Richard Chase. Richard Trenton Chase (May 23, 1950 – December 26, 1980) was an American schizophrenic serial killer who killed six people in a span of a month in Sacramento, California.
He was nicknamed "The Vampire of Sacramento" because he drank his victims' blood and cannibalized their remains. Early life[edit] Chase was born in Santa Clara County, California. As a child abused by his mother, Chase exhibited by the age of 10 evidence of the Macdonald triad: enuresis, pyromania, and zoosadism. In his adolescence, he was known as an alcoholic and a chronic drug abuser. Early adulthood[edit] Chase developed hypochondria as he matured. Once alone in the apartment, Chase began to capture, kill, and disembowel various animals, which he would then devour raw, sometimes mixing the raw organs with Coca-Cola in a blender and drinking the concoction. Institutionalization[edit] Chase was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. Chase's mother weaned him off the medication and got Chase his own apartment. Taman Shud Case. Following a public appeal by police, the copy of the Rubaiyat from which the page had been torn was located.
On the inside back cover of the book, detectives were able to read – in indentions from handwriting – a local telephone number, another unidentified number and a text that resembled an encrypted message. The text has not been deciphered or interpreted in a way that satisfies authorities on the case. Year 10,000 problem. The Year 10,000 problem (also known as the Y10K problem or the deca-millennium bug[1]) is the class of all potential software bugs that would emerge when the need to express years with five digits arises.
The problem can have discernible effects today, but is also sometimes mentioned for humorous effect as in RFC 2550. Practical relevance[edit] Historical and technological trends suggest that in the actual year 10,000 it is practically impossible that any of the data processing technology or software in use today will still be active. However, five-digit years are already a problem today for some forward-looking analysis programs, such as software that examines proposals for the long-term handling of nuclear waste.
Examples[edit] SAP R/3 handles date variables as strings of 8 characters (YYYYMMDD). The GNU Fortran compiler, g77, makes reference in run-time environment limits to year 10000 (Y10K) problems when using intrinsic functions with this compiler suite. Wilhelm Reich. Wilhelm Reich (/raɪx/; German: [ʀaɪç], 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Sigmund Freud, and one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry.
He was the author of several influential books, most notably Character Analysis (1933) and The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933).[2] His work on character contributed to the development of Anna Freud's The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defence (1936), and his idea of muscular armour – the expression of the personality in the way the body moves – shaped innovations such as body psychotherapy, Fritz Perls's Gestalt therapy, Alexander Lowen's bioenergetic analysis, and Arthur Janov's primal therapy. His writing influenced generations of intellectuals: during the 1968 student uprisings in Paris and Berlin, students scrawled his name on walls and threw copies of The Mass Psychology of Fascism at the police.[3] Valentich disappearance. The Valentich disappearance refers to the disappearance of 20-year-old Frederick Valentich while on a 125-mile (235 km) training flight in a Cessna 182L light aircraft over Bass Strait in Australia on 21 October 1978.
Described as a "flying saucer enthusiast", Valentich radioed Melbourne air traffic control that he was being accompanied by an aircraft about 1,000 feet (300 m) above him, that his engine had begun running roughly, and finally reported, "It's not an aircraft. "[1] There were belated reports of a UFO sighting in Australia on the night of the disappearance, however Associated Press reported that the Department of Transport was skeptical a UFO was behind Valentich's disappearance, and that some of their officials speculated that "Valentich became disorientated and saw his own lights reflected in the water, or lights from a nearby island, while flying upside down. John Murray Spear.
John Murray Spear (September 16, 1804 – October 5, 1887)[1] was an American Spiritualist clergyman who is most notable for his attempts to construct an electrically powered Messiah which he referred to as the "New Motive Power".
Early life[edit] Constructing the New Motive Power[edit] Later life and death[edit] Spiritualism influenced Spear throughout most of his life. His business card notes, "Guided and assisted by beneficent Spirit-Intelligences, Mr. In 1872, Spear claimed to have received a message from the Association of Electrizers urging him to retire from the ministry. References[edit] ^ Jump up to: a b c "John Murray Spear". 5.uua.org. External links[edit]