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How can i disable a G+ page
I want to delete my G+ page alone but have the other Google features i use. How can i do this without any other loss
Can i have the steps for achieving this
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Top 10 Google Adevertisements for TV Channels
I know Google has made many TV Channel AD's and wanted a list of top 10 Advertisements explained
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YouTube New comment system explained?
I know YouTube release the new commenting system and wanted to know all the features added to YouTube in year 2013.
All smallest to biggest changes with the recent YouTube comments change of functionality
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How can i get my Gmail's attachments into Google Drive
I heard some changes are done today in Gmail so we can download all attachments in emails into Google drive automatically
Can i know the benefits and how to make this change on my Gmail account to save all attachments into Google Drive
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What is Twitters new feature custom timelines
I heard this is a new functionality change or feature in Twitters. Can i know all possible info about this please
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Apple Maps Vs Google Maps
Which of this is better and reliable?
What technologies or mechanism do each of them use
What are all the devices each of them work on
Why 2 different maps with such huge expense rather then one great Map
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Tips and Tricks on Google Docs
I am new on using Google Docs and as i believe any work has a easy way and a hard way. So wanted to know some easy ways of using the Google Docs
Some easy and hidden stuffs about Google Docs
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How better is 3G Network from 4G
I have 3G right now and its awesome and now 4G how better is it, how can we compare with the speed
Can i have few examples and scenarios explaining this
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Facebook find who did not accept my friend requests
I have been trying to collect all my known friends and now have a few hundred friends. I am sure many havent accepted my friend requests so where can i see all who i sent a request but they did not see it or accept it?
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Ski Lovers Dream House only 8 Miles from Squaw! REDUCED in Tahoe City
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Ski Lovers Dream House only 8 Miles from Squaw! Sleeps 10 Only $250 a night REDUCED to $200 a night
In the heart of gorgeous Tahoe City, beautiful and spacious home with view of magnificent Lake Tahoe. Only 1 mile from downtown Tahoe City and close to all major ski resorts. Squaw Valley is only 8 miles away. Alpine is only 5 miles and Homewood is 1 mile. Four large bedrooms with 32 inch flat screen TVs, 2 newly remodeled full baths and a half bath are located downstairs. Upstairs has huge living room with 65 inch flat screen TV, beautiful deck, enormous well equipped kitchen, and dining room with dining table that opens to seat ten comfortably and a bar/counter that seats another six! TV with cable connection, DVD/VCR with lots of movies, wireless internet and stereo. Kitchen is well-stocked with microwave, double oven, dishwasher, many pots and pans, wine glasses and extras, spices and staples too! Linens and towels are provided.
The house is located at 614 Olympic Drive in Tahoe City, just a mile from town.
We're near Truckee River, Squaw Valley (with all its new shops and restaurants),
Alpine Meadows, Sunnyside and Homewood.
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$175 Cleaning Fee
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Large, clean and beautifully decorated 4 bedroom home with newly remodeled granite and marble bathrooms, huge 65 inch flat screen TV in living room, 32 inch flat screens in bedrooms, wifi, great deck, enormous well equipped and well stocked kitchen, cable, internet access. Two car garage, large flat driveway. Close to major ski resorts and 1 mile from downtown Tahoe City.
activities and attractions in Tahoe City Lake Tahoe Area
Squaw Valley, Alpine, Homewood, Boreal and Sugar Bowl Ski Resorts
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iPhone Sticker Makes It Look Like Bill Cliton (Or George Bushoff) Is Perpetually Calling
Amazing Call iPhone 4 stickers are $10 stickers designed to go on the back of your iPhone and make it appear whoever's on the sticker (i.e. God) is constantly calling. Alternatively, the stickers can be placed on the front of your phone to render it useless.
Choose Einstein, Obama, Lenin or even some chick in a bikini. This is the kind of pure genius accessory that could only come directly from Hong Kong.
The wacky designers at Amazing Calling will even custom print the "call from image" of your choice. But why use your own image when you can have former president "Cliton" protecting the back of your new iPhone 4.
Awesome. I'm gonna get one that says "Your Momma" and has a picture of the Kool-Aid man. Get it? Because she's a good source of vitamin C juicy.
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dancedroid Finally got mine! dancedroid
Have had it a few weeks now and I have mixed feelings over it. I think I need to take classes on this one LOL... and I am coming from the 2.
What gets me is the smart applications, the speaker volume, sound effects, talking as though I am in a bubble of water to others! Seems like my phone falls asleep and refuses to wake up when I want to use it until I reboot it. Maybe I need a setting to have it reboot daily?
My Wi-Fi turns itself on and off as well as the data... I am one of the lucky ones who got grandfathered in with the unlimited everything. I seriously think I turned settings on that I don't need off the ones I do. But I Love the fact that when I go to the mountains I actually have a good signal with the new 4G, when I had nothing with the 3G.
I don't think I have the blown speaker symptoms that others are experiencing, because I can be on a call and standing in my living room and be clear as day, but go into my bedroom and I am all garbled to the other person. Then when I go into the powder room both sides are Garbled.
It takes so much longer for the phone to boot up compared to my Droid 2. I am too lazy to take it to Verizon this week, maybe next week.:hail:


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Victoria Beckham took a helicopter to travel to her son's school for parents' evening.
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Victoria Beckham has not stopped smiling during her break to sunny Los Angeles. The fashion designer, who is renowned for her serious expressions in photos, is clearly enjoying spending...
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Victoria Beckham has tweeted a photo of her son Romeo styled to look like Chanel's creative director Karl Lagerfeld.
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Victoria Beckham is rumoured to be opening her first store on London's Dover Street.
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Victoria Beckham has launched her autumn/winter 2013 collection for Victoria, Victoria Beckham on the e-commerce site she debuted back in March.
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Celebrities from Harry Styles to David Beckham have used their bodies as a blank canvas and have had countless tattoos done, opting for designs such as cryptic symbols, wild animals and sentimental phrases.
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Manatee at Kings Bay, Florida
From sea to shining sea, manatees are just one reason Scuba Diving magazine loves diving in the U.S.A.
Blue Heron Bridge
Hauling over the freeway from West Palm to Riviera Beach, Florida, few would guess what lies beneath. The worlds under the bridge's east and west sides are a muck paradise, offering sightings of exotics like batfish, flying gurnards and frogfish. (Keep one eye on the channel for sharks and eagle rays.) Phil Foster Park, on an island right under the bridge, offers plenty of parking, bathrooms and pavilioned grills — it's a great place to meet other divers, who are found here pretty much every day of the year.
Cuddle up to a manatee — it's up to the animal how close it comes — and you might not believe these tubby sweethearts of the springs inspired mermaid legends. Diving with them is uncommon, but many operators offer snorkeling — and you very nearly can't avoid "sea cows" off Florida's south-west coast, where they head when ocean temps rise in late spring.
The Great Lakes
The clean, cold fresh water of the world's largest lake system has begotten an unprecedented cache of well-preserved shipwrecks — and arguably the most pristine wooden wrecks on the planet — not to mention some of the hardiest divers in our tribe. Hundreds of divable sites in all of the five lakes have kept local and visiting wreck hounds captivated for decades at hot spots such as Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary, Straits of Mackinac Underwater Preserve and Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve.
Hawaiian Volcanoes
The forces that created America's tropical Pacific paradise also formed some of the most compelling structures in any ocean — arches, tunnels, caverns and canyons. The glorious First and Second Cathedral of Lanai to the dramatic Kaloko Arches of the Big Island, the Pu'u Mu lava tubes of Ni'ihau and Maui's Molokini Crater — there's a playground of frozen lava below the surface of Hawaii.
Dive Bars
Nothing loosens the tongue like a cold one — setting up divers for their second-favorite post-dive activity: spinning yarns. From the Marlin Club on Catalina Island to Sharkey's Pub and Galley in Key Largo, Waikiki's Hideaway Bar to Harpoon Larry's in Hampton, Virginia, America's salty dive bars give our tribe a place to let it all hang out.
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Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer and political columnist Ezra Klein are coming to Miami University, the university announced today.
The program is part of the inaugural JANUS Forum Lecture — a moderated discourse that examines divergent positions on a topic.
Former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher and political columnist Ezra Klein, of both the Washington Post and Bloomberg, will respond to the question "Is Democracy in America Working?" The speakers will address the question and open the floor to questions from the audience.
The event will be followed by a reception with the speakers. The event and reception are free and open to the public.
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Just outside the Westgate, the Falstaff is a conveniently located hotel in Canterbury, with free parking and walking distance from both the city centre and Canterbury West railway station. The Falstaff Hotel is the perfect base to explore Canterbury Cathedral and its local coast and countryside. Canterbury has an excellent range of shopping, restaurants and family attractions.
I have staid at the Falstaff on several occasions and was always very content. This time I was put in room 56. This room has very small space where one can walk upright. Also, the windows are supposed to be kept shut (I found a note from the hotel on the floor with that request). This room was sold at standard rate. Standard room rate is certainly not justified for room 56. You should knock off 20% from standard rate for such a room.
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Once on the A2 after 5 miles, follow the first signpost for Canterbury. At the first roundabout turn left and follow the brown signs for St Dunstan's area hotels. At the mini roundabout turn right and follow the road towards the Westgate Tower. The Flastaff Hotel is located on the left hand side.


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Calistoga, California
City of Calistoga | |
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Looking north near 1277 Lincoln Avenue in Calistoga |
Coordinates: 38°34′53″N 122°34′58″W / 38.58139°N 122.58278°WCoordinates: 38°34′53″N 122°34′58″W / 38.58139°N 122.58278°W | |
Country | United States of America |
State | California |
County | Napa |
Incorporated | 6 January 1886 |
Government | |
• Mayor | Chris Canning |
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• Total | 2.613 sq mi (6.769 km2) |
• Land | 2.595 sq mi (6.722 km2) |
• Water | 0.018 sq mi (0.047 km2) 0.70% |
Elevation | 348 ft (106 m) |
Population (2010)[2] | |
• Total | 5,155 |
• Density | 2,000/sq mi (760/km2) |
Time zone | Pacific (UTC-8) |
• Summer (DST) | Pacific (UTC-7) |
ZIP code | 94515 |
Area code(s) | 707 |
FIPS code | 06-09892 |
GNIS feature ID | 0277482 |
Website | www.ci.calistoga.ca.us |
Calistoga is a city in Napa County, California, United States. The population was 5,155 at the 2010 census.
The Upper Napa Valley was once the home of a significant population of Indigenous People, called the Wappo during the Spanish colonial era of the late 18th century. With abundant oak trees providing acorns as a food staple and the natural hot springs as a healing ground Calistoga (Wappo: Nilektsonoma, "Chicken Hawk Place")[3] was the site of several villages. Following Mexican Independence, mission properties were secularized and disposed of by the Mexican government with much of the Napa Valley being partitioned into large ranchos in the 1830s and 1840s. The first Anglo settlers began arriving in the 1840s, with several taking up lands in the Calistoga area.
Samuel Brannan was the leader of a settlement expedition on the ship Brooklyn landing in Yerba Buena (San Francisco) in 1846. He published San Francisco's first English language newspaper, the California Star. Following the discovery of gold in Coloma, Brannan pursued many business ventures, which made him California's first millionaire and became a leader in San Francisco's Committee of Vigilance. Fascinated by Calistoga's natural hot springs, Brannan purchased more than 2,000 acres (8 km2) with the intent to develop a spa reminiscent of Saratoga Springs in New York. He is said [4] to have intended to state "I'll make this place the Saratoga of California," but to have in fact uttered "the Calistoga of Sarifornia."[5] His Hot Springs Resort surrounding Mt Lincoln with the Spa/Hotel located at what is now Indian Springs Resort, opened to California's rich and famous in 1862. In 1868 Brannan's Napa Valley Railroad Company's track was completed to Calistoga. This provided an easier travel option for ferry passengers making the journey from San Francisco. With the addition of railroad service, Calistoga became not only a destination, but also the transportation hub for the upper valley and a gateway to Lake and Sonoma Counties. A 6 meter diorama of this early Calistoga can be seen in the Sharpsteen Museum.
Calistoga's economy was based on mining (silver and mercury) agriculture (grapes, prunes and walnuts) and tourism (the hot springs). One of the early visitors was Robert Louis Stevenson. Yet to write his great novels, he had just married Fanny Vandegrift in San Francisco in May 1880, and the couple honeymooned at the Calistoga Hot Springs Hotel days later. Desiring to stay in the area, they moved from the hotel to an abandoned cabin at the nearby Silverado Mine on Mount Saint Helena. While working on other stories Stevenson kept a journal which became the Silverado Squatters describing many local features, residents and characters.
Calistoga made national headlines in 1881 when Anson Tichenor claimed that he had invented a way to extract gold from the waters of the hot springs. Tichenor's invention was soon proved to be a fraud.
In 1920, Giuseppe Musante, a soda fountain and candy store owner in Calistoga, was drilling for a cold water well at the Railway Exchange when he tapped into a hot water source. In 1924 he set up a bottling line and began selling Calistoga Sparkling Mineral Water. The company became a major player in the bottled water business after Elwood Sprenger bought the small bottling plant in 1970 known today as Calistoga Water Company.
Today, Calistoga retains its charm of yesteryear with a walkable downtown much as it was when spa visitors arrived by train.
At the very top of the Napa Valley, centrally located between Napa and Sonoma counties, Calistoga remains the historic hot springs resort destination of wine, water, and wellness.
Named a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2001, Calistoga enables a visitor to see wine country as it was before freeways and fast food - only two-lane roads lead there and fast food franchises are banned by law.
Scenes from the Disney movie Bedtime Stories starring Adam Sandler were filmed in Calistoga in June, 2008.[6]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 square miles (6.7 km2), 99.30% of it land and 0.70% of it water.
According to National Weather Service records, Calistoga has cool, wet winters with temperatures dropping to freezing on an average of 34.1 days. Summers are usually very dry, with daytime temperatures regularly reaching 90 °F (32 °C) or higher on an average of 72.8 days, but nights are cool, dropping into the lower fifties. Average January temperatures range from 59.8 °F (15.4 °C) to 36.8 °F (2.7 °C). Average July temperatures range from 92.3 °F (33.5 °C) to 53.1 °F (11.7 °C). The record high temperature of 111 °F (44 °C) occurred on July 23, 2006. The record low temperature of 12 °F (−11 °C) was recorded on December 22, 1990.
Average annual rainfall is 37.79 inches (960 mm) with measurable precipitation falling on an average of 66 days each year. The wettest year was 1983 with 75.38 inches (1,915 mm) and the driest year was 1976 with 12.43 inches (316 mm). The most rainfall in one month was 32.06 inches (814 mm) in February 1986. The most rainfall in 24 hours was 8.10 inches (206 mm) on February 17, 1986. Snow often falls in the nearby mountains during the winter months, but is rare in Calistoga. On January 3, 1974, 3.0 inches of snow fell in the city.[7]
Climate data for Calistoga, California (1981–2010 normals) | |||||||||||||
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Average high °F (°C) | 59.5 (15.3) |
62.9 (17.2) |
67.2 (19.6) |
72.4 (22.4) |
78.7 (25.9) |
85.9 (29.9) |
91.4 (33) |
90.7 (32.6) |
87.9 (31.1) |
79.3 (26.3) |
66.4 (19.1) |
58.5 (14.7) |
75.1 (23.9) |
Average low °F (°C) | 37.3 (2.9) |
39.0 (3.9) |
40.4 (4.7) |
41.9 (5.5) |
46.3 (7.9) |
50.4 (10.2) |
52.5 (11.4) |
52.1 (11.2) |
50.2 (10.1) |
45.4 (7.4) |
40.4 (4.7) |
36.4 (2.4) |
44.4 (6.9) |
Precipitation inches (mm) | 8.16 (207.3) |
7.79 (197.9) |
5.77 (146.6) |
2.39 (60.7) |
1.40 (35.6) |
.22 (5.6) |
.03 (0.8) |
.05 (1.3) |
.32 (8.1) |
2.11 (53.6) |
4.75 (120.7) |
7.88 (200.2) |
40.87 (1,038.4) |
Source: [8] |
The 2010 United States Census[9] reported that Calistoga had a population of 5,155. The population density was 1,972.4 people per square mile (761.5/km²). The racial makeup of Calistoga was 3,735 (72.5%) White, 27 (0.5%) African American, 21 (0.4%) Native American, 47 (0.9%) Asian, 10 (0.2%) Pacific Islander, 968 (18.8%) from other races, and 347 (6.7%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2,545 persons (49.4%).
The Census reported that 5,100 people (98.9% of the population) lived in households, 20 (0.4%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 35 (0.7%) were institutionalized.
There were 2,019 households, out of which 630 (31.2%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 927 (45.9%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 189 (9.4%) had a female householder with no husband present, 99 (4.9%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 141 (7.0%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 20 (1.0%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 641 households (31.7%) were made up of individuals and 332 (16.4%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53. There were 1,215 families (60.2% of all households); the average family size was 3.23.
The population was spread out with 1,167 people (22.6%) under the age of 18, 400 people (7.8%) aged 18 to 24, 1,341 people (26.0%) aged 25 to 44, 1,283 people (24.9%) aged 45 to 64, and 964 people (18.7%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40.0 years. For every 100 females there were 96.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.7 males.
There were 2,319 housing units at an average density of 887.3 per square mile (342.6/km²), of which 1,166 (57.8%) were owner-occupied, and 853 (42.2%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 3.4%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.0%. 2,545 people (49.4% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 2,555 people (49.6%) lived in rental housing units.
As of the census[10] of 2000, there were 5,190 people, 2,042 households, and 1,243 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,997.4 people per square mile (770.7/km²). There were 2,249 housing units at an average density of 865.5 per square mile (334.0/km²).
There were 2,042 households out of which 29.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 47.2% were married couples living together, 8.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.1% were non-families. 31.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 17.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.20.
In the city the population was spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 21.7% from 45 to 64, and 19.6% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females there were 99.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 94.6 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $38,454, and the median income for a family was $44,375. Males had a median income of $32,344 versus $29,844 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,134. About 5.2% of families and 8.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.5% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.
In the state legislature, Calistoga is located in California's 3rd State Senate district, represented by Democrat Lois Wolk, and in California's 4th State Assembly district, represented by Democrat Mariko Yamada.
Calistoga is also in California's 5th congressional district, represented by Democrat Mike Thompson.[11]
Tourist attractions[edit]
Calistoga is at the north end of the Napa Valley Calistoga AVA, part of California's Wine Country. Thus there are numerous wineries within a short drive, including Chateau Montelena Winery, Sterling Winery and Schramsberg Vineyards.
Calistoga itself, however, is noted for its hot springs spas, a local specialty being immersion in hot volcanic ash known as a mud bath. Nearby attractions include an artificial geothermal geyser known as the "Old Faithful of California" or "Little Old Faithful". The geyser erupts from the casing of a well drilled in the late 19th century. According to Dr. John Rinehart in his book A Guide to Geyser Gazing (1976 p. 49), a man had drilled into the geyser in search for water. He had actually "simply opened up a dead geyser".[12]
Notable people[edit]
- Dick Vermeil, former head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, St. Louis Rams, & Kansas City Chiefs was born in Calistoga
- In 1880 Robert Louis Stevenson spent his honeymoon with Fanny Vandegrift a few miles north of Calistoga, living in the bunk house of the abandoned Silverado Mine. The Silverado Squatters is his story of this adventure.
- Former Major League Baseball player Tom Seaver and his wife Nancy live just south of Calistoga where they have a 3-acre (12,000 m2) vineyard
- Former Major League Baseball player Bob Knepper attended Calistoga High School.
- ^ U.S. Census
- ^ "Census 2010: Table 3A — Total Population by Race (Hispanic exclusive) and Hispanic or Latino: 2010" (Excel). California Department of Finance. Retrieved March 22, 2010.
- ^ "Wappo Language". Wappo Indians of Napa County. Retrieved 2012-08-15.
- ^ Bright, William (1998). California Place Names. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24217-3.
- ^ Yerger, Rebecca (July 15, 2011). "Calistoga celebrates No. 125". Napa Valley Register (Napa, CA: Lee Enterprises, Inc.). Retrieved July 16, 2011.
- ^ http://www.weeklycalistogan.com/articles/2008/06/19/news/local/doc48598fa4007fb817713106.txt
- ^ Central California
- ^ http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca1312
- ^ All data are derived from the United States Census Bureau reports from the 2010 United States Census, and are accessible on-line here. The data on unmarried partnerships and same-sex married couples are from the Census report DEC_10_SF1_PCT15. All other housing and population data are from Census report DEC_10_DP_DPDP1. Both reports are viewable online or downloadable in a zip file containing a comma-delimited data file. The area data, from which densities are calculated, are available on-line here. Percentage totals may not add to 100% due to rounding. The Census Bureau defines families as a household containing one or more people related to the householder by birth, opposite-sex marriage, or adoption. People living in group quarters are tabulated by the Census Bureau as neither owners nor renters. For further details, see the text files accompanying the data files containing the Census reports mentioned above.
- ^ "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
- ^ "California's 5th Congressional District - Representatives & District Map". Civic Impulse, LLC. Retrieved March 3, 2013.
- ^ Jones, Wyoming "Old Faithful Geyser of California" WyoJones' Geyser Pages Retrieved on 2008-03-31
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Calistoga, California. |
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Calistoga. |
- City of Calistoga web site
- The Calistoga Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau
- Calistoga Tribune (one of two local newspapers)
- The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Weekly Calistogan (one of two local newspapers)
- Warming Up in the Vineyard, Tom Terrific Article from The New York Times 2005-12-28
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The National Voice of American Museum of Broadcasting in West Chester will open for monthly public tours beginning this Saturday, Sept. 17 from noon to 3 p.m.
The Sept. 17 tour will be the first of several tours planned before the museum closes again for a few months this winter to complete installation of a new roof and block maintenance on the rear of the building.
The museum building had been closed for two years for restoration funded by the Ohio Cultural Facilities Commission.
"We're looking forward to greeting the public again and sharing information about the great contribution Cincinnati has made to freedom and the world of broadcasting," said Ken Rieser, National VOA Museum of Broadcasting board chairman.
Donations of $5 for adults and $1 for children under 12 are suggested. For more information about the VOA museum, go to www.voamuseum.org.
The museum is located at 8070 Tylersville Road in West Chester.
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Rep. Smith calls upon flight attendants to battle human trafficking
Smith also requests the creation of an international hotline for reporting.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Special Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe Parliamentary Assembly, has called for improvements in the way human trafficking is fought. During remarks he delivered in Kiev, Ukraine, Smith called for improved training especially for flight attendants, and an international hotline for reporting trafficking activity.
Specifically Smith called for the special training of flight attendants who are in a front-line position to recognize human traffickers and their victims, as well as for the creation of an international hotline where such crimes can be reported and immediately acted upon.
Human trafficking is a global problem of epic proportions. There are now more slaves in the world today than there has ever been at any time in world history. The most typical victims are women and children, people who are least able to help themselves.
Child victims of human trafficking can either be sold into slavery by their parents or are kidnapped. Older women are either kidnapped or lured into slavery, and adult males can also be lured or extorted.
In some parts of the world, such as Southeast Asia and Europe, human trafficking is extraordinarily common. Victims are transported by a variety of means, including on board international flights. Flight attendants are in a unique position to recognize pimps and their victims, and to report their presence to the authorities. An alert flight attendant can notify a pilot who can in turn notify authorities who may be able to save a victim from being trafficked.
Rep. Smith explained in his comments, detailed below, that although much has already been done, we can do more. The establishment of an international hotline combined with special training, is the next step toward putting an end to this horrific practice.
The comments of Rep. Smith are posted below.
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, (R-N.J.)
Special Representative of the OSCE PA on Human Trafficking Issues
Co-Chairman of the United States Helsinki Commission
June 10, 2013
Kiev, Ukraine
In January of 2000, I received actionable information that eight Ukrainian women were being exploited by sex traffickers in two bars in Montenegro. The women had been lured there with promises of legitimate work, then forced into prostitution. One desperate victim, however, called her mother for help using the phone of one of the men exploiting her.
When informed, I immediately called the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Filip Vujanovic, who personally ordered an immediate raid on the bar. As a result, seven of the eight women were rescued and returned to their families in Ukraine. Tragically, the eighth woman was trafficked to Albania prior to the raid.
Combating modern-day slavery is everybody's business. We are all in this together. Cooperation and coordination are key to mitigating-and someday ending-the cruelty of human trafficking. Best practices need to be shared and implemented to the widest extent possible.
I would like to especially thank Chair-in-Office Leonid Kozhara for convening this conference and for personally advocating highly effective, low cost strategies including training flight attendants and others to better recognize and report a potential trafficking situation as it is happening-on an airliner or bus or train or in a hotel.
Earlier today, Ukraine hosted its first flight crew anti-trafficking training. Flight attendants, customs officials, airport police, airline representatives, and many others received training on how to spot both victim and perpetrator and what next steps need to be taken.
Situation awareness and the training to confidently know what to do and when will save thousands of victims' lives. Flight attendants are in the unique position-especially on long flights-to observe a potential trafficking in progress and then call a trafficking hotline or inform the pilot to radio ahead so that the proper authorities intervene as they deplane.
Over time-and as the pimps and exploiters get caught and jailed-the added positive consequence of trained flight attendants and others will have a profound chilling effect on the traffickers' ability to move victims from one place to another. The current-day risk to a trafficker of getting caught transporting a victim or victims is pathetically small. And they know it. You and I have the ability to change that.
In July of 2010, I chaired a conference in Washington, D.C., to bring together the relevant U.S. agencies, such as Customs and Border Patrol, various US airlines, and non-governmental organizations to focus on interdicting traffickers by training others to know the signs. Speakers including Deborah Sigmund, founder of an NGO called Innocents at Risk, explained how flight attendants were the "first line of defense" in the fight against human trafficking.
Flight attendant Nancy Rivard, President of Airline Ambassadors International-a humanitarian NGO that provides humanitarian aid to children and families in need as well as relief and development to under-privileged communities worldwide-told us how she and other flight attendants compared notes one day and were shocked-and dismayed-how often they had noticed what they suspected was a trafficked woman or child on their flight but had no training or protocol to do something about it. Nancy has been doing a great deal about it ever since and has personally helped rescue trafficked women-and train others to do the same.
One of the earliest successes of the program was a call Nancy placed to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding a child she had seen on her flight from the Dominican Republic to Boston. That tip led to the break-up of a trafficking ring that had transported 82 children to the United States.
Ms. Rivard will give a keynote address during the first session. Please listen to her. And act.
Just this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) began coordinating with the airlines and is in the process of releasing the Blue Lightening program to domestic U.S. airlines. DHS has developed a hotline, and training will soon be occurring across the United States. I intend to host one this fall in an airport in my home state of New Jersey.
And with minimal modifications, the training is also easily adaptable to bus drivers and station operators, train conductors, trucking associations, and other transportation industry professionals. It also fits well with the emerging anti-trafficking commitment and training in the hospitality industry. Hotel chains including Hilton Worldwide, Hyatt, Accor, Carlson, Hotelplan Suisse, Wyndham, Sabre Holdings Corporation, Kuoni Travel, and many others have committed to training their employees.
The OSCE annex to the Action Plan to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings will soon be updated. I hope you'll agree that this "best practice" training initiative must be included, be prominent, and thoroughly implemented. Indeed, this effort requires almost no cost, just the will to do it. For the sake of the victims-and their grieving families left behind-the OSCE, and all of our governments, at all levels, can and must make this a priority.
I mentioned earlier how I received actionable information because a victim in Montenegro was able to call her mom for help in Ukraine. I propose a new OSCE initiative-a single, unified hotline. Many of the countries represented here today have taken the much needed step of creating national hotlines. Let's build on that success and cooperate more robustly across borders. With a single trafficking hotline, travelers and transportation professionals can report suspected trafficking anytime, anywhere. A single hotline will assist victims anywhere, anytime.
And let me just add here, the importance of ensuring that the hotline connects good citizens and victims not only with law enforcement able to launch a rescue, but with the non-governmental organizations and faith-based organizations that will help victims rebuild their lives. I have been in faith-based shelters all over the world. I have seen how faith-based shelters are able to minister to the utter brokenness of the victims. When it comes to sheltering, governments need to partner with the faith-based community so that victims will be most effectively served.
My work in the struggle to end human trafficking began in the mid-1990s and led to my authorship of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TPVA) of 2000-America's landmark law to combat human trafficking. When I first introduced the TVPA in 1998 however, the legislation was met with a wall of skepticism and opposition. People both inside of government and out, thought the legislation's bold new strategy-including sheltering, asylum and other protections for the victims, long jail sentences and asset confiscation for the traffickers, and tough sanctions for governments that failed to meet minimum standards prescribed in the law-was merely a solution in search of a problem.
For most people at that time, the term trafficking applied almost exclusively to illicit drugs or weapons. Reports of vulnerable persons-especially women and children-being reduced to commodities for sale were often met with surprise, incredulity or indifference. It took two years to overcome opponents and muster the votes for passage and even overcoming opposition by the Clinton Administration.
Today, much progress has been made. Most countries in Europe-and many around the world-have enacted comprehensive laws to combat this preventable exploitation. Faithfully implementing those laws however-including in the United States-remains a serious challenge. Passage of legislation is only a step, albeit an important one.
All of us can and must do more. Training flight attendants-and others-and a unified hotline will save victims, boost convictions of the traffickers and deter these monstrous crimes.
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At 6:48 a.m. on Sept. 29, 2009, a massive 8.3 magnitude earthquake strikes midway between Samoa and American Samoa in the South Pacific.
Approximately 120 miles from the quake's epicenter, a group of boaters docked in Pago Pago Harbor in American Samoa are trying to make sense of the strange phenomenon taking place around them.
Wayne Hodges tells the others that he heard and felt a strange thrumming that he couldn't quite identify. He estimates that the uncanny vibration lasted about three minutes. Soon another boater joins the group, announcing that he just checked the Internet and learned that there was a large undersea earthquake in the region nearly 20 minutes ago. As the conversation winds down and the cruisers disperse, one of them quips, "Watch out for a big wave."
Moments later things turn more bizarre. As Hodges is about to step aboard his boat, it drops out from under him. The dock lines strain and screech under the load of the falling boat, eliciting a hum like guitar strings being overly tightened. The sound is amplified by other boats simultaneously experiencing the same ordeal as lines snap and cleats give way. Added to the cacophony is a peculiar sucking noise from the receding water. Hodges instinctively jumps aboard his boat and struggles to gain footing. Seconds later he looks down and is aghast to see...mud? The entire bay has been emptied of water.
Things get eerily silent. But it's an ominous quiet. And it's short-lived.
Tsunami! A thunderous flood of seawater re-enters the bay. Hodges sees some of the boaters running for a light post on an elevated section of the wharf. Another cruiser is standing on the dock feverishly trying to untie his lines. As Hodges' boat rights itself, he unsheathes his knife and cuts the lines, freeing the vessel as it jostles in the rapidly rising, turbulent water. But Hodges' boat rises up and over the dock, above what was dry land mere seconds ago. He watches in horror as the cruiser trying to undo his lines is swept away by the tsunami (to his death he learns later). The other boaters are clinging for their lives to the light post, climbing it higher and higher as the water rises. They survive.
Hodges starts his engine and miraculously rides the tsunami out, successfully dodging other boats and large debris as he steers for deeper water, where he safely stays for the next three hours as successive tsunami waves come and go.
Hodges lived to boat another day. Many who are caught in a tsunami don't. What can you do to increase your odds of survival if a tsunami has you in its sights?
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I think I'm going to give up doing still life under artificial light. Having been so pleased with the natural light shots I did at the weekend, I'm totally dissatisfied with the results today - or maybe I'm just having a duff evening
I've decided to upload this anyway but fear I might change my mind and take it down again - who knows.......
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Date Taken: | 9 May 2012 - 8:38 PM |
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Not a lot wrong with this Ali......But I know what you mean about light, I do a lot of my macro stuff under artificial light because of my disability more than anything. But nothing quite compares with natural light even when shooting insects and such like......
This is just excellent though, I love the rich textures which gives the image a rich sense of grubbiness, don't know if that's what you were trying to achieve, but it certainly works for me......
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Oops - sorry I'm late returning - thank you all. It's interesting to see that apparently it's not as duff as I thought it was
I must check my veg supplies in the hope that there's some decent light at the weekend and I can play some more. I somehow think the Artichoke will be well knackered by Saturday, as will the mushrooms, but the rest should be ok, ie. I have plenty of garlic, red onions, tomatoes......
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- Products of Polynomials
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Inside Collection (Textbook): Basic Mathematics Review
Summary: This module is from Elementary Algebra by Denny Burzynski and Wade Ellis, Jr. Factoring is an essential skill for success in algebra and higher level mathematics courses. Therefore, we have taken great care in developing the student's understanding of the factorization process. The technique is consistently illustrated by displaying an empty set of parentheses and describing the thought process used to discover the terms that are to be placed inside the parentheses. The factoring scheme for special products is presented with both verbal and symbolic descriptions, since not all students can interpret symbolic descriptions alone. Two techniques, the standard "trial and error" method, and the "collect and discard" method (a method similar to the "ac" method), are presented for factoring trinomials with leading coefficients different from 1. Objectives of this module: be reminded of products of polynomials, be able to determine a second factor of a polynomial given a first factor.
Previously, we studied multiplication of polynomials (Section (Reference)). We were given factors and asked to find their product, as shown below.
Given the factors 4and 8, find the product.
Given the factors
The product is
Given the factors
The product is
Given the factors
The product is
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When you look at THAT picture you see a possible prepro gun?????????
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Eh, yeah! The Kaiser camera grip.
there were at least 3 pre pro sling guns , and yes its totally posible that, the deck gun handle was previously a PP pistol
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What better way to entertain than having a wide selection of multicolored, hard-hitting jello shots? College parties have been using them for years and whether you are hosting a party or just want to entertain a few friends, they will always get conversations started and lighten the mood. Here you will find a step-by-step guide on how to make jello shots perfectly, every time!
The Essentials
Note: These are just the essential items you will need for the traditional recipe. There are lots of ways to get creative with shots and I will go into this in further detail later on in the tips and tricks section.
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Combine together the cup of chilled Vodka and 1 cup of chilled water into a bowl, and then set aside in a refrigerator to chill. Make sure you let the mixture become fully chilled before moving to the next point. If it is not cool enough you will be left with weaker shots and nobody wants a weak shot!
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After your mixture in step 1 has cooled, bring the remaining water to a boil in a pot or jug. We will need 1 cup of boiling water for the shots to work, so boiling 1 ¼ cups should account for the evaporation that will take place while the water boils.
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Finally, fill each cup with the jello mixture leaving a ½ inch gap from the top of the cup. Place the cups on a tray in the refrigerator until they have fully set, which can take anywhere from 2 to 4 hours, and then leave them there until they are ready to be served. Simple! You have finished the steps on how to make jello shots and can start making batches.
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As I mentioned earlier there are a number of ways you can get creative with jello shots. With simple modifications to the recipe we used you can produce some stunning looking shots. A simple trick is creating different color layers in your shots. Using the above recipe, make several batches of different colored jello mixture. Add each layer and let it set completely before adding the next, this will take more time but will produce a beautiful multi-colored shot which will be sure to impress your friends.
Another option to try is using different fruit skins to hold your shots instead of plastic cups which I am sure you have seen before. Simply slice your chosen fruit in half, for example an orange. Scoop out the fruit and use the empty skin as the cup to pour your mixture. Once the mixture has set you can cut the fruit shots into slices for an amazing party shot! How about trying a layered mixture in the fruit for an even more exciting shot?
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The Master of Science in Organization Development (MSOD) is a 36 credit-hour graduate program designed to prepare students in the art and science of managing strategic change. The field of OD focuses on the behavioral science aspect of organizational systems, helping facilitate, anticipate, and manage change by a participative and systems-based approach. This Master's in Organization Development degree provides an understanding of the foundations, theories, methods, and tools of the OD profession as well as helping build critical and strategic thinking skills.
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The purpose of the course (including the required international study abroad) is to give students in the program skills to understand and be able to function as OD practitioners in international settings. Many companies in Wichita have locations internationally, work with suppliers and customers from around the globe and also have employees from a large variety of countries. While the overall focus of the MSOD program is not global or international, the International OD course is a critical component of preparing students to be OD practitioners. The required international study abroad is a critical component of this course.
The location of the study abroad (host country and host organization) is not pre-determined but will be identified well in advance of the actual experience. It is also possible that the cohort will "meet" members of the host organization via teleconferences, telephone and/or video conferencing, to begin the planning process for the on-site interaction.
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Al Jefferson (ACL), Rodney Carney (abdomen), Jason Collins (illness), and Randy Foye (ankle) are injured, although Foye and Collins could play.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia isn't doing a good job of delivering health-care services for low-income residents, according to a private foundation's report released Wednesday that even looked at the risk of tooth decay among the state's poor.
The Commonwealth Fund report ranked West Virginia tied with Nevada for 41st among the states and the District of Columbia.
The report, titled "Health Care in the Two Americas," found big gaps between the lowest- and highest-performing states. For instance, low-income adults in West Virginia are far more likely to lose six or more teeth to decay or disease compared to Connecticut, Hawaii and Utah.
The New York and Washington, D.C.-based organization that supports independent research on health policy looked at 30 different indicators in four categories.
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"We found repeated evidence that we are often two Americas, divided by income and geography when it comes to opportunities to lead long and healthy lives," said Cathy Schoen, a Commonwealth Fund senior vice president and the report's lead author. "These are more than numbers. We are talking about people's lives, health, and well-being."
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Scientists working at the world's biggest experiment Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva reckon they may have found the last piece of the jigsaw that explains how the universe works.
Physicists working at world's biggest experiment, CERN's Large Hadron Collider said that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a potential key to an understanding of why elementary particles have mass and indeed to the existence of diversity and life in the universe.
LHC is a 27 mile tunnel deep under the border between France and Switzerland, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) was built to recreate the conditions of the Big Bang, when the universe started and to find the Higgs boson. The LHC costs about around 10 billion USD to build and involved 10,000 scientists from around 100 countries.
Scientists all over the world are searching for existence of this particle for around 50 years.
"I think we have it," Rolf-Dieter Heuer, the director general of CERN, said in an interview from his office outside Geneva, calling the discovery "a historic milestone." His words signalled what is probably the beginning of the end for one of the longest, most expensive searches in the history of science. If scientists are lucky, the discovery could lead to a new understanding of how the universe began.
"Seeing something new is really the beginning of this long journey to understand what on Earth it is that you have seen," Tara Shears, who works on the LHCb detector at Cern, said. "It's like turning up to a railway station to pick someone up who you've never met before. You arrive at the station, the train comes in, and there's someone standing on the platform. You're guessing it's them, but you're not going to know until you walk up and check who they are."
Scientists have already cautioned that the discovery may not answer all the questions they have about pressing mysteries in nature.
"I find it a very depressing prospect, the possibility that this may be the last great discovery for many decades," Prof. Weinberg added.
Nonetheless, the scientific world was in agreement that the discovery was of major importance.
In an interview with the BBC on Wednesday, Mr. Hawking, who has motor neurone disease, said: "This is an important result and should earn Peter Higgs the Nobel Prize. "If the decay and other interactions of this particle are as we expect, it will be strong evidence for the so-called standard model of particle physics, the theory that explains all our experiments so far," Mr. Hawking said. "But it is a pity in a way because the great advances in physics have come from experiments that gave results we didn't expect. For this reason I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found. It seems I have just lost $100."
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Has anyone experienced better battery life?
Also, is there a setting for idle battery mode?
Also said better audio quality-what is better about it? - 11-26-2012, 05:51 PM #4
RE: Verizon Latest OS Update 18.104.22.1685-Said Battery Life Better?
The last two updates have improved the battery life each time. Update .580 made the most noticeable difference!
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I think .755 actually uses slightly more battery life even when idle compared to .580... debating going back or staying...
its about the same for me when i had .580
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Lawyers for the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and 10 coalfield residents filed papers Monday asking that the U.S. Office of Surface Mining reject the practice.
"It is astonishing that the state and strip mining operators persist in their attempts to make mountaintop removal even easier and cheaper to accomplish," wrote Charleston lawyer Joe Lovett.
"This attempt to weaken the strip mining laws yet again, in the wake of the mitigation bill fiasco, demonstrates the state's continuing disregard for the law and for the people who depend on the law to protect them from massive strip mining operations," Lovett wrote.
Under federal law, mountaintop removal operations can flatten out land only if they plan one of five specific types of development as a post-mining land use: agriculture, commercial, industrial, residential or public facilities.
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Quint finds Michael Stephenson's The American Scream to be a warm, emotional and touching documentary about scaring the shit out of people!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with my thoughts on one of my favorite films I've discovered at this year's Fantastic Fest: Michael Stephenson's The American Scream.
On the surface the documentary is just about people who like putting on little spookshow tours every Halloween to entertain their communities, but just like with his previous effort BEST WORST MOVIE, Stephenson delves deeper into the individuals making these elaborate trick or treat destinations, peeling back the layers until we have an honest, raw look at what makes them tick as human beings.
The guys, who call themselves Haunters, aren't all that socially awkward (at least most of them) and aren't all stereotypical horror nerds with 20 pounds of piercings in their face, tat sleeves and heavy metal tees. The three focuses of the doc are all devoted family men, even if the particular build up of their families aren't exactly the same.
The lead family are the Bariteaus, with daddy Victor, his wife and two daughters all involved in turning their New England house into a haunted house every October. Victor's the driving force, but he's got some powerful allies… some more reluctant than others. His wife is supportive, but clearly doesn't have the same passion as her husband. His youngest daughter also seems to be reluctant to take part.
However his eldest daughter is so very onboard that it would be creepy if she wasn't so suburbanly innocent. In fact, this girl made me want to have kids just so I could maybe one day have a daughter to share in my geeky obsession with Halloween with.
And yes, I adore Halloween. I always have. Most kids prefer Christmas because of all the presents, but even as a tyke I leaned towards the horror holiday. Don't get me wrong, I love the atmosphere of the holiday season, love the feeling of warmth that Christmas brings, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't love Halloween more. In fact, even typing the word "Halloween" makes me smile.
Pumpkin carving, dressing up, watching non-stop horror movies, orange and black colors everywhere, kids trick 'r treating, the leaves changing colors… I just love it.
So, yes I was admittedly an easy target for this film, but as I mentioned as much as Halloween serves as the background it's really a film about family unity and passion. It could have just as easily been about Christmas decorating or wood carving or paper mache tee-pee building and been just as emotionally resonant.
"Haunting" is a family bonding experience and all three families featured have made it a yearly ritual. Whether it's the more normal Bariteaus or the Souzas who take a more "everything and the kitchen sink" approach to haunting or the comical father-son (and, no shit, part time clown) duo of Matthew and Richard Brodeur who spend the movie lovingly bickering at each other in thick Massachusetts accents there's a theme that envelopes the movie that is unmistakable: love. Love for family, love for creating, love for their community and love of the holiday. For a movie about planning how to scare the shit out of people The American Scream has a big heart that it wears proudly on its sleeve.
And that's the talent of Michael Stephenson. With both Best Worst Movie and The American Scream he's been able to cut right to the heart of his participants. He shows them as people in a way that highlights their flaws and makes us love them for it all.
I recently bought a house (my first) and was already planning on establishing my Halloween dominance in the neighborhood, but seeing this movie has really inspired me to up my game. I don't quite have the time or talent to build my own haunted house add-on like they do in the movie, but I'm definitely doing more than some pumpkins, lights and paper witches hanging from tree-branches, that's for sure.
I believe this doc is airing a couple of days before Halloween on the Chiller Network and I have no idea if it's getting any theatrical play before then but that'd be really awesome of them to put it out across the country in the weeks leading up to Halloween. It definitely put me in the mood and I bet it would have a similar effect for crowds all over the place.
I really loved this doc and it's already in the running for favorite of the fest for me. It also didn't hurt that one of the Haunters featured built a haunted house in the empty storefront next door to the Alamo and they made up some fake story about vomit being cleaned up outside the main entrance and herded us all through the back exit door, which lead us all straight through the haunted house.
As usual, Tim League and the Alamo folks have outdone themselves as consummate showmen. Today was a blast and I can't wait to see what tomorrow has in store.
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It's on ChillTV or whatever that channel is that my girlfriend gets, and every time its on, I have to watch at least a little of it. Out of all subcultural docs these past few years (Winnebago Man, Shut Up Little Man, etc) this was not only the best one, but the only good one. I'll watch any doc this guy makes.
If the film is a fraction as good as that beautiful poster then I am in. Actually I am in. Me and the wife love a good feature length doc and it looks like it's about our kind of people.
Stephenson proved himself a terrifically skilled filmmaker with Best Worst Movie. it was funny, it was surprisingly touching and it was impeccably made. i look forward to this!
Sept. 24, 2012, 1:18 p.m. CST
That little haunted house rouse was inspired! I love shit like that. What a great idea.
by moonlightdrive
This doc is right up my street. Really looking forward to seeing it and seeing the haunted house creations.
Sept. 24, 2012, 4:08 p.m. CST
Very cool. I started as a Home Haunter and have now been pro for 14 years...
by Mephisto the Great
I was such a fan of Disneyland, I wanted to create the same experience of unleashed creativity. We started a little "home haunt" until we had a few hundred people going through it in 1998. We decided to start a yearly show for profit, and eventually I became the director of a non-profit event with over 300 staff members. As odd as this hobby might be, it led me to a nice career. Making people cry and wet themselves, as sick and wrong as it is, also works too. :) http://www.DarkHollowHaunt.com
Sept. 24, 2012, 4:42 p.m. CST
Best Worst Movie was good, it used to be streaming on Netfix...
by Jason Adkins
I'll have to try to find this.
Sept. 25, 2012, 2:05 a.m. CST
I like Halloween because you get to wander around your town at night, looking at everyone's houses.
by Jared Bond
Any other night and people just call the cops. :(
Every year, HGTV broadcasts holiday specials revolving around people who go all out when decking their houses for Xmas and Halloween. It's amazing how much time and how much money these people are willing to spend, and how effective their efforts are. I think it's great. That's how communities are built: people trying to make themselves and their neighbors happier with a little harmless fun. Wish I had a house to trick up for All Hallow's Eve. Sucks sometimes to live in an apartment.
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