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Vanishing rooms, murderous butchers and giant spiders are a few of the many thrills available at The Haunting, a mainstay in the local Halloween scene. Owner Stuart MacDonald said he is proud of the progress the attraction has made since it first opened.
"Just like any business, you look at how far you've come and think, 'Why did anybody come the first year?'" he said. "People had faith in us. I come from a show business background, so I know how to listen to my crowd. I know how to write a show that makes sense and has fun. By doing that, each year the show grows exponentially in quality because we can do that."
MacDonald opened The Haunting 17 years ago and has been a professional magician even longer under the name The Magic Stu. He put his illusionist skills to good use in the design of his haunted house.
"There's a room in The Haunting called The Vanishing Room where you go into an elevator, you come out and where you were isn't there anymore," MacDonald said. "We have a 12-by-12 room that completely vanishes and ends up being a 100-foot-long room. Nobody knows how we do it. That's a trade secret. We're the only ones that do that. We have a little bit of magic involved in that."
Another returning attraction is the 3-D Fear Fest. Guests are provided 3-D glasses, and the specially painted walls produce an added dimension of fear. New to the haunted house this year is Nightmares, an exhibit designed to make your nightmares a reality. MacDonald said it has some of the best twists they have ever come up with.
"You can go into The Haunting every year and it's a completely different house," MacDonald said. "We break it down to the ground and rebuild it from the grave up. If people come to The Haunting two years in a row, they won't see the same show. It's completely different."
One aspect of The Haunting that is familiar is the actors. For the first time in 17 years, MacDonald decided to forgo the audition process and bring back what he is calling the alumni cast.
"If you've done The Haunting before, then you get to do The Haunting this year if you have the time," MacDonald said. "So the cast is 100 percent alumni this year. We usually have an audition process and have auditioned 75 people for 20-30 positions. Some people have been here for nine years, and a couple people have gone from The Haunting into the Hollywood makeup effects industry."
The alumni cast is one of several steps taken this year aimed at improving cost efficiency and increasing the quality of the haunted house. MacDonald did away with the side attractions to focus solely on the haunted house.
"We don't have an indoor lobby anymore, so we don't have to decorate that," he said. "We don't have a store, so we don't have to stock that. We don't have a concession stand, so we don't have to man that or stock that. So now we focus 100 percent on just the haunted house, which is what we're here for anyway.
"By doing that, we've allowed ourselves to put more time and decoration in. The production value went up by scaling all of that back. People are going to find themselves enjoying Halloween like they used to."
These steps have also allowed MacDonald to cut the cost of tickets to $10, with a coupon available for $5 tickets on Friday nights.
"People were finding that it was too difficult to handle paying $15-20 for a haunted house," MacDonald said. "When we first started this 17 years ago, people would come to as many as 10 haunted houses in a season. Now they can only pick one, because some of the ticket prices are $30. With us having a coupon where you can get in for only $5 on Friday, it's allowing people to go to more than one haunted house."
The Haunting is located at the Lenawee County Fair & Event Grounds, 602 N. Dean St. in Adrian, Mich. General admission is $10 with a coupon available at MyHaunting.com for $5 admission on Fridays. The discounted admission is available all nights for groups of 20 or more. The attraction is open every Friday and Saturday in October from 7 p.m. to midnight. It will also be open Oct. 30-31 from 7-10 p.m.
"We've been here 17 years, so we're not a flash in the pan," MacDonald said. "There have been a lot of haunted houses that come and go because they don't get it. They are get-rich-quick. I have a show business background, a theater background and a business background. I'm also a paid on-call firefighter. All the elements come together to promote a house that is not only safe but fun, enjoyable and family-friendly. It's scary enough for a college student, but we keep it on a tasteful level."
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@Gen3sf - I had a friend that supposedly could hard mod my wii for me. Turns out he botched the chip on the wii dvd drive when soldering it on so it wont even accept a disc in the slot unless you force it in then you have problem getting it out. My brother made backups of some of my games on his comp. and thats what I am using on my hdd. I thought they may have been bad so I obtained another copy of one of my games. Same error. I am getting error when trying to load game from the hdd using usb loader gx. It says "an error occurred unable to read disc. press reset button etc." So I thought my dvd drive was causing the issue so I took it completely out and still get the same error. I realize some games may cause issues with not having the correct ios's but like I said out of the 5 I've tried I get error on 4 of them, black screen on NSMB. The games I have are (NSMB, S. mario gal. 1, mario kart, mario party 8, chuck e cheese). Thanks for your time and help.
1) how do i turn on my internet connection on the wii (or how to make sure it's on)? any directions to set up the internet connection?
2) how do i check to see if i have 250 blocks free? detail instructions are much appreciated.
ok, i install cios 222, done with formating my pend, done with cfgloader and now when i select game from loader wii gets restarted every time!?
Options: 1. Download and install uLoader because the later revisions are compatible with a external USB DVD drive. There are several links on this site to uLoader, I have one in my USB HDD guide. Make sure and read the uLoader info on external USB DVD drives as I do not know if there are model constraints or anything. If that works as described, you should be able to use the uLoader USB loader app to install your game backups from your still good original game discs to your HDD. For those damaged ones, maybe you can borrow from friends or rent in order to recover your lost games.
2. You are aware from reading and accepting the WiiHacks site rules that piracy is not supported or condoned. It is my understanding that a number of your original, legally purchased game discs were damaged due to the damage done to your Wii Drive. Look at my HDD guide HERE and you will read about use of WBFS Manager to install game ISOs for damaged discs. I will not discuss sources for those ISOs, but suggest you look in the Torrents area of our site. Again, no one on this site will help you steal games, this information is provided only for you to replace those damaged games.
Sounds like you are trying to hack/mod your Wii without first taking the time to read your basic Wii instructions. We spend a lot of time writing and editing our tutorials and guides and then supporting our members. However, we do not spoonfeed you and do expect a modicum of effort on your part. Take some time and read the instruction manual that came with your Wii, explore a few of the built-in functions so that you can set up the Wii the way you want it to be.
The Wii has built-in wireless functionality. If you did not setup Internet-you probably did not heed the specific direction in this guide about WiiConnect24 either. Both those options are in the Wii Settings menu pages (accessed by selecting the gray gear icon from the Wii's opening menu page). You will need to have a wireless router for the Wii to connect-if not you can update the system menu to 4.1 in an offline process. Granting your Wii access to your wireless router is a normal router function (works just like any other device that needs to use your wireless router) and so I will not go into as part of support of this tutorial.
You can view the total amount of free memory blocks by going into the "Data Management" area of the Wii Settings. Once inside "Data Management", select "Channels" to see the available space in that section listed as "Blocks Open. You should have also seen this when you started this tutorial-so it should look familiar.
gen3sf, I followed your advice, and still kept hitting my head on the wall, so I started all over again, by formatting my system memory on the wii, the only difference this time, was that I was running 4.1 . I followed the directions to a T, but when I go to use WAD manager, having IOS249 it freezes every time I select any device to be mounted.
I changed the IOS in WAD manager, and it let me install all of the wads and neogamma.
However, now when I try and actually run neogamma, (I did some searching on your forums and even got the neogammaR8beta12.zip file and try running that through the HBC) I just get a black screen, once I click on start or run.
It seems I am almost there, maybe just something that needs to be tweaked a bit?
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A few days ago I looked down at my Blackberry and threw my hands up in the air. I had just about had enough! Flinging my phone to the ground, I declared: "Facebook must die!!!"
Okay, fine, so it was slightly less dramatic than that. What really happened was that over the past few weeks, I had been frequenting my personal Facebook account less and less. I just didn't have anything much to say. I found myself browsing my newsfeed purely out of thoughtless habit.
Sometimes I did come up with things to share with the world: "The TTC should burn to the ground." "It is freezing like a biznatch out here." "Watching Alias makes me want to drink red wine."
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INDIANAPOLIS — With 402 teams entered for the second year in a row, initial matchups for the 42nd Annual IHSAA Volleyball State Tournament were announced this morning.
Sectional play begins Tuesday, Oct. 22, and continues through Saturday, Oct. 26, at 64 sites across the four enrollment classifications.
Those sectional champions will advance to a one-match regional on the home court of one of the participating teams Tuesday, Oct. 29, to be followed by a four-team semi-state on Saturday, Nov. 2. The four state championship matches at Ball State University's Worthen Arena are scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 9.
The four top-ranked teams in the latest state coaches poll headline this year's field.
Columbia City, which has been a Class 4A school for several years, will try its luck at Class 3A this season.
Unfortunately for the Lady Eagles, they drew one of the top Class 3A schools in the state — Bellmont. The Lady Braves topped Columbia City on Thursday's senior night in three competitive games.
The Columbia City-Bellmont matchup is slated for Thursday, Oct. 24.
See Page B2 for Columbia City's six-team sectional, which is held at Heritage.
Churubusco, which is in the Woodlan sectional, is set to face South Adams in the opening round.
Whitko's sectional is held at West Noble this year, and the Lady Wildcats face the hosts in the opening round, Tuesday Oct. 22.
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The open-source console dream is about to become a reality. The Android based Kickstarter-funded Ouya console is set for release in the US this June. It's curretnly available for pre-order on Amazon, GameStop, Target and Best Buy. As was originally promised, the Ouya console is priced at a very reasonable $99 (around £64), although punters can stump up an additional $49.99 (around £32) for an extra controller.
In an interview with Wall Street Journal, Ouya CEO Julie Uhrman said that the company was in talk with retailers. No deals have been signed off on as yet, but it's likely that supply in retail is to be demand-driven. She also mentioned that investors who backed the console's Kickstarter campaign will received their Ouya consoles as early as March this year.
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An abuse of the law to protect Prince Charles?
David Allen Green on royal privileges.
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In 2012 one would not expect the royal family still to have legal cover for its involvement in practical political matters. However, the coalition government has decided to overrule an independent tribunal, so that the scale of the meddling by Prince Charles in public life cannot be disclosed.
The Prince of Wales is as entitled to seek to influence policy and official decision-making as any other citizen. But what he is surely not entitled to do is hide all his lobbying behind the cloak of legal privilege. And yet, that is what has happened. The Attorney General, Dominic Grieve, has vetoed disclosure of the prince's letters to ministers and departments.
There is no good reason whatsoever for this veto, legal or otherwise. In September, a specialist information law tribunal ordered the disclosure of these letters under the Freedom of Information Act, in a 126-page, carefully worded decision. The tribunal rightly held that there is a public interest in disclosure of this ongoing attempt by Prince Charles to influence the work of government. Indeed, nothing could be a more obvious proposition. The request for disclosure was by the Guardian journalist Rob Evans. It is now hoped that the Guardian will challenge Grieve's decision in the high court.
We supposedly live in a constitutional monarchy, which means that any political powers of the royal family are subject to constitutional restraint. But one does not have to be a republican to be aghast at the government's attempt to give the prince a blanket waiver from the Freedom of Information Act.
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The "Up In The Air" cast features a number of veteran actors and actresses. "Up In The Air" is the story of a man who spends his the bulk of his time traveling the US firing people for companies.
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When notified about this award, Ismet responded, "I am extremely thrilled and honoured to receive this prestigious award; this is one of the most memorable events of my professional career. I sincerely thank the SME and the selection committee for recognizing my contributions with this award. Many of my current and past colleagues have contributed to my professional growth I therefore accept the award on behalf of all of us. Thank you."
Ismet received his BSc Mining Engineering degree from Istanbul Technical University. He moved to South Africa in 1993 and worked for the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). While working at the CSIR he obtained his MSc Mining Engineering degree from the University of the Witwatersrand and his PhD from University of Pretoria.
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DOBSON — Surry County's director of social services will be packing his bags next month as he prepares to move to Raleigh to take over the North Carolina Division of Social Services.
Wayne Black has been appointed director of the state department, and will assume the position on June 1.
Black currently serves as director of the Surry County department, a position he has held since June 1, 2003. He has served for 37 years in social service department throughout the state.
Shortly after the appointment was announced, Eddie Harris, chair of the Surry County Board of Commissioners, said that while he is pleased Black has been tapped for the position, he will be sorely missed.
"The board of commissioners is extremely proud of Wayne, and congratulate him on his appointment," Harris said. "Wayne's extensive social services experience and knowledge is unsurpassable.
"He has exemplified the highest standards and performance as Surry County social services director, and will be greatly missed in that role.
"On a personal level, Wayne is also an outstanding individual and a pure gentleman," he added. "It has been very rewarding to have worked with Wayne in county government. He will be a tremendous asset to the citizens of North Carolina, and we look forward to continuing to work with him in his new position."
Black said he is honored to have been tapped for the post.
"I am humbled by the opportunity to assume the position with the North Carolina Division of Social Service," he said. "They have a great team working there. At the same time, it is very difficult to leave the great group of staff and supervisors we have here at the county department.
"Surry County is very fortunate to have their services," Black added, crediting the support of county officials with making his job easier. "My uncle told me when I came to Surry County 10 years ago that I was coming to God's country, and he was absolutely right."
Before taking the reins of the Surry County department, Black served as director of the Yadkin County social services department for 12 years, and director of the Mitchell County department for two years. He began his career in social services in 1976 in Guilford County, where he served as a social worker, chore services coordinator and services intake supervisor.
During his career, Black has held leadership positions at the local, regional and state levels, including serving as president of the North Carolina Association of County Directors of Social Services in 2008-2009, and as a member of the Joint State/County Relations Committee for the past seven years. He has been named an Honorary Lifetime Member of the North Carolina Social Services Association and has chaired numerous state commissions, serving as president on three occasions.
Black is a graduate of North Davidson High School and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro, and holds master's degrees in public administration and guidance and counseling. He also earned degrees from High Point College and Davidson County Community College.
Locally, he serves as president of the United Fund of Surry and is past president of the Kiwanis Club in Mount Airy.
He and his wife, Kathryn, live in Dobson.
Black said Friday that his replacement will be chosen by the board of directors of the social services department.
"They will meet and begin the process of finding a replacement," he said. "They are already working with the human resources department to look for an interim director, and after that process is complete they will begin recruiting and selecting a permanent replacement."
Reach Keith Strange at firstname.lastname@example.com or 719-1929.


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Getting out and meeting people that I only know of through the Internet is not something that I usually do. Today was different when I went to meet with Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus on their "Minimalists National Meetup Tour".
I did not know what to expect coming to the meetup. But I found Joshua and Ryan to be kind, warm and down to earth. I put out my hand to shake theirs, but I got hugs instead.
You would think a meetup tour would be about them, what they are doing and their brand- but that was not the case. They were there to connect with other people and exchange ideas. They listened as much as they spoke.
Regrettably I came late because I had the time wrong on my calendar, so I missed about an hour of discussion. While I was there, the conversation among those who came covered a wide variety of topics that included the paradox of choice, religion & spirituality, clutter, and consumerism.
Joshua and Ryan had many great thoughts to share. They were selfless in their willingness to share and be supportive of those they were listening to.
It was also refreshing to see that the minimalist approach they shared and adhered to was balanced, practical and thoughtful. There was nothing snooty or judgmental in their thoughts and application of minimalist ideas. They did not advocate the extremes that have left the wrong impression with the average person about the nature of minimalism. They understand that minimalist application will vary and look different from person to person.
They do not consider minimalism to be about how much stuff you get rid of, or getting below some arbitrary number of things. It is about finding balance with material possessions while restoring meaning and joy to your life. Instead of the emphasis being on consuming, entertainment, and getting more "things" that are temporary in the happiness they provide; we can liberate ourselves and have more time and energy for people, passions, and experiences.
I really appreciate the ease of talking to them. They were active in involving everyone who came in the discussion. They are a breath of fresh air, more so because their online personas match who they are in person. They also had an authenticity that shined right through.
They didn't hide that minimalism initially is uncomfortable, requires planning and that it can be hard to do at first. They spoke about how they went from corporate jobs to doing what they do now, but they did not whitewash their transition or sell it as "pushing the easy button". They were clear that they made a plan and took the time to save and pay off debts before making their moves.
If the opportunity to meet with Joshua and Ryan comes your way, don't let it pass by. While I am at it, don't forget to check out their book, "Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life".
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Sarah Kate eventually moved on to softball and soccer, but her participant-sports involvement petered out as her artistic side began to dominate. Today she's a voracious reader, knitter and gardener, and she can whip up a mean vegetarian lasagna. "Sarah always had a flair for the unusual," Laurie Buckles says of her daughter.
Early in October Sarah Kate visited Chicago to cheer on her cousin Julie, who was running the Chicago Marathon. Between shopping for shoes and comics, Buckles caught a live roller derby bout: the Windy City Rollers league semifinals at the Congress Theatre.
Five days after she returned to Fox Park, Buckles was e-mailing everyone she knew, printing up flyers and handing them out to total strangers. For the first time in fifteen years, she laced up a pair of roller skates. Under the nom de skate "Mary Manglin'," the Blueberry Hill waitress, whose tattoo-encircled arms and black cat's-eye frames make her look younger than her 30 years, is spearheading the formation of the Arch Rival Rollergirls, St. Louis' incipient all-female roller derby league.
Thirty-one women ranging in age from early twenties to late thirties have orbited in teetering ovals for barely ten minutes of Rollercade's two-hour free skate, and already the waxed-wood casualties are stacking up. Buckles herself recently tweaked a ligament in her left knee. The injury wasn't serious, but she's since heeded her doctor's warning to stretch before practice. Lindsay "Josie Stalin" Rousa fell and dislocated her shoulder. Instead of seeking immediate medical attention, she casually popped it back into place and continued skating. "She wins the bad-ass prize of the year," Buckles says. "She's one tough chick."
The league intermingles with the general public twice a week at Rollercade, where the $5 entry charge includes a doe-brown pair of rental skates accented with orange wheels. Clad in jeans and sweats, the Arch Rivals are quick to clear the rink when "The Chicken Dance," "YMCA" and "Hokey Pokey" pipe out of Rollercade's tinny speakers. The musical interludes are a little too jokey and pedestrian for their tastes.
If all goes as planned, they'll reintroduce St. Louis to a variety of skating imbued with more serious and anti-establishment overtones.
"These girls are all very focused and hard-working," says Travis DeRousse, who looks forward to decking himself out as head referee in short-shorts, tennis bands and gold chains under the name Sleaze McQueen. "Their skills are coming along a lot faster than they thought they would."
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After learning to remain upright comes learning to fall.
"You learn how to take a hit and stay up on your skates," explains Carrie "Penny Royalty" Becker. "It's a skill. Of course, there are risks that are associated with the game: We've had a few girls break an ankle on the rink, broken collarbones, concussions."
Becker is a blocker for the Hell's Belles, one of four teams that make up the Windy City Rollers league. She has come to town to conduct a "falling clinic," in which the St. Louis skaters will learn to absorb a hit by skidding on one knee. They roll forward all in a line, then descend into a slide. It's as if an entire rink of skaters has simultaneously responded to a sudden call to prayer.
Originally from St. Louis, the 27-year-old Becker waited tables with Buckles' husband, Matt, for two years at Brandt's Café in the Loop. The two kept in touch after Becker moved to Chicago, and when Matt introduced her to his wife of three years at the WCR Championship Finals, Becker was impressed by Sarah Kate's initiative.
"Sarah Kate is doing all the right things first," Becker says. "They're looking for a practice rink, she's talking to sponsors, she's already jumped on the PR. The league is moving faster than we did. If all goes well, they should be ready to begin serious training in the next month.
"The biggest hurdles they are going to have to overcome are getting a rink that will give them enough practice days, having a coach that is familiar enough with roller derby to train them in the techniques they are going to utilize, raising enough money between dues and fundraisers to pay for all expenses incurred rink time, a coach, merchandise and, later on, a bout space and just making sure that all the girls are truly dedicated. Even if the technique isn't perfect, the passion has to be there."
Modern roller derby traces its rebirth to the 2001 emergence of the Austin-based Texas Rollergirls. Five years later there are 44 leagues across the nation, according to usrollergirls.com, the Web site operated by the U.S. Rollergirls Association. Melissa "Melicious" Joulwan, the 37-year-old founding manager of the Texas Rollergirls, predicts that every major U.S. city will be home to a league before the decade is out.
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With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
The Senseless Drawing Robot is a painting robot that interprets nearby street and sidewalk traffic and turns it into sprays of pigment. The robot is turning chaos into order, and then injecting that order with a bit more chaos. Japanese designers So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi have found a way around the input-output nature of these drawing machines by mounting a double pendulum on top of a modified electric skateboard and a pressure-based paint system. The Senseless Drawing Robot has a level of unpredictability akin to Pollock's dripping brush. Can we earnestly claim that this robot is doing things all that differently from Pollock?
"Earlier today, certain realms were affected by an in-game exploit, resulting in the deaths of player characters and non-player characters in some of the major cities," wrote a representative going by the name of Nethaera. This October, a serial hacker laid waste to World of Warcraft (WoW), unleashing a deadly "significant hack". This virtual genocide left thousands of skeletons littering the realm of Azeroth. Perhaps stranger still was the fact that mainstream news organizations from the BBC to the Huffington Post breathlessly reported the events. As we move towards an increasingly virtual existence we should expect a lot more major virtual news.
The High Line, the amazing recycling project that converted a former NYC railroad to high-rise park, has inspired the reincarnation of similar disused urban spaces across the globe. As part of the cultural strategy 'I Make Rotterdam', the central district of Rotterdam will be connected with the northern neighborhoods via a raised pedestrian platform. The experience of walking through a living space is comforting to us in an age when everything is artificial and motorized. Interestingly, it seems that the "natural" can not be appreciated unless it is neatly structured in a linear, park-like form.


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Five of My Must-Have Utilities
- Office Tabs for Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 and 2010. This one is a new entry in my must-have list because I almost always have multiple Word and Excel files open at all times. They are so easy to manage with this free add-on.
- GoodSync. This one was discussed as part of my series on setting up a computer system. I have it set to run nightly (while I'm sleeping) to back up my data drive to a network drive. It has a small cost, but it was worth every penny for the peace of mind it brings.
- Irfanview File Viewer, Converter and Editor. When I need to quickly look at an image, I turn to Irfanview. It is also great for batch converting/resampling of images. This one has been used many times daily for years!
- Turbocharge File Copying With TeraCopy. It seems I am always copying files from one location to another and I can't imagine someone using a computer without copying files on a regular basis. TeraCopy makes it much faster and even allows the process to continue after an error.
- ColorSchemer Studio 2. I don't use this one as often, but it is incredibly useful when I do use it. When you need to build a palette of colors that work well together, this great utility will help you get it done quickly!
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