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1. Surprise roomate
A 58 year old man living alone in Japan started hearing noises at night and noticing things out of place in his house. He installed video cameras. Turns out a homeless woman had been living in his attic and cupboards for almost a YEAR in his house, undetected.
This is why I get freaked out when I hear things at night.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2054057/Homeless-woman-comes-out-of-closet.html
2. A terrifying serial killer at-large
The story of California's (probably) worst uncaught serial offender:
A serial rapist begins a long series of home-invasion rapes in Sacramento in 1976. He frequently breaks into homes in the daytime prior to committing the rapes and would do things like unload guns, leave pieces of rope to use as bindings during the attack, remove screens from windows. He would also call victims both before and after attacks. In 1978 he begins attacking all throughout northern California. In 1979, he vanishes. One of the more chilling instances is at a community meeting in Sacramento regarding rape. A man stands up and declares that he would protect his wife if the rapist came to attack them. That couple is victimized next; he was there and must have followed them home.
A sample of one of his calls:
In the late 1990s, DNA reveals that he moved to southern California and became a serial killer starting in December 1979. He committed 10 murders from 1979 to 1986 ranging from Goleta to Dana Point.
3. Sociopathic child
HBO doc about a six year old with reactive attachment disorder who repeatedly tortured animals, sexually molested her brother, and attempted to kill her adoptive parents by coming into their bedroom at night with a knife. The doc shows her calmly telling her therapist about the incidents very soon after they happened – really creepy and sad.
4. I wish this wasn't real
Part of this is well documented, part of it is a little sketchy, but here is the TLDR of Danny Laplante.
A pregnant woman and her children are found murdered. The suspect is a creepy high school student who lived in the neighborhood. Sure enough, they track him down and it goes to trial, very gruesome details. Then they come to find out it was not his first offense…he had disappeared before when he was 15, and he was discovered, according to the story, living/hiding in the walls of a girl whose family he had been stalking. There are some freaky detail including his masturbation preferences, etc. Here are some supposed details and some sources:
The movie finished and the girls went off to change for bed. At the same time the dad came home. The youngest, 8 or so, was in her bedroom. She opened her closet and found Danny LaPlante standing there with a hatchet. He was dressed in her dead mothers clothes with make-up smeared on his face. He told her to be quiet and tied her up. He eventually tied up the whole family in the bedroom. He told them he was going to kill them, he'd be right back so start praying. The guess is he went to ransack valuables.
Thankfully, the youngest was able to wriggle free. She jumped out of the neighbors house who called the cops before coming back over with a gun to free the family. He freed the dad and the daughters but didn't see LaPlante. Cops came and couldn't find LaPlante.
The family stays with relatives for two weeks to get away from the house. In that time nobody's found LaPlante. The family has to come home. They pull in their driveway see that motherfucker standing in the window. The father starts yelling. Neighbors come over. They surround the house. Cops come and search the house.
They don't find Danny but find a disturbing scene. Pennies are glued to the ceiling. Strange writings are on the wall. All of their clothes, furniture, and fucking everything had been jacked off on. But no Danny. They search the house. Nothing.
Nothing until a cop in the basement hears a noise coming from behind the washing machine. Cops rush in and pull the washing machine away from the wall and find a hole. In that hole is Danny.
5. The IRL boogey man
This one always gets to me…
"I like children. They are tasty." – Albert Fish
6. Sex slavery
The Amy Bradley disappearance. She disappeared from a cruise ship en route to Curacao in 1998, and years later photos (NSFW!) were emailed to her parents that very much resembled her, and looked like she had been sold into sexual slavery. Multiple people have also claimed to see her through the years; the Wikipedia page on her case lists the sightings, and here's an FBI missing persons report, including sketches of people she was seen with in 2005.
The whole story is just chilling and terrifying. But this part of the Wikipedia article particularly stuck with me:
In 1999 an American sailor reported that he went to a brothel on Curaçao and was approached by a young woman. She told him her name was Amy Bradley and asked for his help. At this point, two men in the bar escorted her upstairs. By the time the witness reported this to police several months later, the brothel had burned down.
7. The worst doctor ever
There was a french doctor during WWll, who promised jewish refugees to help them to leave europe. When they came to his house on the day of departure, with their most precious belongings, he would give them a special "vaccine", since they were allegedly going to south america. He killed them all, took their stuff, also made them pay some high fee for his help in the first place, and dissolved their corpses in his basement with acid.
8. Axe man in the attic
Hinterkaifeck. It's about a guy who sneaks onto a farm and lives there in the attic for several days before killing them all one by one with an axe.
9. How did he know your name?
I almost was abducted by a man in a van (twice on separate accounts) when I was 15. This one time the cops came to my apartment complex and found footsteps in the snow leading up to the back window where my room was. When the guy tried to snatch me (in front of the complex, he didn't because I was kicking and screaming) he had said my name several times. Gives me chills thinking about it.
10. Night visitor
Just gonna jump on this comment to share a story that happened to a girl that I dated. I'll leave out specific details because I don't know how much she'd want it out there.
She used to work at a home improvement store and there was this middle aged guy who used to come in regularly and hang around the store and talk to her. He seemed a little slow and clingy, but harmless. He would always address her by name and say that she was pretty.
The one day he was in the store as they were closing and he saw a male coworker give her a hug before he left. The next day that male coworker woke up to find his tires slashed in his driveway. No one made any connection to the nice middle aged guy who came in to buy batteries 5 times a week.
Meanwhile, this girl had been noticing that she was always losing underwear at home. She just assumed that she had been losing them in the wash or simply misplacing them and thought nothing of it. She even joked about it with her mom.
Then it happened. She was sleeping one night and woke up to find this guy standing silently over her bed, staring down at her with her panties pressed against his face. She flipped the fuck out and he ran out the sliding glass door on the back of the house. The same unlocked door that, as they found out once he was caught, he had been coming into night after night for months to watch sleep and masturbate with her underwear.
11. Serial killer apprehended a few feet away
I live in Washington state and was apparently really close to being abducted by Westley Allen Dodd when I was like 3 or 4. My parents don't like talking about the story because it was their negligence that nearly allowed it to happen. He was a sick fuck and I wouldn't be typing this had things played out any differently.
Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westley_Allan_Dodd
It's not very exciting and I don't even remember it, but apparently my old man left me unattended in his pickup truck and this child molester/serial killer was apprehended just a few cars down while I was chillin' alone in the same parking lot.
12. I was childhood friends with a murderer
a girl who lives three hours away from me, in Medicine Hat, Alberta, together with her boyfriend murdered her mother, father and 3 year old brother. She was released from juvi a couple years ago and now goes to the same university as me.
She was 12 years old when she did it.
13. "Celebrity cannibal"
There is a guy who became famous after being convicted of murder and cannibalism, and lives as a free man in Japan to this day.
14. Jonestown recording
There is a recording of Jim Jones' speech during the night at Jonestown where the hundreds of people drank arsenic-laden juice and committed suicide. You can here them dying in the background and his sheer delirium is absolutely chilling.
Also, the entire Jonestown incident is horrifying. There is a really good documentary about it on netflix called "Witness to Jonestown". I highly recommend.
15. Tragic fire, inhuman parenting
My grandad was a firefighter, one of his jobs was taking pictures of the aftermath of fires, for evidence or record. This included the charred corpses of fire victims, so he has plenty of dark stories.
The worst he told me was when his unit reported to a house fire, and they found a locked room with three children in it, burned to death. Their father was in another room, passed out drunk. He had locked them in their room so he could go to the shop to buy more booze, and sometime between him leaving and coming back and passing out, he had started a cigarette fire, killing his children. I probably shouldn't say this bit, but most of the people involved have passed now : they beat the shit out of that bastard. When the police showed up and he was trying to get them all arrested for assault, my grandad silently showed them the scratch marks the children had left on the inside of the locked door, and nothing more was said.
The Wikipedia article doesn't go into a whole lot of the details, but the things they did to her while she was held captive were pretty gruesome. As you can probably imagine from 4 boys holding a girl captive for 44 days, she was raped. A lot.
17. Vlad the Impaler
When Vlad the Impaler was about to be invaded, he (true to his title) impaled hundreds of peasants on his countries border so that his attackers would see how ruthless he was. It worked, and the invaders turned back and went home.
Historians believe Vlads penchant for impaling stemmed from sexual abuse from men while he was a boy.
Also, he experimented with different methods of impaling. Through various orifices, and in his off time would eat his meals while watching people slowly dying upon their spikes.
18. A case for veganism :(
What about the pig farmers from British Columbia (Canada) who would bring hookers to their farm, kill them and then feed them to the pigs. The number of dead women is up to 27, but who knows how many others they got away with.
19. Feral child
20. Hi-Fi murders
Hi-Fi Murders in Utah. Dale S. Pierre and William Andrews (Members of the US Air Force) broke into a home Audio shop to rob it and took 5 people hostage. They gave the hostages a Blue liquid that they told them was vodka laced with sleeping pills, the vitims refused to drink it. The blue liquid wasnt vodka it was actually Drano that they then forced them to drink which made the victims flesh peel away and caused sever blisters. They then stomped a pen into one of the hostages ear. There was also a teenage girl held hostage that they raped multiple times then threw her on her face and shot her in the head.
21. Silent Hill inspiration
Centralia, Pennsylvania. It was a pretty decent sized coal mining town and in the 60's, a fire (which I believe was started at a landfill, but was not put out completely) caught an exposed coal vein on fire and the fire burns underground to this day. In the 80's, the government started paying people to leave and buying up all of the land and destroying the houses so no one could live there. Since they didn't exactly force people to leave, the town still has a population of about ten. There is enough coal underground to keep the fire burning for a very long time.
I have been there before and in person, it is really eerie. It's a bunch of empty streets with one or two houses, a church, and some cemeteries. One part of the highway, which was closed off and rerouted because of the fire, is all cracked and misshapen so the road is really uneven. One of the weirdest things is the steam that comes out through the ground. It almost looks like little hot springs everywhere, but it's really all coming from the fire below.
22. Dangerous admirer
Back in high school I had received a 3 page note from the quiet kid in class telling me how beautiful I was, how he would sit in class and stare at me. 2 weeks later the entire town finds out he had been raping his little sister since she was 12.
23. Volunteer cannibal victim
The story of Armin Meiwes, the man who used the internet to find a voluntary victim that would allow him to kill and eat them.
24. Columbine was supposed to be much worse
The intention of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold wasn't to just commit a school shooting. They made multiple 20 pound bombs. 2 of which they brought into the cafeteria which were supposed to detonate at 11:17am and 2 more, one in each of their cars set to detonate a short time later. Those were timed to go off when people were running out of the school. They studied the school for months. Plotting and figuring out when the cafeteria and the library were most full so their bombs could do the most damage. Their intention was to detonate the bombs in the cafeteria at the peak hour thus causing the library above to collapse in on it. This alone would have killed hundreds. They then would have positioned themselves outside picking off survivors as they ran out side. Their secondary devices would have killed people running past their cars as they tried to get away. After they realized their bombs hadn't gone off is when they decided to start going inside and shooting people. In one of the videos from the cafeteria Eric Harris can be seen shooting one of the propane tanks with his gun ( possibly his first attempt at suicide that day). Most people think Columbine was because of bullying where studies have shown that Eric Harris was a psychopath who believed himself better then everyone around him ( hence he wore a " natural selection" shirt during the massacre). They believe that something like this would have happened either way with Eric Harris while Dylan Klebold was heavily influenced by Eric and probably would hae not committed something like this without that influence.
"The killers, in fact, laughed at petty school shooters. They bragged about dwarfing the carnage of the Oklahoma City bombing and originally scheduled their bloody performance for its anniversary. Klebold boasted on video about inflicting "the most deaths in U.S. history." Columbine was intended not primarily as a shooting at all, but as a bombing on a massive scale. If they hadn't been so bad at wiring the timers, the propane bombs they set in the cafeteria would have wiped out 600 people. After those bombs went off, they planned to gun down fleeing survivors. An explosive third act would follow, when their cars, packed with still more bombs, would rip through still more crowds, presumably of survivors, rescue workers, and reporters. The climax would be captured on live television. It wasn't just "fame" they were after—Agent Fuselier bristles at that trivializing term—they were gunning for devastating infamy on the historical scale of an Attila the Hun. Their vision was to create a nightmare so devastating and apocalyptic that the entire world would shudder at their power."
TL:DR Columbine was supposed to kill hundreds not 13.
25. Clipperton Island
Always found the clipperton island story totally creepy: a man stranded with 17 women on a desert island for 2 years going into a power trip…
26. Witnessing evil
It is in the German memoir "Sniper on the Eastern Front". The story I am about to tell give me chills even to this day, and I think about it often. It is March 1945, and the Germans have been pushed back by the Russians into Germany and Czechoslovakia. He was scouting some German village in the Sudetenland. A Russian platoon drove around, so he hid in a caved out building, so this lone sniper had a front row seat to the horror to what was to follow. The platoon was plundering the village until it ran into this German couple. The russians then tied up the Husband, and forced him to watch as the russians, in order of ranking personnel, raped the wife. One. by. one. She was screaming in agony, fell in and out of consciousness, and was in so much pain. When the last russian was finished with her, he shoved a flare gun up the woman's vagina, and fired it. The woman screamed out the most "animalistic, brutal, and haunting scream" the german has ever heard, as the flare was slowly burning the woman's insides and blood/flare residue/ flames were rushing out of her body, and then she slumped over dead. German reinforcements soon arrived, and killed/ wounded the platoon, and the husband went into his house, grabbed an abject (I recall it was a shovel) and hacked the remaining wounded russians on the ground until they were all dead. Some of the Germans tried stopping him, but the lone sniper held them back.
27. Skin suit
I heard about this really really old lady, thought to be about 101 who lived in a small stone hovel in South America, Chile I think. She always wore a hood over her head and talked in a shrill rasping voice. By day, she worked at a meat stall, and by night she would hobble back to her house, in her full length gown. Her skin was greyed and incredibly wrinkled and dry, she looked by most accounts like a witch and many children in the village feared her.
It was only after aid workers came to the village after an earthquake which left it without supply routes that they actually examined this old woman and found that the woman's granddaughter was actually wearing her grandmothers skin, and that the grandmother had died from natural causes years ago. The girl, who if I remember correctly was about 14-15, gutted, bled and cured the grandmother's corpse and left an opening in the back of the skin that she could climb into. Worse still, she had left the skin of the face, cured and intact and could put her head up inside and fill out the skin on the head and peer out of the eye holes which she enlarged.
After being removed from the grotesque suit and asked about the ordeal she said she did it so she could carry on working because her mother had died, and so she could maintain her status in the community, she also said she enjoyed playing make-belief with the corpse and that the whole process gave her much enjoyment. The girl was thought to have run away years back.
28. Missing memory
I woke up at 7 years old, totally naked, with the sole window in my room open; screen placed outside propped up against the house. I have no memory of what may have happened or how I came to be naked in the middle of the night. I went to my mother, in my predicament, who rolled over and told me I was fine. I took her word for it, put some clothes on, and went back to bed. I still have no idea what happened. I do remember her putting the window screen back into it's proper place the next day, and nothing else was ever said.
29. Brainwashing gone wrong
Karin Catherine Waldegrave, a well-educated English woman who moved to Canada and made a bunch of lengthy Facebook wall posts addressed to nobody replying only to her previous comments and reaching up to 4000 posts a week . The posts went into as much detail to suggest it being the result of some covert secret service brainwashing scandal or a sudden snap into schizophrenic delirium. As suddenly as it started though, she disappeared and there has been no report of her since.
30. Mystery boxers
my roommate's sister lives in a suburban part of Delaware, right outside of Wilmington. Her neighborhood had been experiencing all these weird break-ins for a bit, break-ins where nobody could figure out what had been taken. Finally, one day she comes home and finds a pair of men's boxers on her pillow (to the skeptics, she lives alone) She immediately calls the police and gets the hell out of Dodge, locking her doors before she leaves. The police come with her back to her house, and find the door unlocked, meaning the man was almost certainly inside her house when she made the discovery
31. Girl Scout murders
The Oklahoma Girl Scout murders
32. Depressed Nobel Laureate
Gilbert Newton-Lewis, the scientist who made the Lewis-dot structure we all learn in chemistry was nominated for the Nobel Prize 35 times, and won it 0 times. After having lunch with a rival who built off of his work, who won a Nobel Prize over him, Gilbert Newton-Lewis went into his lab and killed himself with the chemicals he was experimenting with.
33. Public bus killer
a man was sleeping on a Greyhound bus in 2008, going through Canada, when a man next to him on the bus decapitated him and began eating his flesh. Man, you can't fuckin' make me go on a Greyhound now.
The "Vampire of Sacramento," who cannibalized his victims. He would also kill animals, put their organs in a blender, and drink it with Coca-Cola… What still creeps me out to this day is that "he took locked doors as a sign that he was not welcome, but that unlocked doors were an invitation to come inside." I just imagine him walking through a neighborhood, trying all the doors, seeing where he was invited…
35. A city whose children just up and left
I've always thought the story of the children of Hamelin was pretty creepy. The town's records start in the late 1300s with the line "It is one hundred years since our children left us."
Basically, Hamelin is where the legend of the Pied Piper comes from. He was a guy who would go around to cities and have the mayor pay him to get rid of all the rats. He would then walk through the streets playing a flute and all the rats would just follow him out of the city. One day someone decided not to pay him for getting rid of the rats. So he came back at night, walked through the streets playing his flute, and all of the children followed him out of town, never to be seen again.
Obviously THAT'S not true, but it's based on the Children's Crusade. A boy gathered an army of children (whether or not ALL of them were actually kids is disputed, but unlikely) to retake the holy land. Hamelin is believed to have let their children go on the crusade because they were going broke or something. The army crossed the alps, commissioned some ships in Venice, and the ships promptly took all the children to Tunisia where they were sold into slavery.
It's not the most WTF story, but I do think it's a little creepy that there was a city out there whose children just up and left.
36. Bad smell
First I have to apologize because I don't know specifics as far as where exactly this took place, or the names of the people involved. My mother has a friend ( or co-worker. Can't remember exactly since this was a few years ago she told me) who used to live in Maine ( I am 90 percent sure it's Maine. Once again apologies.) Who lived next to a family she considered to be normal. A husband, wife, and two sons lived there and nothing ever seemed out of place. One day my mothers friend was sitting in her house and smelled something a little off. The smell was one of those weak smells that don't smell terrible, and it even makes you think that it is just in your head. Fast forward two days and the smell had grown stronger and worse. When she called the authorities, they determined that the smell was coming from the neighbors house. When they investigated, they discovered that the parents had decided to cook their sons in the oven and just leave it on.
Who does that!!?? I mean, if it was just one person, you could say that as unfortunate as the situation is, it is insanity. when two people conspire,however, that is not insanity. that is something else entirely. I guess you could say that it is pure evil, but I feel like that is too vague a statement. Does anybody know of anything, psychologically speaking or otherwise, that would cause two grown adults to do something like this? Maybe it is insanity, but I feel that it would be unlikely in this situation.
37. Therapy???
tl;dr Child abuse victim undergoing attachment therapy was suffocated to death by a flannel blanket in her own vomit under the watch of her therapists. All of this was videotaped.
38. Failed kidnapping
My Parents friend told me once about a genuine terrifying story that happened to someone at his work.
His colleague at work, a woman in her mid-30's, was on holiday in Portugal with her family for the summer. Herself and her daughter were shopping in a supermarket close to the the hotel. Just for a second, to collect some groceries from the shelves , the mother lets go of the daughter's hand. The mother collects her things and begins to move to the next aisle and that is when she notices her child is missing. This took place shortly after the Madeline McCann disappearance, and fully aware that she was in a crowded supermarket the mother flips out. She starts screaming for her child, that her child is missing and is so distressed that the store freaks out with her. Shutters come down, alarms are sounded and the staff begin a search for the girl.
They found the girl still alive, in the bathroom. Her hair had been cut and she was wearing a different set of plain clothes. If they had taken but a few seconds more to find her, she would've been gone for good. Thinking about it gives me chills.
39. 9/11 911 call
There was at least one guy, Kevin Cosgrove, on the phone with 911 operators on 9/11. He was on the phone, and his call was being recorded, as the tower collapsed. It's not for the faint of heart, and is one of the only things on the internet that has really chilled me to the core. It's not something people don't know about, really, more like something no one really thinks about. There were people on the phone with others outside the towers as they fell, and those listening got to hear what happened.
40. Buried alive
I'm a tour guide in Savannah, Georgia. I tell this story on my historical and haunted tours, and as far as I know it's all true.
Savannah suffered three major fires in 1796, 1820, and 1889. Immediately after each fire yellow fever swept the city. Stagnant water had collected in the foundations of the buildings destroyed by the fires, breeding mosquitoes and spreading yellow fever. The citizens thought the epidemic was airborne, and the seemingly coincidental and devastating events led many to believe the city was cursed.
Yellow fever is nasty. It begins like the flu. Children and people with compromised immune systems would often experience liver failure, resulting in Jaundice (hence, yellow fever). Ultimately people ended up vomiting blood, which appeared black and reinforced the belief that the city was cursed and that the infected were possessed by demons.
Most who made it to this stage of the illness died, but some fell into a coma, which, by those medical standards, closely resembled death. Because the citizens believed the epidemic to be airborne, they felt it was of the utmost importance to bury the Yellow Fever victims as quickly as possible. Some comatose victims were mistaken for dead and buried alive.
The city of Savannah built over most of its cemeteries, and burial records were destroyed in the fires. There have been instances in recent years in which workers have unearthed coffins with scratch marks inside the lids, bodies with broken fingers, etc. And the creepiest part about it is that there have been outbreaks of Yellow Fever in the past couple years.
41. "Murder castle"
The story of H.H. Holmes, America's first serial killer. The guy built a goddamn murder castle and killed as many as 200 people all over the states and in Canada as well. "The Devil in the White City" is a really good read that juxtaposes his murdery exploits with the pomp and ceremony surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair.
42. Buried alive, part II
After Pearl Harbor, there were soldiers who were trapped below deck as their ships sank. Unfortunately, the ships didn't flood, so they were trapped below deck for days until they died of starvation. The navyy knew it was happening, but they had no way to go down and get them, due to limitations (couldn't get the right tools, ship might blow up… I can't remember the actual reason), so they instead reported those men among the initial death toll from the bombings. Men on guard would beg not to be placed near those ships, because they could hear them banging on the hull for help. Eventually, the navy managed to get down to retrieve the bodies, but only after everyone had died. Apparently they had marked the passage of time on the wall, and they had survived at least a week. Most of the families of those men were never made aware that it happened.
43. Hello Kitty murder
Her head was cut off and shoved into a big Hello Kitty doll. Pretty dark.
44. Not a real doctor
There is a Frenchman named Jean-Claude Romand who starting in the 70s fooled his family and friends into thinking he was a doctor. He never actually went to med school at all and basically wandered the streets during the day. He had no income as a result of not actually being a doctor, so he lived off his wife's money unbeknownst to her. He also took money from other people who he convinced he had a hedgefund. This went on for 18 years but then people started wanting their money back.
So in the early 90s he bought a gun and tear gas. First he beat his wife to death and slept next to the body all night. The next day he spent with his children and after he put them to bed at night shot both of them. Next day he drove to see his parents, ate with them, and shot them and their dog. Lastly, he met up with an ex-mistress who wanted the money he owed her. He tried to strangle her and use the tear gas on her, but she fought him off. He then apologized and drove her home. He then drove home, poured gas all over his house, took sleeping pills, and set the home on fire.
He was rescued by the fire department, which there is suspicion of this being his plan (he took expired sleeping pills and the way he set the fire made it very noticeable from the outside). He's currently in prison for the murders and is up for parole in 2015.
45. Do not read if you are a 'Land Before Time' fan
Do you guys remember the land before time? I do, it was one of my favourite movies growing up. It wasn't until recently that I wondered who the voice actors were for that movie and found out what happened to the little girl who played Duckie.
Judith was last seen on the morning of Monday, July 25, 1988, when she rode her bike on her street. On that same night, József shot Judith in the head while she was asleep in her room. Maria, hearing the gunshot, rushed down the hall, where József met her and shot her as well. József spent the next two days wandering around the house, and said during a phone call with Judith's agent on Tuesday night that he intended to move out for good, and just needed time to "say goodbye to [my] little girl." He then poured gasoline on the bodies and set them on fire. He later went into the garage and shot himself in the head with a .32 caliber pistol.
46. Not clear on whether the world is getting better, or worse
To anyone who's thinking that these are all old stories and such stuff doesn't happen today – Just about a week back, a group of six men raped and severely wounded a 23yr woman in a bus in the Indian capital city Delhi.
This is current news on every news channel on TV right now and has caused a huge uproar among people. The girl is in critical condition. Even if she recovers, she probably cannot eat and live like a normal person ever again because of the wounds.
47. There's a dog ghost haunting space
Laika – the first dog in space (Russia/USSR)
no re-entry plan was ever made. the dog was doomed to die of starvation or suffocation once it was in orbit.
48. Hide and seek
When my mom was ten, she still lived in Thailand and often went outside and played with the neighbor's kids. The houses in Thailand are extremely close together, and she lived on a 'U' shaped street and they were playing at the end of the 'U'. Her family was really close with the neighbors and the adults were all just hanging out in the lawn. The kids started playing a game of Hide and Seek and things were going pretty well, until they couldn't find one of the girls. They searched everywhere, and the adults helped, but they couldn't find her. That was a good thirty years ago, and the girl was never found. My mom refused to let me play Hide and Seek, and she was obviously traumatized from the experience.
A man who was disfigured walked around at night because he didn't want people to see him in the day time. People called him Charlie No-Face, and they told their kids stories about him. kids raised on these stories are surprised to find out that he was a real person.
Not dark but its kinda creepy.
50. Don't help people, ever
I teach middle school English in Korea.
One of my students was walking into her families apartment complex when a old lady asked for her help lifting some things. The old lady then said she had some more things in the car and asked for help. My student was reluctant but agreed to help. When she got to the car some guy pushed her in and another guy started driving off. She saw a hammer and some rope in the front seat.
Luckily she had the toe of her sneaker stuck in the door and so it remained slightly open. When the car slowed on a turn she jumped out and ran home. The old lady was still out front talking to the second guy and so she used the side entrance. Apparently this happens frequently.


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One mile away from the Best Western Rosslyn/Iwo Jima lies Arlington National Cemetery, the burial place of President John F. Kennedy and several generations of U.S. soldiers. The Iwo Jima Memorial is outside the cemetery walls.
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Federal Prosecutor Tapped for Senior Justice Department Job
Marshall L. Miller, a veteran federal prosecutor in the Eastern District of New York, is to become the next deputy chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.
Mr. Miller's is the latest addition to the division, which helps shape the government's criminal enforcement policy across 94 U.S. Attorney's offices nationwide as well as prosecuting cases itself.
Mr. Miller, 42-years-old, did two stints as a prosecutor in Brooklyn, from 1999 to 2003, and then rejoined the office again in 2006. He taught law at New York University Law School in the interim and helped his brother, former New York City Council Speaker Gifford Miller, run for New York City mayor in 2005.
As head of the criminal division in the Brooklyn attorney's office, Mr. Miller oversaw high profile fraud and terrorism cases and opened an investigation into JP Morgan's hiring practices in China.
The division is in the midst of a personnel shakeup at the top. The department is waiting for a Senate to vote to confirm nominee Leslie Caldwell to be the department's criminal division chief. Ms. Caldwell is a former federal prosecutor who headed the department's Enron Task Force.
Last month, another former federal prosecutor, David O'Neil, was tapped to lead the Justice Department's Criminal Division until Ms. Caldwell is confirmed.


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Dan, if its a differnet choice of spelling then fine, but since posts on here also blame Rafa, and call him an unethical business man, think you can see why I thought there was a little lack of respect involved.As for finishing above the Reds, and still not securing CL football, your right its quite possible. Everton did give us a good race at the end, but since the points gap between us and the blues was 11 points, which also happened to be the points difference between us and the Mancs, I'll let other decide if Liverpool are more likely to fall out of the CL qualifying spot, or win the title.But finally, on the Barry point, think your right, maybe its best to give it a rest for a while. Alhough to be fair, I've not initiated the last few threads here, just thrown my opinions onto threads started by others who I assume are Villa fans. But besides, it looks like MON is not starting to negotiate, and while I think he's almost insultingly undervaluing Finnan as a makeweight, at least things may now be moving.


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Personal Injury Protection (PIP) attorneys don't deserve the fat fees they try to collect for filing PIP lawsuits, says one well-respected South Florida judge.
"I don't believe a PIP attorney is entitled to $450 an hour, Miami-Dade County Judge Marvin H. Gillman said at a hearing held May 10, 2011. "There is nothing so complicated about PIP that deserves a neurosurgeon attorney to handle it."
Well put! We've been saying all along that attorneys who charge upwards of $350 an hour to file basic paperwork are using the legal system for personal gain and forcing honest drivers to pay too much for their auto insurance. We applaud the courage Judge Gillman showed.
At issue was a demand by the Patino Law Firm of Hialeah to be paid more than $40,000 in legal fees for 98.5 hours of work at $425 per hour. Attorney Ryan Peterson of the firm represented one of his bosses, Richard Patino, who worked on the case when it was originally filed in 2001. Peterson sought to block UAIC's request to take a deposition of Patino.
"I don't understand why anybody who is seeking, in this case $40,000 in attorney's fees ten years after the fact would object to being deposed to defend their claim for $40,000 in fees," Judge Gillman said, according to a transcript of the hearing.
Judge Gillman went on to question the fees that PIP lawyers demand of insurance companies as part of a legal settlement.
"You know, some guy swinging a hammer playing ordinary lawyer should be able to handle these cases for $150 to $200 an hour," Judge Gillman said. "You don't need somebody at $450 an hour to handle PIP, not unless it's become so complicated in the past ten years that it's beyond my comprehension."
"People two years out of law school are doing PIP cases, Judge Gillman said. "And they don't get $450 an hour. They wouldn't even dare ask for that amount of money."
"It just offends me that Mr. Patino asks for that kind of money from a third party," Gillman said. "Now, if he wants to get [that] from his client, that is his client's deal and himself. But not from the third party with the court's approval. I can't condone that at all."
UAIC argued before Judge Gillman that it was entitled to know more information before going into a fee hearing over the amount. Peterson had objected, arguing that "other county courts have called depositions after the fact 'Rambo-like overkill,'" according to a court transcript.
Judge Gillman disagreed, saying, "Why should that be treated any differently than a plaintiff who is seeking to collect a judgment against somebody?"
Peterson's response carried no weight. Judge Gillman ordered a deposition, saying that the UAIC attorney could "take his deposition until the cows come home as long as it pertains to the point about the $40,000. Or why he's entitled to $450 an hour, which, in my opinion is an outrageous amount of money."
We hope the other county court judges take notice of Judge Gillman's comments. Too often we hear from plaintiff attorneys that they have no incentive to settle because they know the judges are going to give them everything they want.
Some judges have even mentioned that they know the rates awarded to plaintiff PIP attorneys are out of control, but they can't do anything about it because they fear they won't be re-elected. It's a very sad state of affairs, and one of the reasons South Florida is rated the Number One judicial hellhole year after year.


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In 1960, Doug Ford, a fellow church member, began helping Del and took over the job of raising funds for the station. Doug was an insurance salesman, an entrepreneur and a visionary with zeal. He immediately set to work on a plan to make the station a business venture in which Christians could invest. Those involved were divided about whether or not to make KHCB a "for-profit" or "non-profit" corporation. Some looked at it strictly as a ministry, while others, like Doug, saw great potential for KHCB to be a thriving God-honoring corporation. He felt strongly that there was nothing wrong with having a ministry that made a profit. They all agreed, however, that the station should be non-commercial and that funds should come from listener contributions. Doug had an attorney draw up the paperwork for the station as a for-profit corporation under the name Houston Christian Broadcasters, Inc.
He quickly began calling his Christian contacts in the business world encouraging them to become stockholders in the corporation. He saw KHCB as a ministry that gave investors an opportunity to have a return on their investment. As Doug and other Christians bought stock in the corporation, financing was provided to get the station off the ground. If the station grew and prospered, the stockholders would then get a return on their investment.
Many of those who bought stock were friends at church who were aware of the pursuit to open a Christian radio station and regularly prayed for the Lord's guidance and blessing on these efforts. Through the sale of stock, $22,000 was raised for the station.
A key piece of equipment in the operation of a station is a transmitter to broadcast the signal. Doug heard of a 10,000- watt FM transmitter which radio station KXYZ (FM) had for sale. This station had debuted in 1948 with a classical music format but the lack of a strong listener base forced it to close down in 1950. It was now 1960 and the station was still shut down. Doug shared the news with Del, who decided to investigate the possibility of purchasing the transmitter.
What Del discovered in that visit was that not only was the transmitter for sale, but the entire station was on the market. The station was located on the top floor of the Gulf Building in downtown Houston, and the antenna was on the roof. Having the antenna on site was a significant advantage because there would not be a need to send the radio signal from the studio to a remote antenna location. The studios were fully furnished including an operating console which was practically brand new. The transmitter in particular was immaculate and was itself worth $35,000.
The chief engineer for KXYZ, Jerry Chinski, was very kind and spent several afternoons with Del showing him the equipment and teaching him about FM transmitters and how they operate. Mr. Chinski was probably the foremost authority in Houston on FM broadcasting at that time. Del learned a great deal about the business from him.
After looking over the situation, both Del and Doug felt that this station was ideal. Doug made an offer of $7500 for everything. To their total amazement, the local management accepted his offer without even making a counter-offer. After months of searching for an appropriate facility to begin a Christian radio station in Houston and finding nothing, both men felt certain that their dreams were finally going to come true.
All the paperwork was prepared. In a very short time, KXYZ would become Houston's first Christian radio station. The only remaining detail was the formality of final approval from the station owners in California. The owners usually followed the recommendations offered by their local managers.
Several weeks went by and the anticipated phone call from the local management finally came. So sure were Del and Doug that this was their answer to prayer, the news they received left them both in total shock. The owners in California sent word that they would not accept Doug's offer. In addition, they announced that the station was no longer for sale.
At first, this avenue appeared to be the leading of the Lord. Everything looked perfect. How could they have missed the Lord's leading so completely? Questions tumbled out one after another with very few answers. Was the Lord unwilling to move the owner's hearts? Was the timing wrong? How long should they pray and wait on the Lord? The only explanation given for the refusal was that the station provided a tax write-off for the parent company and selling it would not be beneficial to the owners.
This turn of events put Del and Doug back to square one. Not until several months later did the Lord reveal to them why station KXYZ (FM) had not been in His plan for them. Through conversations with others in the field, Del discovered that what had appeared to be a "perfect deal" was not so perfect after all. In fact, it would have been a disaster had the Lord not intervened. It turned out that the transmitter they would have inherited was very expensive to operate. The output power tubes, of which there were two, cost $1100 each and had to be replaced yearly. In addition, since these tubes were no longer manufactured, they were difficult to obtain. The cost of maintaining this transmitter would have been higher than the payments on a new one. Furthermore, KHCB's future possibilities of upgrading the signal from a monaural transmission to a stereo broadcast would have been limited because of the antiquated equipment design.
By closing the door to the purchase of this station, the Lord spared the ministry from a tremendous debt and early demise. Del was encouraged to see that the Lord was clearly controlling circumstances to keep him on the right track toward bringing Christian Radio to Houston. The Bible declares: "For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." (Jeremiah 29:11)
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- The San Jose Earthquakes dominated play Wednesday evening at Jeld-Wen Field, but it took 70 minutes for them to tie the score 1-1, a draw that keeps alive their slim MLS playoff hopes.
"We're pushing for the playoffs," said Khari Stephenson, who scored the game-tying goal. "We're more than capable."
Portland (10-12-7) was looking to win its fifth consecutive home game, but the Earthquakes (6-11-12), who were the first team to beat the Timbers at Jeld-Wen Field, showed crisp passing and received spectacular goalkeeping from Jon Busch.
"This is a great atmosphere -- it'd be great if it was like this for every game," Stephenson said.
San Jose had several chances to take the lead in the final 10 minutes of regulation, but wide shots and fantastic saves from Timbers goalkeeper Troy Perkins kept the game tied.
"I credit the players," coach Frank Yallop said. "We were very sharp offensively and defensively -- but we showed great character (to come back) against a dominant team at home."
Despite doubling the Timbers' time of possession, it took 70 minutes for the Earthquakes to tie the score 1-1 when Stephenson -- with his back to the net -- turned and fired a strike past Perkins.
"He's been excellent," Yallop said of Stephenson. "He's done whatever is asked of him."
But Busch kept the club in the game throughout, including in the 63rd minute when he came out of nowhere to snare an Eric Brunner header that seemed destined for the net.
The Timbers took the lead early in the first half, as Darlington Nagbe streaked up the right flank and found Kenny Cooper, whose kick rolled into the back of the net in the ninth minute to put the Timbers up 1-0.
On being down that early in the match, Yallop said: "It's either sink or swim in this atmosphere."
Moments later, the Timbers appeared as if they would make it 2-0 as Nagbe scorched a right-footed shot toward the left corner, but Busch made a sliding save.
Busch made a series of sensational saves, as he was busy despite the Earthquakes dominating time of possession.
The Earthquakes' best chance of the first half went by when Chris Wondolowski, just eight feet from the net, had his shot blocked by two Portland defenders.
Three minutes before halftime, Busch made another save, leaping high in the air to punch away a Cooper smash from 30 feet.


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Mosley vs Tito and Quartey vs Cotto
Who wins these two matchups. Mosley and Tito actually looked great around 99-01. But they had a hardfall around the sametime. So who wins this matchup
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I believe the Quartey that fought De La Hoya would more than hold his own against Cotto, But it would be a competitive fight because both of them like to bang and can jab their way in too. That would have been an awesome fight. I like Quartey by decision.
I think Tito-Mosley is very hard to call, Shane always had trouble with big guys who could box but Trinidad was just an offensive machine, He didnt have a varied skillset like a Vernon Forrest or Floyd Mayweather. That's a really hard fight to call but I give Tito a slight edge because of his size.
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I think Mosley takes out Tito. Mosley at his best at welterweight could do it all, and Tito would have to land a perfect shot to drop Mosley, which I don't see happening.
Quartey-Cotto, that's a really tough one. I'd go Quartey, just a gut feeling.
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i dont see anyway mosley could beat tito, tito was only beaten by good boxers/jabs...
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I've always felt Trinidad is like Margarito but with better technique. Somebody that's always coming forward looking for the knockout with a great chin. However, since he did have more technique that's why I think he'd squeeze a real close decision in this one. Margarito just walked into every one of Mosley's shots and was obliterated. Tito offered a real stiff jab though and is not as predictable. So I think it'd would be a hell of a fight but Tito would squeeze by with a RAZOR THIN close decision.
And don't even make me pick between Ike & Cotto. That's a tough tough fight to call.
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Mosley easily beats Tito, and Quartey would have landed big blows to knock out Cotto.
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Tito-Mosley back in 99-01,I'd pick Mosley by ud!!I think that Tito started too slowly & Mosley had great stamina!!I see Mosley dropping him early & controlling the 1st half of the fight!!Tito would even out the fight as he got warm in the second half,but he wouldn't drop Mosley so they'd trade the second half of the fight,to the bell & Mosley would win because of the dominant 1st half!!Mosley has an iron chin & great boxers gave him trouble!!Tito to me wasn't that good of a boxer,he was just big & strong with great stamina!!Mosley's speed would be too much,it would look like DLH over again except Mosley wasn't running,he'd sit down on the power,drop Tito early & bang away to the final bell!!
Cotto-Ike,is a tough 1,I think the Ike jab vs the Cotto jab would have been great,I'll have to call that 1 a draw!!
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mosley beats the hell out tito.mosley had trouble with big guys who can box i.e wright,forrest,oscar
a plodder like tito would be easy work.i think it would look like vargas/mosley with tito having some moments early but mosley eventually picking him apart
i would favor cotto over quartey by sd being as he had a deeper skillset
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The only kitchen appliance we brought from our old home is the microwave oven. We'd hoped to find someone in a department store who was knowledgeable and motivated to put together an energy-efficient appliance package with a price tag we liked. We found that while some salespeople knew where to look for the yellow Energy Guide tags that list the kilowatt hours used by an appliance in a year, most wanted to focus on which was the least expensive or the "most popular" version of something, such as refrigerators with French doors.
We found helpful information on the Internet about the Energy Star rating program the EPA implemented in 1992. The Energy Star program encourages manufacturers to voluntarily create appliances with reduced water and energy use, and now consumers like us can compare appliances on these factors. In addition to energy efficiency, we had to consider the way our architect designed our kitchen, our budget and what was available in local stores. My husband also checked out consumer ratings of appliances, which, combined with Energy Star ratings, helped us generate a list of our top choices.
My new kitchen is coming together. We're getting the wiring together and making progress. Photo Courtesy Rebecca Selove.
Through our builders we met Matt at the local Cenwood Appliance store. He was savvy about energy efficiency and taught us more about cooktops than I knew existed. I've never lived where a cooktop was separate from the oven. I learned about fixed and telescopic downdrafts and induction cook tops (not worth their cost to us). I also learned that energy efficiency in a cooktop is due in part to a good match in size of the burner and size of the bottom of the pan it heats. I came home and measured the bottoms of my favorite pans and learned that the largest are 9 inches in diameter. This meant we didn't want a cook top with a 12-inch burner.
We left our first meeting with Matt feeling pretty good about our decisions, but with a question still on the table about the oven. I had used a convection oven in a cohousing comunity where we used to live, and appreciated its ability to help me get dinner ready on time even when I started late. The Energy Star convection oven cost about $200 more than a standard oven, and from the American Council on Energy Efficiency, a nonprofit organization that provides education and advocacy related to energy efficiency, I learned that the convection oven is generally 20 percent more efficient than the conventional oven. We settled on a GE Profile 30-inch downdraft electric cook top and a GE 30-inch single oven with convection.
I'm looking forward to cooking in the completed kitchen.
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*Instead of whole-wheat flour, you can substitute quinoa, garbanzo bean or brown rice flour for gluten free options.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Use coconut oil or non-aerosol cooking spray to lightly grease 8 ramekins or a 2 1/2 quart soufflé dish (a regular baking dish or muffin tins can also be substituted).
Finely chop cooked spinach and artichoke hearts. In a small bowl, combine spinach, artichokes, parmesan cheese, and ground pepper. Set aside.
In a small saucepan, cook milk, garlic, and onion on low heat for 3 to 5 minutes. Set aside.
In a medium saucepan, heat olive oil on low heat. Add flour; whisk for 2 minutes. Slowly stir in hot milk mixture. Bring to a simmer and whisk for 5 more minutes or until thick consistency. Add artichoke and spinach mixture. Whisk until combined. Transfer mixture into a large bowl and whisk in egg yolks one at a time.
In a separate bowl, beat egg whites, lemon juice, and salt with a mixer on medium speed until egg whites form stiff peaks. Stir 1/4 of egg whites into the egg yolk mixture then gently fold in remaining egg whites. Pour mixture into greased dish until each ramekin or soufflé dish is 3/4 full.
Bake until soufflé has risen and top is golden brown; 20-25 minutes for individual soufflés or 40-45 minutes for soufflé dish. (Do not open oven until the last 5 minutes of cooking because this may interrupt rising). Once soufflé is out of the oven, serve hot and enjoy.
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Although artichokes are best during the winter season, they are cultivated in California and made available across the country throughout the year.
Artichokes are not only the perfect vegetable to accompany pastas, soups, salads, or dips, with their earthy and nutty flavor, but they are also rich in nutrients and antioxidants like quercetin, rutin, and anthocyanins.
A medium artichoke provides 64 calories, 4 grams of protein and 10 grams of fiber. It is also a great source of vitamin C, potassium, folic acid and magnesium. With an artichoke providing about 25% of the daily value of fiber, this high fiber content can help to improve bowel regulation and relieve constipation.
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by Mary Shelley
Frankenstein Theme of Life, Consciousness, and Existence
Surprise: a book about creating life has a lot to say (or, at least ask) about life and consciousness. Like, "Are we really just born this way?" And, "How much can we blame our parents for, honestly?" And, "Does playing Mass Effect 29 really make us more violent?" Okay, the last one is a little bit of a stretch—but Frankenstein does wonder how our reading habits form our minds and attitudes. If Mary Shelley had been writing in the 21st century, she probably would have had Frankenstein pick up an Xbox controller. (And hopefully have suggested a little counseling.)
Questions About Life, Consciousness, and Existence
- In what ways is Victor like God? In what ways is he not? Are we supposed to admire Victor, or be alarmed—very alarmed—at his life's goal?
- Does Victor have a responsibility to the monster beyond giving it life? Does every creator have a responsibility to what he creates? What does that mean in the context of "creation" as opposed to, say, motherhood or fatherhood?
- Shelley seems to think that the monster is basically a blank slate. He's born without any sense of who he is and learns through his reading and interactions with people. Is she suggesting that we're all born good and then turned evil by society?
- The monster appears to be a blank slate, but Frankenstein seems to suggest that it was his "destiny" to turn out the way he did. Are these contradictory ideas?
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Shelley suggests that all men, women, and monsters are born essentially the same, and we're made different by our experiences.
Frankenstein suggests that our experiences are only part of our personalities; we're all born with essential parts of our consciousness formed.


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I'm encountering a rather strange problem. I've never seen an issue like this with WordPress, so hopefully one of you can help!
Here's the issue:
When editing the home page of the website, I'm having trouble uploading & linking to pdfs. Basically, if I click the "Add Media" button and upload a pdf, it uploads properly. Then I select "File URL" in the "link to" section and click "Insert Into Post" to place the link onto the page ... this works properly too.
HOWEVER, when I save the changes to the page, something happens! It changes the link, that originally pointed to the pdf file, into a link that points to the pdf post.
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I upload a pdf and link to it at http://www.domain.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/file.pdf using the "Insert Into Post" button.
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Here's the REALLY WEIRD part ... this is only happening on the home page. We can upload and link to pdfs properly from any other page on the website. I even created a new home page and deleted the old one, and I'm still having the same problem.
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NYC Usability Professionals Association presents:
*World Usability Day in New York *
Here is the agenda for the World Usability Day event in NYC. Registration is
open. Please note that this 300 person event is expected to sell out. We
will not be taking walk-in registration on the day of the event. We
encourage you to pre-register early.
* World Usability Day** **| NYC, 8 Nov 2007 *
*1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, 60th floor, NY, NY (Pre-registration required)*
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***Conference *
*12:30 – 1:00* *Registration & Opening Reception***
*1:00 – 1:05** Introduction to World Usability Day* *'07*
Mark Safire, *President, NYC UPA*
*1:05 – 1:50* *Delivering Stellar Customer Experiences*
Three Principles for Success: Learn how organizations sustain a long-term
competitive edge through user experience best practices.
Bruce Temkin, *VP - Principal Analyst, Forrester Research*
*1:50 – 2:50* *Reinforcing Brands With Every Interaction
*Leading interaction designers and producers discuss how key brand
attributes can be successfully delivered through every customer interaction
*–* online and off.
Moderated by Tammy Sachs, *CEO, Sachs Insights** *with panelists *including:
· Anthony S. Manson, *Managing Partner - eMarketing , Sudler &
Hennessey *
· Brandt Flomer, *Creative Director - Experience Strategy, R/GA*
· Bruce Temkin, *VP - Principal Analyst, Forrester Research*
· Stephen Gates, *Interactive Creative Director*, *Starwood Hotels &
Resorts Worldwide*
*2:50 – 3:15 * *Snack Break**
*Light Refreshments & Snacks sponsored by *Human Factors International*
**3:15 – 3:50* *Innovative Features: Triumphs & Tragedies **
*Examples of recent online interface techniques: good and not so good.
Tammy Sachs, *CEO, Sachs Insights
*3:50 – 4:50** The User Experience Process: How to Make It Work** *
*Leaders in User Experience across several industries discuss what has
worked – and what has not – in establishing user-centered design processes
within their organizations. *
*Moderated by** **Mark Safire, President , **NYC UPA** **with panelists
*· **Jose Coronado, Director of Usability, **ADP** *
· Kathleen Hoski, *Manager - Usability Research, Best Buy*
· Todd Toler, *Director of User Experience, J Wiley *
*· **Tushar Tanna, Former VP - Consumer Product Mgmt, **WebMD** *
*4:50 – 5:25** Persona Development: A Healthcare Case Study*
* ** April McGee, Project Director, **Human Factors International*
*5:25 – 5:30** Closing Comments & Raffle*
*5:30 – 6:30 Cocktail Reception
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The NYC chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association (UPA) seeks to
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who share a common vision: creating websites, applications, and projects
that are compelling, intuitive and customer driven. By bringing together
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Definition of number opera in English:
number opera
An opera in which arias and other sections are clearly separable.
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- Returning to the conventions of the number opera, as Krenek and Hindemith did, could not but produce music disquietingly at odds with its modern subject matter.
- Perhaps one very specific innovation that can be attributed to the work as a whole is that it achieved, like Weill over 30 years previously, a modern re-interpretation of the 18th-century number opera.
- This sensation of fragmentation effectively places the work closer to number opera, rather than Wagnerian music-drama, even though there are no actual set pieces in the traditional sense.
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