extent, that's what's happening at Apple. Tim Cook can only "refresh" existing product lines for so long. When we get iPad Mini later this month (and, I am on record calling the Mini a good idea if we get premium pricing), we'll also get Apple's solid Retina Display slapped onto a smaller model MacBook. This is all fine and good. Just like my 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display, a 13-inch model will be out of this world, luring a slightly more frugal consumer. No worries. Unless, of course, this is all Apple has got -- building, not very creatively, on what already exists. Because of its head start and abysmal competition, things aren't nearly as dire at Apple. However -- and, again, it's all relative -- the company needs a groundbreaking iTV or something we haven't heard about yet almost as badly as Microsoft needs Windows 8 to defy the odds and achieve success across platforms. At the time of publication the author held no positions in any of the stocks mentioned. Follow @RoccoPendola This article is commentary by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.
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Q: My girlfriend bought an iPad 2 running iOS 4.x. She loves it but she does't have a computer to synch with which creates some problems. She cannot update the iOS version and she has no backup for the content (mostly photos, email and songs). She has her own iTunes account. I am happy to have her use my MacBook running the latest version of iTunes, but I am worried that if I connect her to my Mac it will overwrite her data and substitute mine. Is there a way to sync her iPad and retain her data?
- Tom
A: You can definitely backup and update her iPad on your computer, and in fact it's not nearly as scary or difficult as it sounds. When you plug any iPad (or iPod or iPhone) into a different library, iTunes defaults to essentially doing nothing; if the device has never before been connected to any computer, you will see the initial setup assistant appear the first time you connect it, but you can proceed to de-select all of the sync options and iTunes will basically leave any content on the device alone.
Note that if you have any iOS device backups on your MacBook, you will first be prompted to either restore a backup or set it up as a new device; simply choose the "Set up as new…" option which will take you to the initial setup screen shown above.
If the device is not already configured to make backups to iCloud, then iTunes will make an initial backup automatically as soon as you complete the setup assistant. If the device normally backs up to iCloud but you want to also make a local backup, you force one manually simply by right-clicking on it in the Devices section in iTunes and choosing the Back Up option.
Since you're planning a major iOS update, it's probably a good idea to make this additional manual backup even if your girlfriend is also backing up her device to iCloud. iOS updates are normally non-destructive, but there are never any guarantees of this, so a recent backup should be considered a must.
Note that this backup only includes application data and the device's settings, so you'll want to ensure that your girlfriend's apps and media content are also backed up to your iTunes library before proceeding. Apps and purchased media content can be transferred into your library using the Transfer Purchases option found on the File menu in iTunes, but you'll need to ensure that your MacBook has been authorized for your girlfriend's iTunes Store account first. This can be done by selecting Authorize This Computer from the Store menu in iTunes.
Since your girlfriend has never synced her iPad with an iTunes library, it's a safe assumption that she has no music or other media content from anywhere other than the iTunes Store, so iTunes' own Transfer Purchases feature should suffice in this case. Content stored within third-party applications is already handled as part of the standard iTunes/iCloud backups or by the apps' own third-party cloud services.
Keep in mind, however, that this process will transfer all of your girlfriend's content into your iTunes library by default, and should you need to restore and re-sync her device after the update, you'll end up needing to sort out which items are hers out of the newly combined iTunes library. A better alternative might be to create a new iTunes library just for her apps and content. You can easily do this simply by holding down the OPT key when starting iTunes on your MacBook and choosing the "Create Library" option to create an entirely new library.
Note that your preferences and device backups will still be shared, but the actual content, including apps, will be stored in a separate database. The actual files will get mixed into the same iTunes Media folder on your hard drive, but this shouldn't be a major concern and if you don't want to keep them around when you're done, you can simply delete them from the second library and choose to remove the underlying files at the same time when prompted.
If you want to keep your girlfriend's content in an entirely isolated library, the other option is simply to setup another user account on your MacBook. Each OS X user account gets its own distinct iTunes library, including preferences, device backups and media content folders.
For more information, check out our Guide to Transferring your Content to a new iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. While the focus of this article is on transitioning between devices, the backup procedures outlined in the first part are applicable to any situation where you want to make sure that an iOS device is properly backed up.
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Had a week off work this week. Not to go anywhere just to have a week away from work, time to relax and get on with the things I enjoy. So most of the week has been spent with my stitching and getting lots done one Train of Dreams. I finished page 10 which was just a part page underneath page 1 and decided to work in columns down the length of pages 2 and 11. More detail of the train is beginning to emerge, most of the chimney is in and I'm just about to finish it off in the column...Read More
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I've been enjoying catching up on Fairy Tales this week I finished page 4 and got onto page 5 which means I'm now about 45% of the way through. There's a lot more of her hair on this page though so it's lots of changes of dark browns and it can be a bit more difficult to see the difference between them all. Parking and working in columns really makes a difference for me. But I did forget to park the colours in the next pages and finished them off instead there...Read More
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Bit of a later update than usual and I'm showing progress on Sunkissed that I only worked Monday to Friday last week. It's getting there now, decided to work up the right hand side and get onto that last sunflower, it's looking at the back of the sunflower and I haven't put the green bits in just yet. According to the rotation rules I should have been stitching Fairy Tales last week and on with the train this week but I've decided to take a more relaxed rotation...Read More
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The Illinois Lottery's contract with a private management company is over. State officials announced Tuesday evening the contract with Northstar Lottery Group has been formally terminated.
Illinois has the worst funded pension system in the nation, and lawmakers have until tonight to do something about it.
The General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn by midnight. After that, it requires extra votes to get legislation to the governor's desk. Pensions are not the only thing left.
Recent Statehouse Action:
Rockford Mayor Larry Morrissey has outlined his plan for dividing revenues for a proposed casino. Morrissey wants the city to keep 70 percent of revenues, with the remaining 30 percent going to the Rockford Metropolitan Agency for Planning. State lawmakers are debating a gambling expansion plan that includes a Rockford casino. Winnebago County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen calls the proposal "one-sided."
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The difference this time is that Governor Pat Quinn might finally be willing to support the proposal.
The sponsor,Terry Link, D-Waukegan, says he's tried to meet the governor's demands, such as banning campaign donations by gambling license holders. Link also removed a provision that would have allowed online gambling.
A new gambling expansion plan is moving to the full Illinois Senate, just days after Governor Pat Quinn vetoed a similar plan.
The Sycamore City Council has approved a proposal to allow video gambling in certain establishments, including bars and fraternal organizations. A 2009 state law gives local governments the authority to permit or ban the machines, regardless of the state's decision to legalize them.
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Vampires in popular culture
Vampires in popular culture includes vampire ballet, films, literature, music, opera, theatre, opera, paintings and video games.
- 1 Comic books and graphic novels
- 2 Films
- 3 Folklore
- 4 Gaming
- 5 Manga
- 6 Music
- 7 Paintings
- 8 Television
- 9 Theatre
- 10 Other vampire references
- 11 See also
- 12 References
- 13 External links
Comic books and graphic novels[edit]
- Comic books and graphic novels such as Vampirella (1969), Tomb of Dracula (1972), the aforementioned Blade (1973), 30 Days of Night (2002) Anita Blake Guilty Pleasures, and Dracula vs. King Arthur (2005). In addition, many major superheroes have faced vampire supervillains at some point.
- Many comic books featuring Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin off Angel have been released, including the official eighth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
- Marceline and the Scream Queens is a mini-series of comic books focusing on Marceline the Vampire Queen from the cartoon TV show Adventure Time with Finn and Jake. The spin-off comic was produced by BOOM! Studios and published between July to December 2012.
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The Vampire (1913, directed by Robert G. Vignola), also co-written by Vignola, is the earliest vampire film.
These were derived from the writer Rudyard Kipling who was inspired by a vampiress painted by Philip Burne-Jones, an image typical of the era in 1897, to write his poem 'The Vampire'. Like much of Kipling's verse it was incredibly popular, and its refrain: A fool there was . . . , describing a seduced man, became the title of the popular film A Fool There Was that made Theda Bara a star, the poem being used in its publicity. On this account, in early American slang the femme fatale was called a vamp, short for vampiress.[1]
A real supernatural vampire features in the landmark Nosferatu (1922 Germany, directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau). This was an unlicensed version of Bram Stoker's Dracula, based so closely on the novel that the estate sued and won, with all copies ordered to be destroyed. (It would be painstakingly restored in 1994 by a team of European scholars from the five surviving prints that had escaped destruction). Nosferatu is the first film to feature a Vampire's death by sunlight, which formerly only weakened vampires.
The next classic treatment of the vampire legend was in Universal's Dracula starring Bela Lugosi as Count Dracula. Five years after the release of the film, Universal released Dracula's Daughter, a direct sequel that starts immediately after the end of the first film. A second sequel, Son of Dracula, starring Lon Chaney, Jr. followed in 1943. Despite his apparent death in the 1931 film, the Count returned to life in three more Universal films of the mid-1940s: 1944's House of Frankenstein, 1945's House of Dracula and 1948's Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein. While Lugosi had played a vampire in two other movies during the 1930s and 1940s, it was only in this final film that he played Count Dracula onscreen for the second (and last) time.
Dracula was reincarnated for a new generation in the celebrated Hammer Horror series of films, starring Christopher Lee as the Count. The first of these films Dracula (1958) was followed by seven sequels. Lee returned as Dracula in all but two of these.
A distinct subgenre of vampire films, ultimately inspired by Le Fanu's Carmilla explored the topic of the lesbian vampire. The first of these was Blood and Roses (1960) by Roger Vadim. More explicit lesbian content was provided in Hammer Studios Karnstein trilogy. The first of these, The Vampire Lovers, (1970), starring Ingrid Pitt and Madeleine Smith, was a relatively straightforward re-telling of LeFanu's novella, but with more overt violence and sexuality. Later films in this subgenre such as Vampyres (1974) became even more explicit in their depiction of sex, nudity and violence.
Beginning with the absurd Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) the vampire film has often been the subject of comedy. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) by Academy Award winner Roman Polanski was a notable parody of the genre. Other comedic treatments, of variable quality, include Old Dracula (1974) featuring David Niven as a lovelorn Dracula, Love at First Bite (1979 USA) featuring George Hamilton and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995 USA, directed by Mel Brooks) with Canadian Leslie Nielsen giving it a comic twist.
Another development in some vampire films has been a change from supernatural horror to science fictional explanations of vampirism. The Last Man on Earth (Italy 1964, directed by Ubaldo Ragona) and The Omega Man (1971 USA, directed by Boris Sagal), both based on Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend, are two examples. Vampirism is explained as a kind of virus in David Cronenberg's Rabid (1976 Canada), Red-Blooded American Girl (1990 Canada, directed by David Blyth) and Michael and Peter Spierig's Daybreakers (2009 United States).
Race has been another theme, as exemplified by the blaxploitation picture Blacula (1972) and several sequels.
Since the time of Bela Lugosi's Dracula (1931) the vampire, male or female, has usually been portrayed as an alluring sex symbol. There is, however, a very small subgenre, pioneered in Murnau's seminal Nosferatu (1922) in which the vampire is depicted in the hideous lineaments of the creature of European folklore. Max Schrek's disturbing portrayal of this role in Murnau's film was copied by Klaus Kinski in Werner Herzog's remake Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979). In Shadow of the Vampire (2000, directed by E. Elias Merhige), Willem Dafoe plays Max Schrek, himself, though portrayed here as an actual vampire. Dafoe's character is the ugly, disgusting creature of the original Nosferatu. The main tradition has, however, been to portray the vampire in terms of a predatory sexuality. Christopher Lee, Delphine Seyrig, Frank Langella, and Lauren Hutton are just a few examples of actors who brought great sex-appeal into their portrayal of the vampire.[neutrality is disputed]
A major character in most vampire films is the vampire slayer, of which Stoker's Abraham Van Helsing is a prototype. However, killing vampires has changed. Where Van Helsing relied on a stake through the heart, in Vampires 1998 USA, directed by John Carpenter, Jack Crow (James Woods) has a heavily armed squad of vampire hunters, and in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992 USA, directed by Fran Rubel Kuzui), writer Joss Whedon (who created TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer and spinoff Angel) attached The Slayer, Buffy Summers (Kristy Swanson in the film, Sarah Michelle Gellar in the TV series), to a network of Watchers and mystically endowed her with superhuman powers.
The 1973 Serbian horror film Leptirica ("The She-Butterfly") was inspired by the story of Sava Savanović.
- The Sava Savanović was used in Milovan Glišić's popular story "Posle devedeset godina" (90 years after).
GURP games[edit]
- The Third Edition GURPS tabletop role-playing game system supplement Blood Types lists 47 different "species" of vampires describing 30 of them from both folklore and fiction in 23 listings (several are simply different names for the same type of vampire; for example the Burma's Kephn is considered a male version of the Penanggalen)
Trading Card games[edit]
- In the trading card game Magic:The Gathering, vampires are quite iconic creatures of the colors black and red. Most of them share the ability to fly and to grow stronger (via +1/+1 counters) by dealing mortal damage to other creatures or to the players(according to the idea of gaining power from the blood of their victims).
- In Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game, vampire are all zombie-type monster cards: "Patrician of Darkness", "Vampire Lord", "Vampire Lady" and "Red-Moon Baby" ("Vampire Baby" in Japanese version). In Yu-Gi-Oh! R manga, the character Tilla Mook uses the card monster "Curse of Vampire".
Video games[edit]
Video game series featuring vampires primarily use Dracula or Dracula-inspired characters. Konami's Castlevania series is the longest running series which uses the Dracula legend, though its writers have made their own alterations to the legend. An exception to this trend is the Legacy of Kain video game series, which features vampires set in an entirely fictional world called Nosgoth. Video game series such as Konami's Castlevania and role-playing games such as Vampire: the Masquerade have been especially successful and influential.[citation needed] Other vampires seen in games include:
- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger features Rachel Alucard as a vampire who carries a cat-like umbrella named Nago and is occupied by a red bat familiar named Gii.
- The video game series Boktai revolves around the Vampire Hunter Django. However, even though the games sometimes equalize the terms of Vampire and Immortal, there are only a few true vampires in the games, such as the Count of Groundsoaking Blood.
- Several Buffy the Vampire Slayer video games have been released.
- The video game series Castlevania establishes a new origin for Dracula and chronicles the never ending struggle between him and the Belmont clan of vampire hunters stretching from the 11th century all the way to the 21st century.
- The comedy game Conker's Bad Fur Day features a Dracula-like vampire who is often insulted by Conker. He dies by falling into a grinder due to extreme blood drinking.
- The Darkstalkers (1994) fighting game series (known as Vampire Savior in Japan) features a vampire along with other mythological and horror-themed characters.
- The Elder Scrolls game series involves vampires created by demon lord. They have all the typical attributes, but some (though not all) can walk in sunlight if they have fed on a victim.
- The scrolling shooter Embodiment of Scarlet Devil features two vampire sisters as the final boss and the extra stage boss. The older of the two, Remilia Scarlet, became playable in two later games of the Touhou Project.
- In the Guilty Gear series, Slayer is introduced in Guilty Gear XX as the first, and currently only, vampire so far in the series. He is a Nightwalker, though unlike other vampires, he seems to be unaffected by sunlight. He is also seen drinking blood from his own wife Sharon before a match, although Sharon is immortal.
- Video game series Metal Gear Solid includes a character called Vamp, who drinks blood and appears to be immortal (though in Metal Gear Solid 4, it is discovered that this is due to nanobots in his body). At first glance, it could be noticed that his name stems from his Vampiric abilities, but actually comes from his bisexuality.
- Mortal Kombat series, there's a species of vampires, although Nitara is thus far, the only vampire known in the series.
- In Rosenkreuzstilette, regardless of whether the player is playing Spiritia or Grolla, the player meets Graf Michael Sepperin, who is vampiric in appearance and acts like Dracula in the Castlevania series, as the boss of Sepperin Stage 4. He reappears in Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel as the boss of Iris Stage 1.
- The video game series Shadow Hearts have four known vampires (Three playable) in the games (though hardly stereotypical).
- Shadowrun features vampires whose existence is explained by a resurgence of the Human Meta-Human Vampiric Virus. As such, the afflicted are not undead, but instead are still alive but radically changed by the retrovirus. They normally do not suffer from the supernatural limitations such as crosses, but still are vulnerable to sunlight.
- The Sims 2: Nightlife, the second expansion pack for popular series The Sims 2, introduces vampires to the game. These vampires in this game follow many fictional conventions, such sleeping in ornate coffins, wearing gothic clothing, and being able to transform into bats. Vampirism can be spread between game characters through biting. If caught outside during the day, a Sim Vampire's will soon die. In The Sims 3: Late Night, Vampires makes a return. Unlike in Nightlife, these vampires live longer than normal Sims, won't die in the Sun but will suffer burns, get sick from eating Sim Food with Garlic, and drink Plasma either by biting a Sim, Plasma pack, or Plasma Fruit. They still can die from noraml deaths that happans to Normal Sim, with the exception of Hunger in where it's replaced by Thirst.
- Role-playing games such as Vampire: The Masquerade (1992), in which the participants play the roles of fictional vampires (for specifics, see vampires in the World of Darkness).
- In the tabletop wargame Warhammer Fantasy, Vampire Counts are one of the playable forces.
- Japanese anime and manga features vampires in several titles, including JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (1987), Vampire Princess Miyu (OAV 1988, TV series 1997), Nightwalker: The Midnight Detective (1998), Vampire Hunter D (2000), Blood: The Last Vampire (2000), Hellsing (2002), Vampire Host (2004), Tsukihime, Lunar Legend (2003), Tsukuyomi -Moon Phase- (2004), Bleach (2005), Blood+ (2005),Trinity Blood (2005),Vampire Knight,'(2005)'Karin (2006), and Black Blood Brothers (2006).
- Draconian is a death metal band with issues facing vampires.
- The vocalist Kamijo of the Japanese Visual Kei band, Versailles, says his look is influenced by the appearance of a vampire.
- Theatres des Vampires is a gothic black metal band fully concentrating on vampire themes.
- Cult dark punk group Vampire Lovers (band) recorded a live video clip during 1988 of their song "Drink my blood, Suck my veins". The song held the No.1 position in the song section of a Goth/Vampire social networking site called "Vampire Rave" for six weeks between April and May 2012.
- Vampire Weekend deliberately chose their name to capitalise on the popularity of vampires in popular culture.[citation needed]
- Fearless Vampires Killers is an English alternative rock band, which received the name from the 1967 Roman Polanski film The Fearless Vampire Killers
- Marilyn Manson has a song entitled "If I Was Your Vampire." It is the opening track on the band's sixth studio album, "Eat Me, Drink Me," which has several other songs that deal with vampiric themes. The band also has a song called "No Reflection" (from the album "Born Villain") in direct reference to the belief that vampires do not have reflections.
- Alternative rock band HIM has a song called "Vampire Heart" on their Dark Light album.
- Concrete Blonde has a song titled "Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)" on their Bloodletting album.
- My Chemical Romance has a song titled "Vampires Will Never Hurt You" on their debut album, I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love.
- Ash has a song entitled "Vampire Love" on their album Meltdown.
- Nox Arcana recorded the album Transylvania based on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
- The folk band Antsy Pants has a song entitled "Vampire" on their debut album "Antsy Pants".
- Xandria, plays a song called "Vampire".
- Blue Öyster Cult have a song titled "Nosferatu". It is the last track on the original release of their Spectres album.
- Cuban singer Lissette has a song title "Vampiro" on their 1989 album Maniqui.
'The Vampire' (1897) by Philip Burne-Jones depicts an alluring female vampire crouched over a male victim. The model was the famous actress Mrs Patrick Campbell. This femme fatale inspired a poem of the same name (also 1897) by Rudyard Kipling. Like much of Kipling's verse it was incredibly popular, and its inspired many early silent films whose 'vampires' were actually 'vamps' rather than being supernatural undead blood-suckers. The poem's refrain: A fool there was . . . , describing a seduced man, became the title of the popular film A Fool There Was (1915) which made Theda Bara a star, and the archetypal cinematic 'vamp'.[2]
- In the popular cartoon TV show Adventure Time with Finn and Jake, one of the main reoccurring characters is Marceline the Vampire Queen.
- First performed at the Limbo Lounge in New York City's East Village in 1984, the play Vampire Lesbians of Sodom became so popular it was moved Off-Broadway in June 1985. It ran five years at the Provincetown Playhouse.
- Dance of the Vampires (1997) is a musical from Jim Steinman.
- Making its off-Broadway debut in the Fall of 2009, THE CURE is based on a rock 'n roll graphic novel, written by Mark Weiser, about two friends who discover the last surviving vampires.
Other vampire references[edit]
Many regional vampire myths, or other creatures similar to or related to vampires have appeared in popular culture.
- In the film I Am Legend, a mutated virus turns some humans and dogs into vampiric beings, called "Darkseekers", that prey on unmutated humans and dogs.
- In the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Count Dracula calls his wolf pet by the names strigoi and moroi.
- Mike Mignola's Right Hand of Doom, from the Hellboy series features a female vampire proclaiming that the vârcolac (singular entity here) is the master of the moroii and strigoi.
- Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy series features Moroi as the protagonists and Strigoi as the antagonists.
- Penanggalan aka The Headless Terror, a 1967 film by Tulsi Ramsay. [widely dismissed as a hoax]
- The Witch With Flying Head (Fei taugh mo neuih, literally "Flying Head Devil Woman"), 1977 film by Lian Sing Woo (Though from Hong Kong, bootlegs are usually of the Thai-dubbed version, which also is rescored with Basil Poledouris music from Conan the Barbarian, which debuted several years after this film's first release. Principal photography had to have begun before April 1970, due to the presence of Peter Chen Ho, who died April 16, 1970.[1])
- Mystics in Bali, (Leák), 1983 film by H. Tjut Djalil., from the novel by Putra Mada
- Krasue, 2002 film by Bin Bunluerit
- Gong Tau
Both Penanggalan and Mystics in Bali feature actor W.D. Mochtar as the priest who fights the Penanggalan. Both The Witch With Flying Head and Mystics in Bali depict an innocent transformed into a Penanggalan against her will. In the former film, there is an effort to save her, and her attempt at suicide upon learning her condition is thwarted. In the latter film, she is considered irredeemable, and her neck is spiked to destroy her. Both characters are monstrous only at night and unaware of their nocturnal behavior until informed.
Print media[edit]
- The Dragon Warriors pen and paper RPG features a monster called the Death's Head, with a similar modus operandi to the Penanggalan, although the detached head has tiny wings and a horn.
- The Penanggalan may be found described as a Dungeons and Dragons monster in the Fiend Folio (TSR, Inc., 1981). The vargouille is similar to the penanggalan in that both are vampire-like creatures in the form of a flying, detached head.
- A more recent Dungeons and Dragons penanggalan appears in the Oriental Adventures setting. Even more recent Dungeons and Dragons penanggalan appears in the Monster Vault: Threats to the Nentir Vale supplement.
- The Penanggalan may be found described as an example of a vampire as well as the Kephn (a male counterpart from Burma) in the GURPS third edition supplement GURPS Blood Types (Steve Jackson Games, 1995)
- The short Guro fetish/comedy manga story Head Prolapse Elegy by Shintaro Kago revolves around the travails of a Penanggalan who desires a normal love life with a man, but is constantly thwarted by her condition.
- Wizard Entertainment)'s Hellboy Premier Edition features a story by Mike Mignola, "The Penanggalan" (later collected in the Premier Edition Volume 1 and Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others), wherein Hellboy battles a penanggalan.
- The first book of the Malay Mysteries, Garlands of Moonlight, revolves around a Penanggalan [2].
- The Eastern-inspired RPG Legend of the Five Rings features Penanggalans, although there they are named Penaggolans.[3]
- Anime-based website Gaia Online has a Penanggalan as a companion or a self pose in the "Nightmare" evolving item.
- Although the indie horror game Eyes was originally released featuring the ghost of a beautiful woman as the monster that hunts the player, it was eventually updated to replace the somewhat unscary creature with a Penanggalan, who otherwise functions identically to the original, killing the player the instant it comes in contact with them.
- The TV series Supernatural features a shtriga in the season 1 episode "Something Wicked". In a homage to the Simpsons the shtriga in 'Supernatural' was said to have moved through Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, the same towns taken in by the monorail conman in the episode Marge vs. the Monorail.
- Shtrigas also appear in Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher short stories and saga.
- The term is used to describe vampires in general in the book series The Hunt by Susan Sizemore.
- The Strigoi play a central role in Graham Masterton's 2006 book, The Descendant.
- Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy novels features Strigoi as villains.
- The Strigoi play a central role in Dan Simmon's 1992 book, Children of the Night.
- A Strigoi appears in "Philologos; or, A Murder in Bistritia" by Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald in the February 2008 Fantasy and Science Fiction
- In the Guardians of Ga' Hoole book series, an evil owl whose ancestors were witch owls called hagsfiends renames herself the Striga after her escape from the Qui' Dragon Palace.
- Guillermo Del Toro's 2009 Book The Strain references vampires as strigoi
- Strigoi is the preferred name of vampires in Susan Krinard's Roaring Twenties series.
- Mike Mignola's Right Hand of Doom, from the Hellboy comic series feature's a female vampire proclaiming that the vârcolac (singular entity here) is the master of the moroii and strigoi.
- In the 2008 adventure video game A vampyre story, one of the more prominent characters is named Madam Strigoi and although she is not herself a vampyre (as far as is known), she has great insight into vampires.
- The video game Ace Combat 6 features an elite enemy fighter squadron called "Strigon Team" formally known as the "Vampire Team", whose insignia and paint scheme contains death motifs and whose commander flies an experimental aircraft named "Nosferatu".
- Underground adventure game, Ben Jordan: Case 3 features a Strigoi who goes by the name of Zortherus
- In Disgaea video game series, there is a class of vampires called Strigoi.
- In the video game Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, an enemy demon which can be encountered by the player is a Strigoi.
- In the 2008 video game Soul Calibur 4, the French fencer (and vampire) Raphael Sorel has a move called the Strigoi Envelopment.
- The 2007 Video game The Witcher, based on the novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, features a vampyric female creature known as a striga.
- The Sixth Edition (6 Ed.) of the Warhammer Fantasy Battle game gives the name Strigoi to a bloodline of monstrous vampires, similar to Count Orlok.
- In Dark Arisen, the 2013 expansion and re release of the game Dragon's Dogma, Strigoi are encountered as enemies after the defeat of the main boss. They look like large, blood-red gargoyles and attack by draining blood from the Arisen and their pawns using their tail.
- One of the villains in the 30 Days of Night (2007) film is listed as "Strigoi" in the end credits.
- In the film Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993), some of the characters refer to vampires as "strigoi".
- In the Dracula 2000 movie, Count Dracula calls his wolf pet by the names of "strigoi" and "moroi".
- The 2009 film Strigoi involves vampires in Romania, which are referred as "strigoi".[3]
- The term is used in a song from the black metal band Dark Funeral called "Ravenna Strigoi Mortii", on the album Vobiscum Satanas.
- Italian musician Lord Vampyr, famous for being the former vocalist of the gothic metal band Theatres des Vampires, has a song named "Strigoi" on his second solo studio album, Carpathian Tragedies (2009).
- A group of strigoi appeared in the episode "Bite Father, Bite Son" in the animated series American Dragon: Jake Long.
- Strigoi are the featured enemy in the 1999 episode "Darkness Visible" of the show Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.
- The strigoi was featured in the Animal Planet TV series Lost Tapes.
- In the ABC television series Scariest Places on Earth, strigoi are discussed in an episode called "Return to Romania Dare." The episode originally aired on April 21, 2002.
- The vampires in the 2014 television series The Strain are referred to as strigoi by the character Abraham.
The Stirge was presented as a popular monster in Dungeons and Dragons. In the game it took the form of a many-legged flying creature which sucked the blood from its victims through a sharp, tubular beak.
A version of the striga makes an appearance in The Witcher (video game) based on the works of Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski. As a demonic undead creature, which transforms from the corpse of a dead child conceived via incest, striga in the Witcher's universe doesn't look like insects or vampires but looks similar to a ghoul with a muscular quadrupedal body, big claws, and a fang-filled mouth.
The strix make an appearance in the Vampire: the Requiem historical book Requiem for Rome. In contrast to the more traditional vampires presented in the line, the strix are disembodied spirits who commonly take the shape of owls and can possess both humans and torpored vampires. It's rumored that the strix restored Remus to undeath, and corrupted a sixth clan of vampires who were destroyed en masse. The strix believed themselves to be betrayed by the vampires of Rome, especially those of the Julii clan, and swore to bring about their ruin. They reappear in Night Horrors: Wicked Dead as heralds of disaster, mainly unbound by their former oath (although they still occasionally pursue such activities for personal reasons). Immensely amoral libertines, they view vampires clinging to humanity as weak, and as such will often serve as tempters in order to make them lose themselves to the Beast.
Strix are also described in the GURPS third edition Sourcebook for Vampires Blood Types. They are described as witches who, having made pacts with dark entities gained the ability to become blood drinking birds at night. What their pacts with these dark forces require of them is not described.
- Mario Bava made a 1963 anthology film of it starring Boris Karloff called Black Sabbath.
- A wurdulac is also the subject of Monster in My Pocket #116.
- In 1972 the Italian/Spanish film called La notte dei diavoli (Night of the Devils) was also based on Tolstoy's story.
See also[edit]
- ^ Per the Oxford English Dictionary, vamp is originally English, used first by G. K. Chesterton, but popularized in the American silent film The Vamp, starring Enid Bennett
- ^ David J. Skal "Fatal Image: The Artist, the Actress and "The Vampire" in David J. Skal (ed) (2001) Vampires: Encounters With The Undead: 223-257
- ^ Legend of the Five Rings,Five Rings Publishing Group, 1997
- Christopher Frayling (1992) Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (1992) ISBN 0-571-16792-6
- Freeland, Cynthia A. (2000) The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror. Westview Press.
- Holte, James Craig. (1997) Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. Greenwood Press.
- Leatherdale, C. (1993) Dracula: The Novel and the Legend. Desert Island Books.
- Melton, J. Gordon. (1999) The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. Visible Ink Press.


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The recently revealed joint CIA/NYPD operations being run all along the Eastern Seaboard are, of course, completely illegal but are perhaps symptomatic of the past decade's use of the word "terrorist" to excuse any and all bad behavior by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The NYPD Intelligence Division and Counter-Terrorism Bureau, which incorporates an "dirty tricks" undercover Special Services Unit and a Terrorist Interdiction Unit that runs informants and maps the city's "human terrain," is headed by David Cohen, a former top CIA analyst. Its budget is $62 million per year.
To summarize for those who have not read the lengthy investigative report by Associated Press, the CIA had senior officers posted to New York City who worked directly with the NYPD to establish what amounted to an Agency presence within the police force. They instructed undercover cops, including one who was actually trained at the CIA's "Farm" facility in Williamsburg Virginia, to recruit sources in the local Muslim communities and to use informants to search for possible terrorism hotspots in book stores, cafes, and mosques. NYPD officers and their own "snitch" sources did the trolling but they were directed by CIA officers and, ignoring normal police and FBI guidelines, did not require probable cause of criminal activity to initiate an operation.
Operations were run not only in New York, but throughout northern New Jersey and as far away as Massachusetts without any liaison with the local authorities or even with the FBI. Reports on every mosque in the New York area were compiled by undercover officers and informants. Liaison offices were established in eleven foreign cities, not unlike CIA stations. Apparently, only Muslims were targeted initially, though antiwar activists were also pursued by the Bureau during the 2004 Republican National Convention. Court documents reveal that one of the questions police asked protesters who were detained was "Do you hate George W. Bush?'
Cohen's Bureau regularly shreds documents relating to its operations so there will be no paper trail. The FBI has refused to let its New York office even look at the information that is being collected by the NYPD intelligence unit because it considers it illegal. At a minimum, the NYPD intelligence unit is overwhelmingly targeting one religious community and illegally collecting information on American citizens and residents who are innocent of any crime. They are justifying doing so due to suspicion that someone might be contemplating a crime, which criminalizes thoughts rather than deeds and violates the First Amendment. They are violating their own rules for initiating an investigation as well as the guidelines set down by the FBI and are operating far removed from their jurisdiction in New York City under no legal authority. The CIA, for its part, is clearly engaged in and supporting domestic spying. The Bureau and Agency are also collaborating in illegally using CIA resources, as most of the officers in question seconded to New York were paid out of Langley and were presumably able to tap into Agency data bases.
Will Attorney General Eric Holder either say or do something? Will he launch a Justice Department investigation or will he ignore the whole matter, "looking forward" as his boss in the White House has so often recommended? If he chooses to ignore the domestic spying, presumably because he is more interested in how New York City votes for 2012, it will be just one more chipping away at the liberties that we Americans used to enjoy. But we have become accustomed to that.


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Customer Loyalty: Membership-Based Programs
Now that we've established the importance of customer retention (see the June 1 "Retention is Paramount" post), let's examine one of the most basic and common customer loyalty programs: Membership-based. Membership-based programs are common because they are simple and they work. Regardless of whether the membership...Read More


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HI - San Francisco - Fisherman's Wharf Hostel
Building #240, Fort Mason, San Francisco, USA, Distance from city centre: 2.8km
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- " Staff were the friendliest I've come across in any hostel at which I've stayed. Location is incomparable to anywhere else in San Francisco. Juke box is a great touch. Not enough washing machines however when one is broken. "
- 18 Dec 2014 Mitchell England
- " wonderful surroundings/scenery (Hostel at Fisherman's wharf), helpful and friendly staff, good food, great people/guests there "
- 19 Nov 2014 Dorette Germany
- " It had been years since I have stayed in a hostel. I thought I was too old. Not at all. There were people of all ages. I shared a Quad room with two young women. One kept entirely to herself. The other was friendly and we had breakfast together. The common area was lively but most people were absorbed in their laptops. The bar/caffe was quite lovely but I did feel a bit old in there. Bed was comfortable. Nice view of Alcatraz from our room. Easy beautiful walk along the shore to the Golden Gate. "
- 16 Nov 2014 Anonymous USA
- " This was the second time we stayed at this Hostel. Great location and wonderful staff. We signed up for me Mission District Tour and out tour guide was wonderful (young lady with dark long hair) She was very knowledgeable and answered all of our questions. We defiantly will return to this Hostel. WE had a group of 4 from age 18 to 60! "
- 07 Nov 2014 Petra USA
- " Communal bathrooms could use some remodeling. Kitchen was amazing. "
- 06 Nov 2014 Gregg USA
- " I loved the convenience and easy access to the wharf, but I especially Loved being able to meet people from all over the world!!! I had great roomies and made fabulous new friends!!! I would go back there again if I went back to San Francisco :-D "
- 19 Oct 2014 Bethany USA
- " I thought this was an excellent place to stay in San Francisco. It's a little bit outside the main downtown area, but actually that adds to its appeal, because it's quiet at night, and there is free (first come first served) parking, which is super awesome! The room was clean and the bed was pretty comfortable. We also each got a big, lockable drawer to store valuables in, oh and did I mention the free breakfast?? Loved it. "
- 28 Sep 2014 Laura New Zealand
- " Staff is very kindly. Excellent! Mattress is uncomfortable. "
- 15 Sep 2014 Anonymous South Korea
- " very good "
- 21 Aug 2014 jaeyong South Korea
- " Awesome location "
- 18 Aug 2014 Laura Canada