Shutting up shop till the 9th of December dudes!

Will be drunkenly ambling across Malaysian soil, wish me and the crew luck!

Ripper year this year - big love and thanks for all the support on all fronts. Mad love for Ian Sheerer and Rich Wink. Will you mad bastard. Catfish, James Gerrard, Mike Walker, Ryan, Laz, Benny, Mike, Robbie, Jez, Jay, AD, Tommy, Paul, Matt Mcleenan, Cassablanca lightwerks, Sue, Marc ,Nic and all the pretty pretty ladies in HST GIRLS crew! Any one i have forgot forgive me, big shit on the cards next year, new shoots, DVD, scripts and suprizes.

Have a brilliant Xmas break, be safe and be merry!

Celebrity Suicides

Johnny Ace (John Marshall Alexander, Jr.) - singer
1954 —- suicide playing Russian roulette.

Janet Elaine Adkins
1990 —- 1st suicide assisted by Jack Kevorkian.

Clara Blandick - actress (Auntie Em in The Wizard of Oz)
1962 —- sleeping pills, with a plastic bag tied over her head. She was 81-years-old and suffering from crippling arthritis.

Ray Combs - talk show host (Family Feud)
1996 —- hanged himself on the night of June 2, 1996, with bed sheets in his hospital room at Glendale Adventist Hospital while on a 72-hour “suicide watch.”

Hart Crane - poet
1932 —- suicide by drowning. On a steamship, he bid his fellow passengers farewell and jumped overboard.

Thich Quang Duc - Buddhist monk
1963 —- set himself on fire on the streets of Saigon to protest government persecution of Buddhists.

R. Budd Dwyer - politician (Pennsylvania)

1987 —- Convicted of bribery and conspiracy in federal court and about to be sentenced, he called a press conference; there, in front of spectators and TV cameras, he shot himself in the mouth.

Lillian Millicent Entwistle - actress
1932 —- suicide by jumping from the ‘H’ of the ‘HOLLYWOOD(LAND)’ sign.

Joseph Goebbels - Nazi politician
1945 —- with his wife, poisoned their five children, then committed suicide at Hitler’s Berlin bunker.

Hermann Goering - Nazi politician
1946 —- poisoned himself hours before he was to have been executed.

Donny Hathaway - singer
1979 —- suicide by jumping from his room on the 15th floor of New York’s Essex House Hotel.

Rudolf Hess - Nazi politician
1987 —- last member of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle, strangled himself with an electrical cord at age 93, in Spandau Prison.

Chris Chubbuck - newscaster
1974 —- shot herself in the head during a prime time news broadcast on Florida TV station WXLT-TV. She died 14 hours later.

Michael Hutchence - rock musician (Inxs)
1997 —- hanged himself with a belt in his room in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, in Sydney, Australia. (Perhaps auto-erotic asphyxiation.)

Eugene Izzi - writer
1997 —- hanged himself from an 11th-floor window on Michigan Ave., Chicago. Perhaps by accident while researching a scene for a book.

Jim Jones - leader of a religious cult known as the Peoples Temple
1978 —- killed himself after watching more than 900 of his followers die from the ingestion of Kool-Ade laced with cyanide.

Terry Kath - rock musician (Chicago)
1978 —- suicide playing Russian roulette.

Jesse William Lazear - US physician
1900 —- voluntarily infected with & died of yellow fever as part of Walter Reed’s research.

Vachel Lindsay - poet
1931 —- suicide by drinking a bottle of lye (Lysol).

Kiyoko Matsumoto - 19 year old student
1933 —- suicide by jumping into the thousand foot crater of a volcano on the island of Oshima, Japan. This act started a bizarre fashion in Japan and in the ensuing months three hundred children did the same thing.

Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka) - Japanese writer
1970 —- suicide by disembowelment and decapitation (a ritual called seppuku or hara-kiri) as a protest of the Westernization of Japan. He killed himself in front of an assembly (which he himself called) of all of his students that he was teaching at a university at that time.

Francois Maurice Marie Mitterrand
1996 —- suicide by intentionally terminating treatment for prostate cancer.

Claudius Drusus Germanicus Nero - Roman emperor
68 AD —- suicide by stabbing himself with a sword.

Sylvia Plath - poet
1963 —- suicide by inhaling gas from her oven.

Margaret Mary Ray - celebrity stalker
1998 —- suicide by kneeling in front of an oncoming train.

Bobby Sands - IRA activists
1981 —- starved on the 66th day of his hunger strike.

Socrates - philosopher
399 BC —- required to drink hemlock to end his life after being found guilty of corrupting the youth of Athens.

Vincent Willem van Gogh - painter
1890 —- shot himself; he died two days later.

Lupe Velez - actress
1944 —- overdose with sleeping pills; she was 4 months pregnant.
{There is a much-circulated, but undocumented story that she had dressed in her best outfit for the suicide and took her pills, washing them down with alcohol. Getting sick to her stomach, she rushed to the bathroom, but tripped and fell; drowning in the toilet.}

Horace Wells - pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s
1848 —- arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid; he anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephens Woolf) - writer
1941 — committed suicide by drowning.

Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr) - actor
1978 —- shot and killed his wife of 3 weeks, Kim Schmidt, then shot himself.

Prison Jargon

• 4 piece: A full set of restraints (cuffs, leg irons, waist, and security cover).
• 10-10 Furlough: Death by unnatural causes, murder, as in “He wronged too many, and got his 10-10 furlough last night.”
• 13 1/2: The sum of twelve jurors, one judge, and a fifty-fifty chance of aquittal, often seen in tattoos.
• 5-0: Correctional officer.
• 38: Masturbation.
• AB: Aryan Brothergood.
• Ace Boon Coon: Best friend.
• All Day: A life sentence, as in “He’s doin’ all day…”
• All Day and a Night: Life without parole.
• Ass Betting: Gambling without being able to pay back.
• Baby: A weak prisoner used for sex.
• Back Gate Parole: Dying while in prison.
• Bastille by the Bay: San Quentin Prison.
• Big Bitch: Life without parole.
• Bitch Up: To give in.
• Blade: A prison-made shank. To “blade up” is to cut someone up.
• Blanket Party: Throwing a blanket over a prisoner so he or she can’t identify their attacker.
• Blicky: AIDS.
• Boaroo: One’s best clothing.
• Bone: The dominant person in a gay relationship.
• Bone Crusher: A large weapon.
• Boof: Contraband in the rectum.
• Booty Check: Rectal search.
• Buck Rogers Time: A parole date so far into the next century the prisoner cannot imagine release.
• Bug: A prisoner who is mentally disturbed.
• Bunkies: Prisoners who share a double bunk bed.
• Butched In: Performing oral sex to get something.
• Catch a Square: Get ready to fight.
• Catcher: Sexually passive person in a relationship.
• Cat Nap: Short prison sentence.
• Cell Gangster: Someone who talks tough only while in their cell.
• Chasing the Dragon: Looking for heroin.
• Cheese Eater: Snitch.
• Cherry: New prisoner.
• Chester: Child molester.
• Chin Chip: To hit someone in the jaw to see if they’ll fight back.
• Chip: When a homosexual prison inmate, pledged to one man, has an adulterous liaison with another. Chipping is viewed very severely by the cuckolded party and verbal of physical violence is virtually certain to occur.
• Commandos: Prisoners who seek sex from other inmates after lights out.
• Cutting Up: Suicide.
• Ding: A prison inmate who is mentally disturbed.
• Daddy: Dominant homosexual.
• Diaper Sniper: Child molester.
• Ding Wing: Where mentally ill prisoners are housed.
• Dirt Nap: To die.
• Dressed Out: To be assaulted by a prisoner with urine, feces, or any other liquid mixture.
• Drug Charge: Child molestation, as in, “He’s in on a drug charge - he drug them out of the sandbox.£
• Dump Truck: Attorney who does not fight hard for a client.
• Escape Dust: Fog.
• Eyeball: To give a long, disparaging look to an officer.
• Family Style: Sodomy in the missionary position.
• Fifi: An artificial vagina used for masturbation.
• Fluff: A feminine lesbian.
• Fudge Packer: Homosexual.
• Gas House: Public toilet in the cell block.
• Gazer: Guard who watches prisoners shower.
• Green Light: Marked for death.
• Gunner: Prisoner who masturbates while looking at a female guard.
• Heart Check: A prisoner proving he’s still with a gang by murdering someone.
• High Class: Hepititis C.
• Hooped: Hiding contraband, such as drugs, in one’s rectum.
• Hot Rail: Prisoners in a circle or group, hiding a prisoner and his girl having sex.
• Jones: A drug habit.
• Jump the Broom: When prisoners marry.
• Limbo: Jail time before trial.
• Lockdown: Locking prisoners in their vells.
• Mafias: Dark sunglasses.
• May Tag: Homosexual forced to do favors for another prisoner.
• Moe: Married homosexual in prison.
• Nut Up: Go crazy, become enraged.
• Old Lady: Passive gay partner.
• Pecker Palace: An area for conjugal visits.
• Pillow Biter: Someone who gets sodomized.
• Pole Smoker: Homosexual.
• Prize of the Poor: The death penalty.
• Pruno: Alcoholic drink prisoners make.
• Pull the Pin: Call for help.
• Pumpkin Head: The appearance of someone’s head after it is beaten with a weight inside a pillow case.
• Red Light Special: A hit ordered on a rival gang member.
• Retired: Someone in prison for life.
• Ripper: Convicted rapist.
• Safe: Using the vagina for contraband.
• Short Eyes: Child molester.
• Shower Hawk: Someone who preys on others in the showers.
• Siberia: Isolation unit.
• Sister: A young prisoner who trades sex for protection.
• Speeding Ticket: Violation in visitor’s room, like touching or kissing.
• Spud Juice: Homemade alcohol.
• Sucker Stroking: Missing one’s girlfriend or wife so much that tears result.
• T-Jones: A prisoner’s mother, usually black.
• Tack: Tattoo.
• Tack Head: Someone’s woman.
• Tally Ho: Rubber cement that is enhaled.
• Three Knee Deep: Stabbed as a warning, but not deep enough to kill.
• Tossing Salad: Young, weak inmate being made to lick the anus of an older, stronger inmate.
• Trick: A person not in prison who provides money or favors.
• Tune Up: A severe beating by an officer.
• Turn Out: To turn a person into a “punk” by raping them.
• Twist your Cap: To kill someone.
• Walkalone: Prisoners (such as those sentenced to death) who aren’t allowed to exercise with other prisoners.
• Waterhead: A dumb inmate.
• Weedy-Weedy: To snitch or provide information on someone.
• Wobble Head: Mentally ill prisoners.
• Wolf: Predatory prisoner.
• Yo Yo: A person who is not sexually active with other prisoners.
  

Cannibalism and Kuru

This silent film clip shows several victims of a disease called kuru. They are - or rather were - members of the South Fore, a tribe of approximately 8,000 people who inhabit the Okapa subdistrict of the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. In the 1950s and ’60s, a kuru epidemic swept through the South Fore, claiming the lives of more than 1,000 members of the tribe. Later it was established that the disease was transmitted by the tribe’s practice of ritualistic mortuary cannibalism.

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A jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife’s fingers because she began studying for a degree without his permission.

Rafiqul Islam, 30, blindfolded his wife Hawa Akhter, 21, and taped her mouth, telling her he was going to give her a surprise present.

Instead he made her hold out her hand and cut off all five fingers. One of his relatives then threw Ms Akhter’s fingers in the dustbin to ensure doctors could not reattach them.

Mr Islam, who is a migrant worker in the United Arab Emirates, had warned his wife there would ‘severe consequences’ if she did not give up her studies.

‘After he came back to Bangladesh, he wanted to have a discussion with me,’ Ms Akhter told The Times.

‘Suddenly, he blindfolded me and tied my hand. He also taped my mouth saying that he would give me some surprise gifts. But, instead he cut off my fingers.’

Mohammed Saluddin, the Bangladesh police chief said that Mr Islam had confessed after he was arrested in the capital, Dhaka, and will face charges of permanent disfiguration.

Human rights groups are demanding life imprisonment.

‘He was enraged. He was jealous because while he only had a grade eight standard education, she was off to college to pursue higher studies,’ said Mr Saluddin.

Ms Akhter says she is learning to write with her left hand and is determined to resume her studies. She is now back at her parent’s house.

The attack is the latest in a series of acts targeting educated women in the Muslim-majority company.

In June, an unemployed man gouged out the eyes of his wife, an assistant professor at Dhaka University, apparently because he could not stand her pursuing higher studies at a Canadian University.

Ben Masterton-Smith, recipient of the inaugural RIBA Norman Foster Traveling Scholarship in 2007, visited North Korea for a period of architectural and spatial research. One of the many outcomes of that trip was Ben's diploma project, part of which proposed a farcical realization of a 7-mile rainbow reportedly seen on the occasion of Kim Jong-il's birth.

As the Brooklyn Daily Eagle wrote last year, “the exit disguised as a brownstone leads to a grimy-lit set of metal stairs that ascend past utility boxes and ventilation shafts into a windowless room with a door. If you opened the door, you would find yourself on a stoop, which is just part of the façade.” (via)

"to me killing people is like ripping up a duvet. Men, women, old people, children, they are all the same. I have never felt sorry for those I killed. No love, no hatred, just blind indifference. I don’t see them as individuals, but just as masses.“

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“Investigators found an extremely cold and bloody crime scene. The living room carpet was so drenched with blood that it pooled on the wood planks underneath; the oozing blood formed crimson colored icicles where it leaked through the cabin floorboards.”

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At least two people are dead in Louisiana after officials believe "brain-eating amoebas" entered the victims' sinuses through tap water used to fill neti pots.

The 2011 deaths of a 51-year-old woman and 20-year-old man are still under investigation, but now officials are telling neti pot users to heed caution when using the popular devices, KTLA reports.

"If you are irrigating, flushing, or rinsing your sinuses, for example, by using a neti pot, use distilled, sterile or previously boiled water to make up the irrigation solution," Louisiana State Epidemiologist Dr. Raoult Ratard said in a statement.

The amoeba, formally known as Naegleria fowleri, destroys brain tissue and kills victims in about one to 12 days, according to a statement by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. Symptoms include fever, nausea, confusion and loss of balance and are comparable to those of bacterial meningitis.

The amoeba is usually found in freshwater lakes, rivers and ponds and does not normally survive the water-treatment process, Live Science reports. It must enter the body through the nasal cavity; it cannot be ingested through drinking water.

While it's uncommon for tap water to contain the deadly amoeba, it may house harmful bacteria, such as e-coli, ABC 4 News reports.

Cases of Naegleria fowleri infections are uncommon.

Wanted, wanted: Dolores Haze.
Hair: brown. Lips: scarlet.
Age: five thousand three hundred days.
Profession: none, or “starlet”.

Dying, dying, Lolita Haze,
Of hate and remorse, I’m dying.
And again my hairy fist I raise,
And again I hear you crying.

-Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.

Virginia Woolf’s suicide note, written to her husband Leonard.

On 28 March 1941 Virginia Woolf put on her coat, filled the pockets with rocks and walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Her body wasn’t found until 18 April 1941. Her husband buried her cremated remains in their garden

Aokigahara-The Forest of Suicide

“The perfect place to die.” That’s how Aokigahara was described in Wataru Tsurumui’s bestselling book The Complete Manual of Suicide. A dense, dark forest bordering Mt. Fuji, Aokigahara is infamous throughout Japan as a popular spot for those taking their final journey. In 2002, 78 bodies were found within it, replacing the previous record of 73 in 1998. By May of 2006, at least 16 new suicides had already been found. More than a few of them were even carrying copies of Tsurumui’s book. No one knows how many bodies go undiscovered. Signs emblazoned with messages such as “Please reconsider” and “Please consult the police before you decide to die!” are nailed to trees throughout the forest. However, the woods have such a reputation that these minor deterrents do little to stop the determined. Local residents say they can always tell who is going into the forest for its stunning natural beauty, who is hunting after the macabre and who is planning never to return. Who knows why these people decide to take their lives but if it is because of financial stress, there are many options such as financial counseling that will help to get rid of bad debt efficiently. If it is a smaller obligation that needs to be paid quickly, payday loans are an option for trying to get small bills paid on time.

Part of the appeal is dying at the foot of the sacred Mt. Fuji. Part of it is the foreboding nature of Aokigahara, so dense and thick that from just a few kilometers inside it no sounds can be heard other than those produced by the forest itself. Legends surround the place; for instance, there are said to be massive underground iron deposits that cause compasses to go haywire, trapping innocents along with the purposely suicidal. Aokigahara is considered the most haunted location in all of Japan, a purgatory for yurei, the unsettled ghosts of Japan who have been torn unnaturally soon from their lives and who howl their suffering on the winds. However, even in these haunted woods, regular humans still have a job to do. Forestry workers rotate in and out of shifts at a station building in Aokigahara, and occasionally they will come upon unfortunate bodies in various states of decomposition, usually hanging from trees or partially eaten by animals. The bodies are brought down to the station, where a spare room is kept especially for such occasions. In this room are two beds: one for the corpse and one for someone to sleep next to it. Yup, you read that correctly. It is thought that if the corpse is left alone, the lonely and unsettled yurei will scream the whole night through, and the body will move itself into the regular sleeping quarters.

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Cannibalism in the Soviet Union

In the years 1920-21, the Soviet Union was hit hard by famine. Civil war had wiped out grain stores, and drought affected harvests. Struggling peasants and Gulag prisoners alike fell victim to starvation. Hungry individuals ate what they could find – the last of their livestock, cats and dogs, and then finally, fellow human beings. Cannibalism in Soviet Russia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union manifested itself in prisons camps, in urban settings, and in the countryside. The practice of cannibalism was seen as a survival measure rather than a true crime by those who had nothing else to eat.

Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – Crime or Compassion?

It goes without saying that cannibalism in the Soviet Union was outlawed. Those who were caught cannibalizing their fellow citizens were sent to prisons, even though cannibalism was practiced in the Gulag, as well. Parents of starving children might cook and serve the bodies of strangers, neighbors, or relatives who had died in order to give their offspring a chance at survival. While some acts of cannibalism certainly occurred because of psychotic hunger, other acts of cannibalism were undertaken as practicalities due to lack of available food.

Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – Cannibalistic Murder

While some individuals ate the bodies of the already dead, others murdered for the purpose of providing themselves with food. Gangs of children would kill adults, while adults would find children to murder and eat. Escaped prisoners might take along fellow inmates to serve as future meals – unbeknownst to the escapees’ companions themselves .

Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – Cannibalism for Revenge

Cannibalism in the Soviet Union was sometimes a result of an individual or individuals seeking revenge. Those who worked and lived together might suspect one of their company of withholding goods, of lying to authorities, or of other actions that were detrimental to one or more starving persons. The offending person might then be killed and cooked.

Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – The Secret Ingredient

When food supply was low, meat pies might be filled with the innards of the dead. While sales were stopped if officials caught wind of such actions, undoubtedly many hungry individuals became cannibals unawares.

Cannibalism in the Soviet Union – Bodies as a Resource

Cemeteries had to be guarded against cannibals during this period in Soviet history - hungry peasants would steal bodies for food. Guards at prisons would feed live prisoners with the bodies of those who had died. Students would sell corpses to the hungry to raise funds. Livers, lungs, and other body parts were stolen from dissection rooms to be cooked and served for meals.

The practice of cannibalism in the Soviet Union is certainly one indication of how dire circumstances were on a most basic level. However, the Soviet government pretended both the famine and the practice of cannibalism were fiction, so few real measures were taken taken to ease the suffering of the people.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology, proposed by Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper A Theory of Human Motivation. Maslow subsequently extended the idea to include his observations of humans’ innate curiosity. His theories parallel many other theories of human developmental psychology, all of which focus on describing the stages of growth in humans.

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The twin boys were identical in every way but one. Wyatt was a girl to the core, and now lives as one, with the help of a brave, loving family and a path-breaking doctor’s care.

Jonas and Wyatt Maines were born identical twins, but from the start each had a distinct personality.

Jonas was all boy. He loved Spiderman, action figures, pirates, and swords.

Wyatt favored pink tutus and beads. At 4, he insisted on a Barbie birthday cake and had a thing for mermaids. On Halloween, Jonas was Buzz Lightyear. Wyatt wanted to be a princess; his mother compromised on a prince costume.

Once, when Wyatt appeared in a sequin shirt and his mother’s heels, his father said: “You don’t want to wear that.’’

“Yes, I do,’’ Wyatt replied.

“Dad, you might as well face it,’’ Wayne recalls Jonas saying. “You have a son and a daughter.’’

That early declaration marked, as much as any one moment could, the beginning of a journey that few have taken, one the Maineses themselves couldn’t have imagined until it was theirs. The process of remaking a family of identical twin boys into a family with one boy and one girl has been heartbreaking and harrowing and, in the end, inspiring - a lesson in the courage of a child, a child who led them, and in the transformational power of love.

Wayne and Kelly Maines have struggled to know whether they are doing the right things for their children, especially for Wyatt, who now goes by the name Nicole. Was he merely expressing a softer side of his personality, or was he really what he kept saying: a girl in a boy’s body? Was he exhibiting early signs that he might be gay?Was it even possible, at such a young age, to determine what exactly was going on?

Until recently, there was little help for children in such situations.But now a groundbreaking clinic at Children’s Hospital in Boston - one of the few of its kind in the world - helps families deal with the issues, both emotional and medical, that arise from having a transgender child - one who doesn’t identify with the gender he or she was born into.

The Children’s Hospital Gender Management Services Clinic can, using hormone therapies, halt puberty in transgender children, blocking the development of secondary sexual characteristics - a beard, say, or breasts - that can make the eventual transition to the other gender more difficult, painful, and costly.

Founded in 2007 by endocrinologist Norman Spack and urologist David Diamond, the clinic - known as GeMS and modeled on a Dutch program - is the first pediatric academic program in the Western Hemisphere that evaluates and treats pubescent transgenders. A handful of other pediatric centers in the United States are developing similar programs, some started by former staffers at GeMS.

It was in that clinic, under Spack’s care, that Nicole and her family finally began to have hope for her future.

The Maineses decided to tell their story, they say, in order to help fight the deep stigma against transgender youth, and to ease the path for other such children who, without help, often suffer from depression, anxiety, and isolation.

“We told our kids you can’t create change if you don’t get involved,’’ says Wayne, 53, sitting in the living room of their comfortable home in a southern Maine community they do not want identified.

They have good reason for caution. Their journey has included a lawsuit to protect their daughter’s rights, and a battle against bullying and insensitivity that led them to move to a new place and new schools.

It has been a hard road, but nothing that compares with the physical transformation of Wyatt into Nicole.

“I have always known I was a girl,’’ says Nicole, now 14. “I think what I’m aiming for is to undergo surgery to get a physical female body that matches up to my image of myself.’’

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Top Ten Poetic Moments of 2011

Written by Tara Mokhtari on 14-12-2011

The following is a list of my ten favourite moments in Australian poetry in the past year or so. I call it a list of moments because not all of these are poems; a few of them are discussions of poetry which I enjoyed for various reasons.

In a recent entry on my own blog entitled ‘Some Thoughts’ I made a few points about my sometimes awkward relationship with contemporary Australian poetry. I will refrain from quoting myself here but I will preface the following list by admitting that if permitted I would spend all my time reading books by my favourite poets and authors, almost all of whom are international and dead.

However, I will also admit that on occasion it proves a blessing to be forced to delve into contemporary Australian poetry and the following is a list of ten things that failed to make me wish I was born in another time and place:

10. ‘Poetry or Pornography’ by Koraly Dimitriadis. This blog post on Overland back in June has inspired 107 comments and counting. Frankly, I don’t like the poems quoted in the article and I disagree with three quarters of Dimitriadis’ argument. But even if it is only because like schoolboys sniggering at swearwords whispered behind the bleachers people are titillated (pun intended) by any talk of sex (ooh-er) – at least they are simultaneously thinking about what makes poetry. The saying is ‘sex sells’ not ‘good sex sells’, and anything that might pique the interest of a potential broader poetry readership is alright with me. After all, even the most discerning reader of poetry had to start somewhere.

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On 12 September 1996, obsessed fan Ricardo López mailed an acid-spraying letter bomb to Björk’s London home and then killed himself, but the package was intercepted by the Metropolitan Police Service. López filmed himself in the process of making the acid bomb intended to kill her. The nearly 18 hours of videotape described López’s obsession with Björk, the construction of the device, his thoughts on love and other subjects, including racial remarks against Björk’s then-boyfriend Goldie. The video footage continues after his mailing the bomb to Björk’s London home and ends dramatically as López applies face paint, shaves his head and commits suicide by shooting himself on camera.

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This photo provided by Paris’ Holocaust Memorial shows a German soldier shooting a Ukrainian Jew during a mass execution in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, sometime between 1941 and 1943. This image is titled “The last Jew in Vinnitsa”, the text that was written on the back of the photograph, which was found in a photo album belonging to a German soldier. (AP Photo/USHMM/LOC)

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth."

— Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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THE 'LHASA UNITED' FOOTBALL TEAM

Members of the 'Lhasa United' football team. Spencer Chapman describes a match against 'Lhasa United' in October 1936: 'Together with a crowd of supporters, our opponents were already there, turned out in garish harlequin-coloured silk shirts with L.U. sewn on to the pockets. There were a remarkable looking team, and certainly needed to be "United"! There was a tough looking Nepali soldier, a Chinese tailor, three bearded Ladakhis wearing red fezes - the most hirsute being the goalkeeper, a Sikkimese clerk of Pangda-Tsang's, and five Tibetan officials, including our friends Yuto, Surkhang-Se, and Taring Dzongpon. The latter still had their charm-boxes on top of their heads, so were precluded from heading the ball.'
Photograph: Federick Spencer Chapman
1936 - 1937

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This decedent was so badly decomposed that the fingerprints were not printable in their degraded condition. The medical examiner removed the skin from one finger and fit it over his own gloved finger to obtain a readable print.

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The longest nose in history, 7.5 inches, belonged to Thomas Wedders, who was exhibited throughout Yorkshire in the 1770s.

In Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine (1901), George Milbry Gould writes, “This man expired as he had lived, in a condition of mind best described as the most abject idiocy. The accompanying illustration is taken from a reproduction of an old print and is supposed to be a true likeness of this unfortunate individual.”

In the First Liberian War in the 1990s, General Joshua Milton Blahyi (also known as General Butt Naked) would lead his troops naked except for shoes and a gun – he did this at the suggestion of the devil, who Blahyi claims telephoned him at age 11. He believed it would protect him from the bullets

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Young Demonstrator Evading Policemen, Birmingham Protests, May 1963.

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Two boys from Gamusi village, in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, turn out to meet one of the candidates in next year's general election. The people of Gamusi shave boys' heads to make them look like elders

A variety of Polistes fuscatus paper wasp faces.

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Published December 2, 2011

Are you one of those people who never forgets a face? You've got some company in the animal kingdom—the wasp.

Scientists have discovered that Polistes fuscatus paper wasps can recognize and remember each other's faces with sharp accuracy, a new study suggests.

In general, an individual in a species recognizes its kin by many different means. But faces are extremely important to species such as humans, said study co-author Michael Sheehan, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

"Studies show that when you look at a face, your brain treats it in a totally different way than it does other images," he said.

"It's just the way the brain processes the image of a face, and it turns out that these paper wasps do the same thing."

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