7 die in rains, landslide in Latin America
At least seven people died in a Caracas slum due to heavy rains from Tropical Storm Matthew, which brought fresh misery to a region were hundreds have been killed in flooding and landslides this year.
An unrelated freak storm in Haiti killed at least five survivors from its devastating January quake and wounded dozens as it blasted through the capital Port-au-Prince, tearing down shabby tent homes, trees and power lines. Tropical Storm Matthew killed its seven victims on Friday in the Santa Ana de Antimano neighborhood after their home was flooded.Caracas fire chief William Martinez said authorities also conducted preventive evictions in other high-risk areas.Thousands of people had been evacuated elsewhere in Central America ahead of Matthew, which made landfall in a lightly populated area of northeastern Nicaragua, then headed west, dumping rain across much of northern Honduras. The storm was moving west-northwest at 24km per hour.
Protests continued against ARY NEWS closure
August 9, 2010 by Trend PK
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KARACHI: Journalist and civil society activists continued their protest Monday against the ban on ARY NEWS transmission in many cities of the country, the channel reported.
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Court grants Jennifer Aniston restraining order
August 9, 2010 by Trend PK
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SANTA MONICA, USA: A court commissioner has granted Jennifer Aniston a restraining order against a man authorities say traveled cross country to try to meet the actress.
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clinton
May 3, 2010 by Trend PK
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States has 5,113 nuclear warheads in its stockpile and “several thousand” more retired warheads awaiting the junkpile, the Pentagon said Monday in an unprecedented accounting of a secretive arsenal born in the Cold War and now shrinking rapidly.
The Obama administration disclosed the size of its atomic stockpile going back to 1962 as part of a campaign to get other nuclear nations to be more forthcoming, and to improve its bargaining position against the prospect of a nuclear Iran.
“We think it is in our national security interest to be as transparent as we can be about the nuclear program of the United States,” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters at the United Nations, where she addressed a conference on containing the spread of atomic weapons.
The U.S. has previously regarded such details as top secret.
The figure includes both “strategic,” or long-range weapons, and those intended for use at shorter range.
The Pentagon said the stockpile of 5,113 as of September 2009 represents a 75 percent reduction since 1989.
A rough count of deployed and reserve warheads has been known for years, so the Pentagon figures do not tell nuclear experts much they don’t already know.
Hans Kristensen, director of Nuclear Information Project, Federation of American Scientists in Washington, said his organization had already put the number at around 5,100 by reviewing budget estimates and other documents.
The import of the announcement is the precedent it sets, Kristensen said.
“The important part is that the U.S. is no longer going to keep other countries in the dark,” he said.
Clinton said the disclosure of numbers the general public has never seen “builds confidence” that the Obama administration is serious about stopping the spread of atomic weapons and reducing their numbers.
santa cruz
May 3, 2010 by Trend PK
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Santa Cruz police ask FBI to help investigate downtown riot
ANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz police on Monday asked the FBI to help investigate what they believe was a “methodical and coordinated” attack on the city Saturday night.
Police also announced that they arrested a second man in connection with the downtown riot that caused more than $100,000 in damage to 18 businesses.
Police spokesman Zach Friend said investigators believe the attack was premeditated because officers received two phone calls for shots fired and a man down prior to the violent outburst. Friend said the calls appear to have been make to “divert police and fire resources away from the riot.” Officers found no problems at the scenes of the diversionary calls, Friend said.
Investigators said the rally of about 250 began as an advertised May Day event for worker’s rights was “unsanctioned” and used as “political and physical cover for the organized anarchist group.” The night of the riot, a Santa Cruz police officer responding to the downtown gathering was surrounded by demonstrators who jumped on his squad car hood, poured paint on it and pelted the sides with rocks.
Investigators will be working with the FBI to identify any individuals on videos pulled from downtown businesses and available online.
A second man arrested at the downtown riot was identified Monday by UC Santa Cruz police as Santa Cruz transient Thomas Williams.
Williams, 41, was covered in the paint used in the downtown vandalisms, according to
Friend. When officers contacted Williams on Saturday, he became agitated and resisted police. Friend said Williams also was highly intoxicated. Investigators are looking into whether Williams was directly involved with the vandalisms
Where is Santa Right Now
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Where is Santa Right Now was first posted on December 24, 2009 at 7:40 pm.
Santa Escape Walkthrough
December 25, 2009 by Trend PK
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TrendPK.com Santa Escape Walkthrough:New York: Santa’s Escape Walkthrough Game! Santa’s Escape is the latest Room Escape game released by GamesHandbook.
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The game is about, Santa has been kidnapped. And to make his safe release one must go into the cave, find Santa and help him escape so he won’t miss Christmas.
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Norad Santa Tracker 2009
December 24, 2009 by Trend PK
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TrendPK.com Norad Santa Tracker 2009:Christmas! Friends are you eager to know where is Santa on this Christmas eve? Well you can track him on Google Earth, thanks to NORAD’s Santa Tracker site.
NORAD does this thing through a partnership with Google that began in 2007. NORAD’s Santa Tracker in 2009 aims to track [...]
David Goldman Sean,David Goldman Brazil
December 24, 2009 by Trend PK
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TrendPK.com David Goldman Sean,David Goldman Brazil :After a five-year international custody battle, New Jersey father, David Goldman Sean and his 9 year-old son have left Brazil and are headed home for Christmas as confirmed by US congressman Rep. Chris Smith. The congressman stated that David and Sean are on their way to [...]
Jack Ketchum s The Girl Next Door
Jack Ketchum s The Girl Next Door, Based on the Jack Ketchum book of the same name, The Girl Next Door tells of the horrors hidden behind white picket fence suburbia in the 1950’s. It is an unflinchingly brutal and heartbreaking film that stays true to the book’s narrative and manages to bring the book’s disturbing scenes to shocking life.
The film begins with every kid’s favorite time of year…summertime! A time of freedom, hanging out with friends and long summer days to do whatever you want. On a dead end street in suburbia, though, the summer of ‘58 will forever change the life of a young boy. David (Daniel Manche) lives next door to the Chandlers. The Chandlers consist of single mom Ruth (Blanche Baker), whose husband ran off with another woman years ago, and her three sons, Woofer (Austin Williams), Donny (Benjamin Ross Kaplan) and Willy Jr (Graham Patrick Martin). They have just adopted their two cousins, Meg (Blythe Auffarth) and Susan (Madeline Taylor), whose parents died in a car accident. Both girls were involved in the crash, and while Meg escaped with only a few scars, younger Susan has to now walk with leg braces and crutches. David and the other boys spend their days lounging around the Chandler house (Ruth has always been a cool mom and lets them drink and smoke). David gets a crush on Meg, but begins to notice how poorly Ruth treats the girls. She verbally abuses them, and things quickly escalate to physical abuse. Woofer, Donny and Willy Jr. quickly join in, and soon even other neighborhood kids are joining in to torment the girls. David seems powerless to do anything, even when things get so bad that Ruth has Meg strung up in the basement, blindfolded and just hanging by her arms. Meg’s torture only gets more and more sadistic and brutal at the hands of Ruth, her sons and the neighborhood kids. Can David do something to help or will he too fall victim to Ruth’s insanity and cruelty?
Book adaptations are tricky to pull off, but The Girl Next Door manages to recreate the intensity and horror of Jack Ketchum’s book. The horrifying events that take place in the Chandler household feel very real and watching the film you are very aware that this could possibly be happening right next door to you. It is, in fact, based on the shocking true story of 16-year-old Sylvia Likens, who was beaten, raped and tortured until her death by an adoptive family and the neighborhood kids in Indiana in 1965.
The real crime that was committed, along with the book that was inspired by it and this film are all examples of how vile, cruel and evil some people can be. The depravity in the film is shocking, and not just because it graphically shows the torture (it doesn’t). It’s the emotion (or lack of emotion) and mob mentality behind the actions of the Chandlers and all who joined in that will really chill your bones. I run a horror review site and I’ve seen some pretty messed up stuff in my day, but the cruelty portrayed in this movie actually brought tears to my eyes.
Director Gregory Wilson films unobtrusively and lets the film unfold before our eyes. The audience is treated as a voyeur, and like David, there is nothing we can do to stop the evil occurring right before our eyes. We are stuck just watching the shocking torture that is happening to Meg and Susan. The direction is so unobtrusive that you actually feel that you are there, a trick that Jack Ketchum also pulls off in the novel.
Speaking of the novel, screenwriters Daniel Farrands and Philip Nutman did a fine job adapting the book and showing the heartbreaking emotions that Meg, Susan and David go through, as well as the hate that Ruth feels towards the younger girls. The confusion and conflict David goes through feels very real and is portrayed quite well by Daniel Manche. Blythe Auffarth does an amazing job in her portrayal of Meg. Meg’s strong will, even through extreme pain, is shown very well by Auffarth. I expect to see great things from this young actress in the future. Blanche Baker also does a great job as Ruth, really making the audience hate her.
My only complaint with the characters is that there wasn’t enough time spent on Woofer, Donny and Willy Jr. Their characters just weren’t fleshed out enough to truly buy their horrific actions. The book paints a much clearer picture as to who each one really is and what drives them to engage in such deviant and disturbing behavior. Still, with the time constraints of a film, I understand that some things needed to be trimmed down and the overall feeling of the book remains intact.
The Girl Next Door is definitely not a film for everyone. When faced with the true horrors of this world as opposed to the cartoonish and larger-than-life slashers and serial killers, most people will wet their pants after watching this film. It is a heartbreakingly brutal look at the vile nature of some humans and is packed with sincere emotion.
Jack Ketchum s The Girl Next Door was first posted on December 12, 2009 at 4:08 pm.
