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US MASS MURDERER Charles Manson is “seriously ill” in hospital after being transferred from prison for an undisclosed medical condition.
The 82-year-old was moved from Corcoran State Prison in Kings County, California, to a hospital 60 miles (100 kilometres) to the south in Bakersfield, according to celebrity news site TMZ.
A state corrections official refused to comment on the reports and would confirm only that Manson had not died, but the Los Angeles Times cited an unnamed source who said Manson was “seriously ill,” without elaborating.
Manson headed an apocalyptic cult that committed murders in upscale, mostly white neighborhoods of Los Angeles in order to blame the crimes on African Americans, in the hope of sparking what he termed a ‘Helter Skelter’ race war.
He has been in prison for more than four decades after the 1969 killings, which included the brutal murder of director Roman Polanski’s actress wife, Sharon Tate, who was heavily pregnant.
He was sentenced to death in 1969 along with four of his ‘Manson Family’ disciples for having led the killing of seven people, but their sentences were later commuted to life in prison.
Manson, who was not actually present but ordered the killings, applied for parole in 2012 but was denied release and is not eligible to apply again until 2027.
He was granted permission in 2014 to wed then 26-year-old Afton Elaine Burton, described in US media as a slender brunette, who had been visiting him in prison.
But the 90-day license expired without the ceremony going ahead.
He was married twice before he was jailed, first to Rosalie Jean Willis from 1955 to 1958, and later to Candy Stevens between 1959 and 1963.
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Am I the only one that thinks this was over dramatised. The students could still answer the question. So what that there was 3 possible correct answers… It just means that you still had to know what you were doing(and isn’t that what the exam is for)to get a right answer.
In my opinion they make the maths papers easier every year and still complain about how many fail. I never got bonus points for siting the honors paper and without a caculator to boot. We need to overhall our methods of teaching then we can worry about the exams.
You cannot overhaul methods of teaching with the current exam in place, I dare say if the exam were different so would the teaching.
Wow, he’s really on the ball! That only took him, what….10 days?
this happens year after year start at the top wipe the lot out including mr quin. put in a team that have passed their leaving cert who can check their qus… befour they send out
Here’s a maths problem… John works in an overspending overemployed and over unionised public service sector job that oversees the production of state exam papers. There were a number of errors in the final papers handed to students and the minister in charge wants to investigate what went wrong and how it could happen. Questions: A) How many public service sector workers will it take to investigate what happened? B) How many will actually be used? C)How much extra money will it cost to discover the causes and produce a report for the minister?
Let’s scape goat some poor official trying his/her best.
The minister is responsible – why ? See below
Paper One / Higher Level (EV) English
Paper One / Higher Level (IV) Irish
Paper One: Project Maths / Higher (EV)
Paper One: Project Maths / Higher (IV)
Paper One / Foundation Level (EV)
Paper One / Foundation Level (IV)
Paper One: Project Maths/F’dation (EV)
Paper One: Project Maths /F’dation (IV)
Paper One / Ordinary Level (EV)
Paper One / Ordinary Level (IV)
Paper One: Project Maths / Ordinary
Paper One: Project Maths / Ordinary(IV)
Paper Two: Project Maths / Higher (EV)
Paper Two: Project Maths / Higher (IV)
Paper Two / Foundation Level (EV)
Paper Two / Foundation Level (IV)
Paper Two: Project Maths /F’dation(EV)
Paper Two: Project Maths / F’dation(IV)
Paper Two / Ordinary Level (EV)
Paper Two / Ordinary Level (IV)
Paper Two: Project Maths/Ordinary(EV)
Paper Two: Project Maths / Ordinary(IV)
CONFUSED YET?
Now add massive cuts in funding in education.
Add political ideology to the mix and business lead education agenda.
I’ve no idea what your point is?
Wander
Neither does the Minister, the Department or the State Examinations Commission. Thats why the whole thing is a mess.
How long did it take to type that?
And how long would it take two men with two shovels to type that twice?
Investigation will cost 10million, take 3 years and not have any discernible outcome.
Don’t see what the fuss is about ! If there were possibly three right answers then all three should be marked as correct ! Also isnt how a student approached a problem more important than a correct answer. M xx
I’d imagine that whoever set the question will be fired.
Not if they can give a correct reason three times!!
Won’t be fired if they are in the Union. Probably will be moved and retrained in setting English exam questions. First though they need at least 6 months off on sick leave due to stress.
You must be joking Roderigo. They are civil servants. Incompetence is a pre requisite.
You can’t fire a public servant no matter how bad they are at their job. They will probably get a promotion as a way to move them from the role of setting exam papers without upsetting the union
Simon. Yes I actually was joking. Maybe a pay cut would be more appropriate!
“You can’t fire a public servant no matter how bad they are at their job”.
Yes you can. Ask any doctor or nurse.
Make other public servants legally responsible for their actions. You’d solve a lotta problems very quickly.
Like Quinn himself …. a mistake.
Like Gilmore …..another mistake.
Like Howlin…..yet another mistake !
Sack them too .
Shatter ……big mistake.
Hogan……..big mistake.
Reilly ………big mistake.
Yet nobody taking responsibility for any of those mistakes !
Rodigo, the exam was not set wrong, the mistake was made in the production/typing of the paper. As I’m sure you are aware the mistake was on the English version but the Irish version was correct.
Peter
Imagine how much better Ireland would be if condoms had been available when those mistakes were being made!
How ironic that I managed to do better in applied maths than maths! thats project maths for ya!
Poor public servants + terrible minister = examination cock ups.
Now that’s math!!
Poor private sector = massive recession. That beats a simple typo on an exam paper any day. :)
Questions were asked that aren’t on the new course!? There is so much confusion over what students actually need to know walking into their project maths exam. There’s all this stuff about different ‘phases’ of new course and the different textbooks and extra material not in the books make it impossible to follow. It seems the people writing the papers don’t really know what’s on the course either.
3 billion cant add yet gets the big job . Leaving cert mistake or down right count care less or are they looking for the big job
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