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15 Great Unknown Horror Movies
Anna Marie Bowman
Anna is a writer, mom, crafter, and movie buff. Her favorites are horror movies and horror stories, thanks to some inspiring parents.
I love finding horror movies that have flown under the radar. Some of this is due to the fact that they had small budgets, were independent films, or were foreign films that never got the attention that they deserved here in the states.
Whatever the reason, I feel that these movies are truly deserving of greater attention. So many big budget horror movies fall flat in my eyes. They lack imagination, creativity, and are hardly scary. If it's not a sequel or a remake, it doesn't seem to be worth the time of the big movie studios. That is a shame.
Well, enough of my ranting. On to the movies. As usual, these are not in ranking order, but in alphabetical order. I dislike ranking movies based on how much I liked them, and would rather present the list as a total.
#1: Atrocious (2010)
Look at the fear in her eyes...it almost pops out of the picture and grabs you.
Atrocious isn't a very long movie, but it packs a lot of tension, suspense, and fear into the short, 75 minute run time. Think along the lines of a high intensity roller coaster.
It is a Spanish-language film, and if you have read my previous posts, I don't like dubbed movies at all. Watch it with the subtitles. I know that some people hate subtitles, and that's fine, but dubbed movies always sound fake and strange to me. I find that watching a movie with the subtitles causes you to pay more attention to a movie anyway.
The movie centers around a family, visiting the mother's old family vacation home in the countryside of Spain. It sounds absolutely beautiful, and it is. While there, they learn of the legend of a girl named Melinda, who got lost in a labyrinth near the house, and was never found. She is said to help those that get lost in the maze, and as the two teens take their video cameras out to explore the labyrinth, they soon learn that the truth is often far darker than any legend.
This is another one of those point-of-view, found-footage movies, but this one actually scared the crap out of me, and that isn't easy to do. I found this movie wonderful and scary, interesting and beautiful.
#2: The Cottage (2012)
David Arquette doesn't really look all that scary
The Cottage was an interesting movie to watch, and not at all what I had expected when I chose to watch it. It started out rather dull, and I almost shut it off. It felt silly at first. I am glad I didn't shut it off, because it got a lot better, and a lot more interesting. Apparently, there are two movies by this name, and I haven't seen the other one. That is neither here nor there.
The Cottage stars David Arquette (from the Scream movies) as a sweet, and charming romance novelist who rents the guest house of a seemingly perfect family. It starts off rather dull, and kind of cute, but that doesn't last long. Well, appearances are often deceiving. Neither he, nor the family, are as perfect as they seem to be, and this is where the movie gets really interesting.
The movie is rather dark, and strange, but delightfully so. There are some scenes that are difficult to watch, and there is a bit of gore, but not to an overwhelming level. A lot of horror movies have a moral element to them, and this one is no exception. The moral of the story here is be careful who you invite into your home and into your life.
#3: Dead End (2003)
road trips with family are always so much fun...
I almost didn't include Dead End in this list, but then, I changed my mind. The movie really stayed with me, and I find myself going back to it. I watched it about five or six months ago, and I can't seem to get it out of my head. Some movies just fade away not long after you are done watching them. This one does not. It isn't a fantastic movie, by any means, but it's interesting and different.
The movie starts fairly predictably, with a family on the road, heading to see family for Christmas. Following well-worn horror movie formulas, there is the typical tension between the various members of the family, and of course, the father decides to bypass the highway, and takes a deserted side road instead. We all know where this is going, or do we?
Dead End stars Ray Wise (he played Robin's dad on How I Met Your Mother and he was in the original Robocop), and Lin Shaye (probably best known for playing Magda in There's Something About Mary), as the parents. The decent actors, paired with a unique and interesting script, make for a pretty good movie. I don't really know why I didn't want to include it originally. There were some elements that were rather predictable, but overall, it was a good movie. It really is a long, strange trip...that's for sure.
#4: Dread (2009)
Dread was part of the After Dark Horror Fest, a movie fest that is very near and dear to my heart.
Dread had an interesting concept, so I gave it a watch. The concept of the movie struck me. It follows Stephen (played by Jackson Rathbone, who was in the Twilight movies), a film student, as he searches for an idea for his college thesis. He meets, and becomes friends with, a man by the name of Quaid, who gives him a great idea for his thesis.
What is scarier than looking into people's deepest fears? They begin to interview subjects, asking them about their deepest fears. Sadly, they are disappointed by the first batch of interviews who gave them nothing but bland, boring surface fears that weren't meaty enough. They proceed to look further, to discover real fear, real terror. Quaid seems to have his own motives for choosing this particular topic, and piece by piece, through disjointed flashbacks and nightmares, we learn what that reason is.
The movie is dark and strange, but compelling and interesting. There are some uncomfortable scenes, and some nudity, but it isn't over the top. The movie starts out strange, and rather confusing, with flashback scenes that don't make a lot of sense at first, but I feel that it works for the film, by putting the viewer in the uncomfortable position of not knowing what is going on. I find that movies that can do that are far more interesting than more predictable movies.
#5: Grave Encounters (2011)
This even looks a bit like the opening to Ghost Adventures
Grave Encounters was a rather fun movie to watch. It pokes a bit of fun at the various paranormal investigation shows, particularly Ghost Adventures, by exposing some of the less-than flattering truths behind all of the shows like that. Lance Preston, the main investigator, even sounds a bit like Zak Bagans from Ghost Adventures. It was rather amusing. Having said that, the movie still provides an interesting story, and some really scary moments. This was a recommendation by my sister, and I found it to be as good as most of the other movies she suggests.
A ghost hunting film crew travels to an abandoned mental asylum (sounds pretty typical) for an overnight 'lockdown'. While I admit, that this isn't a particularly inspired premise, it was rather well done, and there were some decent scares, and interesting twists to the story. I won't give much more away than that, but I highly suggest you check this movie out. I have yet to see the sequel, but I look forward to it. At the very least, it's amusing, and a great horror movie is made all the better when it has some humor. It throws the viewer off a little, and lulls them into a false sense of security.
#6: High Tension (2003)
High Tension (or Haute Tension), is a really confusing movie at first. Some people just don't get it, and honestly, I didn't at first. I knew what the movie was, what happened and all that, but I just didn't get the movie. I had to watch it a couple of times before I really loved the movie. In fact, the first time I watched it, I thought it was interesting, then I kind of forgot about it. I stumbled across it again a few years later, forgetting that I had seen it already, and after that, I started to love the movie. I watched it again a week or so later, just to absorb all that I could from the movie.
High Tension follows two women, Marie and Alexia, who travel to Alexia's family's home in the country for holiday. What is supposed to be a nice, quiet break from school becomes anything but. It takes a decidedly dark turn from there. I won't say anything else about the movie beyond that. To say much more would give away too much about the movie. You just have to watch it for yourself. Watch it twice, in fact. It's better that way, and watch it in French if you can. I hate dubbed movies, but to each his own. There are a couple of uncomfortable scenes, and a few parts of the movie that left me feeling rather disquieted, but then, it's a horror movie, so I guess it did what it was supposed to.
#7: May (2002)
She looks relatively normal...
May is a truly strange and disquieting film. I can't put it any more plainly than that. The cast is very good! It stars Angela Bettis (Girl, Interrupted, and Carrie (2002)) as May, as well as Jeremy Sisto (Suburgatory, Law & Order, Six Feet Under) and Ana Faris (Scary Movie series). I know, Ana Faris in a horror movie sounds strange, but she is actually quite good. As I said, this is a strange movie. It has some amusing moments, but it's still a dark and interesting movie.
May is about a girl with no friends, well, no friends except a strange doll her mother gave her. She grows up to be just as awkward and lonely as she was as a child. She attempts to connect with those around her, including her co-worker, Polly, and a handsome mechanic (Sisto), named Adam. Her awkwardness and desperation just pushes away the people she tries to get close to.
This movie is dark, and incredibly unnerving. It is well acted, and wonderfully done.
#8: Nightwatch & Daywatch (2004 & 2006)
Ok, so, technically, these are two movies, but I put them together because they go together, and I watched them one, right after the other. Night watch (Nochnoy dozor) and Day watch (Dnevnoy dozor) are two Russian movies that I stumbled across on Netflix a few weeks ago. They are supposed to be part of a trilogy, but I have yet to find the third movie.
They take a look at the world of those with supernatural abilities, that they call "Others". Night watch is a group of light "others" that keeps an eye on the dark "others" and makes sure they behave themselves, and Day watch is a group of dark "others" that keeps an eye on the light "others" to make sure that they are not overstepping their bounds.
The movies are about the groups trying to maintain the balance that has existed between the groups for centuries, and centers around a light "other" named Anton, played by Konstantin Khabenskiy (Wanted, World War Z), who came to know who he was during a time of stress and personal crisis.
The movies were creative, interesting, more beautiful than I thought a Russian horror movie could be, and I really enjoyed them. Once again, they are subtitled movies, and while I do not know if they are available dubbed, but don't watch them that way, unless you have to.
#9: The Orphanage (2007)
Tomas, the "imaginary" friend
The Orphanage, or El orfanato (original Spanish title), is a wonderful movie!! I often find that Spanish horror movies are fantastic and wonderful. This movie is no exception! Of course, I expect nothing but the best from Guillermo del Toro, the producer behind such great movies as Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone. This movie is visually beautiful and haunting, and the story is compelling and unnerving. It isn't a blood and guts horror movie, but the disturbing ghost story, and heart-wrenching mystery is wonderfully done.
Laura brings her husband, Carlos, and adopted son, Simon, to the deteriorating orphanage in which she grew up, in hopes of restoring the building and using it as a home for disabled children. Soon, Simon reveals to her that he has made several new friends. Knowing that there is no one there but them, she dismisses it as a child's active imagination. But, is it really just his imagination, or is there something else going on in that old orphanage?
I can't begin to tell you how much I love this movie, and wish I had come across it sooner. It is beautiful, well, as beautiful as a horror movie can be.
#10: The Pact (2012)
Casper Van Dien and Caity Lotz
The Pact was an interesting movie. It does follow a familiar formula, but from a somewhat different angle. It isn't what you would expect, that's for sure. I stumbled across this movie by accident one night when I couldn't sleep. That's usually when I watch horror movies. It relaxes me for some reason.
A young woman, Annie, played by Caity Lotz (Arrow), gets a call from her sister, Nichole, informing her that their mother has passed away. Nichole persuades Annie to come out to their mother's home for the funeral, and to take care of some family matters. But, when Annie gets there, her sister is nowhere to be found, and her niece has been left in the care of her cousin, Liz. Annie assumes that Nichole has taken off in pursuit of her on and off drug addiction, but when Liz also goes missing, Annie begins to suspect something else is going on. She gets help from a detective named Bill Creek, played by Casper Van Dien (Starship Troopers) who isn't sure if he should be helping her, or arresting her. What they finds is far more than either of them bargained for.
Like I said, this movie follows a fairly familiar formula; family member mysteriously disappears, and then another, and something is wrong, but it is so much more than that. The story reveals so much more than that, relating to Annie and Nichole's childhood, to a whole host of other things. It is a creepy, creepy movie, but the story is still incredibly interesting. I still get creeped out by this movie.
They have since made a sequel, which is also very good.
#11: Pontypool (2008)
Aging shock jock as a movie hero?
I can't even begin to explain how incredibly strange this movie is. It has an isolated, dark feeling. It is a captivating movie with a unique concept. It's a Canadian movie, which I find interesting, considering that I haven't come across that many Canadian horror movies, let alone any other Canadian movies. Having said that, this movie was very good.
Pontypool stars Stephen McHattie (A History of Violence, Haven) as a shock-jock type radio DJ, Grant Mazzy. We find him at the end of his career, and he has been sent to a small Canadian town to work. He has a strange encounter with a woman on his way to the radio station, and the day just gets stranger from there. What is going on? What is causing this?
I can't say much about the movie without giving anything away. I would love to talk about 'this' aspect of the movie, or 'that' scene in the movie, but I hate to spoil a movie watching experience by giving anything away. The movie is almost claustrophobic in it's isolating quality. I like the story, and it was interesting and different. You will just have to watch it for yourself, and see what I mean.
#12: The Shrine (2010)
What lies in the fog?
The Shrine was another suggestion given to me by my sister, and as usual, she was right. This was a delightfully interesting movie. It starts out on a rather predictable course, but it has some interesting twists and turns in the common horror formula that made it worth watching. It is an eerie movie. My only wish is that the parts spoken in Polish had been subtitled in English, but I figure they did it that way on purpose, so you were just as confused as the others.
The Shrine starts out like a typical slasher-type movie, with the strange locals and the mystery in the woods, but it expands from there. A group of journalists, led by Marcus, who is played by Aaron Ashmore (Smallville, Warehouse 13), decides to investigate a series of strange missing persons cases in Eastern Europe that have occurred over the past fifty years. To help them on their way, is a journal left behind by the last person to go missing. The last entry in the journal mentions something about a mysterious fog. Where is Eric Taylor, the author of the journal? And what lies in the fog?
This was a creepy movie. From the settings, to the fog, it was all very eerie. I always liked Aaron Ashmore as an actor, so that helped out a lot. He is a fairly well-known face, unless you are confusing him with his twin brother, Shawn (The X-Men movies, The Following). All that aside, I did really like this movie, and the story was interesting and well done.
#13: Triangle (2009)
Capsized in the storm, and stranded at sea
Triangle almost didn't make this list, because I just watched it the other night. I had my list all together, and had started working on the various sections, for the other movies, when I remembered that this movie was in my DVR, just waiting for me. I'm glad I hadn't finished writing this, otherwise it would have meant more work for me; or the start of another list. Well, Triangle made it on this list. It's a very strange movie, and you aren't really sure what is going on when you start watching it, you just know something isn't right, something just feels strange.
Triangle stars Melissa George (Grey's Anatomy, 30 Days of Night, The Good Wife) as Jess, a woman who heads out with a group of friends on a yacht trip in the Atlantic Ocean. When I first heard about this movie, I assumed it was about the Bermuda Triangle. I almost didn't want to watch it because of that. It isn't about the Bermuda Triangle, Triangle is the name of the ship. The group encounters a strange storm that leaves them stranded, until they stumble across a cruise ship. The ship appears to be abandoned, but is it, really?
The story threw me for a loop as I was watching it. Not exactly your typical ghost ship story, or your typical slasher film, but it has elements of both, with a little Greek mythology thrown in. I know that makes almost no sense, but you will understand when you see the movie.
#14: Walled In (2009)
Caretaker and her son (if he looks familiar to you, he was also in Butterfly Effect)
Walled In was one of those strange movies that I stumbled across by accident. I was looking for a different movie, and this one came up as a suggestion of a similar type movie. I love Netflix for neat little features like this!! I also like that they change up the movies they have available for streaming. It's a pain sometimes, but it gives me a nice variety of movies to watch.
Sam, played by Mischa Barton (The O.C.), heads to an isolated building that is set to be demolished, but some of the residents haven't left yet. Sam is sent to do some investigative work, to determine the best way to demolish the building. The caretaker and her son are still there, along with a couple of other residents. The strange thing is, some of the residents left without taking their furniture. That is the first odd thing Sam notices. The other thing, or person, that strikes her as odd is the caretaker's son, Jimmy. He befriends Sam, but something seems off about him, and the building itself.
The story isn't perfect, but it's very good, and very interesting. I am not a huge fan of Mischa Barton, but she is a decent actress, and did well in this movie. The location is isolated, and there is something chilling about being trapped in an isolated location, without having help readily available. It makes you feel vulnerable and alone. I love movies that give you that feeling of disquiet, and discomfort.
#15: Yellow Brick Road (2010)
Follow the yellow brick road...
I was hesitant to watch this movie, for fear it was a bizarre take on The Wizard of Oz, and in a way, it is, but it really isn't. If that makes any sense. I suppose it isn't supposed to. Truthfully, this movie is kind of like that, it sometimes feels like it makes no sense. I actually liked that about this movie. I was also a bit put off by some of the bad reviews I saw on IMDB.com, but I tend to disregard those, since some people just like to put up bad reviews because it makes them feel better about themselves. Yellowbrickroad is a super strange and disturbing movie.
An author, along with his wife, gather a group together to go investigate the mystery of Friar, New Hampshire. In 1940, the entire population of the small town, just up and headed out and started walking out of town, and onto a trail through the woods and mountains. Some were found murdered, and some were never seen again. One lone survivor was found, but he seemed to have gone mad. What happened to those people way back then? Why did they walk? Where were they going? The group hopes to find some answers to those questions as they travel along the Yellow Brick Road.
There are some small scenes of gore, and one scene in particular that was quite disturbing, only in it's unexpectedness, and brutality, but most of the movie is more disturbing, uncomfortable, and chilling rather than gory or violent. I can't explain why I like this movie so much, other than to say that I do. It's those strange little movies that leave you feeling uncomfortable and uneasy when you are done watching them, that I love, and this is one of those movies.
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Great choices and several of my faves on this list including Dead End, Triangle, Pontypool, The Pact. Both "Pontypool" and "Triangle" could have been modern-day Rod Serling creations.
also, I thought May was boring and slow.
Watch Lucky McKee's other film The Woman. Much better.
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Agree with Jason. avoid Pontypool, just watched it.. Complete rubbish!
Jason Nowak
I wanted to like Pontypool but it was just terrible. Not scary, doesn't make sense, just awful. The Pact was good as was High Tension and The Orphanage. I'll check out the others too but please, avoid Pontypool
5 years ago from Florida
avian--A lot of them are available for streaming on Netflix. I wander through there every now and again to watch movies that I haven't seen before.
Deb Hirt
5 years ago from Stillwater, OK
Good reviews. I haven't seen any of these movies, but I could rent them and view them on the computer. Thanks.


I bought a LifeFitness about 13 years ago. At the time it cost about $ 1500.00 and I do not know the model #.
I have not used it regularly over the years but have started using it alot in the past 3 years. I can only guess that I've put over a thousand miles on it for the entire time. Recently the motor went. It started slowing down and just shutting off and blowing the circuit breaker. I got a mechanic in and he cleaned and oiled the motor for $ 150.00 and that lasted about a year. Now the motor is totally blown. The machine is still in perfect condition (tread, controls, etc). I would definately buy another but they are way too expensive now. I don't really want to spend the money to fix it because I was told by a leisure fitness employee that would probably last only a year. I really liked this treadmill and am sorry it died.
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Love the soft deck and cushy feel of the Life Fitness. However, after buying a "commercial" T9i in 2003, we had to have the motor rebuilt in 2007. Our $5,000 treadmill does NOT have a reversible deck, so we're facing $500 in deck and belt replacements every 3 or 4 years. The heart rate monitor hasn't worked right since the motor rebuild. Perhaps the belt and deck replacement might help our current motor problem - the treadmill stops after 20 minutes of running at high speeds.
I use a Life Fitness 9500 treadmill at my gym. I always stayed away from treadmills because I thought it would be boring. I tried it when I joined the gym and now I go in everyday to use it for an hour sometimes a little longer. I just love it. I will probably buy a Life Fitness treadmill to have one at home.
Loved my machine,but it has been broken off and on for most of this year, and I have not been able to get the company to be responsive to my service complaints. After having paid $2800 for the initial machine and an additional $900 in repairs, the machine is still not operational and Life Fitness cannot get the necessary part(s) to make the repair. The part is backordered and is not expected for another 6 weeks or so. By that time, I will have been without my treadmill for approximately 6.5 months out of 12. The company does not seem to have the ability to maintain an adequate service and parts distribution system. Therefore, I'd think twice before purchasing from this brand again.
There are other similar complaints that can be found on various websites.
DO NOT PURCHASE A LIFEFITNESS TREADMILL. I HAVE HAD ONE FOR 18 MONTHS AND IT HAS BEEN SEVICED FOUR TIMES IN THIS PERIOD. EACH TIME LIFEFITNESS HAS SENT A REP TO REPAIR THE MACHINE IT BREAKS AGAIN WITHIN 3 - 4 MONTHS. TOTAL JUNK, DO NOT PURCHASE I AM CALLING MY LOCAL TV STATIONS FOR CONSUMER REPORTER TO HELP ME. HOPEFULLY THERE IS A LEMON LAW WITH TREADMILLS. DO NOT BUY THIS BRAND, LIFEFITNESS, IT IS TOTAL JUNK !!!
I needed to replace the AC adapter for my LifeFitness machine. It took 2 hours on the phone to LifeFitness to convince them that my machine needed an adapter, and that, indeed, it was shown and listed in the operators manual. Three days later they shipped me the wrong part. When I called about this they told me they would get back to me in 2-3 days after they investigate whether they had in fact shipped me the wrong part.
We bought it new and have used it consistently for the past 9 years. The motor (2.3hp) started to make a high pitched sound and I knew it was time to be replaced. I called Life fitness to find out how much and they informed me the motor is under warranty for 10 years. 2 days later, I received a new motor (3.0hp) and it now runs like new! I have had no problems with this company and we are looking to buy a second one!
I have used many Life Fitness treadmills in Marriott facilites and also Pritikin Program facilities over the years.
I am presently working out at home on a Landice treadmill which I like but find it hard to see the digital display.
I work out everyday on the treadmill for about 50 minutes. I use level 4 to 10 at bout 3.6 MPH. I do not use nor know how to use some of the other programs. I do like the mileage readout along with inputing my weight for more accuracy and also the calorie counter.
I am presently exploring Star Trac treadmills (like the small fan installed in unit) and also Life Fitness units.
Would like some input on what you recommend for a small gym contained in a old salt tower on the second floor of a 5 story builing on Cape Cod (Osterville, MA).
We have owned this model for about 3 years and only used it a handful of times, maybe 20 miles in total. We have already had to get lifefitness out to replace a small broken bit of plastic which was stopping the treadmill from working at a cost of $150. After not being used for a year or so I just went to use it again and it would not start. Lifefitness told me it is more than likely that the motor is the problem which would cost $800 to replace or the main board which costs $400. I bought lifefitness as it was a well known brand and thought it would be a good reliable machine.
Not so, I would advise everyone to stay away from this brand and go for a cheaper model like what this site recommends, why spend the extra money when all you get is rubbish?
13.5 years and it's still running!
I bought a LifeFitness 5500HR treadmill for my wife in March 1995 and she has used it continuously ever since. The belt slips and squeaks now, but with that many miles it is understandable. I would squeak and slip too if I had someone running on me for that many miles!! Great quality peace of equipment. Oh, and it has survived numerous military moves, including all the way to Japan!


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Q: Copy contents of one script to another script I'm very new to UNIX and I'm currently trying to learn Bash.
I have 3 scripts: xyz.sh, abc.sh & wow.sh. I want to copy content of xyz.sh as it is to wow.sh using abc.sh, i.e., a script to copy one script to another.
xyz.sh:
echo "\n code $code \n"

abc.sh:
while read line
do
   echo $line >> wow.sh
done < xyz.sh

On executing abc.sh, the contents of wow.sh are
echo "n code $code n"

\n gets converted to n, can someone please explain why this is happening and if there is a workaround to keep \n as \n?
Also if a similar question has been asked before, kindly provide a link, I couldn't find any.

A: If you want to append (the contents of) xyz.sh to wow.sh, the simplest way is this:
cat xyz.sh >> wow.sh

Using read to get the same result is not as straight forward as it may seem. \ is a special character in the shell. You would have to use the -r option, which means:
    -r      do not allow backslashes to escape any characters

cat does this by default. Moreover read is not the correct tool to do this kind of operations anyhow. Intuition should tell you the same when you compare the syntax for both commands.
There's one more command you might be interested in. It is the source builtin, also called by .. If you source a file from your script, it works to the effect as if the sourced file's contents were present in the script. So putting this line in wow.sh:
. xyz.sh

or
source xyz.sh

doesn't copy the contents of xyz.sh to wow.sh, but the very contents of xyz.sh are executed while wow.sh is executed, as if it were present in the script. Of course only if the file xyz.sh is present during the wow.sh script execution.

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Professor Dejan Mitrović, M.Sc., graduated and received his Master's degree at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in the classes of Professor Françoise Jakovčić and Professor Sandra Belić. During his schooling he specialized in master classes and specialized seminars with prof. Michael Flaxman, Kazimierz Michalik, Stanislav Apolin and David Strange.
During his studies, he was awarded prizes as a soloist, chamber musician and orchestral musician in numerous national, federal and international competitions and festivals.
Since 1993 he has been a permanent member of the Belgrade String Orchestra "Dušan Skovran", and since 2001 he has been engaged as solo cellist of this orchestra. Together with other members of this orchestra, he won the October Prize of the City of Belgrade in 1994, and they were also appointed ambassadors of culture of the FRY in 1995.
As a soloist and member of the mentioned ensemble, in addition to the permanent conductors, Professor Aleksandar Pavlović and Obrad Nedeljković, he has also collaborated with eminent conducting artists such as Tonči Bilić, Kenneth Jean, Luc Keller, Vadimir Chernushenko, Ronald Zolman, Christian Gansh, Ola Rudner, David Strange, Claudio Vandeli, Franck Foncoubert, Darinka Matić Marović, Vesna Šouc, as well as with soloists such as Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Shlomo Mintz, Nigel Kennedy, IstvanVarga, Leonid Gorokhov, Monika Leskovar, Lovro Pogorelić, Daniel Detoni, Sreten Krstić, Mateja Marinković, KsenijaJanković, Aleksandar Serdar, Nikolai Petrov, Nataša Veljković, Rita Kinka, Irena Grafenauer, Radmila Bakočević, JadrankaJovanović, Dragana del Monaco, Aneta Ilić, Katarina Jovanovic and others.
He has given notable concerts in duo with Mina Mendelson, in quartet with Borislav Čičovački, Lidija Stanković and Aneta Ilić, with whom he has performed at home and abroad; in June 2004 he appeared as a soloist in a concert with Nigel Kennedy at the Sava Center in Belgrade and at the National Theatre in Novi Sad; in April 2007, he performed with the New European Strings Orchestra at the personal invitation of Maestro Dmitry Sitkovetsky; he has prepared a series of recitals, of which the recital at the Belgrade Cultural Centre and the Progress Gallery stands out.
Parallel to his solo and chamber concert activities since 2000, he has been engaged in pedagogy as a teacher at the music school "Stanković" in Belgrade.
Numerous student prizes won in international competitions and festivals testify to the success of the educational activity. Dejan Mitrović actively participates in the work of the jury at the following competitions and festivals:
Open String Competition "Binički" in Belgrade, Open String Competition "Vojislav Lale Stefanović" in Užice, International String Competition "Golden Stairs" in Valjevo, International String Competition "Polyhymnia" in Skopje, International Talent Show in Gradište.
He is the founder and member of the "Classica Aeterna" Association, under the auspices of which he performs as a trio, quartet and several other chamber ensembles. Since 2013, together with the trio of the same name, he traditionally performs once a year on the main stage of the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation. Performances in the French and Canadian embassies, the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade and throughout Serbia are also worth mentioning.

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Baba Ijesha: Two others allegedly also sexually harassed Princess's daughter
The defence team of Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, aka, Baba Ijesha has alleged that the underage daughter of actress and comedienne Damilola Adekoya alias Princess was sexually molested by two other persons.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lead defence counsel, Mr Babatunde Ogala (SAN), made the allegations on Tuesday during the trial of Baba Ijesha over 6-counts of defilement at an Ikeja Special Offences Court.
While cross-examining Princess, Ogala revealed that the 14-year-old minor was molested by Okele, Princess's security guard and Princess's neighbour, Mr Damola Adekola.
Baba Ijesha wooed me after we met in 2008 – Princess tells court
When asked who Adekola was, Princess described the man as her neighbour who she also regarded as a brother.
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Responding to why Adekola was arrested by the police in April, Princess told the court: "He was arrested because I reported him to the police that in Dec. 2020 he attempted to sexually harass my daughter.
"He didn't molest her, he harassed her, he put his hand on her lap and told her to put her hands on his penis and she said no and when she refused she screamed.
"I reported it to the police when I found out. This happened in my house around 9.30 pm. I was at a meeting at Sabo, Yaba and my sister was with them and I needed her attention at Sabo.
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"I asked them to go to bed and when it was 9.30 pm I asked him (Adekola) to still check up on them to ensure that they were still not out watching cartoons after their bedtime.
"She told me what happened on April 20 or 21 [after Baba Ijesha's arrest]. That was the only attempted molestation that happened in my house.
"The other one happened when I sent her to his house, he attempted to grab her, she screamed and ran upstairs. This was around late Dec. 2020, I also found out about it at the police station."
Comedian Princess reacts as Police grants Baba Ijesha bail
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Key words: subject, consciousness, interpreter, subjectivity, cognition, language, rationality, interpretation, understanding, sign, meaning, symbol, text.
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import java.io.Serializable;
import javax.annotation.Generated;
import com.amazonaws.protocol.StructuredPojo;
import com.amazonaws.protocol.ProtocolMarshaller;

/**
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 * Metadata about an Amazon Lookout for Vision project.
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 *
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 *      Documentation
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    public ProjectMetadata withProjectArn(String projectArn) {
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        return this;
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     * The name of the project.
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    public void setProjectName(String projectName) {
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     * The unix timestamp for the date and time that the project was created.
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Photo by Alvaro Grozny
We've burnt our bad news, seen some blood and now we want to party.
Now a SPILL tradition, at the SPILL Party you can expect DJs, dancing, surprises and this year, Gaika at the helm. Join us at SPILL Central for a hair‑down, hoe‑down, shake it out bonanza. Also featuring a performance by Valerie Renay and a DJ set by Lady Kamikaze.
GAIKA isn't the type to be boxed in. Since Machine, his debut mixtape appeared in 2015, critics have struggled to stick a tidy name onto his music and art. His darkly magnetic sound evolved through follow–up mixtape Security and EPs SPAGHETTO and The Spectacular Empire on Warp Records, building expectations for what is to come in 2018. GAIKA shape‑shifts across not only musical markers but disciplines. He settles on the term 'ghetto‑futurism' to encompass what he does. It's easier than waiting for the latest " dancehall–meets–rave" label and allows him to build on afro‑futurism to make art steeped in blackness that " harks back. It's like the ghost in the machine. If you listen to grime, trap, dancehall, hip‑hop, reggae, there's this glory in the face of death, a celebration of the impermanence of life." That kernel of emotion, played out by artists using the latest technology to self–produce, underpins ghetto–futurism. "Ghetto' isn't just to do with black people," he says, " but it's all the people who live under the boot, the 99%, and how we end up reveling in what other people deem the shadow."


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Follow-up: What I got wrong about the Stewart Parnell case
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A Parnell family member wrote in to tell me what I got wrong. Allow me to clarify—and to ponder.
After we published my article about former Peanut Corporation of America CEO, Stewart Parnell, on Monday, I heard from one of his family members, who did not want to be identified by name:
"Mr. Clinton," she wrote. "I just read your article concerning Peanut Corporation of America. I am indeed very sorry you proceeded to write your column without searching into some of the truth."
She is unsurprisingly angry about Parnell's sentence and the process by which he was convicted. She objected to one point in particular in my article—my mentioning that nine people had died in the salmonella outbreak tied to Peanut Corporation of America:
"Are you aware that these people you say died from salmonella 80 percent of them did not even have any type of salmonella? Obviously you were not!! I have the death certificates.
I realize everyone that publishes anything likes to have an interesting story however, what you have written is very far from being true. What you did was copy what someone else wrote.
Sir I am more than happy to help you with a true story."
She did send along the death certificates. One listed sepsis and metastatic lung cancer as cause of death. Another cited myocardial infarction and metabolic acidosis. The third said the cause of death was respiratory failure and lung cancer.
So let's clarify: I was mistaken to say that nine people died because of the salmonella outbreak. The exact number is not known and probably will never be known. The nine people were people who died during the outbreak, who tested positive for the specific strain of salmonella linked to PCA. The death certificates were filled out shortly after death, but the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) analysis doesn't produce results until weeks after samples are submitted. Does the death certificate that lists myocardial infarction prove that the death wasn't caused by salmonella? Not exactly. Major infections can trigger heart attacks; the death may or may not have been caused by salmonella.
CDC typically uses the language "as many as X people may have died as a result . . ." I should have done the same. (Actually, even CDC's language has problems. There are always people sickened by food-borne outbreak who don't get counted because nobody made the connection. There could conceivably have been more than nine deaths, though I'd bet on fewer.)
Six deaths is not much more bearable than nine, so on one level, the family member's point doesn't change the thrust of the article very much. But it does raise two interesting issues:
1) Because Parnell was not tried for the deaths his company allegedly caused, the jury never got to consider the evidence of those deaths. In theory, the deaths weren't supposed to be considered at all in court. In practice, out in the wider world, they make a difference, and it hurts the public conversation that the evidence hasn't been through the trial process.
2) So does this mean that we should be trying food executives based on the deaths they caused? There's one thing wrong with that: The fatalities caused by an outbreak are largely a matter of chance. Some strains of salmonella do little damage. Others do lots. It doesn't seem fair to make mere chance part of the sentencing process.
All of this means that I now seem like I'm talking out of both sides of my mouth—saying on the one hand, don't consider the mortality rate in sentencing, but on the other, feel free to consider it when you're working out how you feel about the overall justice of the proceedings. It's true. I really do seem to be saying both those things, and I don't feel inclined to retract either of them.
What can I say? This stuff isn't supposed to be easy.
foodborne illness,
Patrick Clinton is The Counter's contributing editor. He's also a long-time journalist and educator. He edited the Chicago Reader during the politically exciting years that surrounded the election of the city's first black mayor, Harold Washington; University Business during the early days of for-profit universities and online instruction; and Pharmaceutical Executive during a period that saw the Vioxx scandal and the ascendancy of biotech. He has written and worked as a staff editor for a variety of publications, including Chicago, Men's Journal, and Outside (for which he ran down the answer to everyone's most burning question about porcupines). For seven years, he taught magazine writing and editing at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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Detroit police are warning people about scammers working in the District Detroit.
Police say they work in groups of five, wearing official-looking vests with fake badges and claiming to work for the Little Caesars Arena or nearby Harry's Detroit, just off Clifford St. at W. Fisher Service Dr.
The scammers charge people $45 to park on the street or in a dirt lot, but when the vehicle owner comes out of the arena, they find expensive tickets from police for being in no-parking zone.
Detroit police tell Local 4 Detroit that they will have extra officers in the area for the home opener for the Detroit Tigers Thursday afternoon and they plan to try to crack down on the problem that business owners say has been plaguing the area for years.
"They're very good at what they're doing. They wear vests, they have fake badges," says Harry's Owner, Harry Kefalonitis.
Detroit Police Commander Franklin Hayes says "We don't want to pick certain events, we want to set a tone that no matter what the event is, we will hold those accontable and stop this predatory behaviour."
According to police, there are a few things you can watch for to make sure you're not a victim including the fact that official parking attendants will have city identification, they can't wave you in from the middle of the street and nobody can force you to pay to park on the street or in an alley.


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Excerpt from Against All Odds
Gringgggggggggggggggggggg, Gringgggggggggggggggggggggg, the sound of the bell went. Innocenta checked the alarm clock perched on the desk by her bed; she gave a loud 'hrrummp' as if she was tired even before the day had begun. How she hated the sound of waking bells. At times while she slept all she would dream of was concocting excuses as not to wake up at pre-dawn. To her, it was sheer wickedness on the part of the school management body who woke them 5am every day.
Although she should have gotten used to it, after all she had spent five years in the school but, 'grrhh'. She turned and stretched like a kitten dying of boredom. She squeezed her face as she performed her morning routine exercise before she joined the other students outside for morning devotion and sports.
After 30minutes of the usual everyday drill, most of the other students had come alive. They responded to everything with zeal, eagerness and strength; something only teenagers could summon so quickly. But Innocenta tried as much as she could, could not concentrate on what was happening around her. She felt so drained and tired that despite the yoga and all sorts they were doing, her shoulders were slumped like atlas carrying the world weight.
By 10.00am, she had developed a very nasty headache that won't just go despite pouring water on her closely cropped hair. Most of her teachers noticed her lackluster attitude. Something she had developed two weeks ago when she returned to school after taking permission to attend her mother's disaster wedding. Some of them tried talking to her as to fathom how it had affected her. However, it seemed the sweet, shy girl they knew had burrowed deeply in her shell.
They had all heard tales about the dramatic wedding despite all the family had done to prevent the press at the event. Gossip magazines had saw an opportunity to make money and they exploited it to the fullest without consideration for the feelings of those concerned. The teachers pitied the poor girl who was unwilling to share her troubles with anyone.
Days after she returned to school, the school counselor had invited Innocenta for a chat but she had become reclusive. It seemed the more they all tried to reach to her, the deeper she burrowed. The school was in dilemma, it would be inconsiderate if they involved her mother by telling her of her daughter's strange behaviour. The poor lady had just been publicly humiliated at her own societal wedding. So, they all they could do was to keep an eye on Innocenta without seeming to do so.
Mrs. Lewis the counselor wasn't too shocked with the girl's reaction to the happenings in her family. Who wouldn't be? The incident became an issue discussed and analyzed on the social network. Worse still, Inno had always been an introvert though with a learning ability that had surpassed that of her peers. It took the school two years to let the flower inside her blossom. But looking at her that morning with her slumped shoulders, creased face and lack of gaiety and interest in things and those around her, the counselor had no choice than to call for another chat in her office.
When Innocenta was told to go to the counselor's office, the headache instantly multiplied and it was as if her skull would break from the pounding inside her head. Though, she lacked the appetite to eat breakfast, once she slipped outside the classroom, she looked left and right to be sure no one was paying undue attention to her the way they had been doing since she came back. She opened her small purse, brought out a sachet of Paracetamol, removed two from the foil and quickly swallowed it without using water or any liquid. It tasted bitter, very bitter but it was alright by her as personally she didn't care.
When she was about getting to the counselor's office, she started dragging her feet, wishing the distance could grow longer. As she was about opening the door, the door was opened from inside, and Mrs. Lewis smelling as lovely as ever and smiling her million watts smile that had endeared students to her over the years and made them confide secrets to her, was holding a delicious smelling steaming cup of beverage in her hand. On the table in front of Innocenta was a plate with slices of heavily buttered bread and two boiled eggs but before she could react, the woman gathered her close, pulled her to a comfortable chair and looking pleadingly asked the girl to please share her breakfast with her.
The girl was perplexed, but decided to take it in stride, peradventure the woman who was tagged in the school as; 'the woman who knows all' had discovered that she skipped breakfast or saw her taking those pills but whatever it was, it won't be to her advantage to refuse. So, sitting gingerly, she took a cup of beverage from the woman and forcefully swallowed it. It took more than sheer efforts on her part to swallow the bread that were like rocks in her throat but not to allow the woman initiate that she visit the school's infirmary, something which she hated so much, she forced the unwanted meal down her throat.
While she ate, she looked up again and again, gazed at the woman but Mrs. Lewis paid her little attention. She was just humming and munching her meal. This gave Inno considerable time to think about what she was sure the woman wanted to discuss with her, the fateful catastrophic wedding of her mum and how it had or was still affecting her.
All her life, she had had to live with the shame and embarrassments kids unknowingly heaped on her especially when they flaunted things bought by their dad or asked annoying questions about her father and why he wasn't with them. Though a good girl, she had had to tell countless lies over the years to her peers as to stop them from harassing her. It was not uncommon for her to tell her friends her dad had travelled outside the country. Though this lie held for some years, but when the kids came back after hearing contrary things from their own parents who were at first also eaten up with curiosity about herself and her mum, she had to start telling them her dad was dead.
At times, she would spin tales that had Guinness Book of Record heard about it, they would probably have written her name as the world best liar. To worsen things, she had stopped asking after her dad when she realized that whenever she does that, her mum would shed tears and would most likely be moody for days after that. When this happened, she got spanked for slight misbehaviors, something her mother rarely does. Engr. Lawal's death gave her a cover as she could tell everyone her father was late until one of the smarter and naughtier kids asked her that, if the late Engr. was actually her father, how come she wasn't called Innocenta Lawal? That day, she cried till nightfall though she didn't tell her mother her reason for crying.
Most people don't know how difficult it is being raised by a single mother. Though she was very close to her mum and loved her wholeheartedly but, she had to grow up much faster than her peers. She was the one who listened to whatever was bothering her mum and had to watch her mum's struggle and trials without being able to do anything about it. There were countless nights she cried for her mum and her lonely life particularly because her mum rarely had female friends. Most of those friends tried to match make her and if she refused, avoided her because they were scared she was after their husband. Neither could she have male friends as most of them were only interested in her money.
She remembered that time when she was barely seven and a neighbor had shouted on and embarrassed her mum. This was because the woman's husband had been in their flat a couple of times; she was not even daunted by explanations that her man was just being nice and brotherly. It was that pathetic!
She swallowed the bread she had been chewing, picked the egg and took little bites. The phone on the table suddenly rang; Mrs. Lewis picked it, listened for some seconds and in that soothing voice of hers excused herself. When the door closed, Inno breathed a sigh of relief, but maybe it was the warm cup of beverage she's holding as she had read somewhere that it had a way of soothing the nerves. She also realized her headache had reduced considerably, however she continued with her train of thoughts.
Being in an exclusive all girls' school slightly helped but that didn't stop her from feeling dejected with how hard her mother had to work. She compensated her mother by being obedient and extra smart; never got lower than being 3rd position since she started school. When her mother's wedding invitation was sent to her, she felt trepidation and had double feelings though she tried to be excited for her mom.
She tried been excited as it would boost her morale at finally having a father figure. After all, her peers had made it seemed like the biggest loss. I mean growing without a dad but realistically, fear of the unknown grew by bounds when her friend Juliet shared the experience of how her step dad raped her elder sister. She was no longer a kid, but deep down was fears of all those horrible things she had heard about steps, either step dad or step mum.
At times she wished her mum would stop bothering about getting married. It embarrassed her that though she was in senior class, her mum was getting married and doing a societal wedding at that. Not that Kayode her mother's fiancé was a stranger to her; it's just that fear of uncharted waters that made her anxious.
Few years back, she had asked her mum why she was been sent to a boarding school. However, her mum had explained to her that it was because of the nature of her job as a doctor. As she would have had to stay at home alone most of the time or with a maid and this could be dangerous especially when she had to do night shifts. She knew what her mum was trying to guide against but she couldn't help but feel cheated that if she had a complete family, that wouldn't have been the case. Imagine! She never even knew what her father looked like.
Most of the things she learnt about her dad and even mom were from her grandma. Grandma had done this so she could realize the extent of her debt to her mother who chose to keep her rather than had an abortion or dropped her with her 'useless' father. She so wanted the girl to do well and behave herself as a payback for all her mum had suffered. But to the old woman making her feel guilt for been born was the surest path. The best way the old woman could think of was by telling the girl about the horrible past. Not that she blamed those who told her those stories; it was just that they had given her a driving force, a self-motivational factor which had sort of turned her into a stiff collar among her peers.
Don't misunderstood, not that she had in any way blamed her mum, but she just felt cheated out of a complete life. If not, why should she remain the only child of her mother? She was at an age when she questioned everything and she was doing it. Her diary was filled with diverse emotions and thoughts that could sink a ship. To worsen things, she had been so scared of relating to opposite sex, and her sexuality was scaring living daylights out of her.
She took her mind to the wedding, to each scene on that fateful day. She was so immersed in reliving the pain that tears almost spilled down her face. When she remembered that lady raising her hand that she was not in support of the wedding, she could hold it no more. Pain gripped her tiny heart and tears rode down her cheeks in accompaniment.
Though she would have loved to stay back as to be with her mum at that crucial moment, she had to return to school. She had to because promotional examinations would soon start which she had to partake of. The thought of school however, made her shivered as she knew everyone in school would have heard the humiliating story.
She had felt like commanding the ground to swallow her alive rather than return to the school. Everyone at home was filled with pity for her mum and all they thought of was supporting mum. At the end not an iota of pity was left spared for her. Some people had even advised her to take good care of her mum. No one thought that peradventure she was suffering as much as her mother or even slightly more than her. To them only her mother was a victim. But what of her, isn't she more of a victim of a situation orchestrated by her mom?
Being in a blue blood school filled with all those rich and spoilt kids had not helped matters. The school had been bursting with gossip about the infamous wedding when she got back. She even saw some students show themselves pictures from the wedding that were in soft sell magazines. She felt violated by the way they kept talking, pointed fingers at her and gave her those horrible sidelong glances she had come to hate.
How would she explain all these to Mrs. Lewis please? That she was annoyed at everything and everyone for being denied a chance to grow normally? That there was that horrible fear of whether any man would ever love her without considering her background? Before the horrible incident, she had worked towards being made the head girl and student president. This was a position for the best of the best student, which was deeply coveted by all students even their junior secondary school day. It was coveted because of the prestige associated and also because such a girl after her final exams would be given scholarship to further her education, wherever she desired.
Inno was selected with other prospective candidates and had taken two out of the three stages of required tests. The tests were necessary because most of the students were extra-ordinarily brilliant, and was done in stages as they disqualified candidates after each stage. However because of what had happened, she had not been able to concentrate on reading, neither had she completed her project. It was all so unfair, so unfair!!! She swallowed hard, forcing back the tears of self-pity that were threatening to spill again. Just then, Mrs. Lewis returned and brought sunshine to the gloomy atmosphere.
To Innocenta's biggest surprise, the woman didn't even ask her a single question. She only smiled and inquired if she enjoyed the meal. She even apologized for leaving her alone for such a considerable long time. Amazing still, the woman started chatting about things happening in the school. She spoke like someone sharing gossip with a colleague and not a troubled student but when they heard the sound of the bell, she told her to go. Inno was puzzled but relieved all the same. She thanked the woman for the meal and silently left her office. Going back to the class, her heart became heavy once more, as she's sure most of her classmates knew she was called into Lewis's office.
Though she had never told her mum, she had been treated in the school on countless occasions for insomnia, melancholia, migraine and all sorts. There was a time she was barred from writing tests in the school because they feared her mental condition. The school nurse told her she was being too serious minded. According to their diagnosis, it had affected her thus being the cause of the insomnia.
Two weeks before any examination, she would stop eating and sleeping which, mainly caused the migraine. The school had written to her mum but she had been able to intercept such letter by bribing their maid at home to read any mail from her school before. She had taught the girl to read, so unless it's the annual report, all letters that had to do with the concern of the school over her health and mental well-being, never got to her mum.
Her friend Regina had taught her forgery, something almost every student of the school had done at one time or the other. The students did this so that certain reports would not get to their parents. As to join the band, one holiday, she stole her mother's office letter-headed paper. This had enabled her to reply any letter from the school herself once Titi the housemaid had sent the original copy back to her. After which she would drop it off in the school's mail box.
Students in the boarding school are so full of mischief that even at a school as highly reputed as hers, outsmarting the school authorities was a kind of competition. While those who had been able to invent and had successfully carried out such mischief on the school were acknowledged as the 'swag queen'.
For instance, though receiving letters from anyone not recognized as your registered relative was forbidden, the students had opened their own unofficial mail box. This was behind the last hostel next to a thick bush. A cleaner whom they bribed from time to time brought such letters and posted theirs.
Another example of their dare devil attitude was the issue of lesbianism in the school. Senior students initiated their school daughters (favorite junior girls) into such cult, and they were taught the act of lesbianism. They were even made to swear on a coffin with a cross marked on it with red. They swore that should they divulge the secret of the group that practised sex orgy at light out, or have sex with boys; such girl would die horribly. They were a known secret among fellow students and there were even rumours that maybe one or two of their teachers were their patrons. There had been countless tales told of girls who disappeared in their dorm mysteriously or developed strange illness. These were believed to have happened because they disobeyed. Although no one had a proof of those horrible tales, yet they spread like wild fire among the girls.
When Innocenta started having insomnia and had to be drugged to sleep, she repeated bizarre things in her sleep. This made Chinyere and her gang, a set of malicious girls who had been her nemesis since JSS 1 to spread tales about her. They said she belonged to the dreaded cult and because of her fickleness had betrayed them. This according to them was why she was experiencing hallucination and those strange sicknesses.
They even whispered to others that anyone who moved with her would most likely be affected, which made almost everyone to nearly avoid her like plague. Being one of the most brilliant students in the school should have attracted throngs of junior girls to her. Alas! They were all too scared of what the consequences could be to associate with her. Many ignored her, which made her live an almost solitary life in the school, thus the cause of her melancholia.
She had hoped that if she was elected student body president for the year, it would endear students to her. It would also enable her use the opportunity to make new friends and also use her influence to prove her innocence of all charges. How she could be a lesbian when no one had proof of a sexual advancement from her to anyone was beyond her. But, high school's students' mindset rarely made sense!
She had even gone to the ridiculous extent of befriending a boy from an all-boys school that at times socialized with girls from her school. The only thing that achieved was to further cement her colleagues' mind that indeed she was fickle.
A few days to the third step of the student body president selection test, Innocenta was as usual unable to sleep. She turned up and down on her bed thereby disturbing her bunk mate. After she heard repeated hissing and murmuring from Silver, she stood up, opened her purse and brought out sleeping pills. She hated having to do this especially since the school nurse had warned her against using pills to lure herself into sleep. Unfortunately by then, she developed a crutch and won't sleep without it.
The school had stopped giving her sleeping pills when they noticed the danger she faced from been too used to it. She however sorted herself. She was able to sneak in supplies sent by her boyfriend and the one sent by Titi through their illegal mailbox. However that night, though she knew she wouldn't blink an eye without it, she felt reluctant to use it.
'Well, tomorrow is Saturday' she thought 'I will use that opportunity to sleep late'.
Having concluded in her mind, she uncapped the bottle and instead of two, swallowed four pills her usual way. Which was, swallowing drugs without taking water and in less than 15minutes, she fell into deep sleep.
Around 2.30am, one of the students in Elegance dorm wanted to charge her phone, unfortunately the school authorities had removed all the sockets. This was done to prevent the students from trying to use boiling ring in the hostel, ironing or even attempt to cook. These are sins for which they had had to expel some students and had suspended others in the past. All these however, did not deter the students; she took two sticks to bring out the red and black wires. She cautiously stripped it and with greatest care wrapped each of the coils to the mouth of her charger. She was not scared; it was one of those things that students did all the time and even a year one student would do it without being scared of getting electrocuted. When she was satisfied with what she had done, she went back to sleep.
Around 3.45am, Silver, Innocenta's bunkmate woke up from her delicious sleep. She was happy that for once she could sleep without Inno using her bad sleeping habit to disturb her. It was too good to be true. As much as she tolerated her 'bunkie', she hated when anything disturbed her sleep. She could' kill' because of it and many nights Inno had had to bear the brunt of her anger. She stood up, stretched lazily and made her way to the bathroom. Coming back, she had the urge to go outside for some fresh natural breeze instead of the air-conditioned air in the dorm though this was prohibited.
Tiptoeing and moving as silently as a cat stalking a mouse, she opened the door and stood on the balcony. She stared at the moonless sky that was decorated with billions of jewel-like stars that were doing all they could to illuminate the night. It was so beautiful and she sopped up the serenity awhile.
Suddenly, light was switched on in a building not too far from where she was and quickly ducked, heart in her mouth. She waited awhile but sensing her house mistress was also probably going to answer the call of nature she relaxed. At first she thought the woman had seen her but still, it would be disastrous should the matron look in her direction and see her silhouette.
She hurried inside, locked the balcony door and was about returning to her bed when she noticed that the air in the room was heavy. Peradventure it was because she had been outside a while. She stood still, looked around the dorm for anything out of place. But, it was difficult to ascertain as the room was dark. She moved towards her bed, pulled back the covers and was about to jump in when she decided to do another surveillance, she almost missed it.
She jumped up, looked at it very well and yes, beside Jumai's bed by that socket where they did their illegal charging, smoke was coming out. The whole wire was red and was glowing and some things had caught fire. At first fear held her tongue but as if by magic it loosened it, she swallowed hard and screamed;
'Fire, Fire, Fire, everybody wake-up, the dorm is on fire fireeeee'
She was screaming so hard, that almost everyone woke up instantly. Unfortunately, articles of clothes flung in haste accidentally towards that direction became engulfed. Pandemonium rose, to worsen the situation, their dorm was upstairs so they were all clambering towards the stairs. Some were coughing so hard that they had to be held by their fellow dorm mates. Two or three went towards the balcony and decided to risk their limbs rather than burn alive.
In a matter of minutes the whole compound came alive and even those whose dorm were far from theirs had joined in the noise. The dorm mistresses quickly left their rooms and hurried to the scene of the outbreak to put out the fire and save what they could. Fire extinguishers were brought out, students and even non-teaching staff could be seen with buckets of water striving to put out the fire. One of the teachers picked her phone and quickly dialed the fire service.
While they were doing this, it occurred to one of the teachers to count the girls from Elegance. They noticed four were missing out of fifteen but no one was sure whether they were still in the room. This was because each of the girls was busy trying to escape the fiery arms of fire to notice anyone else. When the head dorm mistress was notified, she became scared that per adventure the missing girls were in the room. Against the advice of her colleagues; she decided to risk her life to enter the burning Elegance.
She tried to recollect all she had learnt about fire rescue. She soaked a towel in water, tied it round her mouth and nostrils and went towards the fire while the others held their breath, though most of the students were crying. She remembered reading somewhere that when you are in a burning room you try to stay flat on the floor, though she couldn't recollect why. She went flat on her belly and snake like tried climbing the stairs but it wasn't easy. When she was hit by the full force of the smoke that was trying desperately to escape, she almost ran out but then, the thought of facing the parents of the four kids pushed her on.
She had not been gone long when men of fire service entered the school, and before long they moved everyone away while they did their work. After almost two hours of great battle, the fire was put out. They rescued six person altogether plus the head dorm-mistress from the furnace. The students were forced to go into the hall, so they wouldn't behold the ugly spectacle. Tears rained from their teachers' eyes when two of the girls were brought out dead, burnt so much that it was horrible to look at. However, the others were unconscious, and from the look the chances of their survival was very slim.
Quickly, they were placed inside the ambulance and were rushed to the hospital. However, because it was a Saturday, the normal route that the ambulance should have taken to the hospital and gotten there in 25minutes took him over an hour. The ambulance had to detour more than once whenever he saw canopies on the government roads. Canopies placed there by people who were having parties that Saturday morning and had decided to block the road instead of renting a hall or using a school field.
Who would willingly pay the exorbitant fees charged by event centre owners when you could pay chicken fees to those greedy local government officials and make use of government road? Such money could even be used to buy more food and drinks for your guests or what do you think? Everyone else could go to hell.
Indeed, students of Ave Maria Intl College did go to hell, because by the time the ambulance could get to the hospital, two of the remaining victims were dead. One was the Head dorm-mistress and the other was Innocenta Remilekun, her mother's only light in a cloudy sky.
Against All Odds - by Tope Adeagbo (Nigeria)


Late 18th and early 19th century Sewing Kits or 'Housewives' were made for women or men to carry both sewing supplies (to fix on the go) and also to carry jewelry or money. Here is an example extant version from Winterthur.
Inspired by lovely extant examples and the great use of something like this for someone like me who loves to bring a small sewing bag with me for getting a bit of sewing done 'on the go,' I decided to make one of these last year.
I recently finished another Sewing Kit or 'Housewife' a la 18th/19th century, burgundy silk brocade with embroidered gold bees, trimmed with mustard and gold silk. I used leftovers from my recent court robe, made bias binding for the kit and then hand sewed it all together: it was a lot of fun! I can't wait to use this to store needles, pins, scissors, thread and more!
Here's a link to the original Sewing Kit 'Housewife' I made last year. It was a fun and quick hand sewing project, and I use it ALL the time when I bring sewing with me, so I decided to make myself another one or two (*smile*).
Then I thought, 'hey, maybe others would be interested in a pattern for one." and "hey, I have some great fabrics on hand that I can make up some lovely and unique kits with", so I created 20 kits with pattern instructions so folks can sew their own 18th/19th century Sewing Kit 'Housewife'. I have to admit, I enjoyed cutting it all out, coordinating fabrics and colors, being creative and putting the kits together and making all the binding.
KITS for making up your own Sewing Kits and Pattern Instructions are available now on Etsy, as well as Sewing Kit 'Housewife' Pattern instructions on Etsy available as a digital download.
I hope you are inspired to make your own 18th/19th century sewing kit or have already made one!
Comment here to share your plans or questions.
I'm happy that now I have something protecting the court robe a bit!


Earlier this month, several members of the Research Data Alliance had the pleasure of attending and participating in the 41st IASSIST Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. With the theme "Bridging the Data Divide: Data in the International Context," the conference provided an ideal venue for us to exchange perspectives with attendees on numerous data-related challenges and trends as well as share recent accomplishments of the RDA.
We were intrigued by the presentation of Steven Ruggles, Director of the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota, which covered the U.S. Census' role in data innovation and the Minnesota Population Center's project to connect census data. Curtiss Cobb, manager at Facebook, was impressive during his discussion detailing Facebook's approach in evaluating and aggregating publicly available data to conduct in-depth analyses. In the presentation covering the implementation of an open data policy in Minneapolis, Andrew Johnson, city councilor, clearly demonstrated the importance of government's role in ensuring the accessibility of data to the public.
• A terminology query tool, already adopted by DataFed and CLARIN, which ensures researchers use common terminology when referring to data.
• A data type model and registry that provides machine-readable and researcher-accessible registries of data types that support the accurate use of data.
• A Prototype Metadata Standards Directory describing hundreds of metadata standards in an editable and transparent system with full version control.
Overall, with an agenda encompassing plenaries, workshops and various meetings, the IASSIST conference did an excellent job in covering numerous data-related topics that impact the social sciences as well as numerous other disciplines. We look forward to participating in future IASSIST events and working with the organization to continue to raise awareness on the importance of data sharing and exchange.
These are my brief notes from the sessions I was able to attend and take notes (a few times I was unable to stay in a session because of questions elsewhere). I would suggest looking at the twitter feed if you are interested. We had a new member taking sketch notes during the conference, which were quite popular. Also Laurence Horton from LSE took very detailed Google Doc notes and wrote a great blog post.
Day 1 kicked off with a fantastic plenary by Steve Ruggles from the conference host, Minnesota Population Center (MPC). His talk focused on the development of the Census over time. His main argument was that the Census Bureau (CB) played a tremendous role in developing innovative technology and data collection methods during the early years through the mid-twentieth century, but that the more recent Census years have seen stagnation and a loss in the CB's leadership. While depressing at points, Ruggles highlighted a few collaborations between the CB and the MPC that are promising such as the Census Longitudinal Infrastructure Project (CLIP).
I chaired a session entitled Training Data Users. King-Hele discussed training efforts at the UK Data Archive. Primarily they have concentrated on in-person workshops, but they have also started creating webinars and training guides/videos. I'm looking forward to checking some of these out during my summer! Katharin Peter at the Univ of Southern California talked about supporting data-related assignments. Her univ had a competitive grant program for faculty to encourage the creation of these assignments in conjunction with instructional designers and Katharin as the data librarian. Although USC was able to offer significant grant amounts, I think faculty could be encouraged with much lower amounts at other schools. Another incentive could be the creation of communities of practice where faculty can share and learn. They will eventually create a repository of data assignments but that is in the early stages. Finally Kristin Eschenfelder and her team from Univ of Wisconsin (Go Badgers!) closed out our session. They used the IASSIST journal, IQ, to analyze connections between Social Science Data Archives over time. Using historical network analysis they were able to track the interactions between the different archives and funding agencies. It is a really interesting project and I can't wait to see where they go with more data. They were also part of our new paper track and were required to submit a paper in advance, which anyone can access. They also won the first paper award prize.
The plenary for day 2 was a bit controversial, but we meant it that way. We had Curtiss Cobb, head of the Population and Survey Sciences Team at Facebook, talk about Facebook's interest in the digital divide in the developing world and its initiative Internet.org. They have also been acquiring third party data to inform their research, so Curtiss discussed his evaluative framework for acquiring data. Again, Laurence has more notes on the specifics of the talk. While there were questions about Facebook's "altruistic" intentions, I enjoyed having an outside perspective on social science data and its use.
I also attended a fabulous session with the Minnesota Population Center on their various data programs. So much goodness in this one. They talked about their products from the old standbys like IPUMS-USA and IPUMS-International to newer products like Terra Populus, which integrates environmental and population data. The one I am really excited about for my history graduate work and haven't used much is the North Atlantic Population Project. With our Atlantic World focus at UNCG, it seems that this could be popular.
One of my favorite sessions brought together geospatial data and qualitative data specialists, two areas that are increasingly popular in libraries. Andy Rutkowski formerly of USC talked about combining GIS methods with qualitative data especially archival information. It was a really nice discussion of the more theoretical aspects of these techniques. In addition, Mandy Swygart-Hobaugh talked about her analysis of job postings related to qualitative data support in libraries. She found that it is an under-supported area. You can read more about her project soon in the edited volume Databrarianship: The Academic Data Librarian In Theory And Practice, coming to a library near you in Fall(ish) 2015.
The last session I could attend was Training Data Users II. David Fearon and Jennifer Darragh from Johns Hopkins talked about training for de-identifying human subjects in data sets. This is a really cool and extremely specialized service, but one that I am sure lots of faculty would welcome with the new sharing requirements. They developed their workshop information from a training session offered by ICPSR. They have some handouts, but I couldn't get the URL down in time. I will add when it is available.
Finally, we closed out with a plenary talk by Andrew Johnson (no, not that Andrew Johnson) on Politics of Open Data. He is a city council ward representative for Minneapolis and was one of the creators of What We Pay For, a website that tracks federal government spending and connects your salary to actual government expenditures. He talked about his interest in providing open data access and the political roadblocks he encountered along the way. Great way to end a conference all about data!
The presentation, poster, and pecha kucha PowerPoints are being collected now. We will make them available as possible, but unfortunately there may be a delay. If you are interested in any particular presentation, get in touch with me and I can send you more information. Overall it was definitely the best IASSIST ever.


UT has developed an interdisciplinary watershed minor for undergraduate and graduate students wishing to develop expanded skills in watershed science/engineering, planning and design, and culture and policy issues related to water. This minor is housed in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources. It first became available as an option beginning with the Fall 2012 catalog.