I don't see what the problem is, it's not like he even cast magic missile at one of the kids.
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We can't have these sorcerers and conjurers casting spells about all willy nilly. That toothpick could have re-materialized in a child's eye!!! He simply can't be trusted around children if he can't learn to use his powers responsibly.
LAND 'O LAKES, Florida? Why does it seem like Florida really wishes it was Minnesota sometimes? Trouble is, they are obviously not cool enough to be Minnesota. I think "Land 'o Lakes" needs a different name. I recommend Salem based on the evidence provided.
BULLSKIN TOWNSHIP, Pa. -- A cruel collar forced a dog to undergo surgery. The mixed breed border collie was found wearing a collar full of fishhooks; and one of the hooks created a hole in the dog's neck.
Humane officers at the SPCA in North Union told Channel 11 this was an unusual case of animal cruelty and they have no idea who is responsible or why someone would do something so terrible.
The dog is recovering from surgery to remove a fish hook from his neck -- one of 15 that someone had attached to the inside of his collar.
SPCA Humane Officer Elizabeth Davidson said a resident found the dog wandering along Englishman Hill Road in Bullskin Township.
“When we found the collar it was extremely tight on the dog,” Davidson said.
No one knows for sure how just how long the dog, which rescuers named Hooks, had been walking around with the collar full of fish hooks. But humane officers want to get to the bottom of this and soon.
“Very sad story, but if anyone has information on owner of dog or knows how dog may have ended up in that condition,” Davidson said to let animal officials know.
Hooks is on antibiotics to prevent an infection.
Humane officers said that if the dog had not gotten treatment when he did, he probably would have died within a few days.
A girl of 13 killed herself after becoming obsessed with a fashion which links death with glamour, an inquest heard.
Hannah Bond hanged herself from her bunk bed with a tie after becoming an "Emo".
Emo fans wear dark clothes, practise self-harm and listen to "suicide cult" rock bands.
Two weeks before her death, she started following U.S. band My Chemical Romance.
One of their songs contains the lyrics: "Although you're dead and gone, believe me your memory will go on."
Hannah, described as a model pupil, had started cutting her wrists but told her father it was part of an initiation into the Emo fashion.
Coroner Roger Sykes said yesterday that Hannah's death was "not glamorous, just simply a tragic loss of a young life".
Hannah's mother Heather told the inquest she had researched the trend since her daughter's death.
"There are websites that show pink teddies hanging themselves," she said.
"She called Emo a fashion and I thought it was normal."
She added: "Hannah was a normal girl. She had loads of friends. She could be a bit moody but I thought it was just because she was a teenager."
Hannah's father Ray, a karate teacher, said: "Two weeks before, I saw the cuts. I asked her about them and she said it was an Emo initiation.
"She promised me she would never do it again."
Hannah gave her name as Living Disaster on her page on social networking website Bebo.
The page is decorated with a picture of an Emo girl with bloody wrists after slashing herself.
Another picture shows a child's exercise book scrawled with the words: "Dear Diary, today I give up. . ."
The inquest in Maidstone, Kent, heard Hannah had been with her boyfriend at a friend's house on the evening of September 22 last year.
She had been angry when she was told she was not allowed to sleep over and when she got home in East Peckham she went straight to her room, saying: "I want to kill myself."
The inquest was told Hannah had not used drugs or alcohol before her death but Vanessa Everett, her head teacher at Mascalls School, said self-harm had become commonplace among other Emo fans.
Recording a verdict of suicide, Mr Sykes said: "The Emo overtones concerning death and associating it with glamour I find very disturbing."
•The Emo phenomenon began in the U.S. in the 1980s. It is a largely teenage trend and is characterised by depression, self-injury and suicide.
Followers wear tight jeans with studded belts and wristbands. Their hair is dyed black and worn in long fringes to obscure their faces.
Emo - from the word emotional - is a reference to the angst-filled lyrics and melancholy themes of the rock music central to the culture.
One of the foremost of these "suicide cult" bands is My Chemical Romance, from New Jersey.
Their first single, Welcome to the Black Parade, from the album The Black Parade, was released in 2006 and became a huge hit, going to number one in Britain.
The concept album follows the story of a character called The Patient, who dies of cancer.
The Black Parade is a nickname for the place where Emo fans believe they will go when they die.
Residents fighting plans for a new Norman Foster-designed skyscraper in central London intend to declare 'independence' to prevent it being built in their small parish of Norton Folgate.
Like the fictional residents of Pimlico in the Ealing comedy, Passport to Pimlico, opponents claim they could have an ancient right to self-determination which they will use to stop Bishop's Place, a £700m scheme by property developer Hammerson.
They say maps uncovered in the City of London's Guildhall Library show that Norton Folgate still has the status of a distinct district and that its historic boundary gives them the right to resist central planning law in the capital.
The scheme would create 645,000 sq ft of offices, 310 flats and a hotel. Standing next to Liverpool Street's new Broadgate Tower, it will be a similar height and has been approved by Hackney council. It is destined for a corner of the area Railtrack sold to Hammerson six years ago.
The area, which lies between Bishopsgate and Shoreditch, was originally the precinct of the Priory and Hospital of St Mary Spital. When the land reverted to the Crown during the Reformation, a small extra-parochial 'liberty' retained its separate status and came under the jurisdiction of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral. In Elizabethan times it was a popular haunt for artists and writers because it was outside the walls of the City and escaped its jurisdiction. Playwrights Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson lived in the parish.
It was thought the liberty had been abolished in 1900, but the newly uncovered documents cast doubt over whether it was ever properly abolished.
Support for the campaign to preserve the area from more skyscrapers comes from English Heritage, Cabe (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment), the Georgian Group, the Spitalfields Trust and, unexpectedly, from the singer Suggs, frontman of the band Madness, who is about to release an album and a song called 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate'. The skyscraper would mean the demolition of a Victorian electricity generation site known as The Light and run as a bar. Five thousand have signed a Save the Light petition.
Robin Stummer, an architectural expert who works in the area, found the maps and documents when he was doing research into St Leonard's church in Shoreditch, where William Shakespeare is believed to have worshipped. He handed his findings over to the barrister who has been engaged to fight the threat to the Light bar.
'This could well be of great significance in the matter of the proposed development,' said Stummer. 'The barrister confirmed there could well be grounds for questioning the status of Norton Folgate, some of which could pertain to building rights and consent.'
Suggs says that his interest in the area began when he first read about the idea of the 'liberty'.
'It was outside the law - the law was inside the walls; on the outside you could just do what you liked. So all the people inside on a Friday night would go to the outside and hang out with the newcomers and the crazy goings on.
'I think that's a great analogy for the way London is, it's always been like that.'
FRESNO, California (AP) -- A biochemist was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Friday for killing her estranged husband by knocking him out and stuffing him into a vat of acid, possibly while he was still alive.
Larissa Schuster was convicted in December of murdering Timothy Schuster with the special circumstance that the murder was committed for financial gain. At the time of his death in July 2003, the Schusters were in the middle of a divorce after nearly 20 years of marriage.
Just days after Timothy Schuster was reported missing, his half-dissolved remains -- intact from only the belt buckle down -- were found inside a 55-gallon barrel concealed in a storage unit his wife had rented.
Kristin Schuster, the couple's adult daughter, told the judge that she felt safer knowing her mother would be behind bars.
"I've been living for five years not knowing if I would have to worry for my own safety," she said. "In your quest to become a dominating power freak, you became your own demon. You have hurt me for so many years and probably smiled inside, but look who's smiling now."
At the sentencing hearing for the 47-year-old Schuster, the judge also rejected her attorney's motion for a new trial.
Prosecutors said Schuster and her former lab assistant, James Fagone, first immobilized Timothy Schuster with a stun gun and a chloroform-soaked rag. Then they bound his hands and feet, dumped his body headfirst into a barrel while he was still breathing and poured hydrochloric acid on him.
Fagone has already been sentenced to life in prison without parole for first-degree murder and burglary.
U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has a malignant brain tumor, doctors treating him at Massachusetts General Hospital said Tuesday.
Kennedy was hospitalized Saturday morning after suffering a seizure at his family's compound at Hyannisport, Massachusetts.
"Preliminary results from a biopsy of the brain identified the cause of the seizure as a malignant glioma in the left parietal lobe," according to a statement from the doctors treating the senator.
"The usual course of treatment includes combinations of various forms of radiation and chemotherapy," they said.
"Decisions regarding the best course of treatment for Senator Kennedy will be determined after further testing and analysis," the doctors continued.
"Senator Kennedy will remain at Massachusetts General Hospital for the next couple of days according to routine protocol. He remains in good spirits and full of energy."
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We can't have these sorcerers and conjurers casting spells about all willy nilly. That toothpick could have re-materialized in a child's eye!!! He simply can't be trusted around children if he can't learn to use his powers responsibly.
Well, rescuers sure don't seem that affected by the sadness of the story.
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