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Home to beautiful beaches, mysterious swamplands, subtropical swamplands and unique wildlife, Florida is seen as a vacation destination for most who don't live within its borders. The Sunshine State may be famed for its sandy shores as well as the wild nightlife of Miami and antics of Spring Breakers, but there is much more to this state than that. Beyond the beaches, there is an entirely new Florida to explore.
Ashley's Restaurant
Ashley's backs up to the railroad in Rockledge and before a restaurant was ever here, it was the location of the local railroad station. The railroad station burned down sometime prior to the 1930s, at which time Jack's Tavern was opened here. Built in the Tudor style, the restaurant boasted $1 steaks and the first jukebox in Brevard County. Prohibition had been repealed in 1932, and when the restaurant opened in 1933, it became the place for locals to get now legal liquor.
In 1934, the body of 19-year-old Ethel Allen was discovered nude, burned and mutilated in the Indian River in Eau Gallie by a motorist who discovered buzzards flocking around it. Ethel had left Sunday in the company of her friend Bill Wilson, who was driving her to visit her mother in Wacuchula. The pair had last been seen together at the City Point Inn that night in Rockledge that night.
Hauntings here aren't limited to the ladies room. Items get tossed around the restaurant a lot from baskets of bread to papers and iced tea glasses. Some people feel as though they have been pushed by an invisible force while walking up or down the stairs. Others have felt as though they are being choked and a general sense of doom is said to wash over some in the area. One psychic who came to investigate the restaurant reported seeing an image of a young woman covered in blood, staggering down the stairs used primarily by staff. Some believe Ethel is not the only ghost here.
Bay Street Theatre
A focal point of Eustis' historic district, the Bay Street Theatre is now a popular playhouse with nearly 300 seats and plenty of great local entertainment. From plays to musical performances to community events, the historic playhouse has managed to survive changes in entertainment tastes for nearly 100 years. Celebrating its centennial in 2016, the current actors belonging to the Bay Street Players aren't the only ones said to tread the boards here. Ghostly activity has been reported since this playhouse was reopened in the late 1900s.
By the 1970s, small town theaters were dying out and the State Theatre shut its doors in 1974. The following year, a small group of theater lovers were looking for a place to hold live performances in Eustis and discovered the abandoned theater. They raised enough money to buy it and two neighboring buildings in 1977 and then began work on renovating the theater. Volunteers lovingly restored the old playhouse, allowing for more seating and modernizing the lobby and restrooms.
While thespians do have a reputation as a superstitious lot, there have been plenty of reports of strange things happening at this theater. On several occasions, the switch board for sound and lighting have turned on lights and noises during rehearsals despite the fact that no one is in the control room. The area under the stage is cold no matter the time of year and most people who work there will not go under it alone because of things that have been experienced there.
Biltmore Hotel
Real estate was a booming business in Florida in the 1920s as railroads and highways had opened up more of the state to visitors and wealthy tourists. Land developer George E. Merrick - the founder of the University of Miami - teamed up with Biltmore hotel magnate John McEntee Bowman in 1924 to develop a luxury hotel in Coral Gables. The $10-million Biltmore Hotel brought visitors to Miami to gape at its beautiful Giralda-inspired Tower, Spanish-style architecture, massive swimming pool, golf course, polo fields, tennis courts, country club and 400 luxurious rooms.
When World War II hit, the hotel was converted into a hospital for the Army and Air Force. Windows were sealed with concrete and linoleum covered the expensive floors. The University of Miami's School of Medicine began work here and the hotel remained a hospital for the Veteran's Administration until 1968. Local residents soon expressed a desire to return the hotel to its former glory.
Thomas "Fatty" Walsh was a New York mobster who was part of the Luciano crime family along with Dutch Schultz and Charles "Lucky" Luciano. After being quested in the murder of Arnold Rothstein in 1928, a man he was supposed to be guarding, Walsh headed for Florida. While in the Miami area, Walsh looked up an old friend, gambler Ed Wilson, who was staying on the hotel's thirteenth floor.
In the 1970s, a science fiction reading group met in the hotel and they recorded sounds on the thirteenth floor that sounded like a man being shot and screaming. In more recent years, a couple trying to get off on the hotel's fourth floor found the elevator taking them to a suite on the thirteenth. The elevator doors would not close until they stepped out into the foyer and then the doors abruptly closed behind them.
Two female ghosts are also spotted on some of the hotels upper floors. A young mother died here in the 1930s, jumping after her three-year-old son who had fallen out of the window of their tower room. Recordings in this area have yielded the voice of a woman sobbing and asking someone to help her baby. The other female ghost is the hotel's legendary "Woman in White" who is seen on one of the hotel's balcony. Caught in a love triangle during the days of Prohibition, the young woman threw herself off of the balcony of her hotel room after her husband caught her in the room with her lover.
Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp
Most communities envision their town founders as pilgrims seeking religious freedom, pioneers forging a life in a rough wilderness or colonists bringing civilization to a new land. The people of Cassadaga, however, think of psychics, mediums and spiritualists. Founded in 1894 and touted as the Psychic Capital of the World, this community is still home to numerous residents who believe they can contact the spirit world. With Spiritualist church services still held here and a phonebook full of certified mediums, it's no wonder Cassadaga has a reputation as being a place for spirits to come out and play.
Colby arrived in 1874 and identified an area outside Orange City as the place he had seen in his dream. At that point, it was called Blue Springs Landing, but Colby was able to get a charter for the property in 1894 and renamed it Cassadaga. After the formation of his Southern Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp Meeting Association, believers in spiritualism and mediums flocked to the 35-acre tract of land. Soon, additional acreage was acquired bringing the community to 57 acres.
Today, Cassadaga is still home to spiritualists though their numbers aren't as great as they once were. Of course, ghost hunters are once again being drawn to this psychic mecca. The town's hotel, the Cassadaga Hotel, is said to be haunted by the ghost of an Irish man named Arthur who died here. A fan of cigars, alcohol and female company, his presence is often felt in Room 22. He is often seen looking out of the window his room. He also occasionally taps people on the shoulder and many have captured him in photo and film.
Coral Castle
The story of the Coral Castle begins in Latvia with Edward Leedskalnin. In 1913, the 26-year-old Leedskalnin became engaged to Agnes Scuffs, who was ten years his junior. Just one day before their wedding, Agnes called things off, leaving Leedskalnin completely heartbroken. He came to America and decided to built a monument to Agnes and their lost love. Suffering from tuberculosis, Leedskalnin claimed he was healed by magnets and those same magnets helped him build the magnificent structure that he would name Rock Gate Park.
The castle was opened as a tourist attraction around 1952 and then sold to its current owner, Coral Castle, Inc., for $175,000 in 1981. The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and is now operated under the name Coral Castle because of the oolite and oolitic limestone used in its construction. The many stones here are fastened together without mortar and it has even survived a direct hit by Hurricane Andrew in 1992 without any damage.
Cuban Club
From 1869 to the turn of the century, many cigar manufacturers moved their operations to Key West and Tampa to get away from the political disruption caused by the fight for Cuban independence from Spain. Cigar workers followed the factory owners and Tampa's Ybor City was founded by Vincente Martinez Ybor in 1885 to house workers in his cigar factories. By 1900, Tampa had the largest population of Cuban expatriates in the state. Cubans who visited relatives in Tampa soon brought back the ideals of American independence and a free market economy back home.
Throughout the years, the patio hosted boxing matches between famous Cuban athletes while the big bands of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey played alongside entertainers like Benny More and Celia Cruz in the ballroom. Lavish weddings, New Years' Eve parties and dances were held in the club, and Tampa residents continue to celebrate events here today. When the club's fortunes began to wane in the 1960, a group of local individuals banded together to preserve the historic landmark, renovating the building in 1992.
Two other apparitions have also been spotted in various areas the club, though their identities still remain a mystery. The first is a young woman in a white dress with distinct red heels who seen walking up the stairs while the spirit of a young boy is often spied playing with a ball in the area that used to be the club's pool. A piano in one of the rooms is known to play by itself and the moans and wails of a woman can be heard in certain areas of the club. Many photographers have also captured strange orbs when taking photos here.
Fort East Martello Museum
The Florida Keys are the state's southernmost point and the most famous of these islands is Key West. A place where life seems like a vacation for many residents, Key West has become a popular tourist destination and has a unique history revolving around its remote location. East Fort Martello is now a museum dedicated to the island's unique history but began life as a Civil War fort. While Florida was part of the Confederacy, Key West remained in Union hands.
Robert the Doll was once owned by Key West author and painter Robert Eugene Otto. The handmade doll in a sailor suit was with Otto from childhood. Family members said that voodoo played a role in Otto's formative years and as a child, Otto would blame any misbehavior on the doll. During Otto's life and after his death in 1974, strange happenings were reported surrounding the doll. Tenants of Otto's former house reported hearing strange footsteps coming from the attic where the doll was store. A plumber called to make repairs heard strange giggling and looked to find the doll had moved across the room. No one else was in the room with him. Others reported that the doll's facial expressions would change when people were having conversations around him, as if the doll was following along.
Kenilworth Lodge
Founded in 1912, the city of Sebring was named after its developer George E. Sebring, a pottery manufacturer from Ohio. Now the seat of Highlands County, Sebring is home to one of the area's most historic hotels. Kenilworth Lodge has been operating since 1916 when it was built at George E. Sebring's request. Still operational, the Mediterranean Revival style hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000, and remains one of the most beautiful buildings in the area.
Kenilworth was designed to appeal to the wealthy tourists who frequented Florida's grand resort hotels. It offered a championship golf course, orange grove and lakefront beach for guests. A formal garden, bathing beach and sailing on the lake were popular activities among early guests. Sebring sold the hotel in 1923 to the Connelly Hotel syndicate in New York, but Sebring still remained involved in the hotel. He was present in 1924 when the hotel hosted a convention of governors from across the country.
The hotel's haunted reputation is just one of the reasons visitors are again flocking to Kenilworth Lodge with a regional convention for paranormal investigators one of the recent events it has hosted. One of the more well-known ghosts said to roam here is that of former manager George Parker, who died here in 1950. Loud noises and the sounds of drums being played are attributed to his spirit.
Kingsley Plantation
Zephaniah Kingsley was born in Bristol and then moved to colonial South Carolina to pursue a career as a shipping magnate and slave trader. He settled here in 1814 and purchased the land outright in 1817. He went on to settle several other plantations around Jacksonville and married a former slave named Anna Madgigine Jai. When the pair married in 1806, Anna was only 13 and Zephaniah was 41. He would officially free her five years later.
When Florida passed laws forbidding interracial marriage and preventing mixed-race children from inheriting property from their white fathers, Kingsley sent his four wives and children to Haiti, which was a free black republic. Two of his daughters had already married white planters in Florida. Kingsley soon joined his family in Haiti, selling his plantations to his nephew Beatty Gibbs in 1839. Kingsley died the following year and his wife Anna returned to Florida in 1846 to settle an inheritance dispute between her children and Kingsley's white relatives.
The Rollins family remained in the home until it was sold to private investors in 1923. These groups turned the plantation house into a headquarters while they built clubs for wealthy Jacksonville residents. These clubs went out of fashion quickly with the onset of the Great Depression and the Florida Park Service then acquired the plantation house, barn, slave quarters and other plantation sites. Restoration efforts began in the 1960s and the plantation became part of the Timucuan Ecological and Historic Preserve in 1988.
Others have heard the ghostly voices of old gospel hymns being sung around the slave quarters. Several visitors walking in the woods have also reported the sounds of other people moving around the woods when no one is there. While some just hear strange footsteps others have reported weeping and moaning coming from this area. Some say these are the ghosts of former slaves who Red Eyes keeps captive in the woods.
Olustee Battlefield
Brig. Gen. Seymour and his Union troops had been sent to the Olustee area from Hilton Head on a mission to secure Union enclaves and cut supply routes to Confederate troops. Additionally, they were charged with recruiting free blacks and slaves to fight for the Union cause. They had already seized several Confederate camps, liberated slaves and conducted other raids in the area, but had been charged with advancing deeper into Florida. In response, Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard had sent troops under Alfred H. Colquitt to help beef up Finnegan's troops already in the area.
The Florida Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy began raising funds in 1897 to place a monument on the site, which was completed and dedicated in 1912. The battlefield became the state's first historic site and served as a popular location for still-surviving Civil War veterans to hold reunions. The UDC operated the memorial until 1949 when the Florida Board of Parks and Historic Memorials took over. Today, the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park is part of the Florida EPA and Department of Parks and Recreation.
Pensacola Lighthouse
The lighthouse began life as the lightship Aurora Borealis that was moved here in 1823 from the mouth of the Mississippi River. The lighthouse was anchored behind Santa Rosa Island near the bay's entrance and stayed there for two years. In 1825, a 40-foot tall lighthouse was built on a bluff at the bay's south entrance, but it was partially obscured by trees, making it hard for some to see. The current tower was erected in 1858 on the north side of the bay entrance and was lit on Jan. 1, 1859.
By 1939, the lighthouse was running on electricity and the light was automated in 1965. The lighthouse tower and surrounding buildings, including the keepers house, were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The lighthouse is active for navigation, but tours have been available of it for decades. Since 2011, the Pensacola Lighthouse Association has been running tours and conducting maintenance on the lighthouse as well as allowing visitors to tour the keeper's quarters as a museum.
Pritchard House
The home belonged to James Pritchard, a native of New York City who lived in Missouri and served as a Confederate captain during the Civil War. He moved to Galveston after the war and there met and married Mary H. Boye in 1866. The couple moved to St. Louis and then to Titusville in 1876 where Pritchard organized the Indian River State Bank and served as its president in 1889. He also ran a local hardware store and was famed for having the first electrical generator in his home.
Since the home was purchased by the county and restored, strange occurrences have begun happening. Miss Lovie is said to have been very particular about who was allowed in her home, and now that the house is opened as a museum, her spirit is believed to be unhappy. Visitors have reported hearing disembodied voices, lights turning on and off by themselves and a grandfather clock that rings even though it is broken. The figure of a woman in a white dress has been seen looking out the bedroom window Miss Lovie once occupied. Long before the restoration on the home began, those who lived in Titusville often reported weird sensations as they walked or drove by the historic home.
St. Augustine
Many of the city's haunted places trace their histories back to the Spanish colonization of Florida. The Castilla de San Marcos dates back 300 years and has survived changes in ownership, storms and battles. The ghost of a Spanish soldier is said to haunt the edge of the fort while the dungeons have left visitors with a sense of unease or even sick to their stomachs. Several Native American prisoners perished here as did the wife of a Spanish officer.
St. Augustine has numerous haunted cemeteries, but the two most famous are its Huguenot and Tolomato. The Huguenot Cemetery across from the Old City Gate opened in 1821 for Protestants while the Tolomato across the street was for Catholics only. Both cemeteries are full dozens of yellow fever victims from an epidemic that swept through the city, including a judge whose spirit is said to be looking for the grave robbers that made off with his gold teeth. A little girl is also said to roam the two cemeteries.
Flagler College, a liberal arts college in St. Augustine, began life is a lavish resort built by Henry Morrison Flagler, a partner of oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller. Opened as the Ponce de Leon Hotel, this college is said to be haunted by various spirits from its resort days including Fllager, one of his wives, one of his mistresses and two former hotel guests. While this building is no longer a hotel, there are plenty of other ghostly places for guests in St. Augustine.
Visitors who don't want to explore St. Augustine's haunts on their own can sign up for one of the many ghost tours and walks the city offers. While these walks don't focus entirely on Old Town St. Augustine, a lot of local haunts are centered around this historic district. Those who don't want to walk around the city or ride in a normal bus can catch haunted tours offered via ship, trolley and hearse as well. With all this paranormal activity abounding, it's no wonder that St. Augustine is a ghost hunter's dream.


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It could easily have been just a talk about cities, one in a series of discussions, if it weren't for two enthusiastic producers, Urszula Sobczak and Wojtek Augustyniak, who decided to create a film project from it and inspire action.
The trigger was a personal experience. Urszula was living at the time when the first discussions started in a small town in the south of Germany. She was living there for almost 2 years and was missing the city a lot. "I didn't have any clue why. What was I missing about the city? Soon I realized it was the feeling of the city," says Urszula. So she shared this idea with the current co-producer of the project Wojtek Augustyniak, who has a great experience as video clip producer. The first step towards the Tender Metropolis was made.
Talks continued. The main topic was the citizens' experience. "This was IT. How to catch the imagination, memory or even physical sensation, when you walk down the street of the city? A short film seemed as an excellent form for such idea. It gives you a lot of opportunities to discover diverse city's conventions. By choosing this form we somehow mixed our love for the city and the love of video clips," explains Urszula. Tender Metropolis is a film project, inspired by Shakespearean motives, about two capital cities: Berlin and Warsaw. Warsaw and Berlin are capital cities in the heart of Europe, with a memory of political transformation and the World War II. Today, they are both modern metropolises.
Shakespeare lived in a capital. As an actor, director, theater shareholder, playwright as well as a resident of London, he created a world of people, places, and plots that are often a theatrical projection of his personal world of people, places and, perhaps, plots. It is also significant that Shakespeare, a poet of a city, used one of the principal forms of mass media of the late 16th century – live drama, which was addressed to the inhabitants of London. Tender Metropolis is a film journey through the experiences and actions of residents of the city, in which Shakespearean motives are used as mirrors, reflecting tension, rhythm or poetic elements into a film about modern Warsaw and Berlin.
The official closing of "Tender Metropolis Warsaw-Berlin" project is happening today with the premiere screening of two short films, "The Stone Soup" and "October" (A.K.A. "The Odyssey") in Warsaw. The films were shot by 20 Polish and German upcoming filmmakers based on the screenplays selected in a competition: "Stone Soup" written by Martin Olveros Heinze and "The Odyssey" by Mike Yousaf. During the project, the participants were working on the scripts, transforming them in accordance with their visions and ideas, and taking into account the feasibility of production. "The Stone Soup" was shot and supervised by Agnieszka Gomułka in Warsaw, while shooting of "October" took place in Ernst Thälmann park in Berlin under the direction of Roman Przylipiak.
When asked what would be her strongest impressions from the project so far, Urszula replies: We have developed this project during our discussions and meetings with filmmakers and artists. We were always looking for new connections and were open to sharing our idea. Yes, "sharing" is the key word that describes this project because one part of the Tender Metropolis comes from the German author Rolf Kemnitzer and his organization Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum Berlin e.V., another part from the filmmakers and project mentors Roman Przypilak and Agnieszka Gomułka, and the next part belongs to Boris Laaser, Sylvia Schwarz, Konrad Aksinowicz etc. Other partners include British Council, Służewski Dom Kultury, High Resolution Equipment, Kinoteka, Storylab Pro. There are so many great people who introduced their ideas into the Tender Metropolis and this is what keeps the project alive."
The project was carried out with the support of Warsaw authorities, as a part of the "25th anniversary of Warsaw and Berlin partnership" program. Next year the Tender Metropolis project will be focused on Budapest.
Tender Metropolis Warsaw – Berlin Official Premiere
When: December 17, 19:45
Where: Kinoteka, hall #2, Pałac Kultury i Nauki, Warsaw
Free entrance
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What the fuck is a homonym? It's something that sounds gay.
Note: this is only if the Mr. gets the job is he interview for right now. So, if he gets it? Do I up and quit this receptionist gig to work in a school even though it will be a pay cut but it gets my foot in the door the school systems where i have always wanted to work.or suck it up and keep going here until i graduate this may from college? and then try to find a job in my field (sociology)
Burn entire building to the ground, mow down survivors as they run out. If one live, despite shooting, make fucker your vice president. Is what is called in this country "moxie".
1. Which situation will result in the best total pay and benefits for your household?2. There are jobs in sociology?


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Cambodia's Angkor Wat a must-see
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — The biggest tourist attraction in Cambodia is Angkor Wat. Historians know it well. Non-historians will read that it's a "forest of temples." This is an accurate depiction, which means you could pretty much spend a week there if you want to see everything…everything being more than 200 temples.
You don't have to be an archaeologist, historian or geologist to enjoy Angkor Wat. We are none of the
above, and we enjoyed it. Is it a must-see in Cambodia? Absolutely, because it is so cool and finding "cool" places in the heat of Southeast Asia is always a great idea, even if that is a mixed metaphor.
About 12 kilometres (seven miles) north of the city, the "flagship" temple is usually the first stop. Where you go from Angkor Wat is up to you. Your level of interest will dictate that, unless you simply take a tour. If you do, the guides probably decide where you go because there is an agenda. If you want to set your own agenda, go by tuk-tuk.
Tuk-tuks are open-air carts pulled by motorbikes. If you want the air-conditioned comfort of a van, don't hire a tuk-tuk and — despite what they may say — don't expect tuk-tuk drivers to be professional guides who speak impeccable or sometimes even passable English.
We hired a tuk-tuk. Mr. Nary was our guy, for the day, and his English was good. For us, it was the right choice, the first of many you make when you visit Angkor Wat.
Here are some others:
• Tickets: Admission to Angkor Wat is $20 per person. A three-day pass costs $40, which gives you the option of going for short visits over three days, instead of marathon trips.
• Budget: Taking a tour in a van may cost $150 for two, which would include one-day admission. Our tuk-tuk cost $15 for the day and walking tour guides at each temple run about $10.
• Time: Your interest will dictate this. We visited five temples between 6:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., stopping for as long as two hours at one (Angkor Wat) and as little as 10 minutes at another (Chau Say Thevada).
• Sunrise: Unless it's raining (it was), almost every visitor wants to capture the sun rising behind the main temple, a photo so in demand that there's a marked off and well-worn section for tripods to be set up. Sunrise, by the way, is just after 5:30.
• Angkor Wat Temple: It's on three levels. This is not for the faint of heart, nor faint of step. The walk from where the tuk-tuks wait is close to half a mile and there's climbing to every level, each with four towers, the third level with "the top of the mountain in the middle." Entry to the third level means taking a steep staircase of 47 steps and there is always a line-up (note: the 47 steps are just as steep coming down). Because they're "ruins", these temples are not totally wheelchair accessible and you need to be able to climb those stairs, and children under 12 don't qualify. The climb is worth the wait and the vertical walk, and there are many horizontal walks reaching into the forest from the temple that lead to more buildings you would otherwise never see.
• Other temples: Aside from the main one, three others were recommended to us and a fourth was Mr.
Nary's choice. At Bayon, we found the architecture fascinating from the outside — our uneducated view was it almost looked Mayan — and the inside suffocating with small rooms and hundreds of people trying to get through them. At Elephant Terrace, it was peaceful, unpopulated and spread out…and there were elephant rides on the adjacent street. At Chau Say, it was the tuk-tuk driver's photo-op and we didn't stay more than 10 minutes — that means we were getting weary. At Ta Prohm, there was a pleasant walk under a heavily-treed path to another must-see temple, because this is where the 15-year-old movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was filmed, with trees that grow out of the ruins in what is described as "the dynamic interaction between nature and man-made art."
Thousands visit Angkor Wat — that's "city" and "temple" in Cambodian — every day. At one of the smaller temples, a security guard told us it was between 4,000 and 5,000 visitors for only "my temple." It's unlike any place on earth — however, India is building a quasi-replica that has the Cambodian government upset, even though India's will never match it as "ruins."
Because it's so unique, if you're on an AmaWaterways river cruise as we were, don't miss it.
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Turbat and Kohlu were rocked by bomb and rocket explosions
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Balochistan: A detailed report about present situation, army will stay in Sui and more
Multan: Dodak gas line blownup BLA claim responsibility
Blasts hit towns
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QUETTA, Feb 4: Turbat and Kohlu were rocked by bomb and rocket explosions while a poultry and dairy farm of the Frontier Corps was attacked with a hand grenade in Khuzdar on Friday.
No causality was reported. An explosion took place in the main market of Turbat at around 3am, causing panic in the area. About half an hour later, a bomb planted near the house of provincial senior vice-president of the Pakistan Muslim League, Waja Ghulam Nabi, exploded.
Windowpanes of nearby houses and shops were smashed in the explosions caused by home made devices, an official said. Unknown people fired four rockets in Kohlu in the early hours of Friday. The rockets exploded at an open place in Sardar village.
In Khuzdar, a hand grenade was fired on the poultry and dairy farm of the Frontier Corps. FC men guarding the farm opened fire on the attackers but they escaped. No damage was reported.


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Meet Ellen Sheehan. Her voice deserves an audience.
I woke up at 6:30am.
I had and always will be the girl, who thrives off the idea of beauty. Who loves the idealism behind makeup and fashion. Of course as little girls we have always been taught 'the pursuit of perfection, is a contraction, we, as human beings are imperfect'. Yet show me a magazine that hasn't thought me to "love myself"on page 3 thanks to a celebrities cellulite, and "change myself" on page 5 thanks to a new diet and fitness plan followed by that same celebrity.
I am not here to write about the problematics of modern day beauty culture. Because frankly, we will never like ourselves with the help of 100 pages, a glossy cover, and photoshop.
I am writing about what happened to me, what has happened to you, and what will happen to at least 1000 girls all over Ireland today.
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On March 17th 1988, The Apple Computer corporation filed a law suit against Microsoft, accusing the latter of copying its idea for a graphical interface. Since that point the technology and software market has never been divorced from its attending patent battles and law suits which seem to be declared, won, lost and settled by the companies to the same extent as they market and sell their products.Continue reading Technology Realpolitik
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows
Guy Ritchie has made a very descent adaptation of the more than famous detective in this sequel to the 2009 outing. I must admit (to my personal detriment, I know) that I have neither read the books by Doyle nor seen the first of the films which have been made recently.Continue reading Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows


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Smoked Pig Shots!
Apr 23, 2015 11:37:23 AM
My usual go to for an appetizer sure to please when having a cook-out is ABT's (atomic buffalo turds). But I had been reading about a similar recipe that I knew I had to try...Pig Shots!
This was a very simple recipe and it was a HUGE hit. They are now in my permanent rotation for appetizers at a gathering.
- Kielbasa x 2
- 2 lbs. of Thick Cut Bacon
- 12 oz. of Softened Cream Cheese
- 3/4 Cup of Shredded Cheese (I used cheddar)
- 3 oz. Diced Green Chiles
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Primo Oval XL Grill Review
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My quest for a ceramic grill started about 6 months ago. I wanted a grill that was very versatile, used hardwood lump charcoal as its fuel source and would last a long time. These requirements narrowed the field to two choices; The Big Green Egg and Primo. While both are great grills I decided on the Primo Oval XL and I am glad I did.
When my Primo arrived on a freight truck it was very well packaged in a wooden crate. After a careful inspection to make sure the ceramic was still in one piece, it was time to get the grill to its new home. This is definitely not a one man job as the grill weighs...


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I know have an Instagram account, please search for Jean Diorama
Please visit my new website
I have a new website at www.distant-shores.com its aim is to gather all the nature centered websites I have been doing those past few months,
This is a bit lame, but I need to change the server of this site which is so slooow, and also to reactivate cdiorama.com
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New diorama called hangover
No better title idea! Please follow me on Instagram, search for Jean Diorama
That's the first of the 4 drafts I have in my queen shelves drawers to be completed, I began it last january and it ios the second of my "blood in the water" series
DDay Diorama
My latest, about DDay, link here
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Various techniques for the Firebird diorama
Pebeo's outliner (Cernes relief)
I was sent that Pebeo Cernes Relief product some time agio and liked it straight away. Its fine tip allows me to make joints between the stuff i embbed in water and the stuff itself like my graves here.
It dries just like regular glossy Acrylic gel that you can find in art shops or Valejo's Water Effect (which is exactly the same stuff)
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The reason I use those flex-pad instead of other solutions is seen here: I have been owning the same since 4 years and even though mine are in bad shape they still work alright. I love the "blade tip" which allows to sand in the crevices
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If you need better pics I can go out and take some for the piping, however I have coilovers now.
This is the model i bought. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Taste-My first one was bad it tastes fake and sugar free and I was shocked because it was the only bad xs yet but then I had another one and it tasted a lot better no sugar free taste and had a nice blueberry taste,so I don't know.
Buzz-Same but no vitamin C?
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Thursday was busy for the Duchess of Cornwall as she spent the day in Hampshire. She first visited with families at Normandy Barracks in Aldershot before opening a children's cancer centre at a local hospital.
At Normandy barracks, she placed a posy on the 4 Rifles Memorial Wall. The wall contains the names of those soldiers killed in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lieutenant Colonel Carl Boswell is the commander of the 4th Battalion the Rifles (4 Rifles). There are 250 Riflemen based at Al Asad Air Base which is located 100 miles west of Baghdad. The base provides training to the Iraqi army.
She was then welcomed by fanfare of bugles before attending a reception in the Serjeants Mess. She mingled with families who have loved ones deployed overseas. Also at the reception were soldiers, battalion veterans and injured servicemen.
One of those present was Joanna, the wife of Serjeant Major Stephen Metcalf, who is on deployment in Iraq. Joanna brought her two daughters, Ruby, 11, and Florence, four.
Joanna spoke to the Belfast Telegraph saying: "It was really nice to meet the Duchess, it's nice to know that people do support us and it's nice for the children to meet someone important as it gives them an idea of the importance of their father's role."
She added: "My husband is away until February, it's the first time he's been away for Christmas so we're not looking forward to it and Florence is starting to miss him."
Ruby added: "It was really good to meet her, it makes me feel really proud of my dad."
Whilst there, Camilla presented five long-service medals to serving Riflemen. Warrant Officer Richard Brown, 46, from Lisburn, Northern Ireland, received his Meritorious Service Medal by the Duchess.
He said: "It's great for morale to have a visit from the Royal Colonel, she likes to be part of the regimental family and the battalion in particular."
She then signed a visitors book and wished everyone a Happy Christmas. She then said: "What a pleasure it has been to come to these new barracks, everyone seems to be very settled here.
"The partners of those serving abroad are doing a great job of supporting each other."
The next engagement for The Duchess took place at Southhampton's Children's Hospital. She opened Piam Brown, a cancer unit that underwent a £1.7 million, seven-month refurbishment. Her Royal Highness met patients, fundraisers, staff and families before being given a tour of the unit which includes consulting rooms, clinic, day ward and teenage games room.
She met children during her tour. One little boy, four-year-old, Phelan Jordan showed the Duchess a picture of a car. Camilla asked if it was for her, but the little boy who was about to gift it to her changed his mind and said it was his picture. She also met eleven-year-old Alicia Cole, the winner of a drawing competition hosted by the Southhampton children's Hospital charity. Alicia gladly presented the Duchess with a framed copy of her artwork.
At a reception, she met MasterChef winner Shelina Permalloo and unveiled a plaque to commemorate the opening of the cancer unit. A hospital spokesman said: "The unit, which sees more than 120 new patients a year from across the south of England, was originally opened in 1988.
"Since then it has become a national and European centre of excellence for neuroblastoma and the development of immunotherapy treatments, with Dr Juliet Gray, a consultant in paediatric oncology, the UK's representative on the European Neuroblastoma Research Group.
"The additional beds provided by the refurbishment offer the potential for the unit to take part in more clinical studies and the opportunity for children from outside the region to come to the hospital for novel immunotherapy trials which are not available in other centres.
At the reception, the Duchess said: "I just wanted to congratulate everybody who's been involved with this wonderful refurbishment of the Piam Brown Ward, I can just see what a wonderful job it is doing for children with this illness.
"I've had a friend before who's had a child on this ward so I just know how wonderfully well they are looked after and I think this new ward will make all the difference, and so I am very proud and pleased to be here today."


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National Institutes of Health, USA
Title: Complex actions of transcription factors in mediating cytokine biology in the immune response
Warren J. Leonard received his A.B. from Princetonand M.D. from Stanford, and now isChief, Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Director, Immunology Center, NHLBI. Dr. Leonard has received many awards, including the American Association of Immunologists (AAI)-Huang Foundation Meritorious Career Award and the Honorary Lifetime Membership Award of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society. He has more than 300 publications and 19 patents. He is on multiple editorial boards, is past-president of the International Cytokine Society, a member of the Board of the Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences, a Fellow of the AAAS, and a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academies.
Six cytokines (IL-2, IL-4, IL-7, IL-9, IL-15, and IL-21) share the common cytokine receptor chain, which is mutated in humans with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency. These cytokines all activate JAK1 and JAK3, and collectively they control a broad range of biological processes within the immune system, in part via their activation of STAT proteins. IL-2, IL-7, IL-9, and IL-15 dominantly activate STAT5A and STAT5B, IL-4 activates STAT6, and IL-21 activates primarily STAT3. IL-2 via STAT5 broadly regulates Th differentiation, promoting Th1 and Th2 differentiation via its induction of IL-12R2 and IL-4R, and inhibiting Th17 differentiation, in part by its repression of Il6st and induction of Tbx21, as well as by potential STAT5 competition with STAT3. IL-2 also promotes Th9 differentiation, which is inhibited by IL-21, and these opposing effects of these cytokines correlate with the repression of BCL6 by IL-2 versus its induction by IL-21. Interestingly, we and others have also shown that STAT3 in combination with IRF4-BATF complexes globally mediate IL-21-dependent transcription as well as Th17 differentiation. These findings underscore the complex contributions of c family cytokines and the multiple STAT proteins they regulate in controlling the immune response.


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Head of Development
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- Channel 5
- Location
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- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 04 Oct 2017
- Closes
- 18 Oct 2017
- Sector
- Broadcasting
- Job Type
- Permanent
Job Title: Head of Development (Maternity Cover)
Department: Elephant House Studios
Reporting To: Director of Factual
Location: Hawley Cres, London, NW1 8TT
Elephant House Studios (EHS) is the rebranded in-house production arm of Viacom-owned Channel 5, and is led by Vice President Joe McLusky and Director of Factual Jeff Anderson. Launched in 2011 as 5productions it has produced more than 300 programmes across all genres for Channel 5, 5star, MTV, Spike and Comedy Central. Productions include: Cruising With Jane McDonald, Britain By Bike, Make or Break?, World's Greatest Bridges, The Railways That Built Britain, Inside Kensington Palace, Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty, Caught On Camera and Tattoo Disasters.
Channel 5 launched as Britain's fifth public service broadcaster in March 1997 and reaches 4 in 5 of the UK viewing public each month with a broad mix of popular content, including quality factual programmes, entertainment, reality, sport, 5 News, acquired and original drama and pre-school children's programming through its award winning Milkshake strand. Sister channels 5* and 5USA compliment Channel 5 with a mix of must see entertainment and US drama, while My5 is a free video on demand service with the latest programmes from Channel 5, 5USA, 5* and milkshake! My5 is available on Channel5.com, set top boxes, Smart TVs, games consoles and mobile devices.
- Managing the EHS development team, including identifying and responding to changing hiring needs and recruiting key development staff accordingly
- Responsible for the EHS development slate – including overseeing the selection/shortlisting, development and writing up of all ideas by the development team
- Pitching EHS ideas, alongside the Director of Factual and senior management, to Channel 5, MTV, Comedy Central and other Viacom channel brands
- Generating and pitching EHS ideas to key non Viacom broadcasters including ITV and the BBC
- Liaising with other key departments including Viacom's distributor (IPS), Commercial Partnerships, Press & Publicity
- Working with Commissioning Editors to further develop shortlisted and commissioned ideas through development and pre-production
- Overseeing production of taster tapes, run-throughs and pilots
- Negotiating with key talent and agents
- Securing key access
- Contributing to the editorial direction of EHS through the types of ideas developed and pitched
- Bringing commissions and new business into the department
- Previous Head of Development experience in factual/factual entertainment
- Experience running/managing a small development team, and managing a slate of ideas
- Strong editorial vision, and a good knowledge of the output of Channel 5 and other channels
- A proven track record of devising commissioned ideas
- Experienced at pitching to commissioners at Channel 5, and industry wide
- Generator of new ideas – especially series and formats – and killer titles
- Comprehensive understanding of the broadcast marketplace
- Network of on-screen and production talent contact
- Able to spot opportunities and trends
- Able to manage a varied workload and prioritise
- Copy-writing/editing/proof-reading skills
- Organised, efficient
This job description is a guide to the work you will be initially required to undertake. It may be changed from time to time to meet changing circumstances. It does not form part of your contract of employment and as your experience grows you will be expected to broaden your tasks, suggest improvements, solve problems and enhance the effectiveness of the role. This spec summaries the main aspects of the job but does not cover all the duties that the job holder may have to perform.


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Marguerite Bennett Discusses WWII Female Heroes in "DC Comics Bombshells"
It all began with a series of statues. The Ant Lucia-designed DC Bombshells featured pin-up inspired, retro-styled takes on DC Comics' best and brightest female heroes, but these interpretations simply could not be contained.
Last June, DC dedicated its variant cover theme for the month to Bombshells. In May, the publisher announced a new digital first "DC Comics Bombshells" ongoing series from writer Marguerite Bennett and artist Marguerite Sauvage, set in an alternate version of the DC Universe where super-powered women take charge and fight behind the scenes and on the front line of World War II. The first arc stars reimagined versions of DC's iconic trinity — in this world Batwoman, Supergirl and Wonder Woman — and tells different types of stories based on each hero's specific niche.
"DC Comics Bombshells" Series Drops This July From Bennett, Sauvage
Following the release of the first digital chapter of the series on July 25, CBR News spoke with Bennett about the different genres they're exploring with "Bombshells," developing the WWII-inspired world, and working with Marguerite Sauvage.
CBR News: Starting off, how did you become involved with turning DC's "Bombshells" into an actual comic?
Marguerite Bennett: I was an enormous and vocal fan of the "Bombshells" designs all over social media. Last [June], they had the month of all the "Bombshells" variants by Ant Lucia and all these fantastic designs, and there was such an enormous fan response. People just love this art and love this reinvention of the heroines. The variant covers went through the roof, and so DC took notice of how much people love this and were like, "Well, we essentially have a universe waiting to have its story told, and if this is something that people would really enjoy, then we should do this.
Jim Chadwick, our fantastic editor, approached me about it. I could not say yes fast enough. I was just so over the moon to be able to tell a story like this and with such iconic heroines. We've been working since last September. I had to stay hush about this all the way until May of the following year. We hit the ground running and came up with so much story. It's going to be ongoing and so I'm going to go until they stop me essentially.
And you have such a great trio to start off with.
Yes, they are killer.
Tell me about these versions of Batwoman, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman.
So what we wanted to do, how the entire story is formatted is that it's going to be digital first, which means that a ten-page story is going to come out every Saturday. It will be digitally available. Then one week out of the month, it will come out in a traditional thirty-page issue. Every one of those ten-pagers is going to be focused on a different heroine.
Our very first one is going to be Batwoman, and then Wonder Woman, and then Supergirl and Stargirl, and then Zatanna. Then, we're going to move on and incorporate more and more heroines, and they're going to start crossing over with each other. We wanted for each of those ten-page stories to help world-build — not just establish their character and their journey but also enrich this complete universe that we were trying to define. We had the idea of looking at the art and media of the forties and of the war.
What we've done is Batwoman is going to be in this adventure reel — sort of cheesy radio announcer; very pulpy. Then Wonder Woman's going to be a war story. Supergirl's going to be a propaganda film. Harley Quinn is going to be this Charlie Chaplin-esque farce, Zatanna is a Hammer film, Aquawoman is a romance. With every one we have a different genre. We wanted to establish this as a complete world that runs the same spectrum. We want it to feel alive. It is no one single genre.
One of the major conceits that we wanted to have is that no heroine is derivative of a male counterpart. The women came first. Our triumvirate is not Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman, our triumvirate is Batwoman, Supergirl, and Wonder Woman, and we're running from there.
DC Comics Shares the Rest of Their Bombshell-Themed Variant Covers
What's it been like working with Marguerite Sauvage to develop the visual side of this world?
She is so fantastic. You know, we've been joking about working together for two years because she's the only other Marguerite in comics that I know. Murder, Monsters, Mayhem, Marguerites was my proposed tagline. They did not go for it. But she is just tremendous, and there is such a sense of grace to all of her art work. In some places, things that I didn't put in the script she incorporated into the art, and it was like, "This is fantastic, we should explore this." She's such a wonderful collaborator. Of all the projects we'd get to work together it happened to be this. She is really incredible.
After our first arc, we are incorporating other artists and it's sort of funny how we went about finding them. We're working with a bunch of folk who were known and very well loved in DC, but keeping up with a ten-page weekly schedule — that's like thirty to forty pages a month. And so we thought since each heroine operates within a different genre, it would be fun to find artists that correspond with that so that it can feel complete and independent. So, we have a horror artist on Zatanna, we have a much more romantic artist on Aquawoman. How we went about finding some of those is — I don't know if you've seen it, but I'm a huge fan of the movie "Mad Max: Fury Road" that just came out. I was just going crazy retweeting all this Furiosa art, anything I could find. And when we were looking for artists to incorporate on "Bombshells," I went back through, and we found artists from that artwork. Stephen Mooney and a bunch of other folk. It's just so funny — the fans are the reason we have "Bombshells." Their response is why this book exists. In the same ways, fan response to "Mad Max: Fury Road" is why we have the artists that we do.
I'm curious, I know this is a parallel universe and it's fiction, but did you find any restrictions while working in the time period?
I'm so glad you asked that question, because I've tried to tell people that it's not actually going to be a World War II story as much as it's going to be an alternate history of World War II because there are elements that I really — when I see my heroes, I don't want them to be downtrodden, frankly.
Often the media, especially with female heroes, focuses first on the level of sexism, or the level of brutality that they have to face. But when I see my heroine, I don't want to see her brutalized first. I want them to exist on their own terms where no one questions it. What I wanted to do was to essentially restructure that timeline and have social movements that have already taken place. There is no segregation here. I wanted to get rid of that first and foremost. Women's lib has already happened in a lot of ways. I wanted to be able to have that freedom.
Another issue [we have] as Americans, especially, is we have this tendency to accept the media that's discussed the war more than the [actual] history. We have these White actors in these movies, and we have this idea that it was a White war. That completely glosses over the contributions of people of color except in these very specific and again, often brutalized and downtrodden circumstances, so I wanted to get rid of that. It's just so funny because folk have this reaction because, "Well that's not historically accurate" because they're getting other media that is in itself not historically accurate.
"DC Comics Bombshells" #1 is available digitally now; the first print installment is scheduled for release August 12 from DC.
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What is Aquaponics
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Aquaponics /ˈækwəˈpɒnɨks/, is a food production system that combines conventional aquaculture, (raising aquatic animals such as snails, fish, crayfish or prawns in tanks), with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) in a symbiotic environment. In normal aquaculture, excretions from the animals being raised can accumulate in the water, increasing toxicity. In an aquaponic system, water from an aquaculture system is fed to a hydroponic system where the by-products are broken down by nitrogen-fixing bacteria into nitrates and nitrites, which are utilized by the plants as nutrients. The water is then recirculated back to the aquaculture system.
Different Types of Aquaponic Systems
Deep Water Culture (DWC) is a hydroponic method of plant production by means of suspending the plant roots in a solution of nutrient-rich, oxygenated water. Bubbleponics is a related method of plant production that involves a top-fed deep water culture system. A more accurate definition for the acronym DWC is Direct Water Culture. Direct Water Culture can be performed in deep or shallow water.
Ebb and Flow (also called ebb and flood and flood drain) is the movement of water, often in relation to natural tides. Ebb and Flow is a form of hydroponics that is known for its simplicity, reliability of operation and low initial investment cost.
Nutrient Film Technique (NFT) is a hydroponic technique wherein a steady stream of water containing all the dissolved nutrients required for plant growth is re-circulated past the bare roots of plants in a watertight gully, also known as channels.
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Image splicing is one of the most popular techniques used in digital photomontage. This technique aims to crop and paste regions from an image to the same or another image. Splicing is also considered as a basic and popular operation for image tempering. With powerful digital image editor such as Adobe Photoshop, almost anyone is possible to make a perfect tampered image. Examples of abuse of these tampered images in newspapers are reported in several cases and have raised the anxiety of justice among people. With a goal of verifying image content authenticity, passive-blind image tampering detection was called for and an open benchmark dataset also is needed. In this report, we describe a natural color image tampering detection evaluation dataset with realistic splicing operations in order to provide a common platform for the researchers to compare and evaluate the performance of different proposed algorithms.
Our dataset contains 800 authentic and 925 spliced color images of size 384x256 pixels with JPEG format. The authentic images were mostly collected from the Corel image dataset and others are taken by our own digital cameras. We further divided the authentic images into several categories (scene, animal, architecture, character, plant, article, nature and texture) according to image content and also consider some criteria based on the information of categories when making spliced images.
All tampered images in this database are made only by splicing operation. Spliced images are generated from authentic images by crop-and-paste operation using Adobe Photoshop CS3 version 10.0.1 on Windows XP. Spliced region(s) are either from the same authentic image or from another image. The following points are emphasized while generating the dataset.
Content diversity: all authentic images in this dataset are natural images and categorized into 8 categories (scene, animal, architecture, character, plant, article, nature and texture). Spliced images makers are told to randomly use candidate images from all categories to generate spliced images.
Realistic operation: we simulate the process of splicing with the following different ways:
The dataset consists of 1725 image of size 374x256 pixels. There are two main subsets which are authentic set and spliced set, authentic set contains 800 authentic color images and spliced set contains 921 spliced color images. We named our images in both sets based on the following principles.
Image Set_Filename . File Format
Image Set: 2 letters
File type: 3 letters
Filename: (Content Category) _ (File Index)
Content Category: 3 letters
File Index: 4 letters
(e.g.) a filename "Au_ani_0021.jpg" is referring the indexed "0021" image with JPEG format from the animal category of authentic set.
2) We denote our spliced set filename with the following format:
Filename: (Tampered Region Type)_(Operation Type)_(Source Image Index1)_(Source Image Index2)_(File Index)
Tampered Region Type: 1 letter
Operation Type: 3 letters
We denote the operation taken to the splicing region before pasting to a final generation as following:
R - Resize; D - Deform; C - Rotate; N - Do nothing, keep the original;
Spliced Region Shape: 1 letter
We denote the spliced region shape as following:
(Source Image Index1)_(Source Image Index2): 14 letters
The two image index is according to the candidate image(s) used for generating the final spliced image. If spliced region(s) are from one identical image, the two filename parts are same, otherwise is different.
File Index: 4 letters
(e.g.) "Sp_04_CNN_A_nat0071_ani0024_0270.jpg" is showing a spliced JPEG image (no.0270) that generated from cutting an arbitrary region (contour of a buck) from an interested region of an animal authentic image (no. 0024) then paste to a nature authentic image (no.0071) with rotation. (See Figure. 1 b)
After naming the spliced image as above principle, people can trace back the spicing operation and find the ground truth for splicing detection.
Procedure of generating spliced images:
Examples of dataset
|Authentic Set
|Tampered Set
|Simple Splicing
|Complex Splicing
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Middleweight star Michael Bisping is out of Nov. 14's UFC 193 card in Melbourne. "The Count" announced Wednesday on "UFC Tonight" that he'd suffered an elbow injury that will require surgery to repair.
"I apologize to everybody who bought tickets, to the UFC, to [scheduled opponent] Robert Whittaker for pulling out of the fight," Bisping told FS1 viewers.
"It's still going to be an amazing show. I'm just annoyed that I'm not going to be there to be a part of it."
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Bisping has won two straight fights and three of his past four. The 36-year-old former TUF champion last fought and won July 18 via split decision over Thales Leites.
UFC 193's main event remains intact, as does its co-main event. Ronda Rousey headlines the Australian card with a bantamweight title defense against Holly Holm. In the co-main event, strawweight champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk defends her strap against Valerie Letourneau.
Mark Hunt and Antonio "Pezao" Silva also will lock up in a rematch of their classic 2013 five-round majority draw.


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