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A video showing an act of apparent child molestation went "viral" on Facebook yesterday, leading to outrage among thousands of the social network's users.
The clip, which is claimed to show an older man abusing a younger girl, was taken down within hours of being uploaded onto the site, but not before it was "shared" around 16,000 times and received 4,000 "likes".
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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 11.0047 Monday, 10 January 2000.
Date: Saturday, 8 Jan 2000 13:44:20 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Love's Labours Lost at Juilliard
Here is more detailed information on The Juilliard School's upcoming
production of Love's Labours:
Love's Labours Lost
Directed by Michael Sexton
Costumes: Robin Shane Set: Marsha Ginsberg
Lights: Lap-Chi Chu Sound: David Linton
Original Music: Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum
Wednesday - Friday, February 9 - 11, at 8:00 pm
Saturday, February 12, at 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm
Sunday, February 13, at 7:00 pm
The Drama Theater, The Juilliard School, Fourth Floor
60 Lincoln Plaza, New York City
A limited number of complimentary tickets (maximum 2 per person) will be
available beginning Wednesday, January 26, 2000, at 11:00 am in the
Juilliard Box Office.
We regret that we are unable to accept telephone reservations.
Tickets are valid for admission until 10 minutes before curtain.
Stand-by waiting list begins one hour before performances.
"Love's Labours Lost" will be performed again as part of Juilliard's
"Spring Repertory"
Performances: April 14 - 17. Tickets for these performances cost $7.
The other Juilliard productions which will return in the "Spring Rep"
"The Importance of Being Earnest," March 15-18
"The Marriage of Bette and Boo," March 25-28
"Pinter Shorts," April 3-6

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Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championship Central
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- Through six events that went final on Saturday, including five field events, the Brown Bears take the early lead in the team standings at the 2011 Ivy League Heptagonal Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Yale University's Cuyler Athletic Complex and Dwyer Field.
Despite a total of two hours of delay due to lighting in the surrounding areas, the first day of competition in New Haven, Conn., produced a pair of meet records and stiff competition across the board.
The Bears were led by senior Brynn Smith, who took first place in both the hammer and shot put. She kicked off the day with her third consecutive Ivy title in the hammer, winning with an all-time Ivy League record hurl of 202-11. Smith is the first Ivy athlete to break the 200-foot mark as she broke her own all-time League record of 199-8, which she set at last year's Outdoor Championship.
After placing second to her teammate Danielle Grunloh in the 2010 shot put, Smith reclaimed the title she earned in 2009, winning with a throw of 51-1.5.
Princeton's Tory Worthen earned her second consecutive Ivy title in the pole vault in 12-9.5. Also taking top honors in field events Saturday were Uju Ofoche in the long jump and Harvard's Hannah Mayer in the javelin. Ofoche was the runner up in the long jump in 2010 and took this year's title with a leap of 20-5.75. Mayer, just a freshman, kicked off her collegiate career by claiming top honors in the javelin, turning in a winning throw of 151-5.
The sixth event to go final Saturday was the final event of the night, the 10,000m run. Cornell sophomore Kelsey Karys pulled away from the field down the stretch for her first individual title, crossing in 34:19.99, the fastest time in the event at the Outdoor Championships since Harvard's Lindsey Scherf in 2006 (33:41.14). The Big Red went one-two in the race as sophomore Katie Kellner took second in 34:37.92.
The second meet record to go down Saturday was in the 200m dash as Columbia's Sharay Hale raced to a semifinals-winning time of 23.69. That matches her own Ivy League record, which she achieved earlier this season, but breaks her own Championship meet record of 23.83, set in 2010.
A full slate of action begins Sunday at 11 a.m. with the triple jump and heptathlon long jump. The first women's running event of the day is the 5,000m run, scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m.
Team Standings Through Day One
1. Brown, 48
2. Princeton, 44
3. Cornell, 26
3. Harvard, 26
5. Columbia, 23
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Lean inaugural events reflect Pennsylvania's hard times
HARRISBURG -- The celebration surrounding Tom Corbett's inauguration as Pennsylvania's 46th governor will not include a parade around the Capitol. No concerts by rock legends. Just one inaugural ball.
Organizers said they are limiting the number of events, citing hard economic times.
A performing arts program, a Roman Catholic Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral and an inaugural ball at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex will be part of the Jan. 18 event.
Inaugural celebrations usually combine casual parties with formal events. The bills are paid by private donors, including corporations and organized labor groups that often have a direct stake in state policies.
In the modern history of gubernatorial inaugurations in Pennsylvania, Mark Schweiker set a standard for low-key in 2001. He took the oath less than a month after 9/11 and days before his predecessor, Tom Ridge, officially became the country's first homeland security chief.
Schweiker was sworn in on the front steps of the state Capitol before about 2,000 people. There was no parade, no ball and no entertainment besides a marching band from Bloomsburg University,Schweiker's alma mater.
Ridge's first inauguration attracted 9,000 people in 1995. Afterward, he and his wife led the state's first inaugural parade in 20 years in a march around the Capitol. Five thousand attended a ball at the Milton Hershey School, where two orchestras, a jazz ensemble and three smaller groups performed.
Four years later, as Ridge started his second term, 3,000 people paid $50 a ticket to attend a pre-inaugural concert featuring Motown artists, and even more attended a ball spread over three ballrooms, each featuring dance music from a different period.
When Democrat Ed Rendell took office in 2003, more than 5,000 people joined the inaugural parade. Nearly 10,000 paid $50 apiece to attend a concert featuring Chuck Berry and Chubby Checker, and a ball in a dressed-up farm show complex.
In 2007, Rendell's second inauguration featured another concert -- by Bon Jovi, the Dixie Hummingbirds and one-time teen idol Frankie Avalon -- in conjunction with the ball.
Corbett, a Republican from Shaler who is state attorney general, is not having a parade. Like Ridge and Rendell, he plans to take his oath on the steps of the east entrance to the Capitol, where a large fountain is framed by a granite amphitheater.
Tickets to the arts program, the Mass and the inauguration are free, but seating will be limited. Tickets to the ball are $150.
The inaugural committee has set up a website -- www.corbettcawleyinaugural.com -- where people can learn more about the events and order tickets. The site offers four sponsorship levels, with a $50,000 contribution getting four tickets to a benefactors dinner, four preferred seats at the swearing-in ceremony, eight tickets to a sponsors' reception and recognition in the inaugural program.
Organizers are still firming up the event's details, said spokeswoman Kirsten Page.
"It's like planning a wedding for 8,000 people in two days," she said.


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donnelly has been hit by $3 million in negative outside spending, while precisely zero dollars have been spent in support of him.
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Daily fantasy sports are here to stay. They are fun, they are exciting, and they are different. Most people that have played in season long leagues are intrigued by daily fantasy leagues because they do have such immediate returns, but oftentimes they find that they are not successful at first because different strategies are needed in order for you to be successful.
Here, we will help you to learn the basic skills needed to be successful in your daily fantasy sports tournaments regardless of the sport that you are interested in. For those looking for more advanced skills, we will touch upon some of the most important concepts and look at them with a little bit of depth. If you are interested in moving beyond these, we will help point you in the right direction for future improvement.
Getting Started
For those new to daily fantasy sports, there are some important concepts to be aware of. First, realize that the salary cap is going to be your biggest enemy at first, but once you learn how to operate within it, you will suddenly have a huge advantage over everyone else in your leagues. This is not easy to comprehend at first, especially when you are $500 short of drafting the wide receiver that you want to finish up your team and need to start all over again just to get things right. Relax. It's a learning process and you won't get it perfect on your first time. Or your second. But, if you stick with it and keep learning, you will get better. And as you do, you will see that the salary cap hurts you less and less, while it keeps hurting others at the same rate. It is an obstacle, but it's one you can use to help you once you understand where your points come from.
Different sites have different salary cap restrictions. FanDuel and DraftKings are the two biggest one day league sites, and they both have slightly different salary caps, and different sports available to choose from. Picking the right site is important, and then formulating the right strategy once you are at a site is even more so. We will help you get to the point where you can see that certain techniques work at some places, and others work better elsewhere. They are just subtle differences at first, but once you master them, you once again will gain an edge.
Learning is the key to improvement. Once you know that hitting the salary cap is not the end goal, but that you are instead trying to max out the points that you are able to generate with the salary you have available, you will see that it's a constructive device for you. You don't need to max it out in order to win. You need to get as many points as possible. Your salary ends up as the tool that helps you to get an edge. There are tons of little concepts like this that will help you to get better at ruling the daily fantasy sports sites.
Another little thing that you can learn to help you improve your game is how to best select the right tournament. There are tons of different contests out there, ranging from leagues, to multipliers, to head to head games. What's best for you and your style of play will vary, but how you draft a team will change a bit depending upon which type of game you choose. One way to start improving here is to keep track of the tournaments that you are playing in and monitoring where you are finishing in them. Also, track the stakes that you are playing at. You will eventually find that you perform better at some than at others. The goal is to find the stakes level where you are winning the most amount of money. This might change over time, but if you aren't learning from the past, you will never know where to settle.
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Once you get the basics covered, you will want to move on to more advanced techniques. You might even want to try your hand at the bigger tournaments with huge cash prizes. These are admirable goals, and if you find that you are moving beyond the level where this site (or others like it) are helping you, we will point you toward resources and skill building places that can assist you on your quest.
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- http://sports.yahoo.com/
- http://www.windailyfantasy.com/fantasy-strategy/
- http://subscribers.footballguys.com/apps/current-articles.php
Daily fantasy sports sites and the games they offer are like a constantly changing puzzle. Once you master one aspect of them, it seems like something has changed that now needs to be improved upon again. That's normal, and it's a big part of the fun in playing fantasy sports. We are committed to helping you not only have fun, but have fun while winning money.


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Here's the problem:
When installing monowall to the hard drive of an old Gateway computer. It
boots perfectly on CD & floppy, but we'd rather it be on the hard disk (hda)
for longer term reliability than floppy can afford. However, when we
install the generic-pc image to the hard drive, we get "Read Error" when we
Here's what I've tried:
I've tried three different gateways (we're an all gateway school here) of
varying specs, and even a smaller hard disk. I've written the image using
the physdiskwrite utility under windows and by using Damn Small Linux to
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The Native American Law Center (NALC) is funded by the Models for Change initiative
at the MacArthur Foundation to engage in research and provide support for reforms
to tribal juvenile justice systems in Washington State. As part of this work, the
Native American Law Center is engaged in several projects.
Model Tribal Juvenile Codes
NALC is developing model tribal juvenile delinquency, truancy and "at risk youth"
codes in partnership with the Kalispel Indian Tribe in northeastern Washington
State. When completed, these codes will be disseminated through the Native American
Law Center's website.
Remote Representation Project
In partnership with the Quinault Nation, the Native American Law Center,
NALC, is piloting the representation of juveniles via web-based video conferencing.
While in-person representation is the best practice for legal representation, many
tribal communities are too remote to be able to provide attorneys for the defense
of their juveniles involved in their justice system. This project will provide remote
representation through the use of Microsoft Live Meeting software and will also
measure the effectiveness of such representation. At the conclusion of the project,
we will evaluate and publish the best practices for using this type of system.
Association of Tribal Juvenile Justice Professionals
In an attempt to assist information sharing between tribal juvenile justice systems,
NALC plans to provide coordination services to tribal juvenile justice system professionals.
This will include trainings hosted by the NALC using Microsoft Live Meeting and
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With so many types of koi available now,every pond owner or beginner seems to want to own them, this has become so much easier to do these days with the availability and cost becoming less expensive.
Its true to say there are very many expensive Koi still available if you are buying the best Koi bloodline which still remains in Japan. The United Kingdom and United States are now producing huge amounts of Koi as well.
It is only the bloodline that makes these very expensive as they are pedigree Koi,non pedigree Koi are no less colourful and can form the same markings.
There are so many different types of Koi but the scientific name for them all is Cyprinus carpio.
Koi should also be called just "Koi" and not "Koi carp" as Koi already has carp incorporated within it. It would be the same as saying "goldfish fish".
Whatever you are happy to own, non-pedigree Koi or want to become a specialist and own only pedigree Koi is down to you and your budget.
I am sure by now that you have noticed that Koi come in all sorts of colours and the correct way to describe them is with "class" and "variety". Under each class of Koi comes different varieties and then there are sub-varieties and can become very confusing.
Reports of the first Koi were made of 3 colours, red, white and yellow, and that all other Koi came from breeding these first original Koi.
It can take a long time to learn all the terms and read all the markings. But if you are just starting out the most important thing is to pick healthy Koi.
Some classes of Koi, just click on the links below.
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Eminent music photographer, Danny Clifford has posted an account of his experience on his blog.
In his blog he explains, "I read the contract and then rubbed my eyes and read it again.. It said that Robbie Williams was giving me the opportunity to photograph his show, but, wait for it, he would own the copyright of all of my images.. I couldn't even have the right to display the photos on my website of in my portfolio, as Robbie Williams would own the photos...."
"...any reputable music photographers wouldn't sign the contract and therefore wouldn't shoot the show."
Danny, who has been photographing musicians since 1988, explains the consequences, "the result would be, that there wouldn't be the normally plentiful great photos of Robbie out there for magazines and newspapers to use. So, no doubt the quality will slip, therefore, good old Robbie wont look as good... If that contract stays in place I will not be photographing Robbie ever again.. I would advise any photographers going to photograph him at any venues, don't sign away your copyright.. It is utter madness.."
Two German newspapers refused to take pictures at Robbie Williams' Dresden concert, instead leaving a blank space where the photo should have been.
The European Federation of journalists has urged its members to boycott Robbie Williams concerts and other events where photographers are subjected to unfair restrictions.


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Holdingford, coached by 2001 Milaca graduate Adam Johnson, captured the title at the annual Milaca Invitational Saturday for the second year in a row.
The Huskers topped Milaca 48-18 in the opening round, then followed with a 42-21 victory over Aitkin and a 39-25 triumph over Elk River.
The host Wolves bounced back after their loss to the Huskers and defeated Elk River 44-30 and Aitkin 64-10 to place second.
Holdingford topped Milaca 33-31 in the deciding match last year.
"Milaca has another great team, so beating them and winning the tournament was a big boost for us," said Johnson. "We don't have all the wrestlers back that we thought we would so this should remove any doubts my guys had about how good of a team we can be.
"It's always fun for me to come back to Milaca and see the team wrestle well, win or lose."
"We came out flat and Adam had his team ready to go," said Milaca Co-Head Coach Clay Hoeck. "We didn't have much fire.
"But, we came back and wrestled well against Elk River and Aitkin."
Holdingford jumped to a early lead and never trailed. The Huskers closed the match with pins at 195 pounds and 220, and won by injury default at heavyweight when Milaca junior Brandon Merten was disqualified for a slam that injured Malcom Dewar enough that Dewar was unable to continue. Dewar didn't wrestle in Holdingford's final two matches.
At 145, Milaca senior Jonah Gahm lost by injury default to senior Trevor Scott. Both wrestlers are ranked and the match ended when Gahm suffered a shoulder injury. He held a one-point lead at the time.
On Thursday, Dec. 6, the Wolves trimmed Mora 53-12 in a Granite Ridge Conference dual at Mora.
The Wolves host Becker tonight (Thursday), at 7:30, then travel to Pierz Friday for a triangular that also includes St. Cloud Apollo.
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I'm beginning to think that all these presidential forums etc are only really helping the news organizations to drive viewers to their show. Why? Because if history has anything to tell us; People who vie for the presidency would lie,cheat,steal to get it. We have no way of holding them accountable. Even in an advance democracy we have Barack Obama lying about campaigning for the public option, what can we expect from our more gullible and manipulated media. I'm not saying that knowing your candidates views on stuff isn't important. What I'm saying is that; what we should be doing is looking at what they earlier promised when they ran for public office and how they followed through with their promises.
Kilalanin! A presidential forum moderated by Mike Enriquez on dzBB
Listen to an audio recording of Kilalanin! – a presidential forum with four candidates in Alabang on Sunday, January 9, moderated by Mike Enriquez and broadcast on dzBB. The four featured candidates:
* Richard "Dick" Gordon
* Gilbert "Gibo" Teodoro
* Manuel "Manny" Villar
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This collection consists of digital images of microfilms of Swedish church records held by the Family History Library. Microfilming of the records began in the 1940s, with conversion to digital images beginning in 2006. These records contain accounts of baptisms, marriages, burials, household examinations, and other records kept by the clergy. It also includes records that supplement these events, as well as lists of person moving in and out of the parish, confirmation, communion attendance, and accounts of the church's income and expenses, as well as other records.
In 1608 the archbishop of Uppsala, Olof Mårtensson, asked the clergy to begin recording baptisms, betrothals, and marriages. In 1622, Johannes Rudbeckius, bishop of Västerås instructed the ministers in his diocese to begin examining the members of their parishes to determine their knowledge of the catechism and record their names, birthdates, marriage dates, and to update these records regularly.
The earliest records are handwritten in narrative style, and all events were recorded chronologically. After a few years, the records were grouped by event and recorded in separate books. The National Archives of Sweden uses a specific classification schema to identify the content of each book. Clerical surveys are designated as volume A, births, volume C, marriages as E, deaths as F. More information about this schema is available here. After the records were microfilmed some changes were made to the classification by the archive. Because of this, the information on the titleboard image may not match the description of the record in the online Historical Records collection or in the Family History Catalog.
The earliest record in the collection is a copy of a letter from 1308 wherein Ingeborg Jonsdotter made a donation of land to Sånga church in Stockholm County. The most recent records are church accounts (räkenskaper) for 1940 from Alva parish in Gotland. These generally have limited value because of the genealogical richness of other contemporary records. However, the earlier ones may contain worthwhile information. As of February 2010, there were a few images that were not yet available online.


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Air France crew asks passengers for fuel cash on emergency landing in Damascus
The crew of an Air France plane that was rerouted via Damascus this week asked passengers how much cash they could stump up after Syrian authorities refused credit card payment to refuel the aircraft, the French airline said.
Ultimately, it found an alternative arrangement, it said.
The plane that was headed for Beirut on Wednesday night was diverted due to civil unrest in the Lebanese capital and sought to go to Amman, but was forced to land in Syria due to lack of fuel.
Air France stopped flights to Damascus in March as fighting in the country escalated, and relations between France and Syria have collapsed since Paris demanded that President Bashar al-Assad resign.
"Because of the terrible relations between the two countries and the situation in Syria, the passengers were really worried about landing there," said a friend of one passenger, who asked not to be identified.
On landing, the local airport authorities said they could not accept a credit card payment and would only take cash, an Air France spokeswoman said on Thursday.
"As a precaution and in anticipation, the crew asked how much money the passengers had in cash to pay to fill up with fuel," she said.
She said the airline was able to pay without taking money from passengers, but declined to say how it had paid or how much the fuel stop cost.
The plane, which had departed from Paris, took off two hours after landing in Damascus for an overnight stop in Cyprus. It was due in Beirut on Thursday evening.
The European Union has imposed a series on sanctions on Syria, including a ban on the national airline that will prevent the flag carrier landing at EU airports, although it will be able to fly over EU countries and make emergency stops.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius arrived in Beirut on Thursday, as part of a three-day trip to the region to garner support ahead of a meeting on Syria in August at the United Nations. France currently chairs the UN Security Council.
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--Our Town (2007)--
Film of psychological terror, directed by the Korean Jung Kil-Young, being this one his debut like director.
A good mixture of sorts, such as the thriller, mystery, horror or drama.
In a school everything covered with blood and cruel hung in cross form appears the corpse of a girl.
One is already the fourth murder in a small and calm Korean city, where to all the victims they have cut the neck to them.
The plot of Our Town will turn around a detective of the police, call Jae Shin, a mysterious writer of mystery (which seems to be connected with the bloody crimes), call Kyung Joo and the employee of a store.
Making use of the narrow bond between the three men, the film becomes more attractive for the spectator because it separates from thematic the habitual one of the typical police that persecutes the assassin. In addition a strange connection among them exists that already comes from years back.
Many submerged unpredictable turns in this disquieting film.
--Exte: Hair Extensions (2007)--
Ekusute call in Japan. Tape of terror directed by Sion Sono, presented/displayed in the section Orient Express of the festival of Sitges.
Film of gallant style, something habitual in the race of the film director.
It works like protagonist Chiaki Kuriyama, actress of films like "Battle Royale", the second part of "Azumi" or "Kill Bill".
Agents discover hair for extensions next to the corpse of a girl with the shaved head. In the autopsy they determine that their organs were robbed, thinking that she was kidnapped in a foreign country and victim of the black market of organs.
An assassin in series who feels an exaggerated predilection by the hair of died girls, a young apprentice of hairdressing salon and a suffered corpse, conforms the trio protagonist of the film. Everything will be centered in an important chain of hairdressing salons that seems to be the axis of a dark secret.
--Hansel and Gretel (2008)--
A very personal version of the brilliant story of the brothers Grimm, Hansel and Gretel. Directed by the South Korean Yim Phil- Sung, being this one his second film. He has been awarded in the edition of the festival of Sitges of the 2005 with his tape "Antarctic Journal".
It has not been very well received in its country of origin but in the United States and Europe.
A young Eun call, goes into in a mysterious forest, in which he ends up losing himself. A girl sees him and she offers lodging to him in her house next to her family. Next it is entered in a dream house, where they inhabit three children. The family seems to hide something very macabre.
Eun will realize of which he cannot escape of the house, where the children have lived long time without aging. One will be with books of drawings, with singular instructions that seem to speak of he himself, through which will try to escape.
--Vinyan (2008), terror in the forest--
Coproduction of France, Belgium and United Kingdom. Directed by Belgian Fabrice Du Welz. Carried out by Rufus Sewell and Julie Dreyfus. Presented/displayed in fantastic the official section of the festival of Sitges.
Vinyan has certain similarities with the forest of John Boorman and the brilliant book of Joseph Conrad "the Heart of the Darkness".
Paul and Janet are in Bangkok, trying to bear the loss of their son, to who they lost in an impressive Tsunami. Although the corpse has really not been recovered.
Janet, during a supper will believe to recognize his lost son in a video rolled in the Burman forest. This will little cause the one that goes into next to its husband in a tenebrous and solitary forest, filled with likeable creatures, besieging to them with sinister intentions. There they will realize that will not be able to trust anybody.
--Gilles de Rais, depraved vampire--
"I liked to see run the blood, provided a great pleasure to me. Memory that from my childhood the greatest pleasures seemed to me terrible. That is to say, the Apocalypse was the unique thing that interested to me. I believed in hell before being able to believe in the sky. One gets tired and bores of the ordinary. I began killing because he was boring and I continued doing it because I liked to relieve my energies. In the battlefield the man never disobeys and the blood Earth everything soaked is like an immense altar in which everything what has life immolates interminably, until the same death of the death in himself. The death became my divinity, my sacred and absolute beauty. I have been living with the death since I realized of which it could breathe. My game par excellence is to imagine to me dead and nibbled by the worms". Text said by Guilles de Rais in Nantes, when it had been arrested.
It was at the beginning of century XV, in 1404, when the man known with the sobrename of "blue Beard" was born. One of most beastly, monstrous the assassins, vile and cruel of the world. Always accompanied by the word vampire, due to its sickly taste by the blood, which provided a indescriptible pleasure to him, getting to bathe in blood.
He was the arm right of Joan of Arc in the fight against the English and named marshal of France by Carlos VII in Reim to the twenty-five years.
After the death of Joan one retired to his castle. There it was where he made his more atrocious crimes, using infantile blood in his bloody satanic sessions.
After squandering an enormous fortune, he reunited in his castle to famous specialists to find the secret of the filosofal stone and thus to solve his precarious economic situation.
Through Preslati one begins in the black magic, in the demonic alchemy and invocations.
He celebrated black masses, sacrificing young people of the neighborhoods. He mutilated them to represent sacrifices of eyes, heart or hands. In no on the attempts he obtained results but in the end that was what less it mattered to him. An unhealthy pleasure was taking body in his interior with each sacrifice and as it also advanced in number it made his depravation.
He used to kidnap to paupers and farmers between the seven and fourteen years of age, committing with them pure barbarisms, stranglings… Decapitations in the towers of the castle next to his pajes of confidence. They dismantled them and they opened in channel, amusing themselves with it and remaining next with its heads. They were ruthless assassins in addition to sexual patients.
The total number of victims cannot be calculated, due to the deep panic and terror that felt most of the relatives of children assassinated, towards the call, "disciple of Satan". Esteem that the number had very to be elevated.
He was accused before the bishop of Nantes like: wizard, evil spirit, fortune teller, apostate, servant of fetiches, assassin of innocents, turned aside of the faith and his enemy, prophet and teacher wizard. As defense said the following thing: "the star under that I have been born has destined me to fulfill facts that nobody had been able to understand".
The 26 of October of 1440 were lead next to their two faithfuls and collaborating profligates to the meadow of the Madeleine in Nantes to be hanged person and soon burned.
Their rest were buried in the church of the Carmelite ones of Nantes, at the request of their relatives. A true monster, one of the most ruthless assassins of the planet.
A torturator cynical patient of children. The personification of badly in the Earth. Which shortly before dying asked pardon the relatives of his victims, everything by the final fear to go to hell. In addition to all the saying, absolute a cowardly one.
--Joseph Vacher, "The French Ripper"--
Famous in series French assassin, also known like "The French Ripper". He mutilated the sexual organs of his victims, practiced the necrophilia and the violation. In some occasions he devoured their organs and he drank the blood of their victims, from comes his fame there to him from vampire.
One became famous by his marked face, and to wear a white hat of rabbit skin.
Joseph Vacher was son of an illiterate agriculturist, of very small was sent to a catholic school, where they had too strict regimes.
In year 1983 one falls in love with a young servant: Louise, but she did not feel attracted by him. When finally she does not accept him, he shoots four shots to her, for that reason seriously she was hurt but she was able to survive. Next Vacher would stick two shots in the head in a desperate attempt of suicide. From which always he would suffer a face paralysis in the right side of his face.
He was committed in a mental institution located in Dole, Oath. After a year the doctors affirmed that he was cured totally.
Recent studies affirm that between 1884 and 1890, he possibly assassinated five people, three when still he was an adolescent, years before going off to himself.
Released to the 25 years of age, one will spend three long years assassinating and mutilating eleven people, their victims were mainly shepherds. Normally he stabbed them in repeated occasions, he drank their blood, he bit them, he practiced violations and post while still alive mortem.
During that he was a nomadic vagabond. He survived begging or working of day laborer in the different farms who found to his step.
In 1897 he tried to violate to a woman in the field. The young person fought desperately and their shouts were able to alert to their husband and son, who directly aided it and sent to Vacher to the police.
Once arrested he alleged to have been victim of the bite of a rabid dog when still he was a boy but shortly after he changed it affirming to be an envoy of God, like Joan of Arc, to obtain that people thought and understood the true virtues of the faith.
He was judged in Ain and the condemned until death in 1898, died in the guillotine, refusing to advance, being pushed by him twigs.
--Alcatraz, ghost prison--
Famous by the multitude of information received, on its activity paranormal, not only in the prison if not that also in the environs.
Located in an island of he himself name next to the bay of San Francisco.
In it they have been as famous personages as: To the Capone, Robert Franklin "the man bird of Gannet", Henry Young, Morton Sobell and Roy Gardner.
First it was a fort and a military prison (1934-1963). From the 63, one became a jail of great security, in which there were practically null possibilities to escabullir itself. Mainly by its frozen waters and frightful sharks. Only three prisoners obtained it: Frank Morris and the brothers Clarence and John Anglin, but the truth is that they were never found.
"The Rock" has been called, but it was well-known originally like "the Island of the Gannets" or "the Island of the Pelicans", due to its sterile rock aspect.
Numerous mysterious information in the island have followed one another. Mainly of visitors, prisoners and employees of the service of the national park.
They say that its light, damaged in the 1906 earthquake, suddenly appears accompanied of a mysterious sound and a sparkling green light. Later it disappears.
Many protectors and foresters affirm to have listened to inexplicable closing of doors, shouts and the sensation of being observed.
In the cell 14D of the prison the visitors and employees have informed into a severe sensation of coldness. In 1940 a prisoner shouted all the night that a being with the shining eyes wanted to assassinate to him. On the following day they found him strangled.
Walden Johnston nicknamed"gold Rule" perceived, next to guests, sobs inside the walls of the prison and next a frozen breeze that surrounded them.
Visitors of the pavilions To, B and Cs confess to have listened to cry and to moan. Psychic that visited a block C affirmed to have perceived the existence of a disturbing spirit called "Butcher". Later it was possible to be verified that in the archives there was a gangster network called "Savage Hitman".
Al Capone spent his last years in this prison, accompanied by one sifilis without treatment. The banjo went the time touching, in the patio and the shower. A guard confessed to have heard music of banjo of a shower. Also some used visitors and perceived melody of banjo coming from the prison. Scents to smoke, moaned, cold points in diverse zones, ghosts of prisoners or military personnel… one releases list of paranormal manifestations.
At the moment it is conserved like tourist element, comprising of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.


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The robust headline figures are largely attributed to strong product sales growth, which has been positively influenced by the timing for billing of the federal government Microsoft licensing contract, a key state government contract and a pick-up in demand for product solutions, particularly in NSW and Victoria.
The stock surged 6.4 per cent on the news - its best one-day gain in 1½ years - and is up close to 8 per cent since the start of the year, compared with a broadly flat return on the S&P/ASX 200 Index.
Despite its outperformance, Data#3 is trading on a 2009-10 forward price-earnings multiple of around 12.5 times, or a 19 per cent discount to its peer group.
At the close on Wednesday, Data#3 shares were at $9.23, up 3¢.
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Top 10 Digital Cameras: High-Quality Photos on Even a Meager Budget
You don't have to drop a load of money for a camera to get great-looking photos. Of the three new models that made this month's chart, the least expensive camera delivered the best image quality.
The $230 Olympus FE-120 took very impressive shots. The trade-off is that it lacks some of the exposure controls that many other models offer; also, it lasted only 203 shots in our battery tests. In contrast, the ultraslim Casio Exilim EX-S600 took 415 shots.
The pricey Fujifilm FinePix E900 also earned high marks for its image quality. In particular, it received the best score for image sharpness.
Three Wi-Fi-enabled cameras missed our chart due in part to their steep prices and subpar battery life: the $500 Canon PowerShot SD430, the $500 Nikon Coolpix P1, and the $400 Nikon Coolpix P2.
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Drama Letter/Couple's Therapy He said he loved you, but you're not there yet????
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"""Chris I have been in a relationship for just about 2 months, and he said that he loved me, but I am not there yet. It shocked me when he said this just 2 days ago while we out at dinner, and of course my response was not at all what he wanted to hear. It went something like, "really, you're so sweet" and the look on his face was confusion. I know mine was. Long story short, we went on with the night, but I think it ended earlier than what he originally planned. He said he had gotten tired and had to get up early anyway. UMMM, Ok! I like him, but certainly it isn't love. I called him today and it's seemingly different conversation. Any advice you or your followers can give would be appreciated. Please keep me anonymous and thanks."""
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I need some serious advice. I am female, 29yrs blue eyes natural mousey blonde hair eastern european decent not overweight regular periods no deep voice & have thick dark hair that grows under the jawline/neck & sides of face! Go figure! I have tried i think every laser since i was about 20, nothing is permanent. I had hormone tests done a while back & was "normal". Im not satisfied & need names of specific testing on fixing this & what the fix is without risking my fertility. hellllp.
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Hirsutism and lasers don't help
it sounds like you may need a specialist. There may be some other hormonal tests that would explain your situation. See an endocrnologist for a comprehensive evaluation. Also, if any of the hair is not dark don't expect a dramatic result from most in office lasers. Try electrolysis or thr No!No!. Good luck!
"Normal hormones" but thick dark chin hairs unexpectedly?
You have blue eyes and blonde hair, normal weight, and a persistent problem with thick, dark hairs on your neck and chin. If this is not a family trait, I think it might be worth seeing a smart endocrinologist to see if there may be another hormonal imbalance beyond the traditional tests that are done.
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Published: January 31, 2014 at 1:56 PMDuffy is very popular...in Japan. They should give up on the "Disney bear" everywhere else.
Published: January 31, 2014 at 2:58 PMAs Shenzi from The Lion King would say: "Man are they Uggly". At least their transportation is more efficient though from what I've heard.
Published: January 31, 2014 at 5:53 PMI'm actually a big Duffy fan. I look forward to October, when Duffy is dressed up in his orange pumpkin costume at EPCOT. Man, that is just one of the cutest things! I get my picture taken with him every year.
Of course, he's super popular in Japan and not nearly so in other parts of the world, but I think he's great! And the bus is awesome looking!
Published: February 1, 2014 at 9:46 AMI actually like the Duffy idea! It sorta gives World Showcase a mascot for the kids. With World Showcase getting more and more adultlike (no complaints from me), they need something for the kids.
Japan loves weird things alot. Then again, Duffy also fits into Disneysea
Published: February 1, 2014 at 12:58 PMDuffy is a prime example of one of the reasons why modern day Disney has lost it's way. I have no problem with the character at all. I think it's adorable and has great potential as a mascot. The problem is, Disney put the cart before the horse. They created merchandise and then tried to give it character, as opposed to creating a character and having the merchandise come after. Adults see right through this and children find it hard to connect with because they don't know of the character. Disney has always been a company that prides itself on creating characters and telling stories first and foremost. With all of Disneys in house talent and resources, would it be that hard to create a Disney channel show featuring Duffy? You could tell stories of his world travels, introduce other friends and create a whole world that children could connect with and imagine being a part of. Then you would really be able to sell Duffy and everything else that exists in his word. It's a proven method that has served Disney well going all the way back to Steam Boat Willie. This is what happens when you put marketing ahead of creative. I just have to shake my head sometimes.


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"Everything is more fun with friends."
That's the simple philosophy of Splinter Cell: Blacklist creative director Maxime Beland when it comes to making video games. He takes second to let that sink in before qualifying it. He really means "friends," not just strangers you meet online. Obviously, strangers can be annoying and really ruin a game.
"Having a beer is fun, but having it with friends is better," he says. "It's the same with games."
It's hard to argue with that logic, which is why playing with friends is at the centre of Blacklist , the latest in the Tom Clancy-inspired military espionage franchise, and indeed at the core of Ubisoft's general attitude toward games. While Blacklist – the first release from Ubisoft Toronto, due in August – will see super spy Sam Fisher battle terrorists in a brand new single-player adventure, the two-player co-operative and multiplayer online modes are also baked into the overall experience.
Blacklist will feature a "strategic mission interface," a sort of in-game hub from where players can easily jump in and out of all of the game's modes. Rather than presenting the modes as simplistic choices in a plain, old menu format, players will access them by moving around Fisher's mobile headquarters and talking to different characters.
It's this sort of integration, where social experiences with friends are part of the overall design, that will differentiate good multiplayer games from those that just have such modes tacked on, Mr. Beland says.
Both the co-op and multiplayer modes were shown off to journalists at a preview event at the Toronto studio last week. Blacklist will see the return of the popular Spies versus Mercenaries multiplayer mode, which has teams of either two or four heavily armed players guarding objectives from a similar number of agile and stealthy hackers.
The previous Splinter Cell instalment, Conviction, had the co-operative mode – where two players jointly worked to complete missions – but it lacked the competitive option, which had otherwise been present since the franchise's 2004 instalment, Pandora Tomorrow. Mr. Beland and his team decided to bring it back since it was the most-requested feature from both fans and journalists.
Such games as the upcoming Destiny from Halo creator Bungie – and even Watch Dogs from Ubisoft Montreal – are taking the multiplayer concept even further by incorporating such features into single-player stories, where friends can influence the events in each other's games. Blacklist stops short of that, but the trend toward more of this is unmistakable, Mr. Beland says.
Many players who prefer solo experiences may bristle at the idea, but how much they ultimately like it depends on how it's implemented. Mr. Beland mentions Candy Crush, for smartphones and Facebook, as an example of a game that doesn't do it well because it requires friends to jump in and help you when you've become stuck.
"That's not making my experience better thanks to my friends, that's forcing me to ask people, and post on their walls to join me," he says.
A game such as Ubisoft's own Trials HD , on the other hand, incorporates multiplayer into single-player well because it displays friends' "ghosts," or shadows of their own timed runs, so you can race against them even when they're not playing. As Mr. Beland says, he never played Trials with one particular friend, yet "he was always in my game"
The multiplayer movement isn't just a gamer-driven trend, it has also become a business necessity. While piracy tends to grab the headlines as the industry's big problem, game publishers are usually more upset about the used market, which costs them an estimated $2-billion a year in the United States alone. A single-player game that can be finished in a few hours and that doesn't have a multiplayer mode can be deadly, given that it can be traded in within a day or two. Once a title hits the "used" bin at EB Games in any sizeable quantity, the publisher can pretty much kiss away any hoped-for profits.
As a result, game makers have had to come up with numerous creative ways over the past few years to keep people from trading in their purchases, from extra downloadable content released months after the initial launch to one-time online activation codes to, of course, multiplayer modes. If the multiplayer is intriguing enough, the publisher can then sell extra content – such as new map packs – for it. It's why several franchises that have long been single-player only, such as God of War, for example, have recently added in multiplayer functions.
The downside to the trend is that creating a good multiplayer mode can greatly inflate a game's budget, and therefore potentially what consumers have to pay for it.
One potential solution to the budget bloat issue is to carve a game up into its component parts and sell each separately. Mr. Beland says he was in favour of doing that with Conviction's co-op mode, but the idea was dropped because of other considerations. Fans could easily view a publisher as being greedy, for one.
Still, with the inevitable move toward digital distribution of games, it's a growing possibility. Titles such as last year's hit The Walking Dead from Telltale Games, released in episodic form over the course of several months, are driving new ways of selling games.
"Any creator of video games has to consider, 'What does this mean for my franchise and how do I make sure that I'm considering what players want and satisfying their needs?' " says Jade Raymond, Ubisoft Toronto's managing director. "We do have to be thinking along those lines."
Some franchises will naturally lend themselves better to multiplayer modes while others just won't work no matter how hard developers try to shoehorn them in. Splinter Cell, Ms. Raymond says, is one of the lucky ones, with the asymmetrical play of Spies versus Mercenaries proving to be fairly unique in a field of shooter games that are trying to mimic the reigning king, Call of Duty.
"You shouldn't make a multiplayer if it's just tacked on, I don't see the value," she says. "We're lucky with Splinter Cell that we have a very original multiplayer that's part of the history of the brand."
Even with additional modes bloating budgets and possibly price tags, analysts say the industry is moving in conjunction with gamer trends, despite the complaints of a vocal minority. Multiplayer modes look like they're here to stay, and if anything will become even more prevalent in the fast-approaching next-generation consoles.
"While multiplayer raises game costs, it tends to result in higher sales," says Wedbush Securities research analyst Michael Pachter. "The tradeoff is generally worth it, and is expected for first-person shooter and action-adventure games."Report Typo/Error
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A wildlife farming licence issued under the Nature Conservation Act 1992 is required to keep, breed and use emus, crocodiles, butterflies, venomous snakes and water buffalos in Queensland. These are the only wildlife that can be farmed in Queensland.
You can also read the legislation online by visiting the Office of Queensland Parliamentary Counsel website.
For information about animal industries, visit the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries website.
Pre-lodgement service
The department offers a service to guide applicants through the assessment process. The service includes meeting with a departmental project manager to discuss the information that must be provided with your application.
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Researcher Profiles
Related Websites
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Human Genetics, 1976.
M.D., American University of Beirut, 1972.
Research Interests
Dr. Hanash's interests and expertise focus on the development and application of integrated approaches to the molecular profiling of cancer, with particular emphasis on proteomics. Dr. Hanash's Ph.D. training is in Human Genetics and clinical training in Pediatric Oncology. He has been a program principal investigator (PI) for multi-investigator projects funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) while at the University of Michigan, including program projects and most recently, PI for an NCI-funded Director's Challenge program, which focuses on molecular profiling of lung, colon and ovarian cancer and PI of an NCI-funded Cancer Biomarker Development program, which focuses on the application of proteomics to the discovery of protein markers for the early diagnosis of lung and GI cancers. Dr. Hanash has organized and participated in several workshops sponsored by the NCI related to cancer diagnostics and molecular profiling. Dr. Hanash relocated from the University of Michigan to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in August 2004 to lead a newly developed program in Molecular Diagnostics.
Additional Experience
Human Proteome Organisation - Founding Member
American Association for Cancer Research
American Society for Cell Biology
American Society for Human Genetics
American Society for Pediatric Research
American Society of Hematology
Children's Cancer Study Group
Electrophoresis Society
Human Proteome Organisation
Previous Positions
1992-1999, Director, University of Michigan, Cancer Center, Carcinogenesis
1989-2004, Professor, University of Michigan, Pediatrics
1984-1989, Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Pediatrics
1979-1984, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Pediatrics
1978-1979, Instructor, University of Michigan, Pediatrics
1978-1979, Fellow, University of Michigan, Pediatric Hematology
1973-1976, Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan, Medical School, Human Genetics


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The federal government has run into difficulty trying to value mining assets forced into the resource super profits tax at higher than book value.
The big miners are pushing for project values to include the value of natural resources including iron ore and coal, but Treasury wants only the cost of capital expenditure used.
The government originally proposed to move projects into the RSPT at book value, which because of accounting rules that require assets to be depreciated is generally significantly lower than market value.
It's understood the government is prepared to give ground to miners and value assets at closer to market value, but sources said there was still a "huge" disparity between Treasury and the industry over how to determine market value.
The issue is particularly problematic for companies that have bought an interest in an existing mine or mining tenement. Experts said it was extremely complex and difficult in separating out the price companies paid for the mine infrastructure and what they paid for the raw commodities mined.
In contrast, calculating the exploration and infrastructure expenditure for greenfield developments is more straightforward.
It's understood the issue was raised by the government's resource tax consultation panel, in its submissions to Treasurer
As the proposed rules stand,
Rio Tinto's Hamersley Iron project has book value of about $10 billion versus $50 billion market price. Coalfields in the Hunter Valley and Bowen Basin also have big differences in accounting and market values.
The government has vowed to provide "generous" arrangements for existing projects moving into the RSPT, including accelerated depreciation over the first five years.
The starting base will be written off at 36 per cent in the first year, 24 per cent in the second year, 15 per cent in the third and fourth years and 10 per cent in the final year.
In effect, this is how the government pays for its 40 per cent share in each mining project.
The lower the attributed value of projects, the less depreciation companies will be able to claim in the first five years. Second, because the government pays interest (proposed to be the government bond rate of about 6 per cent but likely to be increased to about 11 per cent) on the undeducted asset value carried forward, the amount of interest paid will be lower.
The book value is equal to the historic cost of the assets plus any further capital expenditure, less depreciation and impairments.
Some Pilbara projects have existed for decades, so their book values will have been heavily depreciated automatically in the companies' accounts, although any recent capital investment will boost the book values. On top of this, the original cost of developing the projects was in 1960s dollars, which, because of the erosionary effects of inflation, are worth much less today. The historic costs will not be adjusted for inflation.
Experts said one possible solution was to use a valuation methodology similar to when the consolidation tax laws were introduced in 2002, when companies' plant and equipment were valued closer to market value through a prescribed formula.
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Cowboy films lured John Prescott to the billionaire Dome owner's American ranch, he says. What is the Wild West's enduring appeal?
It was a time when men were men, doing simple manly tasks that relied on strength, cunning and being at one with nature. A time when life was lived beyond the settled frontier. The Western has provided that icon of manhood, the cowboy.
Little wonder that those most alpha of males like to associate themselves with the Wild West, building on fantasies shaped early in life by Clint Eastwood, John Wayne and the author Zane Grey. After a period of decline, the Western is enjoying a resurgence thanks to revisionist takes on cowboy life such as Brokeback Mountain, Unforgiven and Deadwood.
"[Mr Anschutz] knew I was in America and he said: 'would you like to come and see a cattle ranch?', which I was very much interested in... I'm curious about it, I saw the cowboy films over my young years, didn't you?" he said.
Lone star
The deputy prime minister is not the only city slicker to hanker after a chance to get back to basics among salt-of-the-earth types.
When foreign dignitaries and world leaders come a-calling, more often than not an invitation to his ranch outside Crawford is in the offing. Tony Blair has paid a visit, as have the Russian president Vladimir Putin and Japan's Junichiro Koizumi, among others.
Just as Mr Prescott said he hoped to gain valuable insights into "Doha, the negotiations, sugar beet industries, agriculture subsidies" by speaking with farmers, so the US President told Crawford residents after his 2001 inauguration that: "I want to stay in touch with real Americans."
The Western connection to the White House dates from the days of Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt. In 1883, he spent a fortnight in Little Missouri in Dakota, where he bagged a bison and bought a stake in the Maltese Cross, the first of his two cattle ranches. He advocated the "strenuous life" - among his favourite pursuits was horseback riding.
For what better way to get back to nature - and prove your "man of the people" credentials - than to play at being a rancher... something that is increasingly the preserve of the extremely wealthy.
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The Running Start program covers up to 15 credits of tuition for college level courses (courses numbered 100+), depending on the number of classes taken at the high school. However, there are associated costs with participating in the program, as outlined below.
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Well not really, he's not in the movie. But Ridley Scott is confirmed to be producing The Kind One for Warner Brothers, and some sources say he's also taken on the directing chair, which would make sense. The movie will be written for the screen by the same man who wrote the original book, Tom Epperson. New 'it boy' Casey Affleck is set to star as an amnesiac working for a mobster dubbed "The Kind One." We'll see how kind this 1930's noir boss ends up being after Affleck falls for his lady.
"It's a world that Ridley has never touched before, so that's what drew him to the project," said Scott Daly, who worked with Affleck on The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
This sounds like a kind of interesting deal. Ridley is obviously awesome and Casey A. is definitely rocking and rolling aaaaaaaand I love noir stories, but an amnesiac? Feels like a tired angle. Hopefully it will be fresh, brutal, and full of epic awesomeness.
Source: Variety