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Charles Perrault was born more than 300 years ago, in 1628. He wrote many books, but he will be remembered forever for just one: Stories or Tales from Times Past, with Morals: Tales of Mother Goose. The book contained only eight fairy tales, and they have become classics around the world. You have probably heard some of these stories in your own life!
- Sleeping Beauty
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Blue Beard
- Puss In Boots
- The Fairies
- Cinderella
- Ricky With The Tuft
- Little Tom Thumb
Charles Perrault was born to a wealthy family in Paris, France. He was always interested in learning. He went to the best schools, where he was always top of his class.
When he grew up, Charles Perrault got married and became a lawyer. He also worked with his brother collecting taxes for the city of Paris. He was always ahead of his time, and caused a stir for writing that modern ideas are better than ancient ideas. He believed in the future and in progress, so it is very strange that we celebrate him for Tales of Times Past!
Charles Perrault knew a lot about a lot of things, and he was interested in making life beautiful for people. When some noblemen wanted to close the Tuileries Gardens in Paris to everyone except the King, Charles Perrault argued that they should be open to the public, and they still are to this day. The King still liked him, and gave Perrault several appointments and positions, including looking after Royal buildings, designing tapestries, and writing poems. When Charles Perrault became a member of the famous Académie Française in 1671, he again showed his love for the people by opening up the ceremony to the public for the first time.
When his wife died he gave up his public life to educate their children. Believe it or not he was almost 70 years old when he wrote his first fairy tales in 1697! They were instant hits, and it is from Perrault Fairy Tales that we get the most famous versions of some classic stories. Charles Perrault died five years later, in Paris in the year 1703.

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Community:GTA IV Gripes/Cheat Codes
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This is the official Grand Theft Wiki GTA IV Gripes list.
For now, this page is open to everybody. If there is any abuse of this page it will be locked, and all submissions will have to go through the Discussion page.
The "Gripes" on this page are intended to warn new players of things they may not like about the game.
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There are no cheat codes in multiplayer.
Okay, but what about vehicle cheats and weapon cheats?
I can see that for example health cheats and armor cheats are unfair because if you shot someone, you couldn't kill them. I see that weapon cheats are unfair because someone could keep punching that in to the cell phone and could go around and kill other players. But how are vehicle cheats unfair? It would be nice to have vehicles that are normally found in single player to be found on multiplayer as well, like the Comet or the FIB Buffalo.
Yeah but if the cheat codes was avaviable to EVERYONE (like they are) then cheats in multiplayer would still be fair.
If cheat codes were made avaviable to EVERYONE in multiplayer, but someone didn't use them for some reason, it would be their problem. After being OWNed a million times by the other cheat-code using players who spawn helicopters, Comets, RPGs, and health, they would finally wise up from all the @$$-whiping and use the cheat codes. I understand cheats not being avaiable in Ranked mode, but cheats in player and party mode for fun would have been a smart move. Plus it would extend the game lengths in multiplayer with the infinte health/armor cheats.
Personally, I would like to see them in free mode, but not in the competitive modes.
Yeah, and how do you know what multiplayer is about? Have you ever made a video game? Are you some big shot video game designer? It's a game. A GAME! A game that let's you buy loads of guns and stuff them all in your shirt. A game where you don't get arrested for walking around while carrying a shotgun. You can do whatever you want in a video game..Maybe to a hardcore gamer like you, multiplayer is about showing your skills and competing against other players. There are two modes. One is ranked, where you compete with skills. The other is Free mode, where you just screw around. I believe free mode should be exactly what the title claims.
Why are cheat codes imputed into the cell phone(It's convenient but slightly annoying).
- I don't see how it's annoying. When you type it in, it is automatically saved on your phone. It's better than having to press buttons all the time.
I guess you're right.Touche, my adversary
I like the idea, but I only wish that Niko wouldn't move out of cover when you brought the phone up. Got me killed so many times, because he just walks into open range, and every time he gets shot he puts the phone away and has to start again.
Yes!!!I know! That's why I made that gripe! Thank you for agreeing.
I'm just saying it's dumb that you have to enter the phone and jump outta combat instead of staying behind cover and hitting a couple of buttons.But It's not a big deal.
They toke away all the good codes like the money cheat, infinite ammo, and infinite health.
That is very true.That's why I play Saints Row 2.Not to mention I have a PS3 so now I won't be able to play Chinatown Wars or Lost and Damned.
Maybe if you use them in missions but not when you are not doing missions.
Simply not true. Cheat codes are fun! I have beat the game several times with no hud, no health indicator, and no auto-aim but I use cheat codes outside of missions. That doesn't mean I have "no talent". Though I agree that alot of good cheats were taken away. I miss floating cars and flying cars mainly. Also there are not enough vehicle spawning codes!
No more useful cheat codes like invulnerability.
yeah, but realism is the WORST part of the game
R* didn't even include a cheat for some badass super weapon.
- The game is meant to be more realistic. The smallest badass super weapon that there could be would probably be a nuclear warhead, which are kept under heavy guard by the government and are virtually impossible to obtain. And a cheat for one? There are no superweapons to obtain in the game in the first place!
- Mod the game. That simple. Only if you have the PC version though. Shoot the nuke, then nuke NOOSE, FIB, and LCPD for five minutes and you get One Man Army. Double kill right there.
They took away funny car cheats like pink traffic and replaced it with cars like the comet
How often do you see a car of your choice come up magically just by dialing random numbers into your cellphone? This is game, the cheats are not suppose to be realistic, infact, barely any of the cheats are realistic.
I see cars magically turn pink all the time when I'm high. Why is it that Jacob can do drugs, but niko can't? You know, you people really are starting to piss me off with this "realism" bull. It's a video game. It's never going to realistic even if you tried. That's why it's a game. If you want realism, why don't you go buy a gun, go to the bank and shoot up some cops? All the other kids are doing it these days. And don't tell me that Niko isn't a guy who likes pink cars. There IS no Niko. There is only you, the player. If the game really was focused on the storyline, GTA wouldn't be free roam, and you'd just do one mission after the other. But no, Rockstar added free roam so that the player could screw around, shoot up a restaurant, blow up a securicar. I have the time of my life when I go into Massionete 9 in BOGT, and shoot the place up. Why do you think Rockstar let us do that? Because they wan't us to have fun. Because it's a game. It's your own little fantasy world where you can do whatever you please, and THAT is what a video game is. If you want realism, go shoot up a school. Go blow up a building, and live the rest of your life as a screwed up mental child on death row, with all your friends and family hating you for what you did. That's what realism is. Realism is shooting up a school, and getting executed for it. You rob a bank, you get thrown in jail for 6 years. Don't tell me about this "realism" bull. Because that's all it is. Bull. If you wanna wind up like my uncle, and go to jail for 10 years for shooting a crowd of innocent people, please..Be my guest. As I said before, this is a video game. It's free-roam..The player can do whatever he/she wants. Tell me how often you see someone hanging off of a helicopter over the city. Tell me how often you're caught in a bank robbery like Luis Fernando Lopez was. And furthermore, tell me how a guy can carry a full arsenal of weapons under his shirt. If Rockstar want's to make he game realistic, then they're ruining the very definition of "Gaming". So good luck turning your game into Second Life. I'm going to go light myself on fire and see if I can come out physically unharmed.
Wish there was a cheat that included the health, armor and weapons batch with the AK and molotolvs, instead of the batch with the M4 and grenades. Just a personal wish, as I prefer the weapons tier 2.
Yes. Realism is nice, and I'm glad it (GTA4) is so realistic, but sometimes its nice to just sit back and watch the city tear itself apart with AK 47's in a riot from a cheat code. And besides, how realistic is it that someone could carry around so many guns in unfillable pockets, or evade 2 Black Hawks and several thousand (it seems) officers in hundreds (it seems) of vehicles?
That is how true I can't even rebut that.
- After 9/11 there is no way R* is going to get away with those cheats. And as far as the insane things you can do and their realism, this is a video game, that will never change. That guarantees a certain level of ridiculouslness and unrealism.
Actually, even though every modern GTA has been released post-9/11, many of them still contained the riot cheat, so I can't see how that's an issue.
- ((Rebut))Ultraussie here, well, the thing about GTA3 era games is that they didnt realistically portray any American city. So would was unlikely that there would be any lawsuits because some dickbrain said "EEEY THATS A RIOT IN TIMES SQUARE LETS SUE R*". However, In GTAIV, there is a extremly realistic re-creation of New York City, called Liberty City. It even contains the Statue Of Liberty, the only difference immediatly apparent is that she's holding a coffe cup and pill instead of a torch. And if there were a portraytion of poeple blasting eachother apart with AK47's, with the scene being a New York landmark, there would be some controversy wouldnt there. GTA is the beacon for controversy, and like Rockstar has enough already... Think about it.
Two great cheats (agressive traffic and riot) is no longer there for no reason. This means you don't get to see people shoot each other or see traffics drive out of control, without stopping
This was likely left out for one of two reasons: To add to the "realism," or to save memory space. Likely the latter, as the riot in SA took up a huge amount of memory.
Sorry if you might hate me for this, but i would love a cheat code for the faggio, i just love scooters and you barely see the faggio driving :(.
I love the Faggio also. They should include a cheat code for it, expecially since the DLC "Lost And Damned" is about a motorcyclist. They did include new cheat codes for new motorcycles, but they are mostly harley davidson styled ones.
There are much less cheats than in other games. This is annoying because I was looking forward to messing around with cheats such as unlimited health massacring cops and peds.
- If you want to mess around with cheat codes, play Saints Row 2 because it is a copy of other GTA III Era games.
If R* wants to be a cheap game publisher/developer, then they would'nt be so mentally retarded (sorry for being offensive) into adding very few cheats. I mean, they took away aggresive traffic cheat, or even riot cheat (and I don't mean peds with weapons), and they're both great, and I blame R* for not adding these unique cheats.
Is trying to play the game without cheats to much for you? They may have been good cheats to you, but to me it seems like all you bought the game for was to, shoot every freakin thing in the game. There is a story, trophies/achievments, pidgeons and heaps of other stuff to do. If you wanted a shoottokillfest buy saints row or halo.
How often do you see riots and mass outbreaks of road rage? There is plenty of opportunity to massacre cops and pedestrians without these cheats.
Well cheats are fun if you want to hav a unrealistic game
why not make a game full of cheats & one with seriousness
For Party Mode the host should have the ability to turn on cheats. For other modes, host should be able to create a vote and if it gets enough yes's from other players then you can use cheats in that mode too.
I would of really like fun cheats riot, agressive drivers, and peds have weapons plus infinite health. I think this would create allot of fun in the game after all cheats are not just about cheating allot of people who beat the game fairly like to relax and have fun with cheats as it can be really funny seeing an old granny fire an RPG at a bunch of cops. These should be cheats that are rewarded for you once you get a 100%. These may be unrealistic but remember allot cheats that are in this game are not realistic anyways and are still allot of fun I mean I don't use my phone to caue a ferrari to appear in front of me neither can I get rid of police that are chasing me in real life by dialing numbers on a mobile phone.


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This is the second in a series of posts on the educational charity and climate sceptic 'think-tank' Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). The first post examined GWPF's organisation and its principles (or lack of them). Here we examine GWPF's Briefing Paper No2 – The Sahel Is Greening by Philipp Mueller who is the Assistant Director of the GWPF. Coverage of the greening Sahel has been in the media for a decade now, so this cannot be too controversial a subject, can it?
GWPF BRIEFING PAPER No2 – SIGNIFICANCE OF THE SUBJECT
Mueller explains what this Briefing Paper No2 is about in the first three sentences.
'Global warming has both positive and negative impacts. However, very often only the negative consequences are reported and the positive ones omitted. This article will show an example of a positive effect of warming.'
Mueller then sets out to show how the Sahel is enjoying a 'positive impact' of global warming.
Yet already here is a glaring omission. Despite this being an ideal opportunity to list out all the other 'positive impacts', Mueller fails even to hint at what any of the others might be. Never mind. We still have the Sahel. Or do we?
Mueller's account can be summarised thus:
Between the 1950s and 1980s reducing rainfalls across the Sahel (the region of Africa immediately South of the Sahara Desert) caused severe drought and famine. But, according to Mueller, since the early 1980s this process has gone into reverse with the Sahel greening, harvests more plentiful and the Sahara shrinking.
The reason for this improvement is more than simply increasing rainfall. The climate of the Sahel region is delicate. Additional rainfall results in higher levels of vegetation. This induces yet more rain while reducing soil erosion. However, there is more at work than just this one 'feedback' mechanism. Mueller says the extra factor that might be responsible is 'the rise of atmospheric CO2 levels.' It seems the elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 let plants grow better, especially in arid regions. Clever stuff, that!
Mueller does not leave it there. He discusses the cause of the underlying increase in rainfall citing papers that suggest the rainfall was due to a warmer climate in the Sahara or a warmer North Atlantic, a process 'partially caused by greenhouse gas emissions.'
Mueller's shrinking Sahara is not unprecedented. In the past the Sahara, far from being a desert, was once a grass-covered savannah. This was over 6,000 years ago during the Holocene Climate Optimum (when temperatures were 2-5 deg C hotter than now according to Mueller but not according to others) and also during two other times in last 120,000 years.
Mueller says the future isn't certain. The Sahel may become wetter or it may become drier. But, he concludes, today the Sahel is undoubtedly wetter and suddenly Mueller becomes far more certain about those speculative causes of the greening of the Sahel. 'The increase in rainfall, which was probably caused by rising temperatures, and rising CO2 concentrations, might even – if sustained for a few more decades – green the Sahara. This would be a truly tremendous prospect.'
This account makes bold statements but can it all be true?
Mueller's account contains many omissions and misrepresentations. The list is so long that the full account of Mueller's errors are appended to the bottom of this post and just a summary is presented here.
After droughts end, things grow greener. That is natural. The Sahel has a delicate climate and research shows that increased human emissions were more likely the cause of the initial drought rather than the cause of the re-greening. The recovery is also very patchy. Drought and famine, declining crops as well as encroaching deserts continue to plague parts of the Sahel, to the point that the description 'greening' remains a subject for debate. Mueller's rosy account fails to tell us any of this.
It is wild speculation to assert that any recovery in the Sahel is a result of global warming and to dangle the prospect of a future green Sahara is the exact opposite of the message provided by Mueller's reference on the matter. However welcome the re-greening of parts of the Sahel, it cannot be relied on.
Mueller does mention this in passing but he fails to mention the confident scientific finding that any re-greening will eventually be reversed in the future. So if this greening of the Sahel is the prime example of the 'positive impacts' of global warming, it is no surprise that Mueller fails to list any of the others.
GWPF Briefing paper No2 is an entirely flawed document. The views it expresses are those of the author (as the disclaimer on the cover says), not those views of the GWPF. Yet the author works with a 'distinguished team of GWPF Academic Advisors.' Further, it remains a wonder that a registered charity whose task is to educate the public on global warming could ever put its name on such a report. If this is representative of GWPF Briefing Papers as a whole, it would be a cause of grave concern.
A second GWPF Briefing Paper will be the subject of the next post in this series. Hopefully it will prove to be more factual in nature than Briefing Paper No2.
APPENDIX – Details of Omissions & Misrepresentations within Mueller's paper.
Mueller's account began with mention of a drought between the 1950s & 1980s. This drought requires greater consideration than just a mention. Would we not expect a region to become greener in the period following a drought? Strangely, while Mueller discusses theories for the greening, he fails to mention the causes of the initial drought and its continuing legacy. This is not some minor event. The drought has been described as '…among the most undisputed and largest recent climate changes recognized by the climate research community.'
The causes of the drought have slowly become better understood. Rising population and over-grazing by livestock was the first theory but studies now show the drought resulted from changes in ocean surface temperatures Folland et al (1986) Giannini et al (2003)which are likely due in part to the sulphate aerosol pollution of Europe and North America Rotstayn & Lohmann (2002) Biasutti & Gainnini (2006) and thus it is the cleaning of emissions from power stations that has likely allowed the rains to return.
Mueller remains entirely silent about the potential role of sulphate aerosols in causing the drought and the subsequent greening. It is difficult to understand his silence as these findings are well known. Perhaps the potential role of human pollution in causing a 'devastating drought' sits too uncomfortably with the intended message of 'positive impacts' from global warming.
To emphasis his 'positive impact', Mueller tells us the greening is 'a very welcome and very beneficial development for the people living in the Sahel.' What Mueller omits to tell us is that conditions have yet to return to the levels seen in the 1950s and that drought and famine still stalk the Sahel. His rosy reporting is even used by one sceptical commentator as proof that the continuing drought in the Sahel is but a 'pseudo-catastrophe.'
Climatology may not provide the best reports of the events but the Sahel drought is reported in newspapers and the humanitarian aid networks. 'In 2005, drought and famine hit the Sahel, claiming many lives. The pattern was repeated in 2010 with the crisis most acute in Niger. And now the early warning signs are there for problems again in 2012.' For Mueller to entirely miss such prominent reporting in the age of the internet is truly remarkable!
It is also remarkable how Mueller writes of improving agricultural outputs across the Sahel. Mueller cites the findings of Chris Reij in a small region of Burkina Faso and also Olsson (2008), from where he quotes half a sentence about improved agricultural output in Burkina Faso and Mali.
What Mueller totally misses in Olsson's paper is the preceding sentence and the following half sentence which says – 'After many years of dwindling food production in the Sahel, only two countries show signs of improved agricultural performance. …while the other Sahelian countries show decreases in their production.' So Mueller omits to mention the situation in the other nine countries of the Sahel, instead concentrating on the two countries where the evidence doesn't directly contradict his theorizing.
To reinforce his greening Sahel message Mueller strays geographically. He embellishes part of a Heartland Institute report that quotes a second-hand report from geologist Stephan Kropelin.
This concerns greening within the deserts of Western Sahara, a much-troubled country that is in Africa but definitely not part of the Sahel! It is from the same Heartland report that Mueller times the start of the greening as 'since the early 1980s' when if he had read the other more reliable references he cited he would have known the greening began in 1994.
The entirety of the Sahel is not greening as Mueller would have us believe. It is patchy and there remains enough areas still suffering encroaching desert to make the term "greening" debatable. Somehow Mueller fails to notice.
Mueller does manage to notice that there are signs of greening even in some areas where rainfall is still decreasing. Mueller asserts this might well be due to increased levels of atmospheric CO2. To support his CO2 claim Muller cites Sherwood Idso who has long espoused such theories and claims certain forest studies show evidence of it.
But when it comes to the greening of the Sahel, Idso makes clear the CO2 link is only speculation and makes do with pointing out where researchers fail to mention his brave theorising.
There is one logical problem with Mueller's claim which may be why Idso does not pursue a similar argument. It is difficult to reconcile patchy Sahel greening with a widespread (indeed worldwide) phenomenon like rising CO2 levels. The most likely reason for patchy greening (other than patchy rainfall) is very, very, widely discussed and observed on the ground. It is farmers changing their methods of cultivation, something Mueller fails to even mention, preferring instead to advance his ridiculous CO2 claim
The prehistoric green Sahara of the mid-Holocene with its lakes and rivers is used by Mueller to reinforce his argument that global warming may trigger a return to such conditions and so provide a truly tremendous 'positive impact' from global warming. Again he manages to misrepresent the words of others. On this matter Mueller concludes '(Professor Martin) Claussen has considered the likelihood of a greening of the Sahara due to global warming and concluded that an expansion of vegetation into today's Sahara is possible as a consequence of CO2 emissions.'
This is an exceedingly bizarre interpretation of the source document! Claussen's quote actually says 'some expansion of vegetation into today's Sahara is theoretically possible',(end quote, emphasis added) words too pessimistic for Mueller so he changed them.
Not only does Mueller misquote Claussen, he wholly ignores the explicit warning that Claussen makes against any belief in a future green Sahara. 'But he(Claussen) warns against believing the mid-Holocene climate optimum will be recreated.' This source document continues by pointing to the continuing tree-loss in the Sahel and the shrinkage of Lake Chad; this despite the improved levels of rainfall.
Indeed, Claussen is not alone in dismissing a green Sahara. Yet Mueller's report concludes that a green Sahara is a distinct possibility, the exact opposite of the very authority that he claims is supporting his conclusions.
Finally, Mueller is silent about one 'negative impact' of a greening Sahel. He intimates that any greening due to global warming will be permanent but this is incorrect. Climatology shows that the Sahel has a very sensitive climate such that it can be stated 'with confidence' that 'any greening of the Sahel and Sahara in the near future will eventually be reversed.' The greening is unreliable. It is thus hardly an encouraging example of a 'positive impact' from global warming.
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I have a lot on my mind. I need your help. This is the problem: I have a woman on the street that I've been with for over five years before I got locked up. I've been down four years now. In the last year a lot of stuff has happened. She told me she now has a baby. She said that she still wants to write to me and wants to be with me when I come home, which won't be until 2019.
I don't know what to do. I am having mixed feelings because I do love her. We have three kids together. I don't want to be nasty toward her. I left her everything when I was locked up. I don't know if I should get my sister to go get my cars. I also left her in control of my store. I left her in control because of my kids, but now it's like there is someone else.
Gwendolyn, I don't want to be nobody's fool. I just need some good advice. I know you can help because you got me through my other problems. Thanks—Henry
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Having your sister to take over your affairs would be good. Your friend is possibly in love with her baby's daddy but finds it beneficial to manage the funds. Tell her, your sister will be giving the financial assistance from the funds. Make the transaction legally. Often money matters lead to danger.
Think about it. There are women who wait. After all, time moves so swiftly. But time seemingly goes slow when on a stormy night, a woman whose man is locked away can't even get from him a hug or a kiss. That's hard. Henry, continue having concern for your children, but it seems apparent you and your girlfriend are finished. However, you need to keep a rapport with her because of the children. No, I agree. Don't be a fool. She has a baby so that proves maybe her heart can wait but her body can't.
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Judge Diane E. Gibbons Confirms Herself An Enemy of Free Speech and Supporter of Abuse By Silencing The Psycho Ex Wife Website
In June 2011, Judge Diane E. Gibbons of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, illegally ordered an excellent web site called The Psycho Ex Wife to be taken down in violation of the US Constitution's First Amendment. The site is reportedly owned by a Pennsylvania woman named Misty Weaver-Ostinato whose partner for the last several years has been a man named Anthony Morelli. On the site, they identified themselves as DW and "Mister M" never using their real names or identifying information, nor the real name or identifying information of Morelli's ex who allegedly inspired the site with her behaviors.
First Amendment rights expert Eugene Volokh writes that he believes this order is blatantly unconstitutional, especially because of its expansiveness:
If the father says anything about the mother in public, he could be sent to jail for contempt of court. The order isn't limited to banning libelous statements (though I think even such a much narrower ban would itself pose constitutional problems, especially under Pennsylvania law), nor is it even limited to statements about minor children (though even that sort of order strikes me as constitutionally impermissible). Rather, the court order categorically orders the removal of a Web site, and prohibits all public statements — factually accurate or not — by one person about another person.
Allison Morelli apparently claims that PEW (the abbreviation for "Psycho Ex Wife", one of the main characters discussed on the site) is her, even though nobody is ever identified or named on the site. According to reports in other publications, PEW served as the source for around a quarter of the articles describing bizarre and abusive behaviors on the banned website.
Allison, for reasons that don't make any sense to me at all, wants us all to believe that PEW is her and therefore the whole site is an attack on her. She claims the site is about her without naming or identifying her or anybody else. She simultaneously implies or maintains that she didn't behave as the PEW character behaved but somehow she knows they were writing the site about her to attack her. This makes no sense to me, nor does it to much of anybody else except apparently Allison Morelli, her supporters, and Judge Gibbons.
The PEW character may not be meant to be literally interpreted. The words and actions appear to be what you could see as a synthesis of behaviors and conduct of more than one troubled ex-spouse. Certainly describing a person as looking like "Jabba the Hut" (a description used for PEW) is obviously figurative speech that no rational person is going to believe is a literal statement. Yet Allison Morelli claims the site is about her and is an attack on her, all the while trying to imply or claim she didn't write the emails or do the actions described. But somehow she "knows" it is all about her.
However much literary license may have been taken with PEW's words and actions and no matter what victimhood badge Allison is trying to win with her weird assertions, it is clear that "PEW" as used on the site often does not even refer to Allison Morelli even if you believe it sometimes does.
PEW is used to refer not just to the PEW character but also as a generic abbreviation throughout the site's content. It means different things in different places. This abbreviation is often used to refer to any generic "psycho ex wife" or at times even more broadly any "psycho ex" regardless of gender or marital status.
Even the readers of the site used such terms to describe their own conflicts. "PEW" is frequently used to generically refer to a "psycho ex wife" or to some other unnamed specific ex-wife that could not be Allison Morelli, unless of course she wants to claim she has been married to dozens or hundreds of the readers and they are all writing about her, too.
The site and its readers also use "PEH" to refer to "psycho ex husband" which can't be about her. Or can it? If she were to claim she was a man named Alfred in some past life and therefore any references to "PEH" are about her, too, from her actions to date it looks like Judge Gibbons would be convinced by that argument.
The generic "psycho ex" content and discussion included all the kinds of things you'd expect to see discussed about malicious Borderlines, Narcissists, Antisocials, and other personality disorders that are typically seen in sociopaths. These include drug abuse, alcohol abuse, verbal abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, manipulation, projection, gaslighting, pathological lying, distortion campaigns, and more. They even discussed at times how these people get to be their malicious selves, often from a history of abuse as children. All of that is very generic and helpful information that doesn't specifically pertain to Allison Morelli. Some of it may not have been written to have anything to do with her. Yet Judge Gibbons, in her infinite stupidity, sought to silence all of that content, too, because she apparently is unable or unwilling to differentiate between content that is widely and generally applicable and not specific to any one person and content (be it information or misinformation) that has to do with the Morelli dispute in particular.
Unfortunately for the operators of the site and its readers, Judge Gibbons does not seem able to ask basic questions about how an anonymous site naming and identifying nobody but quoting bizarre and abusive emails and describing similar behaviors could be about a person unless that person is also in effect admitting she is behind those words and actions.
Gibbons must also have failed her Constitutional Law classes on the First Amendment, nor does she understand that even if there was some defamatory or harassing statement on the site that this does not justify banning all the content. She evidently can't comprehend or doesn't care that roughly 2/3 or more of the material on the site wasn't even about the PEW character and therefore could not have been about the Morelli dispute, even if Allison wants people to believe she is the PEW character.
Did Gibbons even review the site? By the appearance of the alleged transcripts I've seen so far, it looks like she just took Allison's word for it when she moved to ban the site.
Take Down the Site Or Go To Prison
The judge stated among other things that if the site was not taken down, she would imprison Anthony and take away his kids. Here's a direct quote from the alleged June 6, 2011 transcript:
Father shall take down that website and shall never on any public media make any reference to the mother at all, nor any reference to the the relationship between mother and children, nor shall he make any reference to his children other than "happy birthday" or other significant school events. The father's girlfriend shall not be referred to as mother and father shall not in any way interfere with mother's relationship with her children.Mother will not consume any alcohol at all and will continue in alcohol treatment.
This matter is continued for a period of four months.
By her words in the alleged transcript, Judge Gibbons indicates that Allison Morelli is an alcoholic. Later you see:
NAME REDACTED: You know, in the course of having custody evaluation, it was discovered that I had developed a drinking problem as a result of gastric bypass surgery that I had in March of '09. And that after that point, you know, I suffered from addiction transference and, you know, it — I am certainly not going to minimize that today, that of course it impacted the children. But the children saw me intoxicated four times in the course of two years. And I am in treatment. I attend AA meetings.
To date I have not seen anybody disputing the legitimacy of this transcript. There's also a second alleged transcript of a June 14, 2011 hearing available. I'd like to have some reasonably easy way to quickly authenticate such documents with court records, but apparently the Pennsylvania courts don't publish such court records online.
The website had a lot to say about the "PEW" character over the years. "PEW" was alleged to be an emotional child abuser, harasser, abusive litigator, perjurer, frequent violator of court orders, and was suspected by Anthony and Misty of suffering from Borderline Personality Disorder.
If Allison Morelli didn't do such things, then why on earth would she be arguing that the site is about her? And if she did so such things, why on earth would she want the public to hear about it by publicly claiming the site is about her?
If Anthony and Misty believe that PEW behaved so abusively, regardless of who PEW is, those familiar with such destructive situations should be able to understand why they would have been motivated to write anonymously about such conflicts.
Later in the transcript, Gibbons talks about incarcerating the father if he does not follow her orders, apparently including the ones regarding the illegal restrictions on his free speech rights and the illegal orders made regarding his partner's website:
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Now that you have all of your AX.25, NET/ROM and ROSE interfaces configured and active, you should be able to make test calls.
The AX.25 Utilities package includes a program called `call' which is a split screen terminal program for AX.25, NET/ROM and ROSE.
A simple AX.25 call would look like:
/usr/bin/call radio VK2DAY via VK2SUT |
A simple NET/ROM call to a node with an alias of SUNBBS would look like:
/usr/bin/call netrom SUNBBS |
A simple ROSE call to HEARD at node 5050882960 would look like:
/usr/bin/call rose HEARD 5050882960 |
Note: you must tell call which port you wish to make the call on, as the same destination node might be reachable on any of the ports you have configured.
The call program is a line mode terminal program for making AX.25 calls. It recognizes lines that start with `˜' as command lines. The `˜.' command will close the connection.
Please refer to the man page in /usr/man for more information.
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I've been an active ham since I got my ticket in April 1977. I put a lot of effort into all of my antennas from day one. I am a firm believer in using matched resonant antennas.
I enjoy working DX. Most of the time, from the primary station I run 100 watts. With my array of antennas I have great results at that power level. If needed I will run the below pictured home brew amplifier.
Lately I've been operating more QRP portable then I have from the primary station. I find operating QRP to be fun and challenging. I've worked a lot of DX running only 5 watts with resonant wire antennas while sitting at a picnic table at my favorite park.
Primary Station Radios:
Kenwood TS 990S
The TS 990S is a nice addition to the shack. It was added in March of 2015. It's just loaded with features. On the left hand side of the picture is the 8 button remote keypad I made for keying the memories.
You can order one from the UK but it's super easy to make one and the cost is about $20 for material. The choice of getting quality buttons was the hardest thing. I got mine from All Electronics.
The Bencher BY-2 paddles are for the TS 990S.
The Kenwood SM 220 monitor scope shown on the left is a key component. If my amp is being used, the monitor scope is on. I watch the trapezoid while transmitting. If the amp is loaded properly I will get a perfect trapezoid. It also makes tuning the amp a lot easier then using a watt meter. Meters are dampened but the scope display is not. The watt meter is only used to show my power out level once the amp is tuned.
Icom IC 705 is on the right hand side of the picture. I have always enjoyed QRP and have tried numerous QRP radios.
I also have an Elecraft KPA500 inline with the Kenwood TS590SG not shown. I have not had any problems running 500 watts, in contest conditions, out of the little Elecraft solid state amp.
Home Brew Amp:
Pictured is my home brew amplifier that uses a single 3CX1000A7 tube in grounded grid. This tube is no longer made but is one of the smallest tubes that can be rebuilt. My low voltage power supply runs 2800 volts key down. At 80 watts of drive power the amp will easily produce 1500 watts out. My higher voltage power supply runs about 3300 volts key down and the amp will easily supply 1500 watts out with much less drive power. I tried to keep the Q of the Pi-L tank system around 12. The amp will cover 10 to 160 meters and has tuned inputs. It will cover the WARC bands by putting the tuned input switch in the bypass position and using the tuner in the radio to couple the amp. The plate dissipation of the tube is rated at 1000 watts. With extra cooling the plate dissipation can be as high as 1500 watts, as per Eimac specs.
The 3CX1000A7 is an old but interesting tube. It's kind of a cross between an 8877 and a 3-1000Z tube. It was developed before the 8877. It looks something like an 8877 but uses a thoriated tungsten filament like the 3-1000Z uses. It is a directly heated cathode, like the 3-1000Z so the tube is instant on, no waiting for the filament to heat up like the 8877.
If cooled properly the tube can easily deliver over 2000 watts in grounded grid class AB2. I run my amp around 1200 to 1300 watts out. You'll never see the difference between 1200 watts and 1500 watts, so why bother? At that power level the tube will last longer and everything runs cooler.
10 to 160 meter 3CX1000A7 Home Brew GG Amplifier
(1500 watts output power, all modes)
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Comcast Newsmakers interviewed Nancy Ware, the Director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA).
Please see http://media.csosa.gov for a full list of CSOSA radio and television shows. See the main CSOSA website at http://www.csosa.gov .
The transcript is available at http://media.csosa.gov/podcast/transcripts/2014/11/comcast-interview-nancy-ware/ .
Director Nancy M. Ware serves as the Agency Director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia (CSOSA). In that capacity she leads the agency's 800 federal employees in providing community supervision for over 12,000 adults on probation, parole, and supervised release in the District of Columbia.
Nancy Ware has over three decades experience in the management and administration of juvenile and adult criminal justice programs on the local, state and national level.
Prior to assuming leadership of CSOSA, Ms. Ware guided the Agency's compliance with the Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010 (GPRA), focusing on strategic planning and performance measurement.
Her organizational experience includes serving as the first Executive Director of the DC Criminal Justice Coordinating Council (CJCC), where for eight years she developed the infrastructure to promote collaboration between the District of Columbia government and the executive and judicial branches of the federal government on critical public safety issues.
One of Ms. Ware's proudest accomplishments at the CJCC was the development of the technical capability to support criminal justice information sharing among CJCC member agencies. Ms. Ware's other professional experience includes serving as Director of Technical Assistance and Training for the Department of Justice's Weed and Seed Program and as Director of National Programs for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs. Early in her career she also served as Executive Director of the Rainbow Coalition, Executive Director of the Citizenship Education Fund and Executive Director of the District of Columbia Mayor's Youth Initiatives Office.
Nancy Ware is a native Washingtonian who has devoted her professional career to public service and has spent the last several years working to ensure that the nation's capital remains safe for residents, workers and visitors, and that juveniles and adults who have become involved in the criminal justice system are provided opportunities to contribute and thrive.
Ms. Ware holds a Bachelor's and Master's degree from Howard University.


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Year: 1998
Runtime: 81 min
Simba and Nala have a daughter, Kiara. Timon and Pumbaa are assigned to be her babysitters, but she easily escapes their care and ventures into the forbidden lands. There she meets a lion cub named Kovu and they become friends. What she and her parents do not know is that Kovu is the son of Zira - a banished follower of the now-dead Scar. She plans to raise Kovu to overthrow Simba and become the king of the Pride Lands. This tests not only Kiara and Kovu's relationship as they mature, but Simba's relationship with his daughter.
Genre Animation, Adventure, Family
Director Darrell Rooney, Rob LaDuca(co-director)
Actors Matthew Broderick, Neve Campbell, Andy Dick, Robert Guillaume
Actors Rowan Atkinson, Matthew Broderick, Niketa Calame, Jim Cummings


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Thoughts on Software Development
A few years ago, After observing some notable failures, I just had to write about How to Crash and Burn your Java project.
Lately I've seen some more failures brewing, so in the same vein I offer What to do when the Estimate is Wrong.
More of my thoughts are in my books Software Craftsmanship and Questioning Extreme Programming. There are also many papers and articles that I have written been written over the years, and some of these topics have been elaborated into talks.
Services Offered
As well as providing OO Mentoring , I offer a complete range of training courses, including Alistair Cockburn's Writing Effective Use Cases course.
Other services offered include Quality Assurance, Software Process Improvement, Object Transitioning Services and Distributed Object Systems Design & Development
Recently I've been doing a lot of work with Ruby to script applications and do data mining against existing databases. Given the way that Ruby has matured over the past few years it is now a very effective means for implementing quite complex functionality in reasonable time. Rails has also proven to be an interesting environment to work in, especially when using TextMate.
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Cialis (tadalafil) relaxes muscles and increases blood flow to particular areas of the body.
Cialis (tadalafil) may also be used for purposes other than those listed in this medication guide.
What should I discuss with my doctor before taking Cialis (tadalafil)?
Do not take Cialis (tadalafil) if you are also using a nitrate drug for chest pain or heart problems. This includes nitroglycerin (Nitrostat, Nitrolingual, Nitro-Dur, Nitro-Bid, and others), isosorbide dinitrate (Dilatrate-SR, Isordil, Sorbitrate), and isosorbide mononitrate (Imdur, ISMO, Monoket). Nitrates are also found in some recreational drugs such as amyl nitrate or nitrite ("poppers"). Taking tadalafil with a nitrate medicine can cause a serious decrease in blood pressure, leading to fainting, stroke, or heart attack.
A small number of patients have had a sudden loss of eyesight after taking tadalafil. This type of vision loss is caused by decreased blood flow to the optic nerve of the eye. It is not clear whether tadalafil is the actual cause of such vision loss. Sudden vision loss with tadalafil use has occurred most often in people with heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or certain pre-existing eye problems, and in those who smoke or are over 50 years old.
Before taking Cialis (tadalafil), tell your doctor if you have:
heart disease or heart rhythm problems;
a recent history of heart attack (within the past 90 days);
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angina (chest pain);
high or low blood pressure;
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a blood cell disorder such as sickle cell anemia, multiple myeloma, or leukemia;
a bleeding disorder such as hemophilia;
a stomach ulcer;
retinitis pigmentosa (an inherited condition of the eye);
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if you have been told you should not have sexual intercourse for health reasons.
If you have any of these conditions, you may not be able to use tadalafil or you may need a dosage adjustment or special tests during treatment.
FDA pregnancy category B: Although tadalafil is not for use in women, this medication is not expected to be harmful to an unborn baby. Do not use tadalafil without telling your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant during treatment.
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You may need a lower dose of this medication if you are older than 65. Follow your doctor's instructions.
How should I take Cialis (tadalafil)?
Take each dose with a full glass of water.
Avoid taking High-fat food before taking Cialis as it may cause the medicine to take more time to start working.
Tadalafil is usually taken only when needed, 30 – 60 minutes before sexual activity. The medication can help achieve an erection when sexual stimulation occurs. An erection will not occur just by taking a pill.
Do not take tadalafil more than once a day. Allow 24 hours to pass between doses.
Store this medication at room temperature away from moisture and heat.
What happens if I miss a dose?
Since tadalafil is used as needed, you are not likely to be on a dosing schedule.
What happens if I overdose?
Seek emergency medical attention if you think you have used too much of this medicine.
Symptoms of a tadalafil overdose may include chest pain, nausea, irregular heartbeat, and feeling light-headed or fainting.
What should I avoid while taking tadalafil?
Avoid drinking alcohol, which can increase some of the side effects of tadalafil.
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice may interact with tadalafil. Discuss the use of grapefruit products with your doctor. Do not increase or decrease the amount of grapefruit products in your diet without first talking to your doctor.
Do not use any other drug to treat impotence, such as alprostadil (Caverject, Muse, Edex) or yohimbine (Yocon, Yodoxin, others), unless your doctor tells you to.
What are the possible side effects of tadalafil?
If you become dizzy or nauseated, or have pain, numbness, or tingling in your chest, arms, neck, or jaw during sexual activity, stop and call your doctor right away. You could be having a serious side effect of tadalafil.
Stop using tadalafil and get emergency medical help if you have sudden vision loss.
Get emergency medical help if you have any of these signs of an allergic reaction: hives; difficulty breathing; swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Stop using tadalafil and call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects:
chest pain or heavy feeling, pain spreading to the arm or shoulder, nausea, sweating, general ill feeling;
irregular heartbeat;
swelling in your hands, ankles, or feet;
shortness of breath;
vision changes;
feeling light-headed, fainting; or
penis erection that is painful or lasts 4 hours or longer.
Continue taking tadalafil and talk with your doctor if you have any of these less serious side effects:
warmth or redness in your face, neck, or chest;
stuffy nose;
upset stomach; or
back pain.
Side effects other than those listed here may also occur. Talk to your doctor about any side effect that seems unusual or that is especially bothersome.
What drug(s) may interact with Cialis (tadalafil)?
Do not take tadalafil if you are taking the following medications:
nitroglycerin-type drugs for the heart or chest pain such as amyl nitrite, isosorbide dinitrate, isosorbide mononitrate, nitroglycerin, even if these are only taken occasionally
Cialis (tadalafil) may also interact with the following medications:
alpha blockers, such as alfuzosin (UroXatral), doxazosin (Cardura), prazosin (Minipress), or terazosin (Hytrin), used to treat high blood pressure or an enlarged prostate.
certain antibiotics such as clarithromycin, erythromycin, troleandomycin
certain drugs used for seizures such as carbamazepine, phenytoin, and phenobarbital
grapefruit juice
medicines for fungal infections (fluconazole, itraconazole, ketoconazole, voriconazole)
certain medicines for the treatment of HIV infection or AIDS
rifabutin, rifampin or rifapentine
some drugs for treating depression, anxiety or other mood problems (examples: fluoxetine, fluvoxamine, nefazodone)
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Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matter, Frankenstein assembles a human being from stolen body parts but; upon bringing it to life, he recoils in horror at the creature's hideousness. Tormented by isolation and loneliness, the once-innocent creature turns to evil and unleashes a campaign of murderous revenge against his creator, Frankenstein. Frankenstein, an instant bestseller and an important ancestor of both the horror and science fiction genres, not only tells a terrifying story, but also raises profound, disturbing questions about the very nature of life and the place of humankind within the cosmos: What does it mean to be human? What responsibilities do we have to each other? How far can we go in tampering with Nature? In our age, filled with news of organ donation genetic engineering, and bio-terrorism, these questions are more relevant than ever.


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Yesterday I had a flat tire on the highway, so I eased my car over to the shoulder of the road, carefully got out of the car and opened the trunk.
I took out two cardboard men, unfolded them and stood them at the rear of my car facing oncoming traffic. They look so life-like you wouldn't believe it! They are in trench coats, exposing their nude bodies and private parts to the approaching drivers.
I started to change my tire, and to my surprise, cars started slowing down looking at my life-like men. And of course, traffic started backing up. Everybody was tooting their horns and waving like crazy.
It wasn't long before an OPP pulled up behind me. He got out of his car and started walking towards me. I could tell he was not a happy camper! "What's going on here?"
"My car has a flat tire," I said calmly.
"Well, what the hell are those obscene cardboard men doing here by the road?"
I told him, "Hello-o-o-o, those are my emergency flashers."


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Now that Halloween 2015 is here it's time to find the best, the scariest, and the biggest over the top haunted houses and Halloween attractions in America. Prepare yourself for the biggest screaming season in Haunted history. Haunted House owners and operators have created attractions that are so detailed they remove you from the realm of reality and plunge you into a haunted World you never knew you could experience. So finally, we present you some of the best traditional haunted houses, real haunted houses, haunted hayrides, corn mazes and more. If it's an attraction opening during the Halloween season, you'll find it here on www.hauntworld.com. Now sit back for the best 15 haunted houses in America for 2015. Hauntworld.com was the first website and publication to produce a Top 10, Top 13 or Top 31 haunted house list to help America find attractions. Now many websites and publications produce such lists, but there is only ONE website that helps you find every haunted attraction in the nation... www.hauntworld.com. We invite you to find a haunted house near you and subscribe to our printed Haunted House Magazine www.HauntedHouseMagazine.com, plus join our Facebook Page or join our Haunted House Forums at forum.hauntworld.com/. Have the scariest Halloween ever with the help from your friends at www.hauntworld.com
1. Haunted Overload - Lee, New Hampshire - www.hauntedoverload.com: Haunted Overload is an original out door haunt in a class of its own. It blends astounding handmade sets, gigantic monsters and spellbinding costumes with spectacular sound and lighting to create the Ultimate Halloween Experience. The vibrant, organic design, set in an eerie dark New England forest, creates an assault of the senses for its patrons. Every year brings new terrors to life, as the crew work tirelessly to add to an already amazing attraction. Haunted Overload was also crowned America's scariest haunt by ABC's Great Halloween Fright Fight. The $50,000 first prize was donated in full to the Cocheco Valley Humane Society, a local animal rescue to whom the attraction annually donates a percentage of its profits. Haunted Overload is America's best haunted house because it embodies everything Halloween with its massive oversized props, unique creativity and simply put Haunted Overload just screams HALLOWEEN.
2. Headless Horseman's Hayrides and Haunted Houses - Ulster Park, New York - www.headlesshorseman.com: Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses is a unique, immersive experience with a theme that changes each Halloween season. Ten attractions featuring: a theatrical one-mile hayride, corn maze, 7 haunted attractions which include: The Lunar Motel, Glutton's Diner & Slaughter House, Slither's Pet Shop, Dark Harvest Corn Maze, Night Shade Nursery & Greenhouse, Dr. Dark's Black Spider Sideshow, The Feeding, Dahlia Blood's Manor, with skilled stunt actors and a magic-illusion side show starring Ryan Dutcher. New for 2015 the creators of Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses are proud to present a new concept of interactive, immersive entertainment. A real life escape experience "The Great Room Escape". Headless Horseman continually evolves with unusual monsters, amazing illusions, stunning special fx, unique and original costumes, makeup, animations and frightening detail created by our sister company American Made Monster Studios. Only the courageous will survive the intense encounters with the infamous Headless Horseman.
3. The 13th Gate - Baton Rouge Louisiana - www.13thgate.com: The 13th Gate is all about Extreme Ultra-Realism. The artists behind the massive dark attraction are experts at blurring the lines between horror and reality, and guests frequently wonder between screams whether what they are experiencing is real or not. The Attraction's level of detail, set design, and effects combined with their impressive actors and incredible makeup effects can only be compared to a Hollywood movie. The attraction features a real snake-infested Louisiana Swamp, nightly voodoo shows, claustrophobic cellars, hidden subterranean passages and even a prehistoric ice cave all seamlessly woven together and nothing short of masterful. The haunted house is constantly changing and growing from year to year so guests never know what to expect around the next terrifying corner. If that wasn't enough, adjacent to the 13th Gate is their secondary attraction, Necropolis Haunted Cemetery. This 40,000 sq. ft. outdoor New Orleans style cemetery has over 400 zombie-infested crypts and mausoleums that guests must explore. Upon entering the attraction, visitors are sent 13 steps down an open grave into dark underground catacombs where they must find an alternate escape up and out into the graveyard where the terror continues! 13th Gate Haunted House is one of the Scariest, most elaborate haunted houses in the country.
4. The Dent Schoolhouse - Cincinnati, Ohio - www.frightsite.com: The Dent Schoolhouse is one of the most tightly themed haunted attractions in the US and takes place in an actual haunted schoolhouse. Re-live the legend of a murderous Janitor who is said to still haunt the halls of the old schoolhouse. Jammed with Hollywood styles sets, animatronics, and award winning makeup, The Dent Schoolhouse has made it an easy choice one of the top haunts on Haunworld.com's list. It's like hopping into a real horror movie that you get to take part in. Amazing set design brings your childhood memories of going back to school to a whole new level of fear and beyond. Who would want to conjure up the fear of an old teacher, principle or gym teacher trying to take your soul to the underworld? Visit the Dent Schoolhouse and find out! What makes the Dent Schoolhouse so scary is the real old abandoned schoolhouse it doesn't get any more real or scary.
5. Netherworld - Atlanta, Georgia - www.fearworld.com: NETHERWORLD Haunted House is a self-guided, dark attraction known for its over-the-top special effects, intense make-up, elaborate costuming, skilled stunt actors, unique monsters, unusual themes and chilling detail! To put it simply NETHERWORLD is the total package - an extremely high quality immersive event that merges SCARY, FUN and COOL into a safe environment. More importantly NETHERWORLD is ever changing - coming up with new effects, scares, characters and story lines every Halloween season, while still retaining the Halloween feel that brings back guests year after year! In 2015 Netherowrld presents two new terrifying haunts sure to melt your mind, THE ROTTING in which dark spirits released from the NETHERWORLD create a supernatural plague and VAULT 13 Unearthed, a secret base buried deep within the earth unsealed by an unknown force! New effects and features include a massive over the top elevator simulator, an attacking giant robot, A huge variety of new illusions and ghost effects, massive new giant monsters seen nowhere else, an alien lab with an animatronic elder thing, new stunts, new sets, armies of new costumes and creatures, an 18 foot tall multi-path arena, a completely re designed cue line and a series of massive new outdoor facades for starters!
6. 13th Floor - San Antonio, Texas - www.13thfloorsanantonio.com: This haunts creative and quality really sets us apart. 13th Floor features dynamic and interactive scares as well as continual improvements to the show including cutting edge tech and interacting animatronics. This Halloween season, your nightmares will become a reality, when the creators of the 13th Floor Haunted House return with one of the smartest, safest and most dynamic, theatrical, high-tech and bone-chilling attractions in San Antonio. Favorite icons from years past will roam the halls of the haunted house, accompanied with new terrifying faces from first-time attractions Burial Ground and Into the Void. 13th Floor feartures all new haunts in 2015 including 'Burial Ground' where a hotel manager whose basement has been tunneled out to make room for the remains of the outcast experiments and victims of those who reside in the upstairs mansion as part of the "secret society." If you're lucky enough to make it through the Burial Ground and find the secret passage, you'll make it Into the Void. There, you'll come face-to-face with the newest 13th floor icon, Prophet, in all his bald, slimy, and bloody glory.
7. Bennett's Curse - Baltimore, Maryland - www.bennettscurse.com: The legendary Bennett's Curse Haunted Attraction, now in their new location for 2015 in the shadows of M&T Bank Stadium Baltimore, MD is an assault to the senses. Over 40,000 scare feet awaits thrill seekers looking for the very best in Haunting entertainment! Known for its incredible array of giant monsters, skillfully themed shows, and an over the top team of movie quality costumed monsters, Bennett's Curse has reached a level only a handful of haunts can claim. This year, experience even more fear, with the addition of the all-new show "Legends of Halloween"! Four amazing shows at one location under one roof, come experience the best Haunted attraction in the Mid-Atlantic and one of the best in the world! Bennetts's Curse is one of the best haunted houses in America because of the unique monsters, giant animations, and over the top monsters who roam, lurking and seeking souls!
8. Erebus - Pontiac, Michigan - www.hauntedpontiac.com: Erebus is located in the heart of the haunted attraction capital of the world. This means competition is fierce, which forces Erebus to be unique and different. With staff working year-round Erebus Haunted Attraction's engineers create innovative designs showcasing state-of-the-art special effects. 95% of the props are designed and fabricated in-house... you won't see anything like this anywhere else! Erebus invades your comfort zone with creatures that will bite you, grab you, and land on top of you and even bury you alive! How long can you hold your breath?! New this year, the Dungeon of Dread filled with unnerving, tormented souls that are sure to make your blood run cold. And the Undead Dolls Quarter, where toys that once filled the dreams of children are now a living nightmare for adults! Edward and James Terebus have spent three and a half decades plotting terror that assaults all five of your mortal senses. Opened in 2000, they have fortified Erebus as their empire in Downtown Pontiac. Named after the Greek god of primordial darkness, Erebus is a four-story, half mile journey to the center of your worst fears. Fun fact: .since the Grand Opening, 7,092 people have chickened out (not made it all the way through) and 912 is the running total for wetters, pukers, and fainters according to the official Wimp-Out Scoreboard! Are you next?
9. The Bates Motel - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - www.thebatesmotel.com: The Bates Motel celebrates 25 Years of Fear! This high action, haunted attraction theme park includes their famous, 25 minute, heart pounding, haunted hayride through the dark forests of Arasapha Farm, filled with high tech animatronics, 26 huge, Hollywood quality sets, 75 actors, and more pyrotechnics than a rock concert. The Cornfield haunted trail, takes you back in time as you walk through the tall corn, and enter ghost towns, graveyards, the slaughter house, and other full scale sets. With over 25 actors in full custom makeup and costumes, and long, dark corridors, this event is sure to send shivers up your spine. The cornerstone of this trilogy of terror is the Bates Motel. A huge Victorian mansion filled with computer controlled animatronics, digital sound and lighting, amazingly detailed rooms and top quality actors make this event one you will always remember. All three events boast custom digital soundtracks, computer controlled animatronics, DMX lighting and fog, and a host of professional actors. Consistently ranked as one of the best attractions in the country, The Bates Motel is one show you won't want to miss! Located only minutes from Philadelphia, Wilmington and the Main Line, it won't cost you an arm and leg to get there.
10. The Darkness - St. Louis, Missouri - www.scarefest.com: The Darkness is considered by some to be the very best haunted house in America because it features a combination of amazing special fx, animations, and incredible Hollywood set design. The Darkness features over the top one of a kind scream fx that impact an entire groups at the same time such as massive falling walls, moving floors, giant saws and more. The Darkness also features several stunt actors who fly across the top of the customers or leap down at them then disappear. The Darkness also features the World famous Terror Visions in 3D where crazed clowns lurk around every corner. The Darkness also has a massive outdoor scream zone, animated singing bands, large movie screens showing horror movies, and a monster museum filled with Hollywood memorabilia. The Darkness is also host to the entire haunted house industry each year for the annual Haunted House tradeshow, and serves as an inspiration to haunters across the World. More haunted house owners have toured The Darkness than any other haunted attraction in America. If you dare enter The Darkness prey you see daylight before your soul is consumed by the death which dwells inside its walls.
11. Cutting Edge Haunted House - Fort Worth, Texas - www.cuttingedgehauntedhouse.com: What if there was a show that was exciting, terrifying, electrifying, entertaining and chilling? A show that built your anticipation of excitement actually from the moment you began to approach it. The location seems like any other old building, its massive structure is dark and decrepit. But unlike most old buildings, this one has a profusion of search lights mounted on its roof as well as a colossal 50' Gargoyle holding vigil for almost two months out of the year. The expectation of The Cutting Edge Haunted House, "3X Guinness World Record Winner," starts your heart racing from miles away. You can feel the excitement building just pulling into the parking lot. Built in an old abandoned Meat Packing Plant in the lower east side of an area known as the "Hells Half Acre" district. The structure was built more than 100 years ago during Fort Worth's booming cattle era and still houses the original meat hooks and conveyor system used during the meat packing process. The image of the bldg alone is enough to make you shiver. As you arrive, the atmosphere is thick with music, entertainment and the anticipation of the dark and forboding journey waiting just beyond the Giant Skull Entrance. Bring your courage and someone to hold on to because you are about to brave an "experience you can only hope to forget". This adventure takes almost an hour to complete and has been referred to as "the longest adrenaline rush money can buy".
12. Kersey Valley Spookywoods - Greensboro, North Carolina - www.spookywoods.com: Kersey Valley Spookywoods celebrates 30 years in the business of fear in 2015. What started out as a small haunt has exploded into 60 acres of year round entertainment? Day time attractions include the massive corn maze with educational field trips for schools, jumping pillows, bungee trampolines, cow trains, tram rides, tree house village, dinosaur discovery pit and pumpkin patch. Spookywoods is more than just a haunted house with everything from ziplines to an all new 3 level high ropes challenge course. New for 2015 are the Escape rooms and a new 3 story Haunted Manor. The haunted manor sends guests into a 50,000 square foot haunted maze featuring monsters, ghouls and zombies. Over 150 original costumed characters reside in movie quality sets throughout Spookywoods just waiting to make you scream. Kersey Valley Spookywoods is one of America's best Screamparks because they offer everything from WORLD class SCREAMS to everything a family would want from a fall themed attraction.
13. House of Torment - Chicago, Illinois - www.thehouseoftormentchicago.com: The nationally recognized House of Torment comes to Chicago! House of Torment introduces a new brand of fear in Chicago this Halloween Season! One of the biggest, baddest haunted house experiences in the country is finally in Chicago to chill, thrill, and horrify you. This Hollywood quality haunt features terrifying monsters and tormented souls from the underworld that are ready to horrify Chicago this Halloween.The legendary House of Torment, a multilayered psychological thriller, is more like a trip through a modern horror movie than just a haunted house with detailed sets, iconic characters and chilling environments. As you make your way through this epic haunted house, don't be surprised if the sets and characters begin to seem more real than your most vivid nightmares. This Halloween SCREAMS blow through the Windy City who will survive?
14. Hex House - Tulsa, Oklahoma - www.tulsahexhouse.com: When you think of Oklahoma, you probably don't instantly think of haunted attractions, but Tulsa, Oklahoma happens to be the home of one of the nation's most intense hidden gems: The Hex House. The Hex House is based on a true story involving of one of Tulsa's most notorious residents: Carol Ann Smith. It's a true tale of mystery, murder, and the occult from Tulsa's dark past and a real sense of terror permeates every inch of every eerily lit corridor and ghastly room in Oklahoma's premier haunted attraction. The Hex House is truly an original, featuring unique set designs and one-of-a-kind scares manufactured in-house. The scares come in all forms and from all angles, providing a truly unnerving and frightening experience. A trip through Carol Ann Smith's "Hex House" is a horrifying descent into one of the darkest recesses of the human mind… and also one of the best haunted house experiences you can dare to take this Halloween season. If you like your haunts gritty, intense, unique, and loaded with fright, then the Hex House is certainly one you'll want to add to your bucket list. It will undoubtedly leave you… hexed.
15. Fear Experience - Cleveland, Ohio - www.thefearexperience.com: Cleveland has suffered thru the horrors of failure by its sports teams and now they are haunted by the Fear Experience one of America's best and certainly Cleveland, Ohio's biggest, best and scariest haunted house. The Fear Experience has grown way beyond just a haunt adding zombie laser tag, where the guests are allowed to hunt and kill zombies. The Fear Experience also features amazing set design, animations, and highly skilled professional actors who present an amazing interactive experience like nothing Cleveland has ever seen before. Every season Fear Experience expands their haunted house adding new attractions such as this year adding BioTeck Solutions a trip thru a genetic research lab filled with monsters. Fear Experience also features other interactive haunts including Centralia County Fair an abandoned carnival, District 13, and The Estate a haunted mansion. Cleveland has something new to make them scream!