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Roommates with a Ghost
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I have always had some sort of belief in the paranormal. Maybe it's because I've always had a good imagination, maybe it's because I have a "medium" sort of sensitivity or maybe I've just always been a little strange. In any case, I've always been a believer, but nothing has made me more sure of the existence of the paranormal than when I lived in a real haunted house.
Before I ever lived there, I remember going there as a younger teenager, with a friend of mine. She knew someone that had lived there. The woman that lived there was quite strange and coming from me, you have got to know that she really was strange! Some of that time is a little fuzzy to me as it has to have been at least 12 years ago that I am remembering back to. None the less, there are things about that time that I do remember like it was yesterday.
We were sitting on the couch in the living room of the house, talking to this woman. I don't remember what we were talking about before this, or how long we were there before it was brought up but she started talking about how her dad or step-dad (not sure of the actual relation) was in jail for murder. I'm not sure where her mother was at this point in time. Either way, we're sitting on the couch and she says that the murder had taken place in the house and that he had buried the body under the floor in the living room. Of course, he had been buried under the floor, under the very couch that we were sitting on. If I recall correctly, my friend and I didn't stay for much longer. At that time, I didn't know anything more about it. Because she was so strange, I didn't know how long ago this had happened, if she was even telling the truth or if the body was still under that floor.
In 1999, when I was a meer 18 years old, my boyfriend at the time and I had decided to move in with two friends of ours. Our one roomates father actually owned the house. Coinsidentally, it was, as you guessed, the same house.
Once we moved in I remember telling them all about what I had experienced years before. Come to find out, they did know something about it, which confirmed that the woman was not lying.
The story is that the woman that lived there (the strange chicks mother) was cheating on her husband. The woman and her lover were upstairs in bed together, sleeping, while the husband was at work. The husband came home, found the two of them in bed together, and murdered his wife's lover. I don't recall how he was murdered, whether it was gun, knife or what. Apparently, after her lover was dead, she helped her husband bury the body under the floor in the living room. Story has it that they attempted to also use cement to seal the body into the ground but something went wrong and the body started to smell. It smelled so bad that neighbors called the police about it. That's how the man was caught for murder.
Now, at this point in time, I had not noticed any type of ghost, or paranormal activity in the house. I do remember telling one of my friends about all of this though. Come to find out (I live in a small town) that she knew the man who was murdered. He used to babysit her as a child. He had also been best friends with her cousin. She had a little more information for me on the subject. Her cousin had said that they were hanging out the day he was murdered. He told her cousin that he was going over to his girlfriends house. That was the last time he was seen. Finally, I was able to get a name... Chris. His name was easy for me to remember. For one, Chris is a very common name. Also, my boyfriends name was Chris.
After living there for a little while, I started having experiences. At first it just started out as having the feeling that I was being watched, or when I was in the house alone, feeling like I wasn't alone. After a little while, things really started to pick up. I'm not sure if he was just watching for a while, trying to get used to the "new people" in the house, observing us as if we were specimes. Trying to get a feeling for us, deciding whether or not he liked us, or whether to deem us worthy of all being able to live in the house harmoniously.
I don't think I was ever really that scared, though at first, the feeling of being watched made me a bit uneasy. I remember sitting at the kitchen table with my boyfriend and his best friend, I don't remember exactly what it was we were playing, but I believe it was some sort of board game. From the kitchen, we had a perfect view of the staircase that lead to the upstairs. I don't know how it happened this way, but we all seemed to have seen what looked like a hand moving up the railing of the stairs. We all kind of looked at eachother for a second. I reconfirmed with my boyfriend that none of our roomates were home and that the only people in the house were the three of us. Me, being the curious person that I am, was the only one who would actually walk up the stairs to look around. Of course, I found nobody. I can only assume that the ghost had gone up to the room that he was murdered. We were lucky enough to not have that room as OUR bedroom!
After a while, and more experiences, I thought of the ghost as if he was just another roommate. When I would come home, even if I knew no one else was there, I would announce real loudly, "Chris, I'm home!" I also have a habit of sometimes talking to myself. Instead of talking to myself, I would talk to him as if he was standing right there next to me. Afterall, this was his house too and I figured that if I was going to feel comfortable and welcome in the house, that he need to get that feeling from me as well. I honestly believe that I befriended a ghost. Maybe he thought I was a little too friendly. I remember one night, I was laying in bed. I was in that stage where I'm not really awake, but not quite asleep either. All of the sudden, I remember feeling something very cold run up the outside of my thigh. It felt like a hand that went from just above my knee, all the way up to my hip. I grabbed my boyfriends arm (who was fast asleep at the time) and I briskly shook him to wake him up. I remember saying to him, "Wake up, he touched me!" Of course I was told to just go back to sleep. I don't think I was really scared, but I was definitely in a bit of shock. Afterall, I had never had him try to make physical contact with me before and I was abrumptly brought out of that akward stage of sleep. After that, I never felt him try to touch me again. I don't know why, maybe he thought I was scared and he didn't want me to fear him.
Sometime later, I was talking to my friend who used to be babysat by him and I told her about him touching me. When I described what he had done, she was like, "Oh yeah, that was definitely Chris!" She said that he always had a thing for younger, attractive girls. Honestly though, what man doesn't? I had also mentioned to her that I had seen him. Now, it wasn't like I saw him as though he was clear as day, like he was just another person standing in the room, but I saw his figure, his shape. I told her how many times, I had seen him. He would frequently stand in the doorway of the room, leaning with his one shoulder against the frame of the door, arms folded. She confirmed that Chris had always done that. He was known for hoovering in doorways, arms folded, leaning against the frame. That's when I knew that this was definitely the same person who was murdered in the house.
We were young, and of course, not living at "home" anymore, we would have lots of friends coming in and out of the house all the time, hanging out for hours. Anytime we could, there would be a party. Nothing real crazy, but always a good time. I think Chris really enjoyed having us there. He would even play little games with us. He seemed to have been quite the jokester. I went into the kitchen one evening to get a drink. I walked across the kitchen, went into the cabinet and got a glass. I started walking back across the kitchen to the refrigerator, put the glass down on the table, got the soda out of the fridge, turned around to pour it into my glass and my glass wasn't there. I looked around, back across the kitchen and my glass was sitting on the counter under the cabinet that I had retreived it from. I set the soda on the table, walked over to the glass, brought it back to the table, poured the soda, put it back in the fridge, then turned around to grab my drink. Again, it was on the counter. At least I had the soda in it and was able to finally have my drink!
I had friends over one night. One of my friends was a huge skeptic and had not yet had any personal experiences in the house. She wanted to try to have a seance. I thought it was a little silly because he was always around, we didn't need to lite candles and call upon him in order for him to show up. I agreed anyway. We lit some candles, turned off the lights and sat around the coffee table in the living room. I said out loud, "Chris, if you are here, please give us a sign." Not two seconds after I said that, the glass candleholder sitting next to me, that held one of the lit candles, cracked and made a load sound to go with it. Some could argue that maybe the glass got too hot and broke, but the fact is, I had just lit the candle and it didn't have time to get hot. She was a little freaked out after that. She didn't visit me at home too much after that!
Unfortunately, I didn't live there too long. In June of 1999, I got pregnant with Sasha. I moved in February when I was 8 months pregnant. I would have loved to stay, but being so young and having a baby on the way, money was a factor and we moved in with my mom in order to save money. Besides that, the roommates were also moving out. The last experience that I had was my last day in the house. I was packing up the rest of my stuff, in the house alone. My boyfriend and a friend of ours were at my moms house taking things over. As I was upstairs packing boxes, I hear a loud bang. It sounded like it had come from the basement. I don't know why I felt scared, because this was the first time I really got that feeling in the house. I started walking towards the basement door, but because I felt scared and I had seen enough scary movies in my time, I didn't go down there. (I'm the first one to yell at the T.V. during a scary movie, screaming, "Don't go in there! What are you doing?!" I ran out of the door and down the street to my moms house (she was only about a block and a half away. I had told them what happened and we all went back to the house together. I had told them where the sound came from and we all went down together. Come to find that one of the windows in the basement had slammed shut and the glass had broken out of it.
Could it be that he was upset that we were leaving? Was this his way of showing me that his was upset and didn't want us gone? Was the slamming shut of the window his way of symbolizing that this chapter of "life" had been shut?
Looking back now, and the fact that I have done some research on ghosts and paranormal activity, I wish I had done more. Maybe tried using a Ouija board to attempt communication. Or, perhaps, had I tried using an EVP recorder and tried EVP work, I might have been able to get a better understanding. At that time, I'd never even thought about trying to take pictures.
I haven't been back in the house since, it's been 9 years. I do pass it sometimes and take a nice hard look, wondering if he's still there. Does he like the people who live there now? Do those people know that he's there? Do they experience the same things that I did? Does he miss the time when I lived there or does he even remember? Do ghosts remember?
I guess we'll never really completely understand the workings of ghosts. All I do know, is that I had a friend, in a ghost.
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With the frequency of my blog entries being so shamefully low, it might appear that I'm obsessed about pie, given that this will be the second entry of the last three about pie. I'm not obsessed, but I have had another memorable pie-centered event.
You see, March 14 was Pi Day. Get it? Pi begins with the numbers 3.14, so, 3/14 every year is Pi Day. Congress even made it official this year. So, the natural way to celebrate Pi Day is to eat some pie. Not only are the two words homonyms, but pies have the added advantage of being circular. Ha.
Pi Day was on a Saturday this year, but since I have a new range that needed a workout, I thought I'd make a pie to take to work on Friday. Since I work in IT, I knew that my coworkers would be all over Pi Day and wouldn't look at me with that "you're a nerd, aren't you?" look I've gotten at other jobs.
I decided to make a basic chocolate cream, assuming that that would have the broadest appeal and wouldn't require too much work on a weeknight. (Despite the original intention to give the oven a workout, I wound up with a type of pie that wasn't baked, except for a brief stint for the crumb crust.) Not having a stand-by recipe, I perused my usual sources and narrowed it down to two candidates: A recipe from Gourmet, and one in Ruth Levy Beranbaum's The Pie and Pastry Bible.
For the filling, I chose Ruth's -- the two recipes were very similar, but Ruth's promised to be a little darker chocolate-wise, and called for whole eggs, which appealed to me more than the egg-yolk-only formula from Gourmet. If you are unfamiliar with Ruth's books, she's a food scientist at heart, and the recipes are calculated and tested to the nth degree, so I had no fear of making a recipe of hers to serve to others without a trial run. I did use the chocolate crumb crust from the Gourmet recipe since I wouldn't have time for the dough resting needed for a good pastry crust.
Naturally, my hubris got me.
The end result, while tasting fine, was not something I'd be proud to present. You see, both recipes call for mixing cornstarch with the egg/egg yolk at the beginning; milk is added later. This runs counter to every recipe and rule of thumb I know about cornstarch, which states you should always dissolve it in cold liquid before adding to the other ingredients. I trusted that Ruth (and Gourmet) new what they were doing, and that the cornstarch would dissolve and mix in well with the eggs.
It didn't.
Now, I freely admit that this could be as much user error as anything else; perhaps I didn't use a sufficient whisking technique. The fact remains, though, that the egg was just too viscous to readily absorb the cornstarch. I soldiered on, hoping the rest of the process, including the straining called for at the end, would redeem the mixture. To make a long story short, it didn't. The end result was the right consistency, and tasted good; it had a grainy texture rather than the dead-smooth texture you expect in a cream pie, though.
So, I did not take it to work -- it just wasn't up to my standards. I did enjoy a slice Friday night, just for testing purposes, mind you.
I will make another of these pies another day ... the difference is that I will be sure to mix the cornstarch with a little of the milk before mixing with the eggs!


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Lian Hearn (a.k.a., Gillian Rubinstein, a well-known Australian writer of children's books and plays) talks about the writing of the international historical fiction sensation, The Otori Trilogy.
I started writing Across the Nightingale Floor with the four main
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Akiyoshidai International Arts Village in Yamaguchi Prefecture; it was a damp,
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threaten to tear me limb from limb.' Later I changed this to into eight
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For many years before I had steeped myself in Japanese history and literature, reading widely, watching films, studying the language. Now I had several weeks alone in Japan in this idyllic place; the challenge was to see if I could bring to life what had lain within my mind all that time.
Slowly the world of the Otori began to evolve. I often went to Hagi, the old castle town of the Choshuu clan. I visited samurai houses and looked at artefacts in museums. I walked in the mountains behind the arts village, through the rice fields and by the river. Everywhere I tried to picture how my characters might have lived five hundred years ago. When people spoke to me I had to listen intently, using my ears as I had not done since I was a child. I heard everything but was more or less mute myself. So Takeo became.
I became addicted to gel pens and bought them by the handful. I carried my notebook with me and wrote on the road, on trains and planes and in waiting rooms. I was in Fukuoka when the entire ending of the book fell into place. I could hardly contain my excitement and emotion, yet actually to write it was painfully difficult.
In Japanese art and literature I am fascinated by the use of silence and asymmetry. I like the concept of ma: the space between that enables perception to occur. I wanted to see if I could use silence in writing. So the style is spare, elliptical and suggestive. What is not said is as important as what is stated.
I am interested in feudalism. Whenever democracy and the rule of law break down human societies seem to revert to feudalism. I wanted to write a fantasy' set in a feudal society, but I wanted to write about real people whose emotions are all the more intense for being restrained by the codes of their society. There are no traditional villains in my story though there are antagonists. Iida Sadamu and Otori Shigeru are from the same class and background. Iida has been corrupted by power, whereas Shigeru is compassionate by nature but essentially they are the same. One is not a monster, the other not a super-hero. My characters seek power, they are flawed and they make mistakes, but they love life and grasp everything it has to offer.
I had intended to write only one book but long before the first book was finished it became obvious to me that the story I had been given would not be contained by it. It seemed to fall naturally into three parts but was written without a break as one overarching story. I wrote it all out longhand in four large notebooks between September 1999 and April 2001. From June 2001 to March 2002 I rewrote onto the computer. In the second half of this period Across the Nightingale Floor, which I finished in September 2001, was going through the editorial process: hardly a sentence was changed in any of its editions.
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Do you know what Ncrypt Ransomware is?
Ncrypt Ransomware can infiltrate your operating system without your knowledge and encrypt all your personal files, such as documents, photos, videos, and archives. You may not believe it at first but it is actually very easy to infect your computer with such a nightmarish program. It does not usually sneak onto your computer by itself. In other words, you need to click on some malicious content to let it into your virtual world. If you want to know how it could have penetrated your computer and what you can do to protect your PC, please read our article till the very end. But before we dive into the ocean of details, we can tell you this: If you want to secure your system, you should remove Ncrypt Ransomware right now.
Our researchers say that knowing how this ransomware can slither onto your system could save you from future attacks. There could be two possibilities, in fact, for this malicious program to come on board. The most likely one is that you open a spam e-mail, save its attachment, and then open it. This is the most typical way to infect your computer with any ransomware practically. These are tricky spam mails, though. When you open such a mail, you may not realize right away that this is a trap. In fact, this spam could appear to have come from the authorities or any well-known companies. Its subject matter has always to do with something that you would consider urgent or very important, such as fines (speeding and parking), a wrongly made hotel booking, banking password change, a possible illegal use of your credit card, and so on.
The attached file is also disguised even though it is indeed a malicious executable file. It could pose as an image (.jpg or .bmp) or a text file with macro (.docm). Since the message of this spam mail points to the attachment claiming that you will see the alleged invoice or fine in question, it is quite likely that you download it to see it. We hope that it is clear now why it pays to be more careful opening your mails.
Another way for you to get infected with Ncrypt Ransomware is to end up on a malicious website armed with Exploit Kits. This can easily happen if you click on unreliable third-party ads or modified search results presented by browser hijackers. If you want to avoid being infected this way, you should make sure that your browsers and your drivers (Adobe Flash and Java) are always updated from official sources only. Prevention is the key when it comes to ransomware infections because if you delete Ncrypt Ransomware after you realize what happened, it will be too late for you to stop the encryption.
We cannot confirm yet what kind of encryption algorithm this malware infection uses but most ransomware programs use AES-256. Similar to its peers, Ncrypt Ransomware also targets your most important files to make sure that you will be willing to pay the ransom fee. Therefore, you could lose all your media and program files in this attack if you do not have a backup copy on a portable drive. All the affected files get a new ".ncrypt" extension so they will look like "my_photo.jpg.ncrypt." This clearly shows what kind of threat has just hit you. This infection also drops an .html document called "_FILE_RETRIEVAL_INSTRUCTIONS.html" on your desktop, which clearly contains the ransom note.
If you open this file, you learn that your files have been encrypted and the only way for you to get the "Decryption Application, Decryption Key, and Decryption Instructions" if you transfer as much as 0.2 Bitcoin, which is approximately 130 US dollars, to the given Bitcoin wallet address. You also find additional information about how to buy Bitcoins to make sure that you do not waste time. Once you are done with the money transfer, you have to send these criminals an e-mail to "email@example.com" with your ID as the subject and the BitCoin transaction ID in the body of the mail. Nevertheless, we do not advise you to send any e-mail or money to these criminals because you may well lose your money on top of your files. In addition to the fact that crooks rarely bother to help their victims to decrypt their files, there could be technical issues as well that could cancel such attempt, including a loss of communication between the remote Command and Control server and the infection. We recommend that you act now and remove Ncrypt Ransomware.
It is possible that you can easily delete Ncrypt Ransomware and the related files to put an end to this infection. We have prepared instructions for you to help you with the hunt. Do not forget, though, that this could be the most severe threat on your system right now, but it may not be the only one. If you want to restore your virtual security, it is important that you eliminate all possible threat sources from your computer. If you cannot do this alone manually, we suggest that you use a trustworthy security tool, such as SpyHunter. Should you have any questions about how to delete Ncrypt Ransomware, please leave us a message below.
Remove Ncrypt Ransomware from Windows
- Tap Win+E.
- Delete the downloaded malicious file ([random name].exe) you saved from the spam.
- Delete the ransom note from your desktop.
- Empty your Recycle Bin.
- Reboot your computer.
In non-techie terms:
Ncrypt Ransomware is a dangerous threat to your computer since it can encrypt your most important files and you may never see them again. The only way you can get hold of the decryption key and tool is to pay the cyber criminals who created this ransomware around $130. However, you should know that there is never any guarantee that criminals will actually bother to send anything to you. Furthermore, by transferring the ransom fee, you would support crooks to commit more online crimes. If you have been hit with this severe threat, you should not hesitate to act. We suggest that you remove Ncrypt Ransomware ASAP. This is also what you need to do if you are lucky enough to have a backup copy. If you want to protect your PC effectively, you may want to consider installing a reliable anti-malware application.


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Hi I am a footwear developer and designer looking for someone to assist me with my designs, my ideas are quite raw, they may be a hand drawing, or just a picture for influence. This won't always be a situation where I tell you what to do, but sometimes I will be looking for your input and thoughts and ideas and we can possibly implement them during
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Dear sir or madame, I would like to have an exclusive and luxe design. I want the visible part of the bottom/side of the sole made from gold leaf. I want this part to stand out. The rest of the sneaker has to be made from leather with suede. The laces must be just as attractive as the whole shoe.
Hi there we are an American company look...our shoe brand division. We have a few samples already and want to inquire about more concepts for our development. Are you a person who thinks outside of the frame? Then come on board! We're looking for you! We listed a few ideas and jobs here so have a look and see what suits you: [login to view URL]
I need a professional copywriter with motherhood experience to do some copy writing for me. I need product descriptions, newsletters and maybe other thing...copywriter with motherhood experience to do some copy writing for me. I need product descriptions, newsletters and maybe other things to be done as well. Amount of work will depend on the results.
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I have ongoing work related to our previous project 'logo for retailing of shoes'
take pictures of the shoes and ensure that there's a clean white background
I need a logo designed for my shoes shop and it's need to be done before October 10.
I'm looking for a graphic artist that can create medium to large banners for my web site. This person needs to be bi-lingual in English and Spanish as the banners will be created in both languages. This is an adult themed web site that you will be creating banners for. We sell adult toys, clothing and shoes. I am looking to pay $5 us dollars per
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...injury. He needs a pair of trainers with a heel lift already inside (so that it would be one piece). The heel lift needs to be 5cm and the shoes have to be made this way so that the foot arch will fit in the shoes and it will look normal. Just a design will do, but please refer us to someone who can make your design come true (preferably in London).
I am looking for someone to provide vector illustrations at the same level of detail of attached Fila examples, the shoe design sketch is also attached I need left right soul views. Thank you.
I am looking for someone to provide vector illustrations at the same level of detail of attached Fila examples, the shoe design sketch is also attached I need left right soul views. Thank you.
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I need a logo and design on the attached shoes. The name of the company is Bramare, it is French. The branding of the company is meant to be urban, laidback, and carefree. Along with a logo design, I would like the "B" to be on the tongue of the shoe at the top and the name of the brand on the top part of the heel. If you have any other ideas of how
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Editing of lifestyle photos of woman's shoes, and just the shoes themselves. 10-15 Photos per style.
I'm Marcelo Klein, I represent the biggest Brazilian shoes producer for ladies and kids (500.000 pairs daily production). I'm responsible for the sales on all the countries in the North of Africa. I need to find shoes importers in Algeria.
i need someone to start me up an online shopping website for clothes, shoes and accessories.
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I need an e-commerce website for my shoes manufacturing company http://huzeshoes.com. I need following features- 1. Fully responsive design. 2. The site will be fully dynamic. 3. Admin Panel to add/edit/delete products, media files, content of the website. 4. Dashboard to analyze register user, sell and transactions. 5. SEO friendly URLs. 6. Social
Our company Afro-Heritage promotes economic growth through business propositi...Afro-Heritage promotes economic growth through business proposition, carries out business from Lagos Nigeria. We are proposing to buy designers perfumes, wrist watches, sunglasses, shoes and cloths directly from Manufacturers and import to Nigeria in commercial quantity .
I need an Android app. I already have a design for it, I just need it to be built.
We are looking for somebody with an professional amazon and or ebay shop for a cooperation. We are located in Germany and retailer of many well known shoe brands like Birkenstock,Rieker,Gabor,Nike,Adidas and many more. Your job content to post those items to your shop,answer the customer emails and manage the returns. The profit will be 8 % of every pair + the fees of amazon and [login to view URL...
I need some help with finding some leads.
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This is a special shoe for paul pogba with unique and simple design from me. contains only 3 basic colors as this is a french flag icon. I hope France wins the 2018 World Cup in Russia. I do not have much money to complete all the contest requirements
I need a logo for clothes and shoes designing company named (ABRARIST) and focus on the 3 letters A&R&T to feel the word ART
... Hello I need the name and logo for a fashion clothing and shoes store. Our clients are men, women and children. I like your participation, I would like to see something new and better. I'm looking for something that sounds internationally. Adaptable to many products, clothing, shoes and accessories. Thank you very much....
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I hold a huge inventory of authentic Converse shoes, need buyers in EU or Eastern Europe/Russia. MOQ is 25,000 pairs. Absolutely lowest price available for serious buyers. Ready for inspection and delivery now. The higher volume you sell, the higher your commission, up to 50,000 USD!
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PETALUMA, CA --A California Highway Patrol officer was injured when his motorcycle collided with another vehicle on Lakeville Highway in Petaluma shortly after noon today, a CHP officer said.
The crash was reported at 12:03 p.m. near the intersection of Lakeville Highway and Frates Road, CHP Officer Peter Van Eckhardt said.
A helicopter landed on the roadway a short time later to transport the officer to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Van Eckhardt said.
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Academic journal article Journalism History
"Don't Be a TV: Television Victim"
Article excerpt
"Don't Be a TV: Television Victim." Media Watch. Literacy Primer. P. O. Box 618, Santa Cruz, Calif. 95061-0618.18 minutes.
This video provides an overview of many of the widely debated issues concerning children and television. It offers an overview of topics such as media control, media violence, advertising influence, and the impact of sexual and racial stereotypes. Designed for elementary school students, children appear in each segment and a teenage girl serves as the spokesperson.
The program opens with a rap song about the overall pervasiveness of television and its pollution of culture. The song asks viewers to consider what values are being portrayed in popular children's programs and commercials. To its credit, rather than being prescriptive, the program shows children asking rhetorical questions concerning issues such as who benefits when the same company or people own all elements of mass media? The usual suspects, Ted Turner and Rupert Murdoch, are mentioned in this context. Their influence almost guarantees to serve as a springboard for discussion.
The culture of commercial television advertising is also broken down as a means of evaluating influence peddled to children by professional athletes and movie stars in the promotion of certain goods. The content of commercials is examined, such as one created by a prominent pizza company employing an imagi-nary male hero. He appears out of the blue to comfort a lonely housewife in the commercial. Product placement issues and special formats in which sales items are created to appear as news items give the viewer a look at what is often lurking beneath the surface in television advertisements. …


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The disease is gotten from the Roman word "waffle" which connotes the word "vagina" which is used to describe a female's sexual organ and the purple color of the vagina due to this virus.
This Sexually transmitted infection affects women and it brings about intense pain, burning sensation, irritation, and a foul odor discharge.
This is 2018 and I'm shocked that this mysterious disease is the most searched infection on the internet because people are so worried and eager to know the cause of the disease, symptoms, what it looks like and as well the treatments.
From research, it has been concluded that the disease is an internet hoax.
What is Blue Waffle STD Disease?
As for the definition of this disease, it is a slang term and it can be defined as a combination of uncontrollable growth of harmful microorganisms in the vagina that may be contracted through sexual intercourse particularly the unprotected one or through poor personal hygiene. It has the capability of changing the shape, spreading and adding a purple to the whole area.
It is a sexually transmitted infection hoax that occurs for many different reasons, the prime reason for getting infected by it is as a result of using unhygienic objects during the act of sex. Sharp or pointed objects may be used during this act thereby causing bacteria to breed, grow and multiply.
This disease affects both men and women, although women have the higher chance of getting this disease. The parts of the body where it affects include the shaft of the penis, mouth, vagina, vulva, and cervix and also around the anus. This disease is related to colpitis or vaginitis because they both have similar symptoms and it is considered the most brutal form of infectious colpitis or vaginitis.
The disease is as a result of combinations of different vaginal infections. Some of the factors which are thought to be responsible for it include;
- Low immunity which is as a result of the healthy bacteria which grows and helps in destroying bad ones is being outnumbered or weak to do such.
- The absence of necessary supplements such as fruits in the foods we eat makes our immune system fragile thus making it easy for diseases to enter our bodies. This absence of essential minerals and vitamins is a direct result of so-called diet patterns which prompts vaginal contaminations.
- Lack of good personal hygiene: some women do not practice good hygienic methods especially not cleaning up the vagina after having intercourse and amidst periods which prompts soaking of the vagina, and this dampness gives room for the growth of microscopic organisms and parasites thereby leveling up the risk of getting an infection.
- Sprays and soaps: the use of trying different vagina sprays and highly scented products on the genitals can cause adverse reactions thereby leading to inflammation of the vaginal lining. It is advisable to use mild and antibacterial soaps.
- Multiple sex partners: Professional sex workers are more prone to getting infections than others. This can lead to more chronic diseases.
- Unclean sex objects: it is okay to use sex objects for pleasure but at the same time it is mandatory to keep them clean and free because bacteria and other infectious parasites may reside on the objects if they were not being cleaned or washed properly and this may cause an infection to occur. Several kinds of bacteria attach themselves to the objects and find their way into the vagina while they are being used again.
- The start of sexual activities at age fifteen or less: the anatomical cervical inflammatory in young girls develop faster and they are heavier, they tend to hide disease due to immunological immaturity and are detected after permanent damage might have occurred.
- Not being mental and physically stable as a result of stress might also cause someone to develop an infection.
- Oral sex: C albicans, a yeast-like infection which is found in the mouth can be transferred to the other partner during oral sex.
- Previous infections in the reproductive tract without proper treatment.
- Wearing tight, unwashed or half dried underwears.
- Lack of blood flow to the labia.
- Very rough and dirty sex or rape.
The symptoms differ from one individual to another like many other vaginal infections. Growing bacteria and fungi on the lips of a woman's genitals can be much more devastating, some of these symptoms include;
- Presence of red bumps in and around the vagina.
- Pains while urinating and during intercourse.
- Itching, burning and swelling around the clitoris and the vagina as a result of blood vessels dilating which increases the leak of fluid from the blood vessels into the interstice.
- Bad smelling and grayish white discharge which drain from the vagina.
- Limited movement in lower hips and limbs in order to reduce severe pain in the area.
- Spotting on the lips of the vagina.
- Bluish discoloration or dis-figuration of the vagina as a result of consistent bruising of the infected vagina by a penis or any other organ.
Picture from the Disease
You can also take a look at some of the disease pictures but I must tell you they are very unpleasant and disgusting to look at. These awkward images might stay on your mind for a while but you should try as much as possible not to show kids.
Can the disease be treated?
You cannot be so sure of diagnosing this disease all by yourself that is the more reason you have to see a doctor as there is no home remedy or cure for it and it also cannot go by itself. But definitely, your doctor will conduct a physical and pelvic examination by looking into some organs such as the cervix and the inner part of the vagina to look for the spread of the disease although the sign of an infection can be detected by mere looking at the vagina.
Treatments for vaginal infections like this and red pancake disease depend on the root of the cause. Certain medications would be prescribed depending on the severity of the symptoms. Antibiotics such as doxycycline, ampicillin, penicillin and among others, antifungal pills like clotrimazole or antifungal creams can also be prescribed.
However, the dose of drugs administered by your doctor should be completed even upon the improvement of the symptoms and it is also essential to do away with sexual activities with your partner or of any kind during this time until the disease is fully cured in both partners. It is advisable that all associated partners should be contacted and treated immediately.
The disease is mysterious, dangerous and a venereal disease that is why it is advisable to treat it at an early stage before it turns out to be a secondary infection because it grows and spreads at a very fast rate. So, cover up your shyness and go get tested.
The Myth
On the other hand, some physicians do not believe in the existence of this disease as they claim they have and it is not registered as a disease from medical sciences. They say people believe that it is transmitted from females to males but there is really no sexually transmitted disease that goes from women to men, they think it is an internet hoax, myth and a panic caused by someone.
How To Prevent It
Prevention they say is much better than cure. This infection might not be easy to cure that is why prevention is definitely the most effective treatment for it, males and females with low immunity are more prone to getting this infection. According to the women's health foundation, it can be prevented by the following tips;
- Reduce the rate of having sex with multiple partners especially at a very young age.
- Keep the genitals clean and free from moisture consistently.
- Keep the vagina dry by using powder.
- Choose abstinence and if you ever need to have sex with someone whose health status you do not know, please ensure you have a protected one.
- Make sure you always clean the vagina after intercourse and amidst periods.
- Eat healthy foods and a balanced diet.
- Visit the gynecologist often for pap smears as some infections do not have signs and symptoms.
- Remain stress-free.
- Try to keep your immune system strong by sleeping well.
- Do not use cheap sanitary pads or tampons.
- Do not have intercourse with strangers rather with someone you know his or her health status.
- Do not adopt any kind of sex object while having sexual intercourse.
- Do not have oral sex with someone already infected.
- Do not share underwears and underwears should be changed more frequently.
- Do not wear unwashed or half dried underwears as bacteria and other parasites tend to attach themselves to moist.
- By wearing loose under wears preferably cotton underwears that allows circulation of air and also absorbs secretions which in turn stops irritation of the vagina.
- Heat could be applied to underwears by ironing or spreading in the hot sun as it tends to kill bacteria and other harmful microorganisms.
Prevention also means creating a sense of awareness about abstinence, safe sex practices and encouraging open communication amongst people.
In spite of the fact that this STD disease just like the special fried rice disease is not real kindly get yourself tested from time to time when you notice ant abnormality in your body, most especially in your genitals.
Remember, your health is the best treasure you can ever have in your entire life, so the more you take care of your body, the healthier you become and the more healthy you become the longer you live.
Your health is in your hands.


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This week the members of the Gamer Horizon crew each list off the characters from shooters (first or third person) that they find most memorable.
N4G is a community of gamers posting and discussing the latest game news. It's part of NewsBoiler, a network of social news sites covering today's pop culture.


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Axence NetTools is a Set of Free Networking Tools
Axence NetTools Pro is a set of Free and Essential Networking tools for your PC that includes hosts of host monitoring, network scanning, security and administration utilities. If you want to get much more information about your home or office network, this is a must have tools. It includes a lot of utilities like port scanner, NetStat, TCP/IP Workshop, graphical ping, Trace route, Bandwidth measuring and lots more.
Some of its features are
NetWatch – Monitors the availability of several hosts and their response times. NetWatch provides very clear real-time and historical charts of a response time and percentage of packets lost.
WinTools – Lists exhaustive system information from Windows computers: running processes & services, registry, event log, disk, memory & CPU information, and much more
NetStat – Displays all the inbound and outbound connections to your computer and lists all open ports.
Network scanner – Enter the IP range to check and you will quickly get a list of nodes and the services running on them. This tool also discovers some Trojans and spyware.
TCP/IP workshop – Provides you with the ability to establish low-level TCP and UDP connections to troubleshoot and test different networking services.
Other tools include a Trace route tool, lookup tool, bandwidth tool to measure network performance etc.
A must have utility for all the network administrators. It is a freeware and runs on Windows.


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Grooveshark is dead. Killed after 10 years by record labels baying for blood.
The music streaming service famously offered free streaming of seemingly every song, and infamously did so without licenses. It's kind of surprising the site stayed online as long as it did – it took until April 30, 2015 for the site to be taken offline entirely Tesla Energy Is Live, Grooveshark Is Dead, Microsoft Guesses Your Age, & More... [Tech News Digest] Tesla Energy Is Live, Grooveshark Is Dead, Microsoft Guesses Your Age, & More... [Tech News Digest] Tesla Energy lives, Grooveshark dies, Microsoft knows how old you are, Night Terrors invades your home, download P.T. from PlayStation Store, and elders react (badly) to Mortal Kombat X. Read More , after nearly a decade of controversy.
As of now, would-be users are treated to a message instead of music:
We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on the service. That was wrong. We apologize. Without reservation. – message on the Grooveshark.com homepage
It's quite a statement, considering the history of the company. As recently as 2012, its CEO argued all music should be free, suggesting artists focus on concert revenue instead:
It's clear that in ten years, the incentives are going to align so that music should be free, because it's going to sell everywhere else. -Grooveshark CEO Sam Tarantino
Well, it's now 2015 and the streaming generation is well established The End of Ownership: Netflix, Spotify, and The Streaming Generation The End of Ownership: Netflix, Spotify, and The Streaming Generation Streaming media is convenient, but you're giving up something important: ownership of digital media. Read More , but it's services like Pandora and Rdio – both of whom pay royalties to artist and labels Why Taylor Swift Is Wrong About Spotify Why Taylor Swift Is Wrong About Spotify In the past week Taylor Swift has pulled her music from Spotify, inspired countless song-pun laden headlines and reignited the debate about streaming music services. Read More – that are leading the pack.
How did Grooveshark stay alive so long? And what does its closure mean for users? Let's take a look.
What Was Grooveshark?
In its most recent incarnation, Grooveshark was a website offering free streaming music. You could head to the site, search for any artist, album or track, and basically start playing what you wanted right away.
A mobile app was briefly available, but ultimately removed from both Apple's App Store and Google Play. To get around these restrictions, Grooveshark created an HTML5 version of their site that mobile users could open in any browser.
There was a lot to like about Grooveshark. You could play whatever songs you wanted, including a lot of stuff not offered on other streaming services. If you couldn't find a particular song, but had it on your computer, you could upload it – meaning Grooveshark was a sort of YouTube for music.
Why Did Grooveshark Shut Down?
Of course, in its early days, YouTube itself was full of pirated content – something that prompted more than a few lawsuits. This is why YouTube today has a filter to catch unauthorized uploads of protected movies and TV shows, along with a number of other (controversial) tools for rights holders to remove videos from the site.
Grooveshark didn't implement anything like this. If a record company specifically requested a recording be taken down, they'd comply – all that's necessary under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA).
But once music was taken down, it would reappear on the site quickly – sometimes within hours. Grooveshark argued it was the users that were re-uploading the music, and that it wasn't Grooveshark's responsibility to take the music down again without another takedown request. This meant that, for record companies, keeping their music off of Grooveshark meant playing a neverending game of whack-a-mole.
This was the status quo for a long time, until internal emails revealed at least some Grooveshark staff were uploading music themselves.
Basically, Grooveshark shut down because it was a streaming piracy service. That's a claim Grooveshark denied for a long time, but now makes explicit in the mea culpa published on its home page.
If That's True, Why Didn't Grooveshark Die Sooner?
That's a good question. The answer is simple, according to music industry consultant Mark Mulligan.
"Good lawyers, basically," Mulligan told The Atlantic, adding that it took the labels "time to be able to make the case." He added:
Ultimately, they were always going to get there, but the complexity of copyright law almost always means that these cases can take a huge amount of time. -Mark Mulligan
Grooveshark was very good at exploiting the gray areas in the law – and the legal system's endless series of appeals – in order to stay online. But that couldn't possibly last forever.
So What Happens to the Users?
Basically, they're screwed. Grooveshark is completely gone, and it's not coming back. The record labels now own the service, and it's highly unlikely they'll bring it back in any form that resembles what the site was – if Jay Z's Tidal is any indication, the industry sucks at running streaming sites Why Jay Z's Tidal Music Streaming Service is Doomed to Fail Why Jay Z's Tidal Music Streaming Service is Doomed to Fail Jay Z recently relaunched Tidal, the music streaming service he acquired for $56 million. Tidal has 99 problems, and the pitch is one. Read More .
However, if you were a longtime Grooveshark user, it might be possible to get at least something back. GrooveBackup aims to provide you access to your playlists, but reports of this working are mixed at best.
Assuming you haven't cleared your browser's cache in a while though, there's another thing you can try:
If you act fast you can still go to http://t.co/CaocE7iHGe, open up developer tools, and inspect the localstorage values for a list of songs
— Russell Heimlich (@kingkool68) May 1, 2015
What Did Early Grooveshark Look Like?
MakeUseOf profiled Grooveshark way back in 2008 Grooveshark - Free Legal Online Music Grooveshark - Free Legal Online Music Read More , and it looked very different back then, to say the least.
Users needed to download a piece of software before they could play music, and even email a Grooveshark employee directly before they could get access to the service.
At the time, Grooveshark wasn't just for streaming songs: you could actually buy a "used copy" of an MP3 from another Grooveshark user (if you did, the MP3 would be deleted from the other user's computer).
Naturally, for most major labels, Grooveshark had no permission to do this, whatsoever, as Chris Morrison of VentureBeat explained at the time.
Although users are only supposed to share songs by artists from the small records on the company's list, that's an unrealistic expectation at best, as there's no way to automatically filter content.
This would be the pattern of Grooveshark for most of its existence. The site ultimately abandoned the idea of selling used MP3s without permission from rights holders, focusing instead of offering streams of music without permission from rights holders.
What Will You Replace Grooveshark With?
Longtime Grooveshark users will clearly miss the site, but anyone surprised by its passing clearly wasn't paying attention. The writing has been on the wall for Grooveshark for a while now.
As such, I bet most of you found alternatives a long time ago – and I want to know which services you plan on using now that the inevitable has happened. Potential replacements for Grooveshark include Spotify, Rdio, and even YouTube, but I want to know what hidden gems you guys might know about. Let's talk!
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A new music streaming service called urRadio was launched in late March. urRadio combines streaming music and what you loved about Radio DJs (broadcasting, group chatting, sharing music and more!). Still testing this new music platform and like it so far. Their catalogue is not as big as Grooveshark's but hopefully it should be improved by the end of this year along with some enhancements and new features for DJs.
Hi Les Voyageurs. Were you a folk deejay with that name on Grooveshark? I can't find your station on urRadio.
Hey Mike. Indeed we did broadcast "Folk & Beyond" on Grooveshark for many years and now on urRadio. Our pseudo is: LESVOYAGEURS and we are on air atm. Cheers!
Thank you! I have always liked your station and was the biggest reason I missed Grooveshark.
Hey Mike! You are most welcome. Hope you will enjoy our new selection. Many good vibes your way and see you soon on urRadio.
There is a new streaming service that allows to import your "lost" GrooveShark playlists into it and start listening almost immediately. Import process is very fast and takes a couple of seconds.
You just saved me years of collecting music and playlists that I liked to listen to. I honestly can't even tell you just how happy you just made me. This is amazing!
People keep saying Spotify as if everyone in the world lives in the US. Spotify isn't available in Japan (nor are Pandora or rdio). What am I supposed to do then? Grooveshark was my only to discover what was popular at the time (I had been using it for about 7 years now) I have to dig deeper.
Honestly, I think spotify is cool, but i miss how I could just type in grooveshark.com and it would remember all the songs i had bookmarked without me having to log in. And spotify has no where near as many songs, grooveshark had many songs from pretty much every band in the world and it was rare for a band to "not exist" on the site, but now I go to spotify, and bands like "The Legion of Doom" among other bands apparently "do not exist" or if i can find the band, all the songs are crappy knock-offs done by "tribute bands" or "live performances" and I would rather hear the real band and if i want to hear it "live" then i will go to a concert myself.
I do not like the music industry's attempt to squeeze every penny out of us for every song every created. I understand getting compensated when you work really hard and that should always be the case but when the industry is a billion dollar business to destroy something groove shark was about you can't do this because we said no.
That stated I am very disappointed in Grooveshark. They always stated that they were in it for the music lovers, if that was the case then why not come to some kind of compromise with the industry. I would completely understand if they explained that in order to stay afloat even the basic service would be $10.00 a month. Why think "even for a second" that your were going to win against an entity as powerful as the music industry.
I have been looking for a week now to find something even close to Grooveshark, not possible.
Very interesting Grooveshark retrospective Justin!
If you feel like it, you might join the Grooveshark Forum to get some feedback.
Maybe all hope is not lost after all! ;-)
All the best,
Really liked Groveshark, quite a shock when it dispappeared the other week:( HAd listenend for free about 3 years, was 1 of the paying members the last year. An idea for a revival would be to have interested music lovers listen & build playlists for free for a set amount of time, say 1 month. After that, an advisory note of "Would you like to be a member? Here's how!" should pop up upon entering the site with the correct username & password. After another month a final adivsory note "Your trial time is soon over - become a full member by [date]. After this, your usernamne, account & playlists will be removed". Of course 1 could start afresh by joining for free as a new member, & have copied the playlists, but most people are decent about these things in the end.
I will miss grooveshark very much... I used to only listen to classical music when I was a kid... And with 17 I began with back metal too... I used to download... When I discovered groovesharck, as I couldn't stand spotify after the first advert destoid my listening session, I began to search for new music and discovered electronical music... And other weird stuff. Most of my follows had less than 100 listners... There was this band for which I was the only follower! I never uploaded... Wasn't even sure I could, not being a band myself. I hope I can find another site, I prefer this to the mule, so much better to discover new musicians.
I looked into it and found this: http://bgr.com/2015/05/05/grooveshark-is-back-online/
Supposedly "Shark" and some colleagues are trying to completely restore Grooveshark, but right now only have parts of it. I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the future holds for Grooveshark.
its just like the torrent sites, they will always find another way. please bring grooveshark back
We all need to start campaigns in our own communities and watch it spread throughout music lovers everywhere. It shall be called the Save the Shark campaign
I will miss Grooveshark. I only listened to music for myself and never uploaded a thing. To my friends at Grooveshark, I am sure we will see you again in some form or fashion. You have a lot of fans in the cyberworld and the genie is well out of the bottle.
Grooveshark cared about their customers and innovated, and brought services without spoiling the experiences for the customer.
Meanwhile, Spotify and pandora can't seem to provide half the value, features, customer service, and with more ad revenue (if they aren't making more with those intrusive ads that ruin my experience then another thing they should'vshould've learned from GS) then GS.
GS was clearly a marvel and built a community that no other company I Know of, let alone streaming service could match.
From my perspective, they (labels) don't care about my experience, just my cash. Then they want to know why everyone turns to GS and torrents for free music?
Thanks for the article and reading my comment. I like this website.
I like pandora's service...Spotify is only good when I want to listen on my ps4.
Looking at what grooveshark accomplished I realized it never was about it being free.
Grooveshark didn'tt have ads that were overly annoying, added radio like pandora, broadcasts by my fellow sharks, I could say I really loved this song, or I didn't love that song for this station. I had a voice and a community.
I never paid for grooveshark, but if they had asked like Wikipedia asks I would've found the money without asking any questions.
They let it be free, helped me find music I can't find anywhere else...added features reguarlly, let me make playlists...and with me not paying a dime, no ads to ruin my experience, and providing a community and unique service... and here pandora and Spotify and beats... all they want is my 10 dollars a month for half the quality?! Are you kidding me?
Grooveshark did a lot more then these larger companies could with less resources. That whole last message on their site tells me they cared about my experience even though they got shut down.
They didn'didn't blame the labels, or compete with Spotify in that last message. They just wanted me, the nonnon-payment customer, to be happy. Holy shit, business around the world should learn from this.
Am I only person outraged by this loss? Angry that a company gave a damn and no one else cared anything other then the money?
What GS did was wrong, and I wish it turned out differently.
Thanks for the article. Thanks for the read.
This was very bad news. The Grooveshark was actually a great service to music fans, allowing access to music from all over the planet and that are outside the mainstream, including the labels.
Lose the public, but also lose the artists who had an excellent tool to democratize public access to their works and make them earn sense.
I would love to get the data of my playlists. For years I researched a lot of good stuff that stood there. To all who felt wronged, sign: https://www.change.org/p/grooveshark-allow-users-to-backup-their-playlists
I'm still researching how best replacement for Grooveshark. For now, what seems to be closest is the http://www.deezer.com.
Good tips, Justin!
But I enjoy very much sounds from Latin America, Africa and East, like Bi Kidude, Hamza El Din, Kélétigui Diabaté, Toumani Diabaté, Zakir Hussain, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Manu Dibango, Giovanni Hidalgo, Mercedes Sosa, Babatunde Olatunji, Egberto Gismonti, Hermeto Pascoal, Nana Vasconcelos, among many others. And unfortunately, it is very hard to hear them for free and even more so their albums.
But thanks anyway and congratulations for this work!
I'm wondering if anyone has found another site that will let you broadcast like GS did.
Broadcasting would let you be the DJ. You start the broadcast, choose the name of it, the songs it played, whether you wanted to allow chat or not (it had a chat feature for in the BC), if you wanted to appoint someone as your "special guest" (which was basically chat cop - they could ban someone if they got too unruly). It was a nice feature. I used to listen to one every day at work, 80s - Best of, that had an awesome selection and great regulars. You could chat with people if you wanted to, request certain songs be played (which were then upvoted by others who wanted to hear it), and if the DJ approved it, it became part of the queue that day.
I think it's interesting that Grooveshark being forced into making an HTML5 site due to getting shut out of the app stores means that, now, all the users are getting their data out even with the site shutdown. Web standards are pretty cool!
Re: Groovebackup: the actual URL just leads back to the takedown message right now, BUT if you google groovebackup and click on the cached page, you can still access it. That's how I got my playlists back, big relief.
Im trying but nothing happens :(
Thanks Emma! I have recovered all my playlists using from the cached view, which loaded groovebackup.com/home.
i used Grooveshark faithfully for 10 years and even won tickets to VooDoo Fest in New Orleans with the service . Amazing right It served me well it was my one excuse for avoiding spotify and pandora (the more common services)
The RIAA strikes again. The DMCA not only stops sharing sites, it prohibits new artists from putting their content online for free, though deals with Microsoft etal.
Now a good artist who may offer brilliant new music will never be heard unless some fat lazy ass well fed record A and R guy feels like actually listening to new sources.
What are the odds of that? Practically 0.
Artists should be allowed to put their own music online with the software they purchase and not be harassed by a cabal of record label executives, who fear competition.
Good news... you can still retrieve your playlists.
Go to audiosplitter.fm and sign up, then click on the Grooveshark logo in the header and you'll be prompted to type in your GS email address and after a few minutes a dropdown menu will appear with...guess what...all of your GS playlists which you can then import one at a time.
I fount this message:
Hi ogakors,
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the Grooveshark Playlist Import feature is temporarily unavailable. Please bear with us, we're working hard to solve the problem, and we'll let you know when it's back online.
I've already follow your steps and I could only recovered 24 songs, from different playlists that I've use to have. Is it normal? How can I get back all of my songs?
Shit! How can i get back all my playlists..! and even worst I begun to pay the service this month , already 18 euros are gone for this website and no one will give me back that money!
I hope they (the record companies) just want the software for Apples upcoming music service! I liked the Grooveshark interface better than the others (Spotify, Google Play, etc).
I think SoundCloud is good.
Too bad Grooveshark is down, but, but things always ends.
Well, I'm computer dumb. I had a number of Playlists---so isn't that the same as downloading the songs, because I did NOT share the music, but I did "download" them to my playlists, so wasn't I downloading then?
I have no idea, since I didn't do that.
yeah true i wish they will be another website like grooveshark that will replace one day.
I would be afraid to even get a "copy" of my playlists so I could go on another legal site to rebuild. I'd be afraid that whoever shut Grooveshark down could sue just for trying to get access to the playlists for none other than building new playlists elsewhere.
I moved to spotify a few months back. I didn't foresee this happening this quick, but like it was indicated above , it was just a matter of time.
I like spotify's model. They legally allow you to play music--it just doesn't become part of your own collection that you can have when you aren't logged in to Spotify. They do make payments to the rights holders of the music. They have paid $2 billion for the music they play. I actually prefer listening to music there, rather than youtube, as Spotifiy does make payments.
I realize that those payments aren't much at all--but that is due to the record companies and the economics of the music industry; that isn't Spotify's fault.
They don't have as much music as youtube does, but any more, I only go to youtube for videos, or for rare or concert footage. For listening to most music, spotify is just fine.
The majors insist on "the artist being paid", hiding that they give them almost nothing, keeping the money for themselves ! With over-the-internet music, the majors are not needed any more, that's why they are so aggressive to try to lock the market..
Copyrights are one of those intellectual property rights enforced in various countries.
Such agreements/arrangements should be enforced with a contract/agreement when you buy a product .... similar to software, maybe.


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