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My friends Bloodline Riot
15:49 Jan 31 2013
Times Read: 873

live music debut of their new singer Sarai





this was a performance video dubbed with actual recording with the original singer

simple things that make a dog happy :)
17:04 Jan 22 2013
Times Read: 885

60s Batmobile sells for 4million at auction
19:48 Jan 20 2013
Times Read: 890






PHOENIX (Reuters) - An Arizona man with a special fondness for caped crusader Batman and his sidekick Robin bought the original Batmobile driven in the iconic television series with a bid of $4.2 million at an auction on Saturday.



Rick Champagne, a Phoenix-area logistics company owner, came away with the black, futuristic two-seater featured in the "Batman" series starring Adam West and Burt Ward from 1966 to 1968, following a flurry of spirited bidding at the Scottsdale, Arizona, auction.



"I really liked Batman growing up and I came here with the intention of buying the car," Champagne, 56, told Reuters in a brief interview moments after he bought the car. "Sure enough, I was able to buy it. That was a dream come true."



The Barrett-Jackson auction was the first time the car was put up for public sale. In addition to the $4.2 million bid price, the buyer will have to pay an additional roughly $420,000 in premiums.



The Batmobile is based on a 1955 Lincoln Futura, a concept car built in Italy by the Ford Motor Co.



In 1965, the concept car was bought for a nominal $1 by noted customizer George Barris, who had a mere 15 days and $15,000 to transform the vehicle for the show. He has owned it ever since.



Barris told Reuters he had supplied vehicles for movies and television shows before, but this one had to be markedly different than the others.



"With every pow, bang, wow, wee, I wanted the car to do something just like the actors," said Barris, 87, in an interview before the auction. "The car had to be a star on its own. And it became one."



The car has a V-8 engine and instruments in the steering wheel, plus innovative items like a push-button transmission.



But generations may remember it best for Bat gadgets added for the series, including a car phone and the ability to deploy such things as oil, smoke and nails to thwart villains - not to mention twin rear parachutes for quick Bat turns.



Barris said the vehicle toured the country after the series and a movie and then was housed in a private showroom in California. He said it was time to part with the popular car and let a new owner have the Bat keys.



(Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Eric Beech)

Plague Doctor Contract
10:06 Jan 20 2013
Times Read: 899

this is a contract between one well known Plague Dr. Giovanni de Ventura and the community of Pavia...







The Contract of a Plague Doctor







The following agreement was entered into by the parties of Master Giovanni de Ventura and the community of Pavia (Lombardy, Italy) on May 6, 1479.



Conditions agreed upon between the magnificent Community of Pavia and the doctor of medicine, Giovanni de Ventura in order to treat the patients suffering from the plague.



CLAUSE 1 The community of Pavia and its council shall provide the sum of 30 florins per month to Master Giovani de Ventura.

CLAUSE 2 Payment of said funds shall be made two months in advance. (there is a note which amended this to one month in advance).

CLAUSE 3 This clause stipulated that the community must make adequate security pledges to guarantee payment of salary.

CLAUSE 4 The community of Pavia and its council shall provide Dr. Ventura with "an adequate house in an adequate location, completely furnished."

CLAUSE 5 The community of Pavia and its council shall continue to pay Master Giovanni Ventura for a period of two months after the termination of his employment.

CLAUSE 6 The said Master Giovanni shall not be bound or held under obligation except only in attending the plague patients. [It later was added that] Giovani must treat all patients and visit infected places as it shall be found to be necessary."

CLAUSE 7 The community of Pavia and its council shall grant citizenship to Giovanni Ventura [It later was added ] according to how he shall behave himself.

CLAUSE 8 In the event -- may God forbid it -- that the said Master Giovanni should die in the exercise of these duties, that the heirs shall not be required to make restitution of any part of his salary that might remain unearned.

CLAUSE 9 The said Master Giovanni shall not be able to ask a fee from anyone, unless the plague victim himself or his relatives shall freely offer it.

CLAUSE 10 Whenever and however it shall come about -- God forbid that it should -- that because of a plague of this kind the city may be brought so low that Master Giovanni cannot have his wage nor the things necessary to his existence, that then and in that case Master Giovanni may be released from his obligation without any penalty."

CLAUSE 11 The community of Pavia and its council is under obligation to maintain a barber who should be al least adequate and capable..."

CLAUSE 12 The community of Pavia and its council has and is under the obligation to provide said Master Giovanni with all and everything which is necessary for his life, paying and exbursing the money therefore..."

CLAUSE 13 Should the community of Pavia and its council not observe the previously agreed conditions, either partially or totally, then and in that case it would be possible to said Master Giovanni to be totally free from any engagement notwithstanding the previous clauses or others to be made. [It later was added] the doctor shall notify the community at least ten days in advance so that the Community would be on the condition to provide (for a substitute).

CLAUSE 14 Said Master Giovanni would have and should be obliged to do his best and visit the plague patients twice or three times or more times per day, as it will be found necessary."

CLAUSE 15 In the case--may God forbid it-- that the said Master Giovanni would fall ill, and could not perform his office, that then and in such case he should receive a salary only for the time of his service.

CLAUSE 16 Master Giovanni should not be allowed to move around the city in order to treat patients unless accompanied by a man especially designated by the Community.

PRIVATE ENTRY
07:04 Jan 18 2013
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Dante's Inferno Test
14:20 Jan 17 2013
Times Read: 912


The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
LevelScore

Purgatory (Repending Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Very Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Extreme
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	High
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	High
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Extreme
Level 7 (Violent)	Extreme
Level 8 - The Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Very High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Very High

Take the Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno Test