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Yes, a Building Permit is required. Additionally, an Electrical Permit will also be required for removal/attachment of the electric meter.
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For your lot to be conforming it must meet the minimum lot area and the minimum width as shown in the Table of Conforming Dimensional Regulations as indicated on Link 1.
If you have the area but not the width you will still use the table of Dimensional Regulations to calculate your setbacks and coverage as indicated on Link 1.
If your lot has neither the minimum required lot area or lot width you will use the Non-Conforming table formulas as indicated on Link 2.
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Permit Requirements and Permit Exemptions Cheat Sheet
Rhode Island Dept. of Environmental Management (DEM), Office of Water Resources has an online septic permit search from 1968 to current.
Link: Septic System Search RI DEM
If the house was built after 2016 our office may have the records electronically stored.
Click the link below then enter your address in the search bar:
As of February 1, 2022 building permits are no longer required for any accessory structure 200 square feet or less. If the shed is 201 square feet or greater a building permit will be required. All sheds, regardless of size, must meet the required zoning setback for the specific lot.
No, unless the fence is over 6' tall or if the fence is utilized as a pool barrier.
Fencing may be located right up to the property line, however, we recommend that you install the fence with enough access on your property so that you can perform maintenance without trespassing.
The link below will direct you to RI DEM Water Resource Division:
Yes, a building permit, site plan and structural detail, along with an electrical permit will be required for any pool the can hold 24" or more of water is required. Additionally any pool under 48" in height requires perimeter fencing and may depending on site conditions require additional safety measures.
All pools must be located at least 10' from any property lines. If property is serviced by a septic system, documentation of septic location must be provided.
For in ground pools only: depending on the amount of ground disturbance a Soil Erosion and Sediment Control (SERCS) permit may need to applied for through the Department of Public Service.
Yes, for overlay or strip and replace, however the code limits roof overlay to a maximum of two layers total.
Yes, a building permit, framing plan and site plan are required regardless of if the deck is remaining the same size or changing size.
Yes. The guard railings will need to comply with current code.
No, a building permit will only be required if you alter (add or remove) an existing wall, in which case all necessary engineering will need to be submitted with the building permit.
Plumbing and electrical permits may be needed if you are adding new electrical or relocating plumbing.
Yes. The new replacement window must meet a .35 U factor (U-factor is how well the window insulates. The lower the U-factor the better)
Yes, the type of window required is classified by what wind zone you are in either 110 mph or 120 mph.
Please call the office for a determination 401-789-9331 x 1225
Yes, a building permit, framing plan and floor plan are required. Additionally you may also need electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits depending on the scope of work.
No, whether tile, hardwood, vinyl or laminate no permit is needed.
Yes, a building permit with site plan and structural detail are required.
Additionally, depending on the amount of ground disturbance a Soil Erosion and Sediment Control (SERCS) permit may need to applied for through the Department of Public Service.
Yes, a sign permit will be required.
RI General Law 23-27.3-113.3.2 requires a contractor to be registered prior to the approval of a permit issued for work that requires a permit.
RI General Law 23-27.3-113.31 requires a person to be licensed prior to the approval of a permit issued for work that requires a permit for plumbing, mechanical, electrical, and fire alarm work.
Both sections of the RI General Law have a provision that the owner/occupant of a single family dwelling may obtain permits for all work being completed by them on their residence without the need for a contractors registration or professional trade license.
Mold Many residents complain about mold in their homes. No recognized federal, state, or local health agency has created a standard for acceptable and unacceptable levels of mold inside a building. Consistent mold growth can be indicative of moisture issues resulting from plumbing or other leaks in the home. Inspectors address any active sources of moisture (roof and plumbing leaks, bathroom and laundry humidity, and venting problems), but can only address the presence of mold as a general sanitation issue. It is up to residents to clean up existing mold colonies or negotiate with property owners over their removal. The RI Department of Health provides education on mold and supplies this informational pamphlet. Testing for the presence of mold is not recommended by the Health Department.
Ten (10) signed applications, Ten (10) signed and notarized owner authorization forms, Ten (10) site plans clearly showing area of work, One (1) 200' Radius Plans & One (1) 200' Abutter's List, Ten (10) of any other relevant information (Elevations, OWTS, CRMC, etc…), a check made payable to the Town of South Kingstown in the appropriate amount.
click on the link below for step by step instructions on how to create a radius map and abutters list
Generally, it takes one to two months after filling to appear before the board.
The entire process from start to finish takes roughly 3 months.
The Chair will call the petition and invite the applicant to come forward. All parties will be sworn in and the owner or the representative of the owner will present the petition. After the applicant has given all testimony the Chair will ask if there is anyone present who wishes to speak in regards to petition. After all testimony has been heard the Board will deliberate and render a verbal decision.
The decision of the Board on every petition or appeal shall be in written form and shall include the reasons for the decision, findings of fact, and any special conditions attached thereto. The decision shall be filed in the Town of South Kingstown's Land Evidence within forty-five (45) days of the Board's vote, and shall be open to public inspection. Notice of such decision shall be mailed to the applicant. An aggrieved party may appeal a decision of the board to the Superior Court for Washington County by filing a complaint setting forth the reasons of appeal within twenty (20) days after such decision has been filed and posted with the town clerk.
Any variance or special use permit granted or authorized by the Board shall expire one (1) year after the date of the filing of the decision in the office of the Town Clerk, unless the applicant shall, within one (1) year, obtain a legal building permit and proceed with the construction, or obtain a certificate of occupancy when no legal building permit is required. If application is made prior to the expiration of the initial one-year period, the board may, upon written request and for cause shown, renew the variance or special use permit for a second one-year period. Said request for an extension need not be advertised nor noticed.
Further extension for cause. Should an applicant fail to begin construction with a legal building permit, or obtain a certificate of occupancy within the second one-year period, the board may upon written request filed prior to the expiration of the second one-year period, renew the variance or special use permit for a third one-year period provided that the applicant can demonstrate due diligence in proceeding and substantial financial commitment in promoting the subject of the variance or special use permit since the date of the filing of the resolution. Notice shall be given in accordance with section 906 and a hearing shall be held on the request.
Where the board denies a request for a special use permit, variance or otherwise rules against the applicant on other than procedural grounds, the board may not consider another application requesting any or all of the same changes for a period of one (1) year from the date of such denial or withdrawal (or from the date of final court action if the decision has been appealed) except: (a) where ordered to do so on remand by a court of competent jurisdiction, or (b) where the application is accompanied by an affidavit setting forth facts, to the satisfaction of said board, showing a substantial change of circumstances justifying a rehearing.


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Blaming the victim
One of the most egregious signs of western irrationality and bigotry over the issue of Israel is the way in which its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is routinely scapegoated for causing the breakdown of the so-called peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.
This charge is based on the widespread fallacy that the 'peace process' has stalled because Israel keeps building more Jewish 'settlements' on 'Palestinian land'. This reasoning is not only totally wrong but utterly perverse on the following grounds:
1) The actual reason for the collapse of the 'peace process' is that Mahmoud Abbas repeatedly maintains that he will never accept that Israel is entitled to be a Jewish state, hails Palestinian terrorists as heroes for murdering Israelis and does nothing to end the incitement to murder Jews disseminated in schools, mosques and media under his control. In other words, Abbas is not a legitimate interlocutor in any civilised 'peace process' since he remains committed to the eradication of Israel. Yet Netanyahu is blamed for the impasse.
2) It is only Israel that has made concessions in this 'peace process' (as noted here). The Palestinians not only failed to deliver what was expected of them under the Road Map but now, with their UN gambit, have unilaterally reneged on their previous treaty obligations. Yet Abbas is given a free pass while Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.
3) The claim that the 'settlements' are the key to resolving the dispute is ridiculous. First, they take up no more than one or two per cent of West Bank territory. Second, even when Netanyahu froze such new building for ten months as a sign of good will, Abbas still refused to negotiate. Yet this is all ignored, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.
4) The claim that the establishment of a Palestine state would end the dispute is also ridiculous. Such a state was on offer in 1948; Israel offered to give up more than 90 per cent of the West Bank for such a state in 2000; and an even more generous offer was subsequently made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. The Palestinian response was in every case war and terror. Yet all this is ignored, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.
5) Whatever land Israel may choose to give up in its own interests, under international law Jews are entitled to settle anywhere in the West Bank. There is no such thing as Palestinian land and never was. The West Bank and Gaza never belonged to any sovereign ruler after the British withdrew from Mandatory Palestine; before that it was part of the Ottoman empire. Israel's 'borders' are in fact merely the cease-fire lines from its victory in 1948 against the Arab armies that tried unsuccessfully to exterminate it at birth. It is therefore more correct to call the West Bank and Gaza disputed territory. Yet this history and law are denied and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.
6) The Jews alone have the legal – as well as the moral and historical -- right to settle within the West Bank and Gaza, a right given to them by the Great Powers after the First World War on account of the unique historical claim by the Jews to the land then called Palestine. This Jewish right to settle anywhere in that land was entrusted to Britain to deliver under the terms of the Mandate for Palestine – an obligation which it proceeded to break. Yet this history and law are denied, and Netanyahu is blamed instead for the impasse.
It is therefore as absurd as it is malicious to blame Netanyahu for the breakdown of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Yet this is precisely what many in the west do – principally because, unlike Israeli politicians on the left, Netanyahu (who certainly has his flaws) is less prepared to play fast and loose with truth, justice and history while offering up Israel's throat to be cut. For this inconvenient obduracy he is branded as 'right-wing' and therefore beyond the pale and impossible to deal with.
That is presumably what lay behind the now infamous overheard exchange between Presidents Sarkozy and Obama – Sarkozy: 'I cannot bear Netanyahu, he is a liar'; Obama: 'You're fed up with him, but I have to deal with him every day!'
This exchange tells us many things, none of them good, about the attitude of the Presidents of France and the US towards the Prime Minister of the country that is in the front line of western defence. But in the UK, the Times showed this morning that it too has now drunk the Kool-Aid over the Middle East. For just whom did it blame for this horrible exchange between Sarkozy and Obama about Netanyahu? Why – Netanyahu. Its leading article (£) opined:
'In fact the man who should be most worried by the Cannes table talk is not either of the participants, but the object of their complaint. For what has been exposed is that the leaders of two of the most important allies that Israel has not only dislike Mr Netanyahu intensely, but distrust him too.
'... Though trust and good personal relationships are hugely important in diplomacy, they are not everything. Israel has existential worries, and understandably feels sometimes that it can rely only on itself. But this "ourselves alone" mentality has become distorted under Mr Netanyahu into what might be called "Millwall diplomacy", after the famously belligerent soccer fans whose slogan became "no-one likes us, we don't care".
'Israel needs to win friends, not lose them; to be sustained by its allies, not to alienate them. What the conversation in Cannes shows is that, in Mr Netanyahu, Israel seems to have the wrong leader at the wrong time. This newspaper hopes that either he can change, or if not, that he can be changed.'
So the spite displayed by the Presidents of France and the US towards Netanyahu, whom they have thus kicked in the back despite the fact that he has made concession after concession to Abbas who has never resiled from his own genocidal aims, is actually all the fault of ...Netanyahu, whom the Times wishes to punish further for thus being the victim of such malice by chucking him out of office unless he too starts playing the appeasement game.
One expects to read this kind of disgusting 'blame the victim' approach to Israel in newspapers of the left. The Times, however, used to be a staunch friend of Israel and was thus on the right side of history. No longer, it seems. Thus the terrifying confusions of our era deepen still further as the skies darken.


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Paul Walker has been laid to rest. Family and close friends of the late actor gathered to say their final goodbyes in a private service at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in the Hollywood Hills on Saturday, Dec. 14.
The "Fast and Furious" star's remains were cremated and his ashes were interred at the well-known cemetery. The ceremony was non-denominational.
Those in attendance included his father Paul Walker Sr., his mother Cheryl Walker, his brothers Caleb Walker and Cody Walker, as well as other family members and close friends.
PHOTOS: Paul Walker's biggest movies
An American flag was tri-folded and displayed during the brief ceremony.
Another private gathering is being held for family and friends at an as-yet undisclosed location in addition to the funeral. The larger gathering will still be invitation-only and no media or press will be allowed in.
Last Sunday, thousands of fans packed the site where Walker and business partner Roger Rodas were killed Nov. 30 in a single-car crash for a public memorial.
A parade of cars, many of them suped up "Fast and Furious"-style, paraded through the area. A number of mourners, some who made the pilgrimage from other states, told reporters at the scene that Walker and the Fast movies had inspired their own love of cars and racing and they didn't want to miss the chance to pay tribute to him.


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Please select a question from the following list. If your question is not answered here, please feel free to email us.
· Are there regular conferences held every year where enthusiasts can discuss the Ripper case in person?
· Was Jack the Ripper real, or was it all a myth?
· What is Jack the Ripper's real name? Do you have any photographs of him?
· How many women did Jack the Ripper murder?
· Did the Ripper have sex with his victims?
· How did Jack the Ripper murder his victims?
· Was the killer ever caught? Why or why not?
· Was there a pattern to the victims?
· Did the victims know each other?
· What was the killer�s motive?
· Can the study of modern-day serial killers offer any insight into the type of person Jack the Ripper might have been?
· Were the murders ritualistic?
· Did Jack the Ripper have medical knowledge?
· Did Jack the Ripper write taunting letters to the press and police?
· Was Jack the Ripper part of a Royal conspiracy?
· Was Jack the Ripper a member of the Royal family?
· Is the �Diary� of Jack the Ripper real?
· Did Patricia Cornwell solve the case? Was Walter Sickert really Jack the Ripper?
· How many books have been published on the subject of Jack the Ripper?
· Which books do you recommend for someone new to the case?
· I'm doing a school report on Jack the Ripper, please send me everything you have on him. Oh, and please hurry, its due tomorrow!
· Is there a Casebook mailing list? Is it free? How do I join?
· I have written an article, poem, or short story based on the Jack the Ripper case. Can I have it published on the Casebook?
· I've heard there are a number of periodicals devoted to the Ripper case. Which one(s) do you recommend and where do I write for more information?
· I am interested in taking one of the "Ripper Walks" offered in London. Which ones do you recommend and where do I write for more information?
· I'm working on an article and am interested in using materials found on your website. Is this a problem? How do I credit the Casebook properly?
· Why did you create a site which glamorizes a serial killer? You sicken me.
· Exactly how large is Casebook: Jack the Ripper?
· Was Mary Kelly pregnant at the time of her death?
· How common was murder in Whitechapel?
Are there regular conferences held every year where enthusiasts can discuss the Ripper case in person?
Added: 2004-01-06 12:44:56
Yes! Conferences are held every year in alternate locations - U.K. one year, U.S. the next. The next conference will be held in April 2004 in Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.. It will feature Colin Wilson, Donald Rumbelow, and many other well-known Ripperologists. More information is available at http://www.casebook.org/2004/.
Was Jack the Ripper real, or was it all a myth?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:50:24
The �Jack the Ripper� murders did indeed take place between August and November 1888. The Ripper did exist, though over the years a great deal of myth and legend has grown up around the basic facts of the case. These myths have been perpetuated in books and movies for over a century now, to the point where they have all but enveloped the brutal reality of the original crimes. But the answer is yes, the Ripper did exist.
What is Jack the Ripper's real name? Do you have any photographs of him?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:49:34
"Jack the Ripper" is the pseudonym given to the unknown killer of a number of prostitutes in the East End of London, 1888. Since the killer was never positively identified, we do not know who Jack the Ripper was, nor do we know for sure whether or not a photograph exists of him.
How many women did Jack the Ripper murder?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:50:58
Since he was never caught, we can never know for sure how many women fell victim to the Ripper. The generally accepted number is five, though it could be as few as three and as many as seven. The �canonical� five victims are Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly. Certain theorists have discarded Stride and Kelly from this list, while others have added to it, contending that Martha Tabram and Alice Mackenzie were likely Ripper victims as well. Other theorists have suggested as many as ten, fourteen or even up to thirty or more victims, but with very flimsy evidence.
Did the Ripper have sex with his victims?
Added: 2004-01-07 10:27:37
Contemporary medical examinations on the Ripper's canonical victims reported that there was no evidence of "recent connexion" (a Victorian euphemism for sexual intercourse). Arguments have been made, however, that prostitutes commonly practised extra-vaginal sex as a means of birth control, and it is not quite clear whether 19th century medical examiners would have looked for evidence of such activity. So although we can not be absolutely certain that no sex of any kind took place, there is no absolutely no evidence to show that it did. In all likelihood the Ripper did not have sexual relations with his victims.
How did Jack the Ripper murder his victims?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:51:30
The Ripper seemed to follow a fairly regimented modus operandi when dispatching his victims. In many cases there seems to be evidence of strangulation, followed by the severance of the carotid artery, which caused near-immediate death. Then he performed various abdominal/genital/facial mutilations, to varying degrees. On some victims there were only a few cuts and stab wounds, while others were mutilated beyond recognition.
None of his victims showed evidence of rape or sexual �connexion,� as the Victorians termed it.
Was the killer ever caught? Why or why not?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:52:09
The Whitechapel murderer was never brought to justice. Some theories suggest that he was indeed captured by the police and thrown, anonymously, into an insane asylum. This would seem unlikely.
The truth is, Jack the Ripper was never caught or identified. The police at the time were ill-equipped to deal with a serial killer investigation. Prevailing opinion at the time suggested that only a raving maniac, someone literally foaming at the mouth, could have committed such bestial murders � and so that became the focus of the investigation. Lunatics from all corners of London were rounded up and examined, but to no avail.
Judging from modern cases, we now know that serial killers tend to be outwardly normal, even personable, and they attract very little attention to themselves. Jack the Ripper could very well have held regular employment, and even had a wife and children. In all likelihood the true murderer was never suspected by friends, family or coworkers, because he did not fit the profile of the Victorian raving lunatic.
Police investigative procedures in 1888 did not include fingerprinting, blood-typing, fiber analysis, or any of the high-tech methods modern detectives have at their disposal. The detection of murder generally involved eyewitness accounts and dumb luck � in many cases, if the killer wasn�t caught red-handed at the scene of the crime, there was no way to connect him with the victim.
Was there a pattern to the victims?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:52:38
There are several consistent patterns to be found among the Ripper�s victims. Most of them were between the ages of 39 and 47. They were locally resident in the East End, and most, if not all of them engaged in prostitution. Many of them were habitual drunks. They were all estranged from their husbands and families.
There are patterns as well in the dates and times of the murders. Every murder from Tabram to Kelly was commited on either a weekend or a holiday � a strong indication that the killer held regular employment. The murders were committed between midnight and 6am, all in the general area surrounding Whitechapel. And the modus operandi was similar in all cases except Tabram and Stride.
Did the victims know each other?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:53:07
Some theorists have suggested that the victims knew one another, though there is no evidence to support this idea. Although many of the victims did have lodgings, at various times, in the same small area of Whitechapel, it must be remembered that this district was wildly overcrowded with common lodgers � literally hundreds would huddle together in a single house, two, three or four to a bed. The possibility of course exists that two or more of the victims knew each other, but we have no reason to suspect they did.
What was the killer�s motive?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:53:27
Serial killers generally don�t have a �motive� in the usual sense. They do not murder out of jealousy, revenge, or greed. They murder because they have an innate desire to do so. They get a thrill, oftentimes sexual, out of the act of murder or mutilation.
Can the study of modern-day serial killers offer any insight into the type of person Jack the Ripper might have been?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:54:12
�Profiling� has fast become the buzz-word of the criminal detection industry. Some, like John Douglas, believe it is a reliable means of investigation. Others dispute this, however, claiming that such profiles rely too heavily on highly impractical generalizations.
If for the moment we assume that profiling is applicable to this case, then what might we learn about the killer?
He may have been locally resident in the Whitechapel area. Modern-day serial killers tend to hunt their victims on familiar ground. Often a killer�s first victim will be found closest to the assailant�s home or place of work � a place where he felt comfortable and knew numerous routes for escape. All the Ripper�s victims were found either in Whitechapel, or within a short distance from the district � within a range of approximately one square mile. This was the Ripper�s �comfort zone.�
Other evidentiary evidence supports this conclusion. On the night of 30 September 1888, the Ripper murdered Catherine Eddowes just inside the City of London boundary in Mitre Square, an area south-west of the Whitechapel district. Along with her kidney, he took with him a portion of his victim�s apron, which he apparently used to wipe his hands clean. The apron was discarded some time shortly after in Goulston Street, an area north-east of Mitre Square, indicating that after the crime the killer had traveled back into Whitechapel � not away from it. If we assume that the killer was traveling back to his lodgings, or safe-area, then it is very likely that he lived in or around the Whitechapel district.
He was likely a white male between the ages of 20 and 35.. Modern serial killers usually fall into this age-range, and they are predominantly white males. Although witness accounts differ, the majority of the reports place suspected individuals in this general age-range.
He likely had regular employment. Because all the Ripper�s murders occurred on weekends and holidays, it seems likely that the Ripper had some form of regular employment which kept him off the streets on workdays.
He was likely soft-spoken and personable, and he drew very little attention to himself. One of the reasons serial killers are so difficult to catch is that they usually appear outwardly normal, even charismatic. Interviews with friends and neighbors of modern-day serial killers often result in similar responses: �He was just a regular guy�� �I would never have thought him capable of something like this�� Its this outwardly �normal� appearance that makes them so successful in their hunt for more victims. If the Ripper followed this pattern of outward normality, he was likely never suspected by his neighbors or by the police.
Were the murders ritualistic?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:54:45
Some theorists have suggested that the Ripper murders indicate a sort of ritualistic behavior, perhaps indicative of an interest in black magic or the occult. Although anything is possible, there does not seem to be any ritualized pattern in the murders � they were all most likely the result of chance and opportunity.
Stories have circulated about items � rings, farthings, etc. � being placed �ritually� at the feet of Annie Chapman, but this was an invention of the press. No rings and no farthings were found at the scene of the crime, only a piece of envelope, some muslin, and a broken comb.
Did Jack the Ripper have medical knowledge?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:55:25
The idea that the Ripper may have had some level of medical knowledge is derived from the fact that, in some cases, certain organs were removed from the bodies of his victims. Some doctors believed they detected medical precision in his cuts � others claimed he had no training whatsoever, not even that of a butcher.
There is no standard answer to this question, unfortunately. It would seem likely that the killer had at least some rudimentary understanding of anatomy, to have been able to remove both the uterus and a kidney in near pitch-black conditions. Whether that understanding came from a medical background, or from experience as a butcher, it is difficult to say for sure.
Did Jack the Ripper write taunting letters to the press and police?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:55:53
One of the interesting phenomena of this case is the copious correspondence received by the press, police and even private citizens, from authors claiming to be �Jack the Ripper.� The name �Jack the Ripper� itself was derived from the signature on a letter sent to the Central News Agency, in which the author threatened to �clip the ladys ears off� during his next murder. When part of a victim�s earlobe was sliced through only three days later, the police had no choice but to consider the possibility that the letter was from the true killer.
Police officials later stated categorically that this letter � termed the �Dear Boss� letter � was a hoax perpetrated by an overzealous newspaper reporter, and most researchers tend to agree with that analysis. The letter was, however, published in every major newspaper in the early days of October 1888, and it began a veritable storm of hoax letters. In all, over six hundred letters were received by the press and police from people claiming to be �The Ripper.� Several individuals, including two women, were arrested and charged for hoaxing Ripper letters.
One letter, however, is more difficult to discard. It was received on 16 October 1888 by George Akin Lusk, president of the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee. The letter contained many spelling and grammatical errors, and was not signed �Jack the Ripper.� It was sent in a small, paper box, along with a portion of a human kidney. The most recent victim at that time was Catherine Eddowes, killed on 30 September � and one of her kidneys was removed by the killer. Whether the kidney received by Lusk was indeed the one taken from Eddowes is impossible to tell. Some consider this letter to be from the true killer. Others contend that it was a prank pulled by a morbid medical student.
All in all the jury is still out on whether any of the Ripper letters were truly penned by the killer. The consensus among modern researchers is that the vast majority of the Ripper letters are hoaxes. Most consider all of them to be hoaxes.
Was Jack the Ripper part of a Royal conspiracy?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:56:33
One of the most popular books ever written on the Ripper crimes was Stephen Knight�s Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. It has gone through several editions, and is still in print today � even though the basic premise of the book has been thoroughly invalidated by modern research. Knight suggested that the Ripper murders were part of a Freemasonic plot to intimidate and eliminate a group of East End women who were intent on blackmailing Prince Eddy, grandson of Queen Victoria and heir apparent to the throne. These women knew that Eddy had married a common Catholic girl, secretly, and had sired a child by her. If news of this unsanctioned marriage were to spread to the general public, the line of succession would have been jeopardized and anarchy would rule the day. So, the theory goes, the Queen�s physician, Sir William Gull, hatched a plot to ritually slaughter each of these East End women � according to the ancient rites of Freemasonry � in order to save the monarchy.
Of course, not a word of this is true.
Prince Eddy was in all likelihood a homosexual, who would have had little interest in marrying a Catholic girl. Sir William Gull, on the other hand, was 72 at the time and had recently suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed down one side of his body. There is no evidence to suggest a royal marriage, let alone a child, nor do the mutilations performed by the Ripper adhere to any specific Freemasonic �code�.
In all likelihood, there was no Royal conspiracy involved in the Jack the Ripper murders.
Was Jack the Ripper a member of the Royal family?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:56:59
Soon after the Royal conspiracy theory began making the rounds, other authors began to wonder if Prince Eddy himself might have been the Ripper. These theories also have no evidence to support them � indeed, there is ample evidence that proves Eddy was in various other parts of the United Kingdom on the nights of several of the Ripper murders.
Less-publicized theories suggest that the Prince of Wales might have been the killer, but again, there is no evidence to support this.
Is the �Diary� of Jack the Ripper real?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:57:17
In the early 1990s, a diary surfaced which was signed �Jack the Ripper.� Internal evidence showed that the diary�s author was obviously James Maybrick, a Liverpool cotton merchant, and himself the subject of a famous 1889 murder trial. Although three books have been written about the diary, supporting Maybrick as the Ripper, the vast majority of serious researchers dismiss the whole thing as a patent hoax. Michael Barrett, who first brought the diary to light in 1993, has since confessed on numerous occasions to having forged it. These confessions were later retracted, but the fact remains that there are serious problems in the provenance of the document. Whether it is a modern hoax, or an old hoax that was only recently brought to light, remains unclear � but no, in all probability, the diary is not real.
Did Patricia Cornwell solve the case? Was Walter Sickert really Jack the Ripper?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:57:41
Without a doubt the most highly-publicized Ripper book to come out in recent years has been Patricia Cornwell�s Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper � Case Closed. Cornwell claims to have found DNA evidence linking Walter Sickert to a small number of Ripper letters. Her book rapidly climbed the best-seller lists and was the subject of numerous radio and television programmes around the world.
Unfortunately, as we mentioned above, the Ripper correspondence is almost certainly not from Jack the Ripper. Although a handful of letters � the �Dear Boss� and �From Hell� letters, for example � are believed by some researchers to have been real, no DNA matches were found to these items. Instead, DNA �matches� � or, more appropriately, similar mtDNA sequences � were found on lesser-known Ripper letters which were never considered by the police to be from the true killer.
In the end, Cornwell may have found evidence to suggest that Walter Sickert hoaxed one or more Ripper letters � but the fact remains that Sickert was in France on the nights of at least four of the five canonical Ripper murders. He was not Jack the Ripper.
More information on Cornwell's research and findings can be found in our article, Patricia Cornwell and Walter Sickert: A Primer.
How many books have been published on the subject of Jack the Ripper?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:57:54
As of the current date of writing, there are 114 non-fiction books written entirely on the subject of Jack the Ripper. This number grows by at least a half-dozen new titles each year. The vast majority of these books were published since 1970. There are hundreds of other fictional treatments that either involve the Ripper, or are based on the Ripper crimes.
Which books do you recommend for someone new to the case?
Added: 2003-03-13 17:59:03
We always recommend Sugden's The Complete History of Jack the Ripper as the single best book yet written on the case. It is, however, quite sizeable, and someone looking for a "lighter" read might do well with either Rumbelow's The Complete Jack the Ripper or Paul Begg's Jack the Ripper: The Uncensored Facts. For a more complete listing of Ripper-related books, see our Book Reviews section.
I'm doing a school report on Jack the Ripper, please send me everything you have on him. Oh, and please hurry, its due tomorrow!
Added: 2003-03-13 17:59:36
We always encourage students of all levels to come to us with questions about the case, but please, be specific! We will not write your paper for you, but if there is a specific aspect of the case which is troubling you, please feel free to ask. Apart from that, you should find plenty of information on the Casebook itself, and there are always people willing to help on our message boards.
Is there a Casebook mailing list? Is it free? How do I join?
Added: 2003-03-13 18:00:00
Yes, we maintain a regular mailing list, through which we make announcements on the latest Ripper news, additions to the site, new book/television releases, etc. It is absolutely fee. You can sign up here.
I have written an article, poem, or short story based on the Jack the Ripper case. Can I have it published on the Casebook?
Added: 2003-03-13 18:00:47
Absolutely! We are always looking for new material to add to the site, particularly on the Dissertations and Original Ripper Fiction pages. E-mail Stephen P. Ryder for more information.
I've heard there are a number of periodicals devoted to the Ripper case. Which one(s) do you recommend and where do I write for more information?
Added: 2003-03-13 18:02:51
There are currently four publications devoted to the Ripper case; Ripperana, Ripperologist, Ripperoo and Ripper Notes. Our highest recommendation (though each publication has much to offer) goes to Ripperologist, the newsletter of the Cloak and Dagger Club. You can write to the following addresses for further information:
The Cloak & Dagger Club
c/o Coral Kelly
71 Penwortham Road
London SW16-6RH
N.P. Warren
Costons Avenue
Greenford, Middlesex UB6 8RJ
Casebook Productions, Inc.
ATTN: Ripper Notes
c/o Christopher T. George
3800 Canterbury Rd, Apt 3E
Baltimore, MD 21218
The Australian Cloak & Dagger Club
P.O. Box 823
I am interested in taking one of the "Ripper Walks" offered in London. Which ones do you recommend and where do I write for more information?
Added: 2003-03-13 18:03:46
We do not recommend any specific Ripper Walks (the most rewarding walk, in our opinion, is the one you do yourself with a copy of The Jack the Ripper A to Z in hand!), but the Cloak and Dagger Club have set up a useful list of many of the available companies, along with contact information.
I'm working on an article and am interested in using materials found on your website. Is this a problem? How do I credit the Casebook properly?
Added: 2003-03-13 18:04:43
We heartily encourage you to use the Casebook as a source for your work. We ask only that you provide the proper citation(s) in the following form:
Ryder, Stephen P. (Ed.). "Page Title in Quotes." Casebook: Jack the Ripper.
Accessed: 13 March 2003. <http://www.casebook.org>
Individual citations may be found by clicking the "info" (magnifying glass) button at the top right of each page.
Why did you create a site which glamorizes a serial killer? You sicken me.
Added: 2003-03-13 18:05:11
The Casebook does not intend to glamorize these murders. Our intention is to provide a complete and accurate historical look at the reality behind the myth, and to provide useful resources for those who wish to perform serious research on the case. Please read our mission statement for a more detailed explanation of our philosophy.
Exactly how large is Casebook: Jack the Ripper?
Added: 2003-03-13 18:05:37
The largest Ripper book ever published weighs in at around 800 pages total, with less than two dozen illustrations. Casebook: Jack the Ripper, if published in book form, would currently fill more than 8,900 pages of text, not including our more than 450 photographs and illustrations.
Was Mary Kelly pregnant at the time of her death?
Added: 2004-01-06 12:35:06
No. Some contemporary press reports speculated that Mary Kelly might have been pregnant when she was murdered, and this canard was picked up by 20th century authors in the 1960s and onwards. When a series of documents, including Mary Kelly's official post-mortem, were returned anonymously to Scotland Yard in 1988, there was no mention whatsoever of any pregnancy, and its not a detail that would have been overlooked. So we can put this one to rest - Mary Kelly was not pregnant when she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.
How common was murder in Whitechapel?
Added: 2004-04-10 16:38:06
Some researchers have claimed that murder was a fairly uncommon occurence in Whitechapel, but statistically-speaking, this may not be entirely accurate. You can read more about the statistics of murder in Whitechapel in Alex Chisholm's article Statistical Shortfalls: Loane's 1887 Report in Review.


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Dell extends XPS laptop line
14in Ultrabook and more
Dell has extended is XPS line of laptops, with 14in and 15in models joining the 13in Ultrabook it launched earlier this year.
The bigger of the new machines can't claim the right to attach Intel's skinny laptop trademark to their names, but the XPS 14 does.
XPS 14 Ultrabook
It comes with a choice of Core i5 and i7 Ivy Bridge CPUs which provide the integrated graphics, though Nvidia's discrete GeForce GT 630M 1GB GDDR 5 chip is available in some models. The GPU drives a "900p" display - 1440 x 900, presumably.
There's a standard 4GB or 8GB of 1333MHz DDR 3 available, and up to 512GB of SSD storage or 500GB of HDD capacity. No optical though. You get 2.4/5GHz 802.11n Wi-Fi as standard. The XPS has USB 3.0, HDMI, Mini DisplayPort and Ethernet portage.
The XPS 15 sports a 15.6in, 1920 x 1080 display, 6-16GB of 1333MHz memory, 500GB to 1TB of HDD storage and, again, Ivy Bridge processors. All models in the line come with an Nvidia GeForce GPU: either a GT 630M with 1GB of video Ram or a GT 640M with 2GB.
There's the same ports as the 14 albeit with an extra USB 3.0 jack. Wi-Fi is the same too. There's room in the XPS 15 chassis for an optical drive: a DVD rewriter or a Blu-ray burner, the choice is yours.
Prices for the XPS 14 start at £1079/$1100. The XPS 15 hasn't yet made it to the UK, but it'll be priced from $1300 in the US. ®


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Joseph Gordon-Levitt grew up before our eyes as deceptively young-looking alien Tommy Solomon on the hit NBC sitcom Third Rock from the Sun. The prolific actor's juvenile roles in A River Runs Through It, Roseanne, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, and 10 Things I Hate About You have yielded to richer fare like Manic, Latter Days, and Mysterious Skin. In the cheeky crime dramedy Brick, Gordon-Levitt plays Brendan, the teenage investigator at the center of a film noir maelstrom. At San Francisco's Clift Hotel, I chatted with Levitt about his characters and his methodology.
Groucho: The poetry of the patter in Brick harkens back to an old-fashioned style of acting. Add to that your tendency to develop a regional dialect that's appropriate for the character, and that's a real hefty verbal challenge. So how did you and the director, Rian Johnson, approach the language that Brendan uses?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt: It was a huge part of the thing. That's interesting. You're the first person that brought up a regional accent. I don't know. Did you get any sort of regional thing from--?
G: Well, I don't consider myself an expert on regional dialects. But you did for this film as well as for the last one, or for Mysterious Skin, rather, right?
JG-L: Mysterious Skin was very specific. I went to Kansas and based my speech on one guy that I met there. But Brick—I never really tried to come up with any region. But, man, I just read the words a lot—over and over again—until it started falling into something. And I listened to a lot more musicians than actors—Tom Waits being the primary one, Serge Gainsbourg, but a lot of people—different poets—Wu-Tang Clan, I think, had a lot of similarities with Brick. And just doing it until we thought it sounded good. There was a lot of repetition. A lot of practice.
G: There's also, in this film, and Mysterious Skin, a distinct physicality to the performances. And I wonder how much forethought you give to that or how much of that is organic in the process of doing it before the camera?
JG-L: That's interesting. Well, they're really opposite roles, and my approach[s] to the two roles were very opposite. I didn't think at all about anything when it came to the role in Mysterious Skin. I read the novel a lot. And I read the script and I went to Kansas and hung out with Scott Heim, who wrote the novel. And that's really all the preparation I did. And I never—there was very little that was intentional about that role. Brickwas the opposite. Every single beat, every single moment, every single line was intentional and thought over and talked about with Rian Johnson, the writer-director, and very calculated—very precise. That's how that movie is. Every single shot, every single line, every single light, every single note in the soundtrack—because the score is very intricately linked with everything going on with the story and characters. It's all put there very precisely. And the physicality was no different. I was very aware of everything I was doing.with my body in Brick as opposed to Mysterious Skin where I wasn't at all. And I'm glad you noticed. And I'm glad they kind of turned out well, I think. They're really different, you know: Neil McCormick, from Mysterious Skin—everything's just kind of really relaxed. And Brendan—everything about him is all very tense—always very kind of concrete and hunched over where Neil McCormick would stand up. Well, yeah. And then especially like all the super-physical violence and stuff in Brick —very, very calculated out, whereas you know, the kind of physical or sexual scenes in Mysterious Skin—I had no idea what those looked like until I saw them. None. But in Brick, every step, every hit, and every sprint, everthing—very mapped out. That's why the violence works—because we didn't have the kind of resources to do big, grandiose fight scenes like in big-budget action movies. But I think the action's even better for that because filmmakers in big-budget movies—they tend to rely on "Well, we've got this skyscraper and we can throw our actor off it, and we can blow up this truck," or whatever. And they kind of rely on that, and their action scenes often tend to lose rhythm. They tend to not have any music or any crescendos or any build-ups.
G: Yeah.
JG-L: Whereas the fight scenes that Rian mapped out—because he mapped them all out—he had them all mapped out already when we started to do them—he said, "It's gonna go like this, the camera is going to be here, and you're going to do this—then for the next hit, the camera's going to be here, and you're going to do that, and it's gonna be like that." And he had the whole thing ready. And that's why it works so well. That's why people—every audience I've been in where I've watched this movie—all the hits land. People go like "Ooohh!" Like "Aaahhhhh!" And it's because it's timed just right—it pulls you in and then hits you.
G: So much of it, too, is in the imagination of the audience, in his choice of editing.
JG-L: Right—
G: Had you done fight scenes ever before this film?
JG-L: Yeah. I've done a bunch of them. The first fight scene I think I ever did was in A River Runs Through It. I did a fight scene in that movie—took a few hits, threw a few punches, got in a fistfight, like this [holds fists up]. And Third Rock from the Sun had a lot of physical comedy to it. And French Stewart—I thought a lot about French Stewart all throughout making Brick for the physicality of it—because he really knew how to take a hit and take a fall and make it funny and make it surprising. He's the one that turned me on to Buster Keaton. He turned me on to so many things. So I really, I think, drew from Third Rock from the Sun for that...
G: About Brick. It occurred to me while watching the film that maybe one of the toughest parts of shooting it might have been keeping a straight face, especially maybe when you're eating milk and cookies with Lukas Haas and that sort of thing. Was that ever a problem?
JG-L: Well, um, I'm trying to think if there were any—I was pretty thick into it. And the thing about Brick is even though the dialogue and a lot of the camera-work and costumes and everything are kind of over-the-top or beyond reality, the emotions never are. The emotions are all very genuine. And the whole point of doing as much practice as I did to get the words as down as I did was so that when we actually doing the scenes when it actually came time to do them, I didn't have to think about doing the words at all. I could just feel what I needed to be feeling. And Brendan is not feeling good. Pretty much there aren't almost any moments in the movie where he's not either in pain or just barely keeping pain at bay.
G: Right.
JG-L: You know, that's why he's hard broiled—hard-broiled. That's why it's hard boiled, excuse me.
G: I wanted to ask you about that too—about the nature of the character—your take on the character. The film implies that he's so withdrawn partly because of busted relationships, but also about maybe something intrinsic to his personality—perhaps even his intelligence— isolates him—
JG-L: Yeah.
G: So I'm curious what you thought about—
JG-L: Yeah, I think that's very perceptive. I identified with that. When I was in high school, I had a bit of a superiority complex. And you know, read Catcher in the Rye when I was fourteen, and got a big kick out of calling everybody phonies. And I think Brendan has a lot of that in him. He thinks—he looks around at the world and sees it as a corrupt, petty, no-good affair. And then when he loses his one love—his one thing in the world that he does connect to—Emily—when he loses her to that, it really, really sends him to the back of the school and to just hunch over and harden up. And then when she turns up dead, my God, it's all he can do to keep from falling apart. The only thing he can do to keep from just breaking down is to set this goal for himself and pursue it ceaselessly. That's what he does—even though it doesn't make any sense, and he's hurting himself and he's hurting other people by doing it, that's all he can do. And I think it speaks a lot—I think it says a lot about that kind of superior attitude. And that's where you end up if you keep that sort of "Oh, I'm smarter than everyone" attitude. You end up alone. And you probably end up hurting yourself—and are more than likely to end up hurting other people too.
G: The obsessive nature of love that's at the heart of all those hard-boiled detective stories.
JG-L: Mmn-hmm—
G: I want to take you back. Before landing Third Rock, you guest-starred on a lot of TV shows as a child actor. When you look back at those years, who do you think taught you the most about your craft? Does anything stick with you that you can still use today?
JG-L: Wow—sure. That's an interesting question. Hmmm. That's the problem with novel questions is they take awhile for me to think about. (Laughter.) [On Third Rock,] all of those people [were] like family. I still have dreams about that set all the time. I mean, it was from age thirteen to nineteen, everyday. It's every teen-age year. And I learned so much from that—from John and from Jane, Christian, French, Simbi, Wayne, Elmarie—all of them. And especially—I think, actually, Brick, though—it came back to fruition more than any of the other stuff I've done since. Because Third Rock is also faster than life. That was our mantra, actually, on Third Rock—was bigger, faster, funnier. And it was about precision and timing. And that's what Brick was about. It wasn't about being real. And, you know, John—he comes from theatre—he's like done every Shakespeare play in the Folio as well as who knows what else? So he knows a thing or two about dealing with poetic language. And the writers on Third Rock used to write really witty words. And watching him handle all those—because he used to have ten times more words than any of us put together, and he was always a marvel to watch him handle it and watch him get through it as fast as he did but still be clear and still carve out the thoughts. I'll always, I'm sure—whether I'm thinking about it or not—he'll always be the foundation of what I do. As far as pre-that, I'm still trying to think of something. Something good I remember, well, when I worked with Robert Redford in A River Runs Through It. I remember I had to walk up to this desk and hit a mark. And I remember him saying, "Oh, it's okay, I never hit my marks." And, from being ten years old, where, mostly, when you're that age, people are telling you exactly what to do. They're not really expecting you to kind of live in the world of the story. They're kind of more expecting you to be a dumb little kid and, like, say your line. And I remember just when he said, "Oh that's okay, I never hit my marks," what was important to him was not that I hit the mark, what was important to him was that I care about what my character needed to be caring about in that scene, which was my Dad grading this paper that I was writing—and, um, him really treating me like an actor. I remember that picture.
G: I know your next film that's gonna come out is Kill Shot, and you're paired with Mickey Rourke for most of the film.
JG-L: Yeah!
G: I'm curious what kind of feedback you have from that partnership. What did you get out of that, or what can we expect to see?
JG-L: Oh man. That was so much fun. Mickey is such a good guy. Such a mentor. Mickey's a really big guy. Mickey's a man. And the guy I was playing kind of wants to be. But I was doing push-ups and stuff for the movie and, like, when you're trying to look as big as you can, look as much like a man as you can, you do push-ups in between takes because it gets the blood flowing and I just learned this, but he knew. And I'd be doing push-ups in between takes and you do as many as you can until you can't do them anymore. So I can't do them anymore and he's like "Joe. Five more." That's Mickey. That's exactly Mickey. It's like "Try to do five more. Last three on your knuckles, Joe. Come on. You can do it. Come on." Just that simple. He's not like [shouting] "Come on, do it, do it!" Just the fact that he's like watching me, and he's gonna make me do something that I can't do. But I'm gonna fucking have to do it because he's asking me to. That was Mickey. And I'm so excited about that movie. I'm so proud to be a killer next to Mickey Rourke.
G: Alright, well, thanks a lot—
JG-L: Thanks—Appreciate it—good to meet you.
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A Texas girl ordered a dollhouse and four pounds of cookies during a conversation with Alexa, Amazon's voice-activated device.
Brooke Neitzel, 6, asked Alexa: 'Can you play dollhouse with me and get me a dollhouse?'
The Amazon app logs the family's conversations with the gadget. Brooke also told Alexa, 'I love you.'
The family says it's a teachable moment. They have now activated parental control requiring a four-digit code for purchases. They have set rules for their kids.
The family kept the four pounds of cookies but will not be keeping the dollhouse, a $170 Kidcraft Sparkle Mansion.
"It's Christmas time. Let's give it to somebody else. She agreed. We are narrowing down the choices of who she would like to give it to," said Megan Neitzel, Brooke's mom.
Amazon says shopping settings can be managed via its Alexa app, including turning off voice purchasing and creating a confirmation code before any order. the company also says any accidental physical orders can be returned for free.


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The voters have spoken and we have a winner. The #1 R&B love song is Heatwave's "Always and Forever," which just beat out "Here and Now" by Luther Vandross at #2 and Whitney Houston's signature song "I'll Always Love You" at number 3.
Heatwave was part of the Dayton, Ohio connection that spawned funk bands like The Ohio Players, Lakeside and Slave. Although lead singer Johnnie Wilder, Jr. was from Dayton, he formed Heatwave while in the service in Germany. Once he left the service, he stayed in Europe, hooking up with English organ player Rod Temperton, who would become the creative catalyst behind many an R&B hit, including "Always and Forever." The 7 member band scored with hits like "The Groove Line" and "Boogie Nights" but "Always and Forever," written by Temperton, was the song that would outlast the band.
Temperton, who is still alive and kicking at 65 years old, is likely living a very comfortable life as he also wrote the songs "Rock With You," "Lady in My Life" and " "Thriller" for Michael Jackson, "The Secret Garden" for Quincy Jones" and "You Put a Move on My Heart" for Tamia, among many other hits. "Always and Forever" was a single from Heatwave's 1977 album "Too Hot To Handle," which also contained the hits "Boogie Nights" and "The Groove Line," also written by Temperton. "Always and Forever" peaked at #2 on the Billboard Soul Singles chart.
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CHICAGO — Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final, all 112:08 of it, proved what most of us thought prior to puck drop: The Blackhawks in no way mirror the leaderless, quick-fold Penguins.
The Penguins got off on the wrong foot against the Bruins in the Eastern Conference finals and never found their balance, ushered out in four straight games after never holding the lead for one second over four games.
Amid the Penguins' frustration, they mustered but two goals against Tuukka Rask over four games.. They lost their cool in Game 1, lost via shutout in Game 2, and now they're home, pondering just how many wholesale changes general manager Ray Shero will make before training camp begins soon after Labor Day.
The Blackhawks Wednesday night, en route to their 4-3 win in triple overtime, got off to a Penguin-like start here at their cavernous United Center, where the crowd grew nearly sullen when Milan Lucic struck at 13:11 of the first period for his first of two goals. Unable to generate their trademark speed in the first 20 minutes, unable to navigate through Boston's thick, heavy defense once in the offensive end, the Blackhawks landed only eight shots on Rask prior to the first intermission. Not one of those shots caused Cool Hand Tuke much bother.
But something happened to Boston's game early in the second period, oddly after Lucic banged home the 2-0 lead with his second of the night with only 51 seconds ticked off the clock. Over the course of the remaining 19:09, the cakewalk turned into a torture chamber. In fact, by the end of third period, with the scored locked at 3-3 (and a string of overtimes awaiting), the Blackhawks outshot the Bruins, 30-13, from the time Boston took the 2-0 lead.
Playoff hockey, as great as it is, often doesn't offer a true read when it creeps into first, second, and third overtimes. The winner of a triple-OT game walks (or limps) out of the building with a huge psychological advantage. The loser talks of fighting the good fight, of missed chances, or coming back in a night or two (Saturday in this case) and acting like the loss the night or two before was merely a flesh wound (see: Monty Python).
The best read to be gleaned in Game 1 is that the Blackhawks come as advertised. They are fast and strong and they will give the Bruins a far better fight than anything they faced in earlier rounds vs. the Leafs, Rangers, and Penguins.
Of the first three opponents, the Leafs were the quickest, most agile, and persistent. They gave the Bruins their most trouble, in part because ex-Bruin Phil Kessel posed a threat nearly every shift he took.
It's exactly what the Bruins expected to see from the likes of Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, but those two superstars never showed up on the scoresheet.
The Rangers, although they at least stretched Round 2 to five games, offered barely more pushback than the Penguins. They were a tired, almost despondent lot, a team that look tired of trying to shotblock its way to victory. Some 96 hours after losing Game 5, their coach, John Tortorella was fired.
But the Blackhawks have speed, jam, scoring talent, and persistence. They showed it in the middle period when the turned the tables on the Bruins and began carrying the play in long stretches. Brandon Saad's goal cut the Boston lead to 2-1 at 3:08 of the second period, and the Hawks rolled up a 16-6 shot advantage for the period.
In the third, it looked as if the Bruins put away their sixth consecutive postseason victory when Patrice Bergeron hammed in his power-play goal with 6:09 gone. Tyler Seguin set it up with a short shovel and Bergeron provided the jackhammer, a sizzling shot that beat goalie Corey Crawford high into the net.
And here's where we found out about the Blackhawks' no-fold resiliency. Less than two minutes after the Bergeron strike, Dave Bolland again cut Boston's lead to one goal, 3-2, compliments of a messy turnover by Torey Krug. The rookie blue liner, with plenty of time on his side, attempted to rush a pass up left wing from deep in his own end. The Blackhawks picked it off, transitioned the play in a flash, and Bolland had his first goal of the postseason.
Next, with 7:46 to go, good fortune visited the Blackhawks in a way it never visited the Penguins. Rushing late into the zone, Johnny Oduya hammered a low slapper from just inside the blue line, a shot that was some 18 inches wide right of the net. But at that point, some 18 inches wide of the right post, the puck met Andrew Ference's left skate. The puck ricocheted sharply, at just the right angle, and into the net.
Tie game. And the night was just getting started.
A little luck can go a long way in the postseason. But that's not what revived the Blackhawks in Game 1, pulled them out of the abyss of a pair of two-goal deficits. They are strong, they are fast, and they have the ability to come back, to endure. They are in so many ways much like the Bruins.
This is a far stronger, more resilient club than the Bruins faced in Vancouver in the 2011 Final.
The winning goal, by Andrew Shaw, came with veteran defenseman Michal Rozsival unloading a high wrister from just inside the blue line. With Bolland providing a screen low in the crease, Shaw provided the winning tip with 7:52 left in the period. It was Chicago's 63d shot on net. On a night they easily could have quit, the Blackhawks kept coming, right to the last shot.
Kevin Paul Dupont can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeKPD.


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Daoism and the Sword (道教和劍, Dao Jiao He Jian)
October 4, 2010
Many people wonder why martial arts are practiced by religions like Buddhism and Daoism that teach about compassion and humility. The idea of a warrior monk seems contradictory because in people's minds the martial arts are linked with violence.
Pilgrimage to Wudang Mountain
September 27, 2010
During the summer of 2010, my family and I brought several students along during our annual trip to Wudang Mountain. Bringing students to the mountain is one way to pay our respect to the origin of the Wudang arts.
The Differences Between San Shou Shuai Jiao and Other Styles of Wrestling
July 5, 2010
Technically speaking, the foundation and basic principles of San Shou Shuai Jiao are based on traditional Chinese wrestling (Chuan Tong Shuai Jiao) and adapted for combat training. San Shou Shuai Jiao techniques and principles are very simple, effective and—most important—quick.


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White Lies recorded a cover of Kanye West's Love Lockdown for BBC Radio One's prestigious Live Lounge. The good news is that we won't have to wait for the next 'Lounge compilation: it's being released on the flipside to White Lies' next single.
Fairwell To The Fairground is the fourth single from number-one album To Lose My Life… As well as Love Lockdown, a M83 remix of Nothing To Give will also feature.
Perhaps an addition to the 4 secret of White Lies' success is in order: 5) boost your credentials by covering a hip-hop megastar.
Own Fairwell To The Fairground on 23 March or hear the cover of Love Lockdown, right now…


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Tuesday, March 15, 2022 | Original broadcast
With continued progress on its comprehensive cloud services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) has fundamentally changed the way organizations approach technology. OCI has successfully accelerated digital transformation for industry innovators such as Oracle Red Bull Racing, Aleph Alpha, GoTo and Cox Automotive. Today, OCI runs everything from legacy applications to microservices and AI.
Oracle Vice President Leo Leung shares core infrastructure features that can flexibly run any application faster, more securely, and with improved economics. Dive deeper into compute, storage, and networking with presentations from OCI leaders and architects.
Jonas Andrulis, CEO and Founder, Aleph Alpha
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Although subscription services for UK television including Sky and Virgin Media have for years been considered a 'premium' viewing experience, non-subscription alternatives are now pushing back hard to show their impressive credentials. Recording, On Demand, media streaming and many more features are steadily appearing on purchasable set-top boxes, with the idea of tempting you away from the typical subscription based service providers you may have originally exclusively considered.
The HDR-1000S is one of the latest set-top boxes from Humax to take advantage of Freesat (via a satellite dish), as well as offering a new feature known as Free Time.
I have been a Sky subscriber for many years, so it's inevitable I will be comparing the two set-top boxes within this review.
What is Freesat?
Freesat requires a satellite dish rather than using your outside aerial, although this offers a lot of advantages. Satellite television has always enjoyed a huge assortment of channels, often outstripping other methods of delivery and the same also applies here.
Freesat has over 150 digital channels, including TV, radio and interactive services. If you or a previous occupant of your home have had a Sky satellite dish installed, you can even re-use it for receiving Freesat. This is certainly handy, although do check your warranty information if you currently use a different satellite television provider to make sure it won't affect the terms of your cover.
If you have to start from scratch, you will obviously require a satellite dish to be fitted to receive Freesat. In this case, Freesat recommend you book an installation directly through them, although you can also choose to use a local installer.
Although offering a very similar selection of high definition programming compared to Freeview (over an aerial), it is Freesat that has the potential to deliver the greatest range of HD channels in the future. You can view the channel listing on the official Freesat website.
The Humax HDR-1000S comes with either a 500GB or 1TB internal hard drive. This is to store all of your recordings and no matter which storage option you choose, there will be plenty of room for a variety of individual programmes, movies and TV series. The price difference between the two capacities are negligible, so opting for the larger storage makes a lot of sense.
If you were a Sky subscriber previously, chances are that the satellite dish and the leads that connect to it are compatible with the Humax device. You can connect a single feed or preferably two to your Humax HDR-1000S without any installation costs if this is the case. Two feeds are best so you can record two programmes simultaneously or record one channel while viewing another.
To look at, the Humax HDR-1000S is a fairly unusual yet appealing device. Not the typical rectangular box with straight lines you might expect from a set-top box, instead a pleasing black sloping design with the overall dimensions pretty small compared to my Sky+ HD hardware – finished off with a chrome-like strip that houses a few buttons.
The front of the HDR-1000S features a few navigation controls and the power button, as well as a conveniently placed USB port that is revealed by opening a flap. Also included is a basic display that details the current channel you are watching among other things and a few text indicators that are unfortunately incredibly hard to read.
Around the back of the unit, there are ports for two satellite inputs, HDMI, composite video, stereo audio, scart, SPDIF, ethernet, USB port and of course power.
Interface & Remote Control
When connecting the Humax HDR-1000S to my HDTV, I was quite simply astonished at the increased picture quality that came through compared to my Sky+ HD box. I never had problems with the Sky device's picture quality before, however there was certainly a very noticeable bump in detail and colour reproduction that looked absolutely sublime when switching to the wonderful HDR-1000S.
The HDMI output from the HDR-1000S also sends a Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound stream, which my Sky+ HD box refused to do and instead I had to resort to Optical Out. Another big plus for the Humax device.
The remote control itself is a very light yet long device, featuring the typical buttons you would expect including playback controls, navigation options and numeric keys. As remotes go, it is competent enough for operation, but just doesn't go far enough to provide a truly user-friendly experience. The Sky+ remote playback controls can be easily used in complete darkness if need be due to its clever positioning and size of the buttons, unfortunately the Humax remote is a little more tricky. There are some nice touches though, for example I adore using the right navigation selector to advance a recording by 30 second increments – far more useful in my opinion than using the dedicated fast forward button in most scenarios.
The interface in conjunction with the remote control works well, although lacks again crucial refinement. The remote control features four coloured buttons, however unlike the Sky alternative the Humax device doesn't utilise these 'stand-out' controls within the navigation to skip to regularly used functions. For example, the Humax recordings interface requires you to press 'ok' on the remote, revealing a list of operations including resume, about, watch from start, close menu, keep and delete. Ideally there should be a key along the bottom of the screen utilising the colored buttons, where the blue button for example could be delete. The list system is just too clumsy for quick operation and even more bizarre is that in other areas of the interface the coloured buttons are actually used! Puzzling…
Compared to the Sky TV guide, the Humax design is actually far clearer. With a nice large font, clean colour scheme and even channel logos – it is sharp and inviting. Navigation is a little slow, which isn't helped by fairly elaborate transitions that animate as you hop from one section to another. The noticeable lag, although no doubt designed to add a layer of interest and pleasure, actually achieves the opposite. It's just too much and slows down the operation of the platform. Either a faster processor should be included, or the animations reduced.
It's also not obvious from the front whether the device is recording unless you have amazing eyesight, would have been nice to include a subtle blinking red power light or other more obvious indication. The display on the front of the HDR-1000S displays the current recording or channel, however I really don't see why we need this panel. There is certainly enough on-screen information to compensate and it makes the device look a little dated in truth.
Another downside is that there is no filter for showing only HD channels in the TV Guide, instead a lengthy list of genres including entertainment, news & sport, movies, lifestyle and others are available. You can however create yourself a list of favourites, so here seemed to be a good location to store the few high definition channels available on the Freesat platform.
Free time & On Demand
If your Humax HDR-1000S is connected to the Internet via an Ethernet cable, you can enjoy additional features. Unfortunately, this model doesn't include built-in wireless networking – but there is a new version just released known as the Humax HDR-1010S that does. A compatible wireless dongle can also be purchased.
By simply navigating to the left of the TV Guide timeline, you enter an area which allows you to look back in the past and launch programmes that were previously shown earlier in the day. This is limited to only a few channels currently including BBC and ITV, however it does provide a convenient way to use your TV guide to view missed programming and if available – play them back at will. This allows you to remain in the TV Guide and saves you manually opening up a seperate On Demand app such as BBC iPlayer and locating the item yourself, although of course this is also an option…
BBC iPlayer and ITV Player are included with the device and offer a dedicated area to view each provider's available streaming content. This is perfect if you have forgotten to record a programme to the internal storage as there is a good chance it will be available to stream instantly over the Internet instead. Channel 4 and 5 have been shown on the Humax box as coming 'soon', however it has been months and still no developments. What has been added though is just as important and that is a YouTube app.
YouTube is a content giant not just for professional video content creators, but for amateurs as well. If you needed a reason to create a YouTube account, this is it! With a YouTube account, you can create a subscription list of 'channels' you wish to follow covering all manner of subjects and this appears within the Humax YouTube app. Viewing YouTube content through a large television screen is a wonderful experience and although I have various devices that can access this content, the Humax is by far my preferred choice. It's quiet, includes an attractive user interface and links in to my account with only a few simple steps (computer required). There is a slight bug where 'loading' blinks on and off at various times during playback, however I hope this will be corrected in an update soon.
You can even play MP3 music, view JPEG photos and watch various video file formats using the HDR-1000S either from a USB stick, network-attached storage or capable media sharing device such as a computer.
The Humax HDR-1000S boasts a jaw dropping picture quality, a visually impressive interface – all while packing in numerous additional features to take advantage of online functionality.
As much as I enjoy the HDR-1000S, it isn't a truly 'premium' experience yet, due to a fairly complicated navigation system provided by Freesat that simply doesn't match the Sky+ HD alternative for clever concise operation. It's an impressive set-top box, but it could have been an exceptional one with just a little more consideration. However, that isn't to say that this Humax offering shouldn't be considered, in fact if you want to remove the tiresome monthly payments for a subscription service yet wish to hold on to the advantages of a satellite system – the HDR-1000S delivers the essentials with stunning picture and sound quality.
After one month with the Humax HDR-1000S, I haven't missed the Sky platform once and with more channels gradually appearing on the Freesat platform, the choice available for TV viewing has become a lot more interesting!


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The dark ages have become corrupted. Heinous creatures have emerged from underground. Townsfolk across the land are disappearing. Upon the promise of their fortune in gold, mercenaries E'lara and Caddoc take on the daunting task of discovering where the innocent villagers have been taken. Their journey will lead them on a dark and twisted path where they will encounter death, slavery, and sacrifice. Travel deep within the world of Kala Moor ... and to the secrets of The Demon's Forge.
Set in a dark fantasy world, Hunted: The Demon's Forge is a cooperative action game, pitting you and your partner against waves of vicious enemies. Taking control of either E'lara, a ranged weapon expert, or Caddoc, a master swordsman, you must use a variety of weapons, powerful spells, and cover tactics to battle your way through menacing dungeons, overgrown ruins, and downtrodden towns. Discover secrets and complete co-op-based puzzles whilst exploring the sinister world to discover answers to the game's deep, dark mysteries.
Hunted: The Demon's Forge is strongly positioned as a Gears of War/dungeon-crawling hybrid -- it's even explicitly referenced in the token press quote on the back of the box -- and while I'd like to debunk it and say, "No, this is what it is," the inspiration is far too obvious. Upon starting the game, you can almost smell the marker fumes from the first time an inXile Entertainment producer wrote the simple equation on a whiteboard, no doubt to the rapturous applause of his/her counterparts. Read More »
In a series of trailers and previews, we've seen the dark fantasy world of Bethesda and InXile's upcoming co-op action-RPG, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, learned about the powerful-evil-awoken storyline, and discovered how melee fighter Caddoc and ranged weapon master E'Lara will use their skills in combat. All that's left now ahead of of the game's Tuesday release is the official launch trailer -- and we've got it. Read More »
Brian Fargo, Matt Findley and the devs at inXile Entertainment talk story, characters, and abilities in the latest developers' diary for upcoming co-op action RPG dungeon crawl, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, and describe why they think the game breaks the fantasy mold. Heed the call of the forge after the jump. Read More »
The latest trailer for Bethesda's upcoming dungeon crawler, Hunted: The Demon's Forge, details how melee fighter Caddoc and ranged weapon master E'Lara will use weapons and magic to overcome the vile enemy odds. Hit the jump to see The Power of Two in action. Read More »
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Also known as: Hunted
Release Region: United States
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Release Region: Australia
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Also available on: PlayStation 3, PC
Hunted: The Demon's Forge at IGN
Hunted: The Demon's Forge at GameSpy
Hunted: The Demon's Forge at TeamXbox
Hunted: The Demon's Forge at GameStats


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Diabetic Foot and Wound Management
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Insulin Pump and CGMS
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Eminence & Johann Stone
After a stellar kick-off of the WYM label with 'So Get Up!', Cosmic Gate passes the torch to the promising talents of Canadian duo Eminence and Icelandic producer Johann Stone.
Their weapon of choice is 'Volcano', a tasty, dark bite of tech-trance. A sure-shot in the sets of Cosmic Gate & Armin van Buuren, this one will be spreading fast.


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Parents have always warned teenagers against falling in with the wrong crowd, those kids they consider bad influences. Now a new study of juvenile detention in Montreal adds to the evidence that Mom and Dad may have a point.
Researchers found that rather than rehabilitating young delinquents, juvenile detention which lumps troubled kids in with other troubled kids appeared to worsen their behavior problems. Compared with other kids with a similar history of bad behavior, those who entered the juvenile-justice system were nearly seven times more likely to be arrested for crimes as adults. Further, those who ended up being sentenced to juvenile prison were 37 times more likely to be arrested again as adults, compared with similarly misbehaved kids who were either not caught or not put into the system.
"It's much worse than we would have expected," says Richard Tremblay, a psychology professor at the University of Montreal and a co-author of the study, which was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. "By having them live together, they form relationships. It's more likely to increase the problem."
The 20-year study followed 779 low-income youth in Montreal with annual interviews from age 10 to age 17, then tracked their arrest records in adulthood. Researchers also interviewed the teenagers' parents, schoolmates and teachers. The study accounted for variables such as family income, single-parent-home status and earlier behavior problems (such as hyperactivity) that are known to affect delinquency risk.
Kids who entered the juvenile-justice system even briefly for example, being sentenced to community service or other penance, with limited exposure to other troubled kids were twice as likely to be arrested as adults, compared with kids with the same behavior problems who remained outside the system. Being put on probation, which involves more contact with misbehaving peers, in counseling groups or even in waiting rooms at probation offices, raised teens' odds of adult arrest by a factor of 14.
The rehabilitation of troubled teens has long been a contentious issue, pitting the individual needs of problem children and families against a system that does not typically give social workers adequate tools or resources to help. Often, the treatment of difficult or drug-using teens occurs en masse in residential homes, for example but instead of scaring kids straight, the group experience tends to glamorize delinquency and drug use.
Why? In any such setting, teens establish a predictable social hierarchy, says Tom Dishion, director of research at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon, who was not involved with the study. The kids who have behaved worse than others committing robbery, for instance, vs. smoking cigarettes earn the most credibility with their peer group, which encourages further bad behavior. "That story [about robbing someone] has a function of making that kid more interesting. He or she gets a lot of attention. [These kids] become higher in the social hierarchy."
Says Tremblay: "There is that competition of who is going to do the worst stuff for them, it's the best stuff like stealing the biggest or best car."
Past research has also shown that peer exposure can worsen behavior. In a 1995 study conducted by Dishion involving 158 high-risk families in Oregon, researchers compared the impact on teens' behavior of four interventions: parenting groups focused on effective discipline, social-skills-training groups for teens, both the parent- and teen-focused group interventions, or no group treatment at all. Overall, the parent-focused group was most effective, leading to reductions in teen smoking and misbehavior at school. The teen-focused group, by contrast, significantly increased participants' rate of aggressive behavior and smoking; in the combination group, kids showed no improvement, presumably because the exposure to other teens canceled out the positive effect of the parents.
The new study supports these findings, suggesting that family therapy or one-on-one counseling or any intervention that doesn't aggregate troubled teens is safer and more likely to be effective than group activities. But if groups must be used, experts say that high supervision and low child-to-staff ratios are essential to minimize the risk of behavior contagion.
"I think it's a very important finding, and it's consistent with other research in the last 10 years on this topic," says Dishion. "What's really surprising is that we don't have more research showing this to be true. Almost everyone you tell about these findings who has worked in [residential or juvenile-justice settings] is not surprised. I think there's a tacit agreement not to look too carefully."


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