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The following digest of recent horror news is compiled from pieces published to HorrorScope and the Australian Horror Writers' Association website.
Freecon 2009
Guest writers for the Sydney Freecon have been announced! Click through for program details. Sydney Freecon, Nov. 27 to 29, 2009.
Terra Incognita 011
Terra Incognita Speculative Fiction Podcast #011 is now available for your listening pleasure. In this episode Brendan Duffy reads his story Louder Echo, and Keith Stevenson reviews The Dead Path by Stephen M Irwin.
David Conyers Special Guest at GenCon Australia
Australian Horror Writers' Association member David Conyers will be a special guest at this year's GenCon Australia, held at the Brisbane Convention Centre 18-20 September 2009 in Queensland. Click through to view David's itinerary.
Gen Con 2009
Gen Con™ Australia is a consumer games and entertainment convention that showcases games for a broad audience of entertainment seekers. The event will be held 18th to 20th of September 2009 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. Gen Con™ hosts the largest number of games tournaments and demonstrations ever seen in Australia.
Midnight Echo print copy pre-orders
The AHWA is now taking pre-orders for the print editions of Midnight Echo, the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers' Association. For Issue #3 onwards, print copies of Midnight Echo will be available directly from the AHWA at a substantially discounted rate to what is currently on offer at Lulu. Click through for more details.
Book trailers from i-Video
Western Australian video production company i-video has launched a new book trailer service for interested authors and publishers. Click through for more information.
Specusphere walks the Dead Path with Stephen M. Irwin
Astrid Cooper of the Australian SF e-zine The Specusphere has conducted an in-depth interview with Stephen M. Irwin about his debut horror novel The Dead Path.
Australian Reader Halloween Special
AustralianReader.com intends to showcase Australian horror this Halloween. The zine's editor Phillip A. Ellis is looking for fiction and poetry up to 5,000 words. Stories must be emailed in the body of an email or as an attachment (no docx) before October 25. All types of horror will be considered. Click through for more information.
2009/2010 AHWA Committee
At the Australian Horror Writers Association AGM on September 9, a new, expanded Management Committee was elected. Click through to view the line-up of fantastic fiends!
Ned Kelly Awards Winners for 2009
The winners of Australia's premier crime writing awards, The Ned Kelly Awards, have been announced! Click through for the winners!
Theatre Of Blood
Theatre of Blood is a late-night horror theatre in the tradition of the Grand Guignol. Each Friday night at 11pm, in the foyer of the Newtown Theatre in Sydney, be thrilled with a one-hour program of three short plays. Every three months, there's a brand new selection of plays to entertain, titillate and frighten you senseless…
Theatre Of Blood call for original plays
Theatre Of Blood have issued the following call for submissions of original short plays in the Grand Guignol style. Click through for guidelines.
Monsters and Bloodsuckers online content
Monsters and Bloodsuckers, part of the special Jennifer Byrne Presents series, is available for download as a Video Podcast, and a transcript is available online. Guest authors joining Byrn, are noted horror and occult writer Leigh Blackmore, children's book writer Catherine Jinks, novelist Tara Moss, and novelist Will Elliott.
New & Forthcoming Releases from Severed Press
Severed Press, an independent publisher based in Melbourne, have two titles just released - or about to be released! Tim Curran's Resurrection is available for pre-order. Just out from Severed Press - Dead America by Australian author Luke Keioskie.
LegumeMan Books open to submissions
The mysterious Brothers Gunther at Australian independent press LegumeMan Books have flung their doors open to submissions for three months, from now until December 1. Click through for guidelines.
Midnight Echo #4 reading period
Midnight Echo, the magazine of the Australian Horror Writers Association, has opened its reading period for Issue #4, which is edited by Australian Shadows Award-winning author Lee Battersby. Click through for more information.
Family Demons Takes Awards At Fright Night
Australian horror film Family Demons, directed by Ursula Dabrowsky, has won awards in the following categories at Fright Night Film Festival 2009. Click through for details.
Eneit Press To Launch Two New Books
Eneit Press would like to invite you to the launch of two new books: Life Through Cellophane by Gillian Polack, and In Bad Dreams Volume 2 edited by Sharyn Lilley. 4th October, at Conflux. Click through for RSVP details.
Eye Of Fire Issue #1
Brimstone Press has launched a new, free e-zine entitled Eye Of Fire. Issue #1 can be downloaded here. Subscribe to Eye Of Fire as a show of support while Black Magazine is being restructured. Angela Challis, Brimstone Press and Black Magazine Editor-in-Chief comments: "...With enough interest shown through free subscription to this e-zine ... Black (magazine) will be back!" Click through to subscribe.
Paul Haines' Slice Of Life
A man. A liver. A mind? Meet the mind of Paul Haines. Slice of Life contains seventeen glittering stories, dripping with twenty first century paranoia and anxiety - to be launched at Conflux 09, 29 August. Slice of Life is a fund-raising venture for the Paul Haines cancer fund. 100% of the cover price will help Paul Haines fight his cancer. Help give Paul Haines a slice of life. Click through to order.
Submitting News
If you have news about Australian and New Zealand Horror publishing and film, or news of professional development opportunities in the field, feel free to submit news to Talie Helene, AHWA News Editor. Just visit HorrorScope, and click on the convenient email link. (International news is not unwelcome, although relevance to Antipodean literary arts practitioners is strongly preferred.)
For information on the Australian Horror Writers' Association, visit australianhorror.com.
This AHWA NEWS DIGEST has been compiled, written, and republished in select Australian horror haunts by Talie Helene. Currently archived at the AHWA MySpace page, and Southern Horror; hosted at the social networking sites Darklands and A Writer Goes On A Journey; and hosted by AHWA members Felicity Dowker, Brenton Tomlinson, Scott Wilson, and Jeff Ritchie (Scary Minds: Horror's Last Colonial Outpost).
If you would like to support the AHWA News effort by hosting a copy of the AHWA News Digest on your blog or website, contact Talie to receive a fully formatted HTML edition of the digest by email.
Rights of the Undead
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Rights of the Undead
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Word Count: 193
"Don't let anybody push you around. After all, you got rights, too. So stand up for yourself and fight back if you have to."
The zombies milled around the lectern, listening to their self, elected leader groaning and grunting. None of them understood what he was saying, nor was what was coming out of his mouth anything like what he was trying to say.
A loud bang caused the group to turn and face the door to the hall. The police riot squad charged in and began bashing the zombies with batons and shooting them with tazers. The officers were careful to keep all beatings below the neck to not permanently damage any zombies.
"You don't have to put up with this!" cried the leader. "You have rights!"
"Just look at old Senator Crandleford," one of the officers said. "He's still getting up on his soap box and making a noise."
"Yeh," said another officer. "Makes just as much sense now as he used to when he was alive."
Setting 'Em Up
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Setting 'em Up
By Scott Wilson
Word Count: 707
"Set me up with a stiff drink, Vinnie," Irv said. "Maybe it will help me forget all that's happened."
Vinnie slid a shot glass of whiskey down the counter to the tired gunslinger. Irv grabbed the glass before it stopped and swigged it down in one gulp. Before he could ask, another appeared in front of him. This one, he sipped, savouring the malted barley. Irv took his tobacco pouch out and rolled a cigarette with the last of his leaf. At least he was in a semi-populated region and busy town, so it would not be a problem picking up some more tobacco in the morning.
"You catch those varmints, Irv?" Vinnie asked. "Bet they must have given you a run for your money this time?"
Irv knew he'd be able to rustle up some free tobacco and maybe even a shot or two from the bar tender in exchange for a good yarn. That would be a fair trade and tide Irv over until the morning. Vinnie must have read his mind; cause he slid is tobacco tin down the counter to Irv.
"Top up your pouch, friend," Vinnie said. "Can't have you running dry till the morning."
Irv took a deep drag from his smoke and a sip from his drink.
"Wasn't the easiest bounty to collect, but ain' the hardest money I've ever earned either. It took me two weeks and across the Shady Plains to catch up to the Kelly Gang."
"Shady Plains," Vinnie said. "There still vampires haunting those parts?"
"Sure is, friend. Bloodsuckers living underground can trap you day or night. Many a pilgrim been sucked into the sinkholes they set up. Trapped until night when the vamps come out to collect their dinner."
"That why you the only one game enough to cross the plains after the Kelley's?"
"Or stupid enough. Takes at least three days to cross the Shady. That's two nights too much for most folks, even the toughest bounty hunters. I staked four of those critters the first night, didn't see any the second. I think the Gang was kept busy though. Found the headless corpse of two of the brothers when I past their camp the following day."
"Must have been a few vamps to outwit those seven boys?"
"Looked like they took out a dozen of the night crawlers by the count of the staked bodies I found. Anyways, once I caught up with them, they were tired and worn down and didn't put up much of a fight. After I took two of them down with my blasters, the other three just gave up. Guess they thought loosing half the gang was worth more than the princess they kidnapped."
"Did you bring the heads of the four boys back for the bounty?"
"Na didn't even bring the three live ones in. They'd been so traumatised by their run in with the vamps that it wasn't worth it. Ain't no way they'll be troublin' anyone anymore. Besides, the reward for bringing the princess back safe and sound was enough for the effort I put in."
"Bet they wish they'd skirted round the plains now?"
"Or taken a speeder. I know there few and far between these days. It would have been quicker, but they'd have drawn more attention to themselves than they'd have liked."
"Why don't you use a hover cycle, Irv? Wouldn't it be quicker to catch the outlaws that way?"
"I prefer the old ways, Vinnie. And the cost of running and maintaining those vehicles is outrageous. A good horse will give you the edge any day."
"So when you going out on your next bounty hunt?"
Irv swigged the last of his whiskey and it as quickly replaced by another. He rolled another cigarette and lit it.
"I hear that the Miller Gang has robbed the Great Divide Monorail. The Rail Company is offering a big enough bounty to let me retire."
Vinnie switched off the mp3 recorder under the counter. He hoped that Irv wouldn't retire. Vinnie was making a killing writing novels based on Irv's stories.
Bug and Bugger
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Bug and Bugger
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Word Count: 486
"Listen, damn it," Jermaine said. "This is my gig. You do it my way or I swear to you I will crush you like a bug."
"Very funny, bunny," Melissa said. "How long have we been going out now...two months? Haven't you learnt by now that that's not how it works?"
Jermaine grabbed Melissa by the neck and shook her. She smiled at him, enraging him to grip harder until he could not feel his fingers any more.
"That'll do," Melissa said, pushing his hands away effortlessly. "Don't you know you can't hurt me?"
Jermaine looked down at his hands. They were around his own throat, chocking himself. He quickly released his grip and stumbled backwards, tripping over the coffee table and crashing to the ground.
"How did you do that?" he muttered, his voice croaky and harsh.
Melissa smiled and extended her hand to help him to his feet.
"I can't tell you, my love."
Jermaine coughed, his throat burning and swollen.
"You have to listen to me," he said. "If we don't follow my plan, the cops will catch us. I don't know what power you have over me, or why I can't get away from you, but you have to listen to me this time."
Melissa nodded, sat down on the couch, and said, "Okay, humour me. What is your plan, darling?"
"I need to get a drink," he said. "My throat is killing me."
Jermaine did not intend to get a drink, at least not until he had taken care of this woman. He picked up a large serrated knife, and then walked back to the lounge room. He walked behind the couch, trying to keep out of her line of sight. Maybe he might be able to get her if she did not see him coming this time.
"Are you going to tell me now?" she said.
"I'm going to lay it all out on the table in a second. You'll be surprised, I hope."
He raised the knife above his head, ready to plunge it into Melissa's skull. Jermaine had never let a woman have any control in any relationships before, and hated that this one seemed to be different. She was not even the best-looking girlfriend he had had, so he did not know what was so different about her.
"I'd be careful," she said.
"That's the plan."
He swung his arm down.
Melissa shook her head.
The knife plunged into Jermaine's stomach, penetrating into through his organs and stopping abruptly in his spine. He staggered backwards, his legs giving way.
"I told you to be careful," she said.
"How...?" Jermaine mumbled as he passed out. Before his vision faded, he thought the room was empty. There was no woman in his apartment at all.
The Gutter and the Grave
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The Gutter and the Grave
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Word Count: 432
"Listen, please," Gerard, said. "I've got this confession to make."
"What?" Wendy said. "Now that I've lost at strip poker to you again, you want to confess something to me. It better not be what I think it is."
"Yeh, Gerard," Trudy said. "You always seem to win when we play this game during our lunch break. Not that I mind. I enjoy the thrill of it, and don't even care that no guys work in this place."
"I'm not really gay. I can't stand it anymore, it's driving me crazy...seeing you two naked every day and not being able to touch you."
"Should we tell him?" Wendy said.
Trudy nodded, "Yes, it's about time we fess up too."
"What would you have to confess to?" Gerard said. "It was my suggestion we play strip poker during our lunch break. You both seemed reluctant at the start, but after a couple of weeks you both sprung a yes on me."
"Can you ever remember getting dressed after our games?" Trudy said. "Or do you simply find yourself back behind your desk, tapping away at your keyboard?"
Gerard rubbed his chin. He'd never even thought about it before, but now he did, he couldn't remember anything after winning the game each lunch break. The last thing he remembered was sitting across from the two naked women, and then he was back at work.
"We've been milking you for everything you've got," Wendy said. "We drug you at the start of the game, extract as much blood, semen, any other fluids we can once you've passed out, which is right about when we've lost our clothes. That makes collecting the DNA much easier and cleaner."
"What do you mean?" Gerard said.
Trudy and Wendy reached between their legs and began to pull their bodies apart from the crotch. Out of each woman crawled a slimy, bug like creature with a humanoid head. They slithered towards Gerard and began to devour him slowly. The drug they had used on him kept him conscious, but unable to move until his body went into shock and he passed out.
"We need to find some new human DNA," Wendy said after she had slithered back into her human body.
"I've developed a taste for the flesh now," Trudy said. "Don't think I can nibble on the tid bits anymore. We'll need to find a new body to feed on each time from now on I think."
Camel Toe and Moose Knuckle
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Camel Toe and Moose Knuckle
By Scott Wilson
Word Count: 370
"We've got a real problem here," Camel Toe said to her best friend, Moose Knuckle. "But there has to be a way to solve it, and when we do, we'll work on it."
Moose Knuckle adjusted his bike shorts and smiled.
"I've got it," he said. "We can lobby parliament tomorrow, get the legislation changed. The Baggies won't stand a chance then."
Camel Toe grinned. She knew that Moose Knuckle was right. With her father being the speaker in the Upper House, she knew that anything she wanted would be passed as an Act without any questions.
"I'll email the notion to Daddy right away," Camel Toe said. "He should still be having breakfast with his mistress at home. Mum doesn't get up early anymore, so Daddy has to have a late breakfast now. He'll get the message before he goes to work and Daddy always does what I ask right away."
Moose Knuckle changed the channel on the television, stopping when he found a station with the news playing.
"Look at that," he said. "Bunch of wankers in their baggy pants. Protesting the right to wear such ridiculous clothes in public. The sooner they outlaw those monstrosities, the better."
Camel Toe sprayed on a red Lycra top, feeling exhilarated at the sense of nakedness to show off her curvaceous body to the world. The clothes dried instantly and she changed her mind about the style.
"Pass me the paisley aerosol, Hun," she said to Moose Knuckle.
Moose Knuckle sorted through the small cans in the dresser until he found the one she was after. He picked it up, then handed her the can next to it, smiling.
"Very funny," she said, putting on the new outfit that was not a paisley top, but a sensual black lace bra and crotchless pair of panties.
"Why would anyone want to wear those old style clothes when you can have such fun with this modern stuff?" Moose Knuckle said. He leaned over and kissed Camel Toe.
"Don't worry," she said. "After today, they won't have a choice."
Zombie Necktie
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Zombie Necktie
By Scott Wilson
Word Count: 514
Thaddeus, who was the boss, was dressed as if he was playing a role in a 1930 movie. Double-breasted striped suit, big brimmed Stetson and a huge stick pin in his necktie. When Carlos walked into the office and he said, "Good job, you done good. Now, goodbye, we don't need you no more..."
He reached for his gun on the table, and cocked it. Carlos blanched and reached for his own pistol, tucked snugly under his left arm. Before Carlos could draw his Glock, Thaddeus shot him in the neck, killing him instantly.
"There you are," Thaddeus said as Carlos opened his eyes. "I was wondering how long it would take you to reanimate. Most of your colleagues came round in only a matter of minutes. You seemed to fight it, taking almost an hour."
Carlos slowly turned his head to follow Thaddeus' voice. His vision was cloudy and slightly out of focus, but he definitely remembered the man sitting next to him. Carlos tried to sit up. Tight, leather harnesses prevented him from moving.
"Not yet, Carlos," Thaddeus said. "I need to make sure the restraining collar works before you can go running around."
Thaddeus took a small remote control out of his coat pocket, selected the right frequency, and pressed a button. Carlos felt a jolt of electricity run through his neck and he lost control of his muscles. He jerked and shook until his head collapsed back onto the cold, hard stainless steel bench. Carlos could not see anything, but his sense of smell seemed unaffected. The aroma of Thaddeus' flesh wafted into Carlos' nostrils, activating some feeding frenzy. He could not act on his instinct to feed and lay motionless, frustrated.
"Righto then," Thaddeus said. "That seems to be working just fine."
Thaddeus released the bonds and allowed Carlos to slowly stand up. Carlos turned slowly to look at Thaddeus, then the doorway. Thaddeus nodded.
"That's right," Thaddeus said. "You can go and join your friends on the work floor again now."
Carlos walked slowly to the door, his limbs still numb and tingling from the shock. Down the staircase, hundreds of zombies worked on a large array of machinery of all kinds and purposes. They looked up, not at Carlos, but at the scent of the living flesh of their master, Thaddeus.
"Go to that flashing red light," Thaddeus said. "That will be your work station now."
Carlos felt the urge to bite Thaddeus, he smelt so good. Thaddeus seemed to read his mind and held up the remote control, shaking his head at Carlos.
"I'd think twice about that, Carlos," Thaddeus said. "After your collar has been activated three times, it detonates. You only have three chances in my workshop, and the first one is already gone."
Carlos headed down the stairs. He thought Thaddeus was a bad boss when Carlos was alive. Now it seemed, things had taken a turn for the worse.
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I used Dion Hinchcliffe's graphic, where communities are used in the Next Generation Enterprise and mapped my personal use cases to it.
One of the most appealing use cases for me is working with my supply chain and my partners. As a marketer I am obviously organizing campaigns and events. External suppliers are always involved in these projects, e.g. our PR Agency Text100, our event agency, my partner in crime CPP, Freelancers, Speakers etc. What are you doing in these projects? You define Milestones, you are assigning and hopefully tracking tasks, you are sharing and collaborating on files, you write meeting minutes and much more. Of course you need to share and track all this information. So typically files and info's are send by Email, tasks are managed in extensive spreadsheets, which are again being distributed by Email.
And we all experience the disadvantages of Email for sharing and tracking projects, information and files. Big files are filling up your inbox. Even more important: You never know, if you do have the most recent version of a file. Email is for sure not the tool for managing deadlines and tasks. And spreadsheets? Are spreadsheets with numerous columns and rows really the ultimate answer to manage a project? I know, we are living very much out of spreadsheets but I doubt that spreadsheets are the best solution for managing and collaborating on a project. OK, some people might be using professional "big" Project Management software to manage a campaign. I am not a friend of this. For me it seems to be a real overkill.
A few years ago I changed the way how I manage projects and in particular events away from the Email centric approach to I would call the the "Social Business" way. I am using with my suppliers IBM's Smart Cloud for Social Business. I am setting up a project community and activity in the cloud, invite the internal IBMers to the project, include my external suppliers and manage the whole project collaboratively in this community This starts with the brainstorming and ideation on the project (Who should be speaking? Who is contacting the potential speaker? What is the best location? …) up to managing and closing the project and event. Obviously files are shared and versioned through the community, activities and tasks are tracked with clear responsibility and deadlines.
Usually a project starts with a small team collaborating. More and more people become members during the launch and in particular for these new members it is easy to get up to speed extremely fast and have all the necessary information on the project and its status through the community. As important as bringing new team members into the project team is the whole ideation, discussion and collaboration process. The development of the event or campaign happens in a transparent and open way, ideas are being added, discussed, declined. Not sure if this is already wisdom of the crowd, but for sure it is in comparison to Email inspiring, more productive and the more social way of managing projects. When describing how I work in a IBM Smart Cloud community with my suppliers I should not forget to mention the aspect of Social Communications. Of course Online Meetings and Instant Messaging are integrated part of managing projects with my partners in the cloud. The external partners can easily participate in Online Meetings and without local software they are able to chat with me. So real-time communication and Online Meetings are important part of the whole Social setup and add enormous value.
Of course I am using the same social way of managing Marketing projects IBM-internally behind the firewall. What I want to re-emphasize is the external aspect I am describing. There is a huge potential within the Enterprise. But there maybe as much potential in collaborating the social way with suppliers. For sure it is improving my daily work. For sure it is improving quality and transparency of the project. And for sure it makes life for our suppliers much easier to work in an extended social enterprise. Of course it still needs a lot of evangelizing, discussing, educating to convince people to move away from their traditional Email centric way of working to the social way. But I will continue preaching and convincing to move all our projects with external suppliers into the IBM Smart Cloud and create an extensive extended IBM Marketing community for smarter, better Marketing events and campaigns. Think about your daily work and your use cases and benefits. Where does it make sense for you to work in an extended Next Generation Social Enterprise?
The presentation I gave at the Dachis Summit is available here on Slideshare. I will continue mapping out my use cases in upcoming blog entries hoping to inspire you to work social in your daily work, not only as a marketer.


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LotusBlossom wrote:Cody looked good last night. He's been pretty good all season so far, not great but good.rats19 wrote:I thought cody actually started to look like "the real deal" last night.albeit against a weak team.
He's been good not great and looks like a kind who is well on his way to becoming a very good player.
Of course if you listen to Topper, then Hodgson stumbling, bumbling slug who should be replaced by Andrew Ebbett.
I can understand Toppers agenda here though. he stuck his neck way out and proclaimed that Cody was a bust so most of this stuff is just him trying to save face.
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Writing Asynchronous Code
Asynchronous operations are a necessity in modern websites. An asynchronous API for handling requests has been part of ASP.NET since version 1.0, but it was never easy to use in Web Forms or MVC. In ASP.NET 4.5, you can consider this fixed: Writing
async methods is really straightforward and the resulting code is surprisingly simple to read. It should be noted that most of credit goes to a couple of new keywords added to the C# language:
await and
async. Here's how you write now an
async method in ASP.NET MVC:
public async Task<IList<News>> GetAll() { var url = "..."; // Some RSS feed var client = new WebClient(); // The current ASP.NET thread is NOT blocked waiting for results to download var result = await client.DownloadStringTaskAsync(url); return Parse(result); }
In the sample code, you use an instance of
WebClient to asynchronously download an RSS feed and then parse it to a list of custom objects. Before .NET 4.5, you needed two controller methods running before and after the "async point" where the original ASP.NET thread yields to an OS thread and returns to the ASP.NET threadpool. The underlying behavior is exactly the same, but the resulting code is much sweeter thanks to the syntactic sugar of keywords
async and
Bundling Resource Files
As Web pages offer greater client functionality, the cost of downloading several script files (and related resources such as CSS and images) grows. To obtain decent performance, minification and bundling are therefore a necessary. Until ASP.NET 4.5, you had to resort to external libraries to get these services. Now you can leverage built-in bundling as shown below for JavaScript files:
<script type="text/javascript" src="/Content/Scripts/js" />
You instruct the server to combine all JS files in the specified path to be dynamically combined together in a single minified file and returned over a single request. If you want to take control over the minification algorithm and the way in which files are grouped together, you can create a custom bundle. You add the following code to the
global.asax startup code:
var bundleCore = new Bundle("~/CoreScripts", new JsMinify()); // Standard minification bundleCore.AddFile("~/Content/Scripts/jquery.js"); bundleCore.AddFile("~/Content/Scripts/modernizr.js"); BundleTable.Bundles.Add(bundleCore); var bundleApp = new Bundle("~/AppScripts", new MyCustomMinify()); // Custom minification bundleApp.AddFile("~/Content/Scripts/app.index.js"); bundleApp.AddFile("~/Content/Scripts/app.global.js"); BundleTable.Bundles.Add(bundleApp);
Such bundles are created upon application startup and can be downloaded using the following markup:
<script type="text/javascript" src="~/CoreScripts" /> <script type="text/javascript" src="~/AppScripts" />
Bundling and minification work in the same way for CSS, except that you use the
CssMinify class as the default minifier for CSS content.
Mobile Development in ASP.NET MVC
Among the standard project templates in ASP.NET MVC, you find a new mobile template as in Figure 2. If you start from the template, you will get a sample site that works well on mobile devices.
Figure 2: Project templates in ASP.NET MVC.
How does the sample mobile site differ from a standard desktop site? First, it uses the viewport meta tag to control the size of the browser's rendering area.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
Restricting the viewport to the actual device width fits any content to the exact screen real-estate, resulting in more comfortable reading for users. Second, the pages of the site are designed using jQuery Mobile. The jQuery Mobile library uses ad hoc widgets, which give an iPhone-style look to the page, and they style basic HTML elements properly for touch input.
This is an extremely simple way to approach the development of a mobile site. Because of the numerous different form factors for mobile devices, a key sore point for building mobile sites is finding a way to serve different content (and layout) to different classes of mobile devices; and even recognizing different classes of devices. The sample project template leaves handling this (key) design aspect to jQuery Mobile. The progressive enhancement design is better to have than not, but it doesn't solve the problem of serving different content to different devices.
If the standard mobile project template is not the right starting point for your needs, ASP.NET MVC does have a small API that makes implementing multi-serving the ability to serve different content to different classes of devices fairly simple. This small API is based on the concept of display modes. A display mode identifies a possible way of serving markup to a specific family of devices. Have a look at the code below:
var smartphones = new DefaultDisplayMode("smart") { ContextCondition = (c => Helpers.IsSmartPhone(c)) }; DisplayModeProvider.Instance.Modes.Insert(0, smartphones);
The display mode named "
smart" captures all requests whose HTTP context makes the function
IsSmartphone return true:
private class Helpers { public static bool IsSmartPhone(HttpContextBase context) { return IsSmartPhoneInternal(context.GetOverriddenUserAgent()); } private static bool IsSmartPhoneInternal(string userAgent) { var ua = userAgent.ToLower(); return ua.Contains("iphone") || ua.Contains("android"); } }
The sample code recognizes as smart phones any device whose user agent string contains
iphone or
android. With this infrastructure up and running, all you need to do is add views to your project according to the pattern
xxx.smart.cshtml, where
xxx is the name of the view. Those views will be automatically selected when the requesting browser is recognized as a smart phone.
Once you get accustomed to display modes, you're ready to face the core problem: How can you reliably detect the capabilities (OS, touch, resolution, whether it is a tablet) of the device? For that, you need to go outside the Microsoft packages to libraries like WURFL the de facto standard for device capabilities detection.
ASP.NET is a well-established branch of the .NET Framework, so you can hardly expect lots of relevant new features with each new release. Both Web Forms and MVC are mature platforms and, while improvements are always possible and desirable, the room for expanding well-done and mature platforms is limited. Nonetheless, in this release of Visual Studio, Microsoft has added useful tools for coding REST applications, a greatly simplified JavaScript minimizer and bundler, and handy ways of tailoring delivered content to the various form factors of mobile devices. Taken together, these features facilitate writing apps quickly for access by mobile devices. These enhancements alone warrant the upgrade to the new release.
Dino Esposito has written several books on ASP programming and is a frequent contributor to Dr. Dobb's.


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SAN LEANDRO — San Leandro Hospital and its emergency room would stay open for at least three more years under a deal Alameda County Medical Center has put together.
What's needed now is for Sutter Medical, which owns the hospital, to buy into the plan.
San Leandro and Alameda County each agreed this week to pay $3 million over three years to help cover costs. ACMC, which is an independent entity separate from the county, also would contribute $3 million. As part of the deal, ACMC would own and operate the hospital.
The hospital is losing money, though Sutter has not released exact figures. ACMC would need an estimated $6 million a year to keep the hospital open, San Leandro City Manager Chris Zapata said last week.
"We're trying to find a way to preserve (the hospital and its emergency room) services if we can find a way to do it in a financially feasible manner," ACMC CEO Wright Lassiter told the San Leandro City Council at its meeting Monday.
Eden Township Healthcare District, which previously owned the hospital, earlier pledged $250,000 the first year and $500,000 the next two years, though its board is looking at ways to increase that amount. The medical center also is seeking federal funds.
In a statement Friday, Sutter Medical said only it is "still exploring options that support the best needs of the community and Sutter Health."
Lassiter told the council Monday that ACMC hoped to conclude negotiations with Sutter in 30 to 45 days. If all goes well, ACMC could take over the hospital by next spring.
ACMC wants to convert the hospital to what Lassiter called a hybrid operating model, keeping the acute care and emergency room open while gradually moving the acute-care rehabilitation center from its Fairmont campus to San Leandro Hospital.
"Our organization is prepared to include a significant investment," Lassiter said Monday. ACMC would spend more than $20 million renovating the hospital to provide "high quality inpatient/outpatient services," he said.
A 2008 memorandum of understanding gave Sutter the option to purchase the hospital from Eden. In 2009, Sutter attempted to exercise that option and said it planned to close the hospital's emergency room.
The district sued, claiming that the agreement was invalid because two members of the board who approved it had conflicts of interest. Eden Township lost its lawsuit earlier this year. Sutter took ownership of the hospital in September and has been negotiating with the health care district over terms of the sale.
San Leandro Mayor Stephen Cassidy said it was important to the community to keep the hospital open.
"Keeping the hospital open will help save the lives of residents of San Leandro and the neighboring communities," he said.
He also pointed out that San Leandro Hospital is one of the city's largest employers, and if there were a disaster, the county's other hospitals likely would be strained and may not be able to accommodate San Leandro residents.
Eden Township is trying to figure out if it can contribute more toward keeping San Leandro Hospital open, including possibly putting a parcel tax on the ballot in San Leandro. The health district's board will consider the proposal at its meeting Wednesday.
The district also is looking to see if it can renegotiate some loans to increase its subsidy to San Leandro Hospital, said Eden Township board member Carole Rogers.
"We'd like to support them more than we've committed to, but it's pending bank approval."
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A midfielder, who can also play as a withdrawn striker, John 'Jeb' Brovsky joined Whitecaps FC after being selected as the first pick in the second round (19th overall) of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft on Jan. 13, 2011. The native of Lakewood, Colorado, arrives in Major League Soccer after a stellar NCAA Division I career at the University of Notre Dame.
2011: Brovsky made his MLS debut in central midfield for Whitecaps FC, as Vancouver fell 3-1 at Houston Dynamo on Apr. 10. He then earned his MLS point when he assisted on Alain Rochat's goal during a 2-1 home defeat to FC Dallas on Apr. 23. Highly involved in club and community initiatives off the pitch, Brovsky was named Whitecaps Foundation Humanitarian of the Year and MLS W.O.R.K.S. Humanitarian of the Month for July. One of the initiatives that the defender/midfielder was honoured for was the creation of the non-profit foundation, Peace Pandemic, after graduating from the University of Notre Dame.
2011: The midfielder started Vancouver's debut match in the MLS Reserve League on Mar. 22, as Whitecaps FC reserves fell 2-1 at San Jose Earthquakes reserves.
2010: Brovsky was named to the All-BIG EAST Conference First Team, and became a four-time BIG EAST Academic All-Star, during his senior year with the Fighting Irish. With four goals and an assist in 20 appearances, the midfielder/striker led Notre Dame to the BIG EAST Championship semifinals before the Fighting Irish fell 1-0 to University of Louisville on Nov. 12. His efforts earned him selection to the All-BIG EAST Conference Championship Team for a third straight time. His Notre Dame career ended in the second round of the NCAA Championship, as they fell 2-1 in overtime at home to Dartmouth College on Nov. 21. Brovsky's achievements as a student-athlete also earned him National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) Scholar All-American honours, while he was named one of 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award in the men's soccer division. 2009: As a junior, Brovsky made the All-BIG EAST Conference Third Team for a second time, and was named a three-time BIG EAST Academic All-Star, after finishing third in goals (four) and points (12) with the Fighting Irish. This included a goal and an assist in a 4-0 home win over University of Louisville on Sept. 25. He was again selected to the All-BIG EAST Conference Championship Team after Notre Dame reached the championship final before falling on penalties to St. John's University on Nov. 15. Brovsky then netted the match winner in a 2-1 home win over University of Wisconsin - Green Bay in the first round of the NCAA Championship on Nov. 19. 2008: As a sophomore, Brovsky was named to the All-BIG EAST Conference Third Team, while earning another BIG EAST Academic All-Star honour, after scoring five goals and registering a team-best six assists in 21 appearances. This included both goals in an important 2-1 home victory over Georgetown University on Oct. 29, with the win earning Notre Dame a share of the BIG EAST Conference Blue Division title. The midfielder/striker's effort earned him the BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week award and a selection to the 'Top Drawer Soccer' National Team of the Week. He also made the All-BIG EAST Conference Championship Team that season, with the Fighting Irish reaching the semifinals before falling to University of South Florida. 2007: Though he started just four of his 24 appearances for the Fighting Irish, Brovsky scored two goals and added one assist in his freshman year at Notre Dame. On his NCAA debut, the midfielder/striker assisted on Alex Yoshinaga's match winner in 2-1 overtime victory at home to top-ranked University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Aug. 31. His first Notre Dame goal was the match winner in a 1-0 victory at Villanova University on Sept. 23, while his other strike came in a 2-1 triumph over University of Louisville on Sept. 30. Brovsky also earned the first of four BIG EAST Conference Academic All-Star honours that year.
2008: Brovsky made one PDL appearance for Central Conference, Heartland Division side Colorado Rapids U-23, as they won 3-2 at home to Kansas City Brass on May 17.
As a junior at Green Mountain High School in his hometown of Lakewood, Colorado, Brovsky was the leading goalscorer in Jefferson County Conference, while he also earned runner-up honours for the Player of the Year award as a senior in 2006. He was also a coaches All-State selection as a senior, while he earned honorable mention distinction from local media. The midfielder/striker also enjoyed a fine youth career with Colorado Rush Soccer Club. As a member of the club's U-18 team, Brovsky won seven-straight Colorado State Cup titles, having led the side in scoring in his final year.
Brovsky was born and raised in Lakewood, Colorado. His parents are Lorrie and John Brovsky. In Dec. 2010, the midfielder/striker graduated with a degree in Business Management from the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business.
At Green Mountain High School, Brovsky played basketball and was an All-Jefferson County Conference selection as a wide receiver, safety, and kicker with the Rams football team.


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Liberty DI men's recruit Mistal brings experience
May 17, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Seeking to strengthen an offense that loses Rick Turner and Brent Boschman, two of the top scorers in program history, Liberty University Division I men's hockey head coach Kirk Handy announced Friday that Brandon Mistal, a forward who played five years in the Junior "A" British Columbia Hockey League, will join the Flames this fall.
As captain of the Salmon Arm Silverbacks, Mistal, who turned 21 on April 1, ranked fourth on the team in scoring with 13 goals and 22 assists this past season.
"He's someone who can definitely make an impact right away, who can play in a lot of different situations," said Handy, who likes the qualities Mistal brings on and off the ice. "He's a class act with strong leadership abilities. He's a very well spoken guy who, just in the time we've gotten to know him, I've been really impressed with his character and his demeanor. On the ice, he's going to be a guy we can count on on both sides of the rink, a two-way hockey player who has a good scoring knack."
Mistal played more than 200 games in five years in the BCHL, expending his five years of junior eligibility before deciding on a college.
"I'm a pretty smart player, pretty quick," said Mistal, who plans to pursue a business degree at Liberty. "I'm hoping to contribute any way I can and hopefully step in, work hard, and be a leader in every aspect I can. If we can get some good players in and spread the scoring out over two or three lines, or even all four lines, that would be great for us."
Mistal was named the Silverbacks' most sportsmanlike player for the second straight season. His Christian beliefs played a large role in leading him to Liberty.
"I grew up in a Christian home and that's always been an important part of my life and my family's life," Mistal said. "My faith in the hockey world has been something that I could always lean on, something that I'm rock solid with, and know that's something that's always there for me."
Dave Semenyna, who serves as an assistant coach under Handy, contacted Silverbacks' team chaplain Kenny Toews, who identified Mistal as a potential good fit.
Mistal visited campus in April, staying with fellow Canadians Ryan Kerr and Jackson Kuhn, and was sold on the program.
"The guys were great," he said. "When I came back, it seemed like a no-brainer to go there. Mixing hockey with a faith-based environment is something that really interested me and something I wanted to jump at, for sure."
While about half of Liberty's roster is from Canada, most, including Kerr and Kuhn, are from Ontario, north of the Great Lakes. The only player from the westernmost province of British Columbia is Tyson Street, a freshman forward from Vancouver.
"It will be a bit of an adjustment," Mistal said. "I moved away when I was 16, but that was only a half-hour away from home, not all the way across the country. I'm excited for it. It's going to be a great experience. There are so many places you can get to within three hours of Lynchburg. That's one of the reasons I wanted to play in the (United) States."
He is a huge fan of the Chicago Blackhawks and looks forward to visiting that city, site of this year's ACHA Division I national championships, in the near future.
"God willing, I can, for sure, be at Liberty four years and we can get a national championship," Mistal said.


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Bundy man loses incredible 113kg in 12 months
JASON Templeman knows if he didn't change his life over the past 12 months he might not have been here to tell his incredible story.
Templeman is currently weighing 97kg after losing 113kg over the past year through gastric sleeve surgery, fitness and a healthy diet.
But it was a completely different story just under two years ago.
The former rugby league coach and organiser of this weekend's Cycling Spectacular, weighing in at 210kg, was on the brink of death. It wasn't a matter of if but when he was going to die as Templeman had to weigh himself on truck scales at a local fruit and vegetable shop.
"I was sick, I'd been diagnosed with clinical depression and diabetes," he revealed.
"The doctor said 'you need to go away and consider what you want to do and whether you want to live any more.'"
Templeman ignored the doctor as first until a light bulb moment came when he was in hospital one night in May 2016.
"I was laying in hospital and I thought I was having a heart attack," he said.
"I had chest pains and everything like that and that was the moment it clicked into my head 'what have I done to myself, I've got to do something to help myself.'"
The only issue was Templeman needed to start losing weight himself to start the process towards gastric surgery.
The surgery, which removes 85 percent of the patients stomach, helps to reduce food intake for those that want to lose weight quickly.
"The doctor told me I had to be under 200 kilos to safely have the operation performed," he said.
"That was my first goal, January to May (2017) was to get under 200 kilos."
"Little did I know the doctor actually wanted me realistically at 180kg."
Templeman went on a pre-surgery diet and impressively got to where he needed to be.
"The day I walked into surgery I was 174.3," he said.
"I had to rid my liver of all the fats so they could get to my stomach."
Since the surgery, Templeman has lost a further 77kg.
But he admits there have been brutal times along the way.
"Mentally it's been the biggest battle and biggest challenge of my life," he said.
"It's not just about the surgery, it is about finding myself as a human being.
"It's rediscovering a self belief, you can do it." Templeman said walking helped him get over the challenge.
Whenever he had an issue, he put the headphones on and cleared his mind with a walk.
"Before the weight loss I couldn't even walk three-400m without stopping and resting," he said.
"Today as I stand right at this moment I do 10km minimum a day," he said.
Templeman's said this year was about maintaining his weight.
"I'm not doing this for five seconds of fame," he said. "I'm hoping this story can inspire others to do the same. It's never too late and never say you can't, you've just got to do it."


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Show Your Work: Big Little Reese, Rom-coms, and Rob Lowe
Duana and I have been waiting almost a month to talk about Big Little Lies. The embargo was recently lifted. The show premieres on HBO and HBO Canada this coming Sunday. And we are OBSESSED. Normally, when it comes to television, it's always Duana recommending and me ignoring. And then, after sometimes years of ignoring, I finally get obsessed and have to admit she was right. Full Story
Monster Trucks is a disaster at every turn
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This Sunday, the San Antonio Symphony opens its Family Series with a Halloween Spooktacular at Trinity University's Laurie Auditorium. Today (Wednesday) we are the daily deal on the mysa.com web site. Visit http://dailydeal.mysanantonio.com/ for a great family deal!
The Family concerts begin with an Instrument Petting Zoo at 1:30 p.m. The one-hour concert starts at 2:30 p.m. These concerts are appropriate for pre-school and elementary kids. There will be a costume parade during the concert and the orchestra dresses up too. The Symphony mascot, Count Bassie, is pictured on the right. He will be at the Instrument Petting Zoo handing out conducting batons. Here is the spooky repertoire that Troy Peters will conduct:
John Williams:"Harry's Wondrous World" from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Chadwick "Hobgoblin" from Symphonic Sketches
Liadov Baba-Yaga
Gluck "Dance of the Furies"from Orfeo and Euridice
Ravel "Conversations of Beauty and the Beast" from Mother Goose
Grieg "In the Hall of the Mountain King" from Peer Gynt Suite
Mussorgsky A Night on Bald Mountain
Stravinsky "Infernal Dance of King Kastchei" from The Firebird Suite (1919)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Famed U.S. economist Milton Friedman once observed that a recovery from recession is like plucking a guitar string: The harder the economy is pushed down, the faster it snaps back.
That didn't happen when America began to exit a deep downturn in 2009. Now, though, after years of paltry growth and despite a government austerity drive that could batter the economy for months, signs are emerging that a more robust recovery is around the bend.
The main reason is an improvement in household finances, which by some measures are looking more solid than they have in decades. This is allowing consumers to ramp up purchases of homes and cars, the sort of spending that usually leads an economic rebound but that until recently had been held back by heavy debts and tight credit.
"We finally are getting something that looks more like a normal recovery," said Nigel Gault, an economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts.
This hint of normalcy suggests the slow improvements in the labor market over the past few years can now provide a bigger boost to consumer spending, which will in turn create more jobs.
Gault and others expect this increasingly self-reinforcing cycle will lead growth to pick up substantially by the end of the year, even if Washington goes forward with $85 billion in budget cuts scheduled to begin on Friday.
Economists polled by Reuters this month predicted the economy will expand at a 2.8 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, up from the 1.8 percent rate expected in the first quarter, when higher tax rates enacted in January are expected to hit growth temporarily.
If the forecasters are right, the fourth-quarter performance will mark a big improvement from the average annual rate of 2.1 percent clocked since the end of the recession. Better still, most analysts expect further acceleration in 2014.
Of course, economists have predicted for several years that stronger growth lies just a few quarters away. As 12 million unemployed workers can attest, that hasn't panned out.
Yet there are several reasons to think this time really is different.
First, a pickup in hiring last year has helped families earn more money. Economists at Goldman Sachs estimate wages and salaries grew by almost 3 percent in the 12 months through December, even when factoring out inflation and unusual payments made to help workers avoid January's tax increase.
That's about twice the growth rates clocked in mid-2012, and might explain why higher taxes appeared to take only a small bite out of retail sales last month.
Second, families may be turning a corner in their long struggle to reduce their debt burden. A housing bubble that burst in 2006 left Americans awash in debts taken on during the boom. It also set off panic on Wall Street. Many analysts believe the bust left behind scars that made the recovery weaker than a normal rebound. Even rock-bottom interest rates didn't persuade debt-shy consumers to spend more, while banks were hesitant to lend.
But slowly, households have reduced their debts by either defaulting or taking out fewer loans as they pay off existing ones. At the same time, incomes have grown and the Federal Reserve has kept borrowing costs exceptionally low. By the third quarter of last year, U.S. household debt payments were 10.6 percent of their after-tax income, the lowest ratio since 1983 and down from a record high 14.1 percent in late 2007. A wider measure of financial obligations that includes rent has also slowly declined and stands at its lowest since the mid-1980s.
Economists at Deutsche Bank project outstanding household debt relative to income will be back in line with its long-term trend by mid-2014. That could once again make consumers more comfortable about borrowing.
Already, areas of spending that usually respond to low interest rates have become the brightest spots in the economy, a sign the recovery is assuming a more normal path.
The pace of auto sales in January would have Americans buying 15.3 million vehicles a year, just below pre-recession levels. In 2012, auto sales were the highest in five years.
The surge has led Michigan Precision Swiss Parts, which makes fuel-system components for Ford and Navistar engines, to expect its sales to climb by 8 percent to 12 percent this year.
"We're busier than hell," said Gerald Meldrum, chief executive officer of the company, which is based in St. Clair, Michigan.
Steam is also gathering in the housing market. Home builders large and small are reporting big gains in new orders as prices rise and the supply of homes on the market dwindles. In January, the inventory of existing homes fell to a 13-year low.
"We think the market has taken on a recovery," said Mark Gray, a vice president of Quadrant Homes, a builder in Bellevue, Washington.
Home building added to economic growth last year for the first time since 2005 and is seen giving a bigger boost in 2013.
"Early cycle indicators like housing now look like they typically do in the early stages of a recovery," said Joseph LaVorgna, chief U.S. economist at Deutsche Bank in New York. "The economy could definitely surprise to the upside this year."
The next few months could nevertheless be rough.
Executives from retail giant Wal-Mart and restaurant companies such as Olive Garden owner Darden Restaurants warned last week that higher taxes have hurt customers' spending power.
The scheduled federal budget cuts already have government agencies planning to slash the workweeks of hundreds of thousands of workers. This could shave half a percentage point from economic growth in 2013, and gross domestic product is seen growing just 2 percent in the full year.
Even after the austerity shock recedes, nobody is expecting a boom. Housing remains a smaller share of the economy than it was before the bubble years, so its ability to pump up growth is smaller as well. Credit is still hard to come by, especially for the millions of Americans who defaulted on their debts during the recession. Europe's debt crisis and higher gasoline prices also pose constant threats to the recovery.
But the improvement in household finances means underlying momentum in the economy might continue to gather. Increased home construction should boost demand for materials made by factories, which are also getting help from a boom in U.S. oil and gas production.
All told, this year's austerity-bound growth should morph into a beefier rate of at least 3.3 percent in 2014, according to respected forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers. That would be the fastest pace in a decade.
After years in which the lingering effects of the housing bust dampened the recovery, the guitar string is starting to make a more familiar sound.
Reporting by Jason Lange; Additional reporting by Michelle Conlin in New York and Paul Lienert in Detroit; Editing by Dan Burns and Douglas Royalty


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Choose a Good Dog Trainer
By The Humane Society of the United States
As a dog owner, one of the first questions you may ask is, "Does my new companion need training?" Yes, and so do you! Whether you are intentionally teaching him or not, your canine friend is always learning -- and this is true not just for puppies but also for older, adult dogs. If you do not teach your pet your rules, he will invent his own. Training allows caregivers to safely and humanely control their dog's behavior. Positive training enhances the bond between dog and owner, and helps ensure that your dog will respond happily to your instructions.
The key word here is 'positive.' Its essential that the dog trainer you select uses humane training techniques that encourage appropriate behavior through such positive reinforcement as food, attention, play, or praise. Look for a trainer who ignores undesirable responses or withholds rewards until the dog behaves appropriately. Training techniques should never involve yelling, choking, shaking the scruff, tugging on the leash, alpha rolling (forcing the dog onto his back), or other actions that frighten or inflict pain.
Where can I find a trainer?
A recommendation from a friend, neighbor, veterinarian, humane society, boarding kennel, or groomer is a good place to start. You can also check the Yellow Pages under 'Pet Training.' Don't assume that a trainer's membership in a dog trainer association qualifies him as a suitable instructor: Not all associations' membership criteria will meet your expectations. Also, because no government agency regulates or licenses trainers, it's that much more important to investigate their qualifications before enrolling in a class. Find out how many years of experience they have, how they were educated, and what training methods they use. Ask prospective trainers for several references from clients who completed the classes.
Which class format is best?
In group classes, dogs learn to interact with other dogs, accept handling by other people, and respond to their owners despite distractions. Owners learn by observing other people interacting with their dogs and benefit from the camaraderie. Self-help training, private lessons, and dog-only lessons that exclude the owner do not provide these important advantages. Another disadvantage of dog-only lessons is that the dog may respond well for the trainer but may not transfer what she has learned to you and your family.
When possible, all family members should participate in the dog's training. By learning to communicate humanely and effectively with their canine friend, they will develop bonds that will form the basis of the entire relationship.
What should I seek in a group class?
Ask the trainer whether you can observe a class in session before signing up. Watch for the following:
Is class size limited to allow for individual attention?
Are there separate classes for puppies and adult dogs?
Are there different class levels (for example, beginner, intermediate, and advanced)?
Are training equipment and methods humane?
Does the trainer use a variety of methods to meet dogs' individual needs?
Is proof of vaccination required?
Are the students, both human and canine, enjoying themselves?
Are dogs and owners actively encouraged?
Is praise given frequently?
Are voice commands given in upbeat tones?
Are lesson handouts available?
Is information available on how dogs learn, basic grooming, problem solving, and related topics?
How much does training cost?
Training costs vary, depending on where you live and the type of instruction you want. Private lessons may range from $30 to $65 per hour; group lessons may start at $75 for several weeks of sessions. Some animal shelters offer subsidized training programs; costs for several weeks of sessions may range from $35 to $90, depending on whether you adopted your dog from that shelter and the number of class sessions it provides.
What's the best age for training?
Although 'puppyhood' is the best time to train and socialize dogs, older dogs can learn new tricks, too. In fact, dogs of all ages can benefit from training. Dogs between 8 and 16 weeks of age should be enrolled in puppy classes. Regular classes are appropriate for dogs six months or older.
After you have selected a training program:
Have your dog examined by your veterinarian to ensure your pet is healthy, free from parasites, and up-to-date on vaccinations.
Don't feed your dog a large meal before class because many trainers rely on food treats to encourage or reward desired behavior.
Bring the training equipment recommended by the trainer.
Practice between classes with brief lessons that end on a positive note.
By enrolling and actively participating in a dog training class, you will help your dog become not just a well-behaved member of your family, but also a safer member of your community.
For More Information
For more information on choosing a dog trainer, consult the resources listed below. Please note that, except for its own materials, The HSUS is not affiliated with any of the references below and their inclusion here does not represent an endorsement.
Association of Pet Dog Trainers (APDT)
P.O. Box 385
Davis, CA 95617
National Association of Dog Obedience Instructors (NADOI)
Attn: Correspondence Secretary
729 Grapevine Hwy., #369
Hurst, TX 76054
(no phone number available)
The Humane Society of the United States Complete Guide to Dog Care. 1998. Little, Brown, and Company. The staff of The HSUS, together with dog care and training expert Marion Lane, provide tips and information about every aspect of dog ownership. Available at bookstores and through our online marketplace for $24.95.
Copyright © 2001 The Humane Society of the United States . All rights reserved.


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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II
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Technique: Oil on canvas
Depository: Privately owned Adele Bloch-Bauer II is a 1912 painting by Gustav Klimt. Adele Bloch-Bauer was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer,Born Ferdinand Bloch, the son of David Bloch (also known as Abraham Bloch), a banker and sugar factory owner, and his wife Marie, née Straschnow. Ferdinand married Adele Bauer, the daughter of Moritz Bauer (director of the Vienna bank Wiener Bankverein) and his wife Jeanette, née Honig. who was a wealthy industrialist who sponsored the arts and supported Gustav Klimt. Adele Bloch-Bauer was the only model to be painted twice by Klimt; she also appeared in the much more famous Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Both portraits of Adele Bloch-Bauer were part of a protracted court battle in the United States and in Austria (see Republic of Austria v. Altmann) which resulted in five Gustav Klimt paintings being returned to Maria Altmann, the niece of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, in January 2006. In November 2006, Christie's auction house sold "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II" at auction for almost $88 million, the fourth-highest priced piece of art at auction at the time.^ Christopher Michaud, Christie's stages record art sale, Reuter's, November 9, 2006. Accessed November 9, 2006.
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As many of you have noticed I have started a new approach in creating a space for us to formally talk about current content (Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who).
What I would like is for a person to volunteer to 'own' one of those areas. Responsibility is as simple or complex as you want it. The only committment is to creating a thread after a new episode appears that includes a synopsis. You can take this as far as you like in creating other threads that are topical and keeping the conversation going.
If interested DM me, or if you have any questions feel free to ask in this thread as I am sure others have the same questions. For example if you aren't into Walking Dead, Game of Thrones or Doctor Who but are into Defiance or Orphan Black we can make new areas for them.
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Work to establish Machrihanish Airbase as the lead candidate to become the UK's first spaceport continues
Argyll and Bute Council and the Machrihanish Airbase Community Company (MACC), working together under the title Discover Space UK, continue to go boldly towards outer space.
The lead consultant for Discover Space UK last week attended the Royal Aeronautical Society's space group conference in London to state the case of Machrihanish as the leading site to a wide range of influential people involved in the aerospace industry.
Discover Space UK's Chairman, Tom Millar, said: "We and our partners, Argyll and Bute Council, believe we have a compelling case and we will take every opportunity to promote our location. We want to unlock the enormous potential of our site and for the benefits to be felt as widely as possible."
Leader of Argyll and Bute Council, Councillor Dick Walsh, welcomed this continued work, saying: ''We are pleased to continue to promote the merits of this site above the others on the shortlist.
''We are confident that it offers unique areas of competitive advantage over the others, particularly in terms of its size, over 1000 acres; the length of its runway, the longest in the United Kingdom at over 3km; the location, away from major centres of population, which is a key consideration; the distance from congested airspace and, crucially, the ability to expand.
''We have been working closely with MACC over the past few months and look forward to lending further support as we continue to put a strong case forward for the site. Our main focus as a council is on creating jobs, growing our economy and attracting more people to Argyll and Bute. A spaceport would do just that, and really put the area on the global, or even interstellar, map.''.
The other four permanent sites being considered to host an operational Spaceport by 2018 are Glasgow Prestwick and Stornoway, in Scotland; Newquay in England and Llanbedr in Wales. RAF Leuchars is confirmed as a potential temporary facility.
The government plans to use the successful site as a base for tourist flights as well as satellite launches.
MACC is account managed by the Argyll and the Islands Area Team of Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). HIE is an ambitious organisation with a unique remit which integrates economic and community development.
Machrihanish is identified as a strategic business site in the Argyll and Bute Local Development Plan and has an approved masterplan to guide future development on the site.


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