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Hey brothers and sisters of Metal!
08:35 Feb 28 2009
Times Read: 670

Hey brothers and sisters of Metal!





I'm sure you all have heard of the band Destructor. Some of you even know the guys in Destructor. Some of you even know the entire history of the band Destructor and the tragic, senseless murder of Dave Iannicca, original Destructor bass player, in 1988. For those of you who are not, please continue reading:



In the early morning hours of New Year's Day 1988, Robert Bedzyk (inmate # A204234) murdered David Iannicca in a surprise attack without provocation. Bedzyk, a stranger, had crashed a small private party the band was hosting to celebrate Dave's recent Christmas Eve engagement to his girlfriend and his band's first major label record deal after years of hard work. Dave was the bass player for the band, who had a very devoted international following. After Bedzyk began causing trouble, Dave politely asked him to leave. Checking later to make sure he had gone, Dave was surprised to see Bedzyk waiting outside in the parking lot. Concerned about Bedzyk causing more trouble to the guests or damage outside to the area the band leased for their practice spot, Dave approached and asked him again to leave. When Dave refused Bedzyk's taunts to fight, Bedzyk plunged a knife he had hidden behind his back directly into Dave's heart, nearly cutting it in two. Dave was unarmed and unaware of the knife before it was too late. He was handicapped with a spinal condition and unable to dodge the knife. He died minutes later with his fiance and band members by his side. To this day Bedzyk has shown no remorse for the crime he committed and the lives his actions both directly and indirectly effected.



This animal is up for parole in May 2009. I am writing to you in hopes that you will sign the petition that is addressed to the Ohio Parole Board. If enough of us sign this petition, (see link below), the parole board may deny Robert Bedzyk the freedom to walk the street, the freedom to live, to love, and everything else he took away from Dave and his family and friends.



I plan to write a letter and send it to the parole board. I encourage you all to take a moment and write a letter to the address below in an attempt to flood the parole board's office with letters all screaming out the same thing: Keep Robert Bedzyk in prison!



Here is the address:



770 West Broad Street

Columbus, Ohio

43222



614-752-1200



http://www.petitiononline.com:80/iannicca/petition.html

Yara-Ma-Yha-Who
17:51 Feb 18 2009
Times Read: 672








The interesting thing about how this vampire-like creature in Australian Aborigine lore is not his appearance. Sure a four-feet tall red, hairy man-like creature with a rather large head, no teeth and octopus-like suckers on its fingers toes may turn a few heads, but I think its eating habits are a bit more strange.



A Yara-Ma-Yha-Who doesn't hunt for food. He patiently waits in a fig tree for food comes to him. He pounces on a person when they walk under the tree and sucks most of their blood with his suckers, leaving just enough to keep them alive. But this is only the beginning of its torturous methods. After a little workout, he returns to his victim and lies on the ground, facing them. Then, he crawls to them and swallows them whole like a snake and does a little dance to jiggle the body down to his stomach. The Yara-Ma-Yha-Who regurgitates his victim who is usually still alive. At this point it would be best if you just played dead.



He'll test to see if his victim is still alive: poke them with a stick, tickle them under the chin and arms, and even walk away and quickly turn around. If the victim is successful in convincing him they are dead, he'll walk away and watch his victim for a little while, but eventually seek a bush and fall asleep, giving them the opportunity to escape. However, if they fail, the regurgitation process continues many more times. After a certain amount of times, the victim is turned into a Yara-Ma-Yha_Who.

Vampires: Is It Real?
10:54 Feb 11 2009
Times Read: 680

108 dead in Victorian bushfire as rubble yields more bodies
12:17 Feb 09 2009
Times Read: 689

THE death toll in the nation's worst bushfires has risen to 108, and senior police fear more victims will be found.





Police confirmed today the numbers of fatalities had reached triple figures, as firefighters discovered more bodies overnight.



Victoria Police chief commissioner Christine Nixon warned the public to prepare for news of more deaths.



”I still think that we do have more to find, and that will be because we are getting into different areas that were previously too hot for us to go there," she told Melbourne radio.



”Now the CFA and Victoria Police are going there and, of course, finding people in those locations."



Police said 20 people had died at Kinglake West; 12 at Kinglake; 10 at St Andrews; 10 at Callignee; 8 at Marysville; 7 at Steeles Creek; 5 at Hazelwood; 5 at Flowerdale; 4 at Wondong; 4 at Humevale; 4 at Koornalla; 3 at Taggerty; 2 at Strathewan; 2 at Jeeralang; 2 at Mudgegonga; 2 at Hazeldene; 1 at Arthurs Creek, Eaglehawk, Long Gully and Yarra Glen.



Firefighters continued to battle fires this morning, with the town of Stanley near Beechworth potentially under threat. .



Victoria Police had confirmed 108 people dead, including four children in one house, while the CFA said more than 100 people were still unaccounted for.



Up to 700 homes and 340,000ha of land were destroyed. More than 3730 people had registered with the Red Cross as having left their properties and the total homeless figure is expected to be much higher.



Among those confirmed dead was Brian Naylor, one of the state's most recognised faces as a long-time newsreader for the Nine Network, and a resident of one of the worst-affected areas in Kinglake. Mr Naylor's wife, Moiree, also perished.



State government officials were worried the final number of people killed could double to about 130 by the time the search of all properties was completed.



"Hell in all its fury has visited the good people of Victoria in the last 24 hours and many good people now lie dead, many others lie injured," Kevin Rudd said yesterday as he pledged both financial aid and the support of the Australian Defence Force for the recovery effort.



Despite repeated warnings in the lead-up to Saturday's heatwave, the state was overwhelmed by a series of fires, some of them believed to be deliberately lit, that stretched from the South Australian to the NSW borders, up the centre of Victoria, and down toward the coast in Gippsland.



"The firefighters were hit early and hit hard and the fires were impossible to control," Victorian Premier John Brumby said last night. "It was worse than Ash Wednesday and Black Friday."



In a cruel twist of nature, while Melburnians greeted a cool change late on Saturday afternoon after the mercury had hit a record high of 46.4C - the highest for any Australian capital city - the shifting winds turned a fire one hour to the city's northeast in the Kinglake area into a raging inferno.



Of the 700 or so properties destroyed so far throughout the state, 550 were from this pocket of the picturesque Yarra Valley.



Across the Great Dividing Range, the postcard-perfect township of Marysville was flattened to a ghastly mess of rubble and soot, with only one or two buildings left standing. So far two people have been confirmed dead, including 73-year-old Marie Walsh, but townsfolk fear there are up to 11 bodies lying in those ruins, or in the surrounding ashes. Some of those are feared to be children.



"I asked one friend about her dad and she just looked blankly at me and said, 'He's gone'," said Stephen Collins, manager of Marysville's Kooringa resort. "I believe 11 friends have perished."



When snow comes to Victoria's high country, Marysville is a charming coffee stop on the road to the ski slopes. When the wind and heat came on Saturday, bringing with it fire of devastating intensity, Marysville was razed.



On the suburban outskirts of Bendigo, the home town of Mr Brumby, a cigarette butt flicked from a passing car is believed to have started a fire that claimed at least two lives.



The nation went to bed on Saturday night with the news that 14 were already dead and with police saying the final number could be in the 40s.



By 5pm yesterday, the count had been put at 50, which surpassed the 47 Victorian lives lost in the 1983 Ash Wednesday fires. The Ash Wednesday fires had claimed a further 29 people in South Australia, for a total of 76 dead. That unwanted record was matched at 8.10pm yesterday when police confirmed 76 dead and at 9.30pm the toll was raised to 84. Although it is too early for explanations or recriminations, CFA officials said many of the victims lost their lives because they fled too late.



"If we want a key message out of this - and I'm not second-guessing the cause because we're not far advanced - it is about keeping off the road," CFA deputy chief officer Steve Warrington said. "It about not being anywhere near a road during a fire event, and that probably refers to late-minute evacuations, do not do it."



But for every horror story of people who failed to outrun the flames, there are heroic escapes. Gary Hughes, a senior writer for The Australian's Melbourne bureau, writes today of his family's brush with death. They lost their home at St Andrews, in the Kinglake area. But they count themselves lucky as 12 of their neighbours are already confirmed dead. St Andrews had the largest individual death toll as of 8pm last night, followed by 12 in Kinglake and a further 10 in Kinglake West.



As survivors and firefighters emerged from the Kinglake area, they would hear the earlier bodycounts, shake their head and say: "No, it's many more than that."



Throughout the area's blackened rolling hills and gullies there were dreadful accounts of death.



People perished in their homes and on the roads as they fled. One woman, a firefighter, died at St Andrews when she returned to her home to save her animals.



A man from Mount Beauty was found on the outskirts of St Andrews separated from his motorbike. Firefighters believe he was running for his life.



Firefighters described chaotic scenes of cars that had crashed into trees or into one another and that were yesterday black and smouldering, some of them with their doors flung open.



Police believe that six people died in a pile-up of cars on the outskirts of Kinglake.



Reaction to the unfolding drama was swift, and moving. Authorities received offers of help from firefighters in NSW, Canberra, South Australia and Tasmania.



The Prime Minister spoke to Mr Brumby in the early hours of Sunday and offered the services of the Australian Defence Force.



The offer was accepted. The federal Government will match dollar-for-dollar what the state raises for a community relief fund.







Mr Rudd visited a CFA command centre in Kangaroo Ground, south of the Kinglake area, and joined Mr Brumby and Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Christine Nixon for one of many sombre press conferences held through the day.



Mr Rudd said this was an appalling tragedy for the state, and for the nation.



"To echo what the Premier said before, our first response as human beings is one of just the deepest empathy for people whose lives have now been devastated," Mr Rudd said.



"This loss of life, the numbers of injured and horrific injuries, our thoughts and our prayers go out to each and everyone of them as they now try and deal with this tragedy and recover from the damage which has occurred.



"Also as human beings we salute the extraordinary courage of all the emergency services workers. And, the Premier and I've heard just some small stories of this today, there'll be others larger told later on."

Eight bushfires out of control in NSW
12:10 Feb 09 2009
Times Read: 692






EIGHT bushfires are burning out of control in NSW as firefighters struggle to tame a total of 46 outbreaks throughout the state.







A blaze at Peats Ridge, which threatened homes on the NSW Central Coast on Saturday, is now in check after burning more than 200 hectares of the Brisbane Waters National Park.



"Yesterday we managed to keep it relatively quiet with aircraft and today now the southerly change has gone through, so we need to look at putting containment lines in and actually putting that fire out," NSW Rural Fire Service Assistant Commissioner Rob Rogers told ABC Radio.



"We're fairly confident that we'll have containment on that fire ahead of lunchtime."



Mr Rogers said other fires causing concern were in the Bega Valley in southern NSW and Eurobodalla on the south coast.



"We have 46 fires on our books, eight of which are still classified as active."



In the Bega Valley, a fire that has destroyed more than 2,100 hectares of bush continues to burn out of control.



The outbreak at Eurobodalla has burnt out more than 400 hectares.



A fire in the Wollemi National Park has blackened more than 900 hectares in the Singleton area of the Hunter Valley and is still burning out of control.



Over the weekend, bushfires across the state ravaged more than 6,500 hectares as temperatures climbed into the 40s.



Meanwhile, in the state's alpine region, authorities continued to keep watch on a fire near Tumut that burnt out more than 330 hectares over the weekend.



At Shoalhaven, a fire in the Budawang National Park has been contained after burning through 2089 hectares of bushland.



To the east of the ranges, conditions are "looking okay" for the next few days, Mr Rogers said.



"West of the ranges the temperatures still are going to be up and we will end up with some increasing winds," he said.



A high fire danger warning would most likely be in place on Tuesday.



"We're not out of the woods, but for the coastal areas it's not too bad at all, but obviously we always have the potential out there in those western areas so we'll be keeping a very close eye on that."



A 31-year-old man from Somersby will appear in Gosford Local Court on Monday, charged with intentionally causing a fire at Kariong on the Central Coast.



Police said earlier reports that the man had been charged with lighting the Peats Ridge fire were incorrect.